Critics

[Jan Civil]

What an amazing thing is a self-appointed critic. A critic of music, of art. Words about things which transcend words, about things which the whole reason to do them is that words are inadequate. Words about music, can be entertaining a pastime, you know.

It doesn't mean squat to talk about it. Words about music is like soccer about painting or something.
A blog, at least I am writing about a process, sort of a diary, I don't take pictures of many things, I don't write a lot about what I do, I do the damn thing. But, maybe at some time when I've completed some things it might be interesting to have some notes about what I went through.
But, I'm the first person to say, this here don't mean a thing.

But a critic is a whole nother ballgame as far as 'don't mean shit'. Just a seriously reprehensible thing to self-identify as, in my book, just useless specimens, serving no good function in the world. And in my estimation doing harm a lot of the time.

Look at music history, any time somebody got the balls to push things along in music, that progressed, that showed the mind actually can progress beyond what every mediocre and stupid person agrees with, there is The Critic there to tell us all how nonsensical it is, how inferior it is to what they 'know'.

"Without deviation from the norm, 'progress' is not possible."

Information is not knowledge. If somebody knows how to compose music, they do this. You can't know a thing unless you have experience. Having some information you gathered, and fobbing it off on people like you know something, about 'form', about 'structure', go do something to show us this knowledge. I'm not that impressed you can read and write.

Now there are musicians, actual no kidding musicians who will take work as a critic. It's a tough nut to crack to make any money at music, so bad things like this can happen to a person.
But to 'be' a critic, I gotta wonder about what kind or priorities, what kind of issues, what kind of person does this shit.

[Jan Civil]

In political terms, I'm not defending MY cherished positions, in this case I'm interested in cherishing the position of a president, who to be elected had to join the one party (which I'm not a supporter of across the board or even close btw). it has nothing to do with me. I'm passionate about health care reform in this country. One party has some people who are trying to do the right thing, the other is populated almost entirely by people who are owned and are lying straight faced in every case. It's no_laughing_matter.

what in your post seems wink wink/nudge nudge? to look at it today, I can't read your mind and get anything of the sort. Given the context of 'Civil's incoherent and removed from reality' of you and your buddy, consistently, suddenly I'm going to be light as a feather discussing shit with you?

I'm gunning for both of you in arguments. You're not great at it, and your buddy is horrendous. It's fun for me. It's feeding time when I'm in the mood, that time of the month you know. Let's go.

[Kristofer Emerig]

I was just kidding Jan, not attempting to make a rigidly logical analogy. Lighten up some; Life doesn't always have to be about pontification and rabidly defending your cherished positions. Never make the mistake of taking yourself too seriously. Better than half of what I say is in jest.

[Jan Civil]

the pseudo pith of the political cynic also fails to say anything really.

you have one party as a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry lobby et al, and another with at least one person who's interested in changing that.

"No discernable difference" is an absurdity.

It's close to a non-sequitur to compare legislation to mere criticism. Now, there are people in Congress who are not interested in anything but power and money, and their arguments are going to hew that line, but to say that all persons in government are as a critic who doesn't do but writes about, is an absurdity.

Not that I'm terrrifically surprised here to see this.

[Jan Civil]

well, if you don't drive your opinion on cars doesn't mean much now does it?
If you haven't made any music, your talk about it is just that, all talk. All hat and no cattle.

And, appreciate you not spamming me, four times with the same would-be pithy garbagio. Get lost.

[Fredrick zinos]

Just as one doesn't need to be Mario Andretti to recognize a clunker, one doesn't need to be Leonard Bernstein to recognize a clinker.

[Kristofer Emerig]

Not quite. I consider the Republican and Democratic parties to be the yin and yang of treason against our nation, two appendages of the same monstrosity of incompetence and corruption, with no discernible difference between the two, save a small disagreement over how to pillage the nation's wealth, and where to allocate the paltry amount not stolen. Love the dialectic dog and pony show every four years though, and much amused at the pretense of opposition. Keep waggin' the dog.

[Jan Civil]

close to a non sequitur there. OMG, are you a Republican too?

[Kristofer Emerig]

Government regulation of private industry?

[Jan Civil]

What is it that someone does when they aren't involved with a discipline, such as music or art, but they inflict their opinions onto others per the formal workings out of that discipline?

And assert such a thing, from the disadvantage in one's own words of 'my own non-musician's ear', as 'as poorly structured as her music"

Hmmmmm?

[Fredrick zinos]

I like the comment by Jean Sibelius: "No one ever built a monument to a critic."