Musical interlude
I burned a bunch of MP3s to CD to free up space, and the juxtapositions are often interesting when you just pop one of those disks in and hit play. First up was The City Waites Pills to Purge Melancholy: Lewd Songs and Low Ballads from the 18th century. I’d highly recommend this one to anyone who has a taste for the bizarre and/or the 18th century. But then, I was right back where I started.
Silence is better than nothing.
I can’t wait for the Eyes Adrift album to come out. Yeah, so I’m into survivors. Krist (from Nirvana) and Curt (from the Meat Puppets) and Bud (from Sublime) seem to be on to something.
Silence and nothing are not the same thing.
Listening to the SF gig, I was especially taken by Solid.
a plastic man
gazing out
across a plastic land
and everyone
is just a thing
sit and listen
to bells of plastic ring
and I’m a genius
at doing something wrong
using real words
in made up songs
I could cut myself
and nothing would come out
cause the blood is frozen solid in my veins
but you know by now I could cut myself
because I’m solid and it’s always been that way
here’s a song
that I sing
an imitation
of the real thing
here’s a time
does it pass?
here’s the sand frozen in the hourglass
touch my skin
know that I can feel
I can’t tell you
if feeling’s real
I could cut myself
and nothing would come out
cause the blood is frozen solid in my veins
but you know by now I could cut myself
because I’m solid and it’s always been that way
After spending hours writing a capsule summary of Protagoras, this makes far too much sense to me. He saw the world as plastic, and men as plastic, living in a world of constant flux. He refused to argue about the presence of gods, or the validity of sensations. His response was to say that man can only judge the world in relation to his perceptions of it. It doesn’t matter if feelings are “real” or not; we can only make the best decisions we can based on what evidence we have within our reach.
Writing fixes a moment, nothing more. I’m not nearly so depressive as it might seem (right now at least), but even if I were— I could cut myself because I’m solid and I’ve always been that way. Thanks Curt!
There are a lot more Meat Puppets live gigs at The Meat Puppets Repository.
ooh la. that’s quite the all-star lineup.