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Reflecting Pool + Future Miracles

I am still summarily submerged in the excitingly frigid waters of J-Term, not yet able to truly see the time in perspective, but I’ll attempt to remove myself; float above the surface and see what reflects back, despite the chopping surf and howling winds of chaotic opinionthoughts.I began the semester with high expectations…. I struggled to create the first piece, using the ham-fisted premade online tools, but they were good in forcing me to put concept before execution, and in the end I managed to scrape something together that was pretty interesting.

Posted 31 January 2008 † Yuletide § Meta ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Inner Peace Through METAL (early draft)

While it is not clear to me if the motivating power of death metal is generating a vanguard of energetic youth or drawing artistic and creative youngpeople into a trap of naive individualism, I believe that the political significance of musical sound is rooted in the meanings that the participantsconstitute and the consequences of those meanings for the participants’ lives and the larger society.[^motpower] [^motpower]:Harris M Berger, “Death Metal Tonality and the Act of Listening,” Popular Music 18, no.

…>It’s not the music, but the feelings of the people we hear playing that are important to us… it is not the music as a physical stimulus that manipulates our moods, but it is using the music as a communicative offering to influence our feelings in a re-creative process.[^recreat] [^recreat]:Oliver Grewe et al., “Listening to Music as a Re-Creative Process: Physiological, Psychological, and Psychoacoustical Correlates of Chills and Strong Emotions,” Music Perception 24, no.

Posted 30 January 2008 † Yuletide § Creative Nonfiction § Music ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Enter the Blessed Ones

Now your average human being watches one channel, then maybe changes to another channel by pressing a button, and then when that program is over they change to a different channel, or wait to see what’s on next, and so on and so forth…. My room is often a reflection of this state (the disorder, not the thriving) and I can see it acting as both a symptom of, and the contributor to my continued disorder, both resulting from and furthering this chaos Distractions, distractible, distracted—in some settings clearly an unproductive behavior, but in others quite the opposite.

Posted 11 January 2008 † Yuletide § Creative Nonfiction § Work in Progress ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: ,

Reflections on Mongolia

Big Brother is watching, don’t say the

…[From Reflections on Mongolia | Chinggis Khan Moves to the City ]

Posted 07 January 2008 † Yuletide § Commentary § Creative Nonfiction § Poetry ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,