Tuesday, September 2, 2008

emergency broadcast::the end is near

pay no attention to the title, its the song im listening to, by underoath. the song was actually the reason i started to write tonight. while listening, i realized that even though a band such as underoath who is generally classified as "hardcore" can make seemingly beautiful music. something about the melody, the hardcore breakdowns, the screaming, double bass peddle on the drums, everything. its captivating. for some reason the song made me think about the piece of art that we looked at the other day. while some of us probably didnt think much of or didnt like the sculputre that was presented (i didnt) im sure others did. this all ties into the music im listening to. i was talking with my roommate who was giving me a "what the fuck are you listening to look" and it hit me. im pretty narrow minded. i assume most people like the same things as i do (movies, books, music, politics, tv shows, etc. etc.) when i know they dont. now i listen to everything from underground hip hop, to techno, to obviously hardcore, but not country. makes me cringe. back to the sculpture though. while i pretty much hated the damn thing which i wrote "looks like a wire spool gone horribly wrong" im sure someone found it beautiful and abstract, which i really cant judge because everyone is entitled to their opinion.


long story short; i realized im kind of ignorant.

1 comment:

rstrongstertest said...

James- love your sort of "brain dump" voice here. Very associative, very honest. And "underoath" is a word (a word?, a neologism?) I'm gonna have to steal.
~Robert