Photos taken on a 26th
*** What become evident in the arc of history since the beginning of the internet is the desire for celebrity (re: the "Artstar" show) and immortality and "tripping" on nostalgia. YouTube in particular has allowed a binge-watching of it, but also allows us to remix it, which is what I alluded to in 1999, a time when we were all looking over the edge of a century. 2/26/1999 This is the age of recycling ideas rather than inventing them. The invention is the way in which ideas are recycled and what their effect is. But I'm sort of suspect of how merely creating collages of things can ultimately be that interesting. A friend showed me the mp3.com site. I'm skeptical because I think the sheer amount of things to listen to will trivialize music. We're overstuffed on music just like we're overstuffed on movies, food, and gadgets. But on the other hand, I think the website is exciting from a global perspective. This way we can hear new music coming from all points of the globe. 2/26/2004 Browsed through the Tower Records store on Wabash. They moved all the rock and pop upstairs and put classical and jazz on the third floor. Thought perhaps I'd buy the new Bowie CD, Reality $18.99!!! This is why Napster emerged; buying records became extortive. 2/26/2005 They've got this new reality TV show called "Artstar". It's where people engage in an almost Warholian stunt where they try to get on the show, be harshly critiqued, and then get a show at a SoHo Gallery. This seems like something Warhol would have eventually come up with. (This has a very "4th Dimension" quality to it because once the gallery installs it, it will be relegated to plain Pop Art or "Meta-Art", because the "outside" qualities will provide the experience, even if they're merely representational paintings or even landscapes. I stopped making art in 2019 as the result of "medium nostalgias". I missed the rigor of composing. 2/26/2022 I have a terrible issue with "medium nostalgias". It's been a few years since I've made any art because I had a nostalgia for doing music. Now it's the other way around. I think the idea that disciplines inform one another can only be marginally true. When I'm busy playing music and my time and/or pitch sucks, I'm not thinking about seeing how making art will make that better. Maybe it will... *** What I've been doing with my Riffs channel is to quickly record my thoughts, yet is somewhat different than an audio diary. Somehow recording a video helps me think more fluidly. On nostalgias... I was thinking back to the late 1980s and early 1990s when I was a young musician studying jazz under Bill Russo, then started writing lyrics and songs as a result of the fall of the wall and the world generally convulsing. I was cynical about it all, and was too good to be true. In your 30s you start having your own opinions about things, especially history and philosophy. You develop a gravitas about the world. Lyrics are a way to voice opinions, whereas jazz has no vehicle for it really. I particularly liked what Sting was doing post-Police, interestingly in jazz context. For artists, this bleeds into the work. Generally speaking, artists tend to go through those kinds of periods, which became off-and-on, but never faded completely.
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