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This seems to be a common thing to talk about on here, but for the first time I personally feel like I'm confronting it full on. I've spent so much time trying to learn everything I can about anything sound related, and yet, I feel like somewhere along the lines I've lost sight of what the original "goal" was. I'm not talking about a goal as some sort of end, but more like that unattainable carrot you dangle in front of yourself to keep you moving. I know this goal has nothing to do with technical cock-rockery (which, unfortunately, is easy to get caught up in), but what do you do when you feel like you might have buried that other indescribable 'x' factor?
I need to strip away the layers until I'm completely vulnerable, forget about any sort of measurement of success, and put on the white belt. Easier said than done. Apologies for the somewhat directionless ramblings, but