Comments on: Tuesday Morning Update #9 http://arthurthefourth.com/2003/09/tuesday-morning-update-9/ selling my soul, but keeping a copy Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:51:48 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: soce, the elemental wizard http://arthurthefourth.com/2003/09/tuesday-morning-update-9/comment-page-1/#comment-137 soce, the elemental wizard Thu, 04 Sep 2003 19:41:46 +0000 http://arthurthefourth.com/?p=76#comment-137 I'm sorry. I read a different blog that you had linked to and somehow assumed that I was still reading yours. "I guess the test is pretty honest or I have a lot of predisposition's towards religon because I was brought up in a Reformed Judaism enviroment." Darn, these blogs are like the Washington, DC subways!! They are all futuristic, gray and look the same!! urrgh--socetew [[ps, you posted twice.. sucka!]] I’m sorry. I read a different blog that you had linked to and somehow assumed that I was still reading yours. “I guess the test is pretty honest or I have a lot of predisposition’s towards religon because I was brought up in a Reformed Judaism enviroment.” Darn, these blogs are like the Washington, DC subways!! They are all futuristic, gray and look the same!! urrgh–socetew [[ps, you posted twice.. sucka!]]

]]> By: Arthur http://arthurthefourth.com/2003/09/tuesday-morning-update-9/comment-page-1/#comment-136 Arthur Thu, 04 Sep 2003 16:09:59 +0000 http://arthurthefourth.com/?p=76#comment-136 Reformed Jew? I was brought up Catholic. Huh? Reformed Jew? I was brought up Catholic. Huh?

]]> By: soce, the elemental wizard http://arthurthefourth.com/2003/09/tuesday-morning-update-9/comment-page-1/#comment-135 soce, the elemental wizard Thu, 04 Sep 2003 14:50:29 +0000 http://arthurthefourth.com/?p=76#comment-135 You were brought up as a reform Jew? Who is Jewish in your family? Your mother? Pops? Wow, I never knew. If lyrics are so unimportant to you, then you should be churning out five songs a day. I mean literally, you could be singing "Boo Bee Bah, I like Chocolate", but with that voice and melodic touch of yours, it would come out way better than if R Kelly, Maxwell and Mary J Blidge had a threesome and formed a symphonic lovechild. Also, always make sure that your mics are turned up really loud, and *project* your voice!! yeah, s- You were brought up as a reform Jew? Who is Jewish in your family? Your mother? Pops? Wow, I never knew.

If lyrics are so unimportant to you, then you should be churning out five songs a day. I mean literally, you could be singing “Boo Bee Bah, I like Chocolate”, but with that voice and melodic touch of yours, it would come out way better than if R Kelly, Maxwell and Mary J Blidge had a threesome and formed a symphonic lovechild.

Also, always make sure that your mics are turned up really loud, and *project* your voice!! yeah, s-

]]> By: Arthur http://arthurthefourth.com/2003/09/tuesday-morning-update-9/comment-page-1/#comment-134 Arthur Thu, 04 Sep 2003 04:28:14 +0000 http://arthurthefourth.com/?p=76#comment-134 Nah, it's not about lyrics for me - they're totally secondary and have stood in the way of my getting anything written for many years. it's about entering that sacred musical space - in truth, if I can get there, I don't really give a shit how the audience reacts. I mean, I do, but I do this thing for me, not for them, you know. It kind of relates to some comments I made over at <a href="http://www.queixa.com/blog/archives/pollsAndSurveys/losing_my_religion.php" rel="nofollow">another post</a>. Music is, to some extent, my version of religion - my way of achieving a communion with the spiritual underpinnings of our world. It's a state of meditation I can sometimes get into by myself at the piano, but that I need to be able to share with the world. I guess maybe that's my goal, more than anything having to do with genres or instruments or lyrics or whatever - to share with others, through music, a transcendent state of being, if only for a fleeting moment. It's been some time since I've achieved that sense of timelessness, of the extended moment hanging heavy in the air. It's at the core of why I love music. And I miss it. Nah, it’s not about lyrics for me – they’re totally secondary and have stood in the way of my getting anything written for many years. it’s about entering that sacred musical space – in truth, if I can get there, I don’t really give a shit how the audience reacts. I mean, I do, but I do this thing for me, not for them, you know.

It kind of relates to some comments I made over at another post. Music is, to some extent, my version of religion – my way of achieving a communion with the spiritual underpinnings of our world. It’s a state of meditation I can sometimes get into by myself at the piano, but that I need to be able to share with the world. I guess maybe that’s my goal, more than anything having to do with genres or instruments or lyrics or whatever – to share with others, through music, a transcendent state of being, if only for a fleeting moment.

It’s been some time since I’ve achieved that sense of timelessness, of the extended moment hanging heavy in the air. It’s at the core of why I love music.

And I miss it.

