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I know it's important to be musically literate. Who you listen to defines you in so many ways. I understand and don't totally reject this notion. However, I don't feel like I have to prove my "savvy" by name-dropping ultra-hip things I happen to listen to. We can have a conversation about it when you ask. Until then, i'll resist the music snobbery and general "something to prove" aura of MySpace.
A brilliant distraction. I am always the critic. I am analyzing each pan and fade. I'm drawn to the stuff with sweeping scores (Gershwin or Philip Glass), subtitles and characters who don't end happily ever after but learn something important about themselves.
I try to avoid it. It can be so vapid! PBS.... Get off the couch.
"But this is probably the biggest sypmtom of our moral disintegration...this so-called rebellion against what is most crass and ugly in our society, but without the slightest thought of, say, any kind of direction or purpose...To fight against one kind of dullness with an even more subtle dullness is, I suppose, the highwater mark of social degeneracy."
I've studied the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan for a play scene I directed. Those women are my heroes. They are risking their lives for freedom still as the mujahedeen gains even more ground. Their obstinate survival is a lesson I will endeavor to remember. And: all my hemp-weavin, fairy-believin, vegan, non-stop consciousness-raising, determined, amazing friends back in AK. Keep at it, kids!