]]> By: soce, the elemental wizard http://arthurthefourth.com/2003/09/tuesday-morning-update-9/comment-page-1/#comment-133 soce, the elemental wizard Wed, 03 Sep 2003 14:50:07 +0000 http://arthurthefourth.com/?p=76#comment-133 You just gotta find something you feel really strongly about and run with it. I am lucky in that I get a huge excitement when I take to the stage and shout such lines as "I AM A HOMO" or "Aye yo, my VIDEO GAME COLLECTION is bigger than yours!!", both of which I did at an open mic last night. I also have a great passion when I rap about my enormous dick sucking capabilities or my anger at men who are attractive but straight (ie., h but h).. yes much of my true feelings come out when I am rapping about being gay. It's fun and exciting. Alas, not everyone can simply get up on stage and rap about being gay. But I know others who are extemely passionate about other things, such as being in love (WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX?!), how much america SUCKS, the evils of cloning.. I don't know, basically sex, politics, drugs.. just choose your poison and run with it all the way home, baby!! You just gotta find something you feel really strongly about and run with it. I am lucky in that I get a huge excitement when I take to the stage and shout such lines as “I AM A HOMO” or “Aye yo, my VIDEO GAME COLLECTION is bigger than yours!!”, both of which I did at an open mic last night. I also have a great passion when I rap about my enormous dick sucking capabilities or my anger at men who are attractive but straight (ie., h but h).. yes much of my true feelings come out when I am rapping about being gay. It’s fun and exciting.

Alas, not everyone can simply get up on stage and rap about being gay. But I know others who are extemely passionate about other things, such as being in love (WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX?!), how much america SUCKS, the evils of cloning.. I don’t know, basically sex, politics, drugs.. just choose your poison and run with it all the way home, baby!!

]]> By: Arthur http://arthurthefourth.com/2003/09/tuesday-morning-update-9/comment-page-1/#comment-132 Arthur Wed, 03 Sep 2003 04:34:11 +0000 http://arthurthefourth.com/?p=76#comment-132 Soce, it's not really the lack of response that gets me. It's the same problem I always had after <a href="http://www.yale.edu/dukesmen" rel="nofollow">Duke's Men</a> concerts - regardless of how people reacted, <em>I</em> still wasn't satisfied, not necessarily with how it sounded or how well I performed, but with the actual act of performing. To some extent, I find music to be my way to enter a space of transcendence. I'm really on this quest for that everlasting unconscious moment that some people search for through meditation, religion, sex, or drugs. I don't want to start the song or finish it; I don't really care about the mechanics of mixing or scale technique - I just want to get <em>into it</em>. I find that I haven't really been achieving that recently. I've been getting up on stage, doing a little something something, clap clap hooray hooray, next please. But there are fleeting moments. So I am hopeful. Soce, it’s not really the lack of response that gets me. It’s the same problem I always had after Duke’s Men concerts – regardless of how people reacted, I still wasn’t satisfied, not necessarily with how it sounded or how well I performed, but with the actual act of performing.

To some extent, I find music to be my way to enter a space of transcendence. I’m really on this quest for that everlasting unconscious moment that some people search for through meditation, religion, sex, or drugs. I don’t want to start the song or finish it; I don’t really care about the mechanics of mixing or scale technique – I just want to get into it. I find that I haven’t really been achieving that recently. I’ve been getting up on stage, doing a little something something, clap clap hooray hooray, next please. But there are fleeting moments. So I am hopeful.

]]> By: soce, the elemental wizard http://arthurthefourth.com/2003/09/tuesday-morning-update-9/comment-page-1/#comment-131 soce, the elemental wizard Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:10:12 +0000 http://arthurthefourth.com/?p=76#comment-131 Yeah.. I feel you on the whole "it didn't change my life" part. I have been taking it to da stage for quite a while now, and even when I do a smashing performance that rocks the house and gets enormous volumes of applause, they still then go on to either announce the next performer after me or else shut down the bar if I was the last guy. It's like somehow I'm expecting the whole world to stop and people to be like "Wow, soce, you have completely CHANGED MY LIFE with your amazing music!!!" Even if 50 people came up to me and said those exact words and then all went down on me or whatever, I still wouldn't be all that excited. I mean, it would be cool, but there is always tomorrow, with its whole new set of tasks that I should (yet won't) be completing. hope that cheers you up, Scoe!! Yeah.. I feel you on the whole “it didn’t change my life” part. I have been taking it to da stage for quite a while now, and even when I do a smashing performance that rocks the house and gets enormous volumes of applause, they still then go on to either announce the next performer after me or else shut down the bar if I was the last guy. It’s like somehow I’m expecting the whole world to stop and people to be like “Wow, soce, you have completely CHANGED MY LIFE with your amazing music!!!” Even if 50 people came up to me and said those exact words and then all went down on me or whatever, I still wouldn’t be all that excited.

I mean, it would be cool, but there is always tomorrow, with its whole new set of tasks that I should (yet won’t) be completing.

hope that cheers you up,
Scoe!!

]]> By: jeremy http://arthurthefourth.com/2003/09/tuesday-morning-update-9/comment-page-1/#comment-130 jeremy Tue, 02 Sep 2003 13:51:06 +0000 http://arthurthefourth.com/?p=76#comment-130 Yeah, congrats! Now you can even have a beer too! Yeah, congrats! Now you can even have a beer too!

]]> By: Etan http://arthurthefourth.com/2003/09/tuesday-morning-update-9/comment-page-1/#comment-129 Etan Tue, 02 Sep 2003 12:25:25 +0000 http://arthurthefourth.com/?p=76#comment-129 Congrats! Congrats!

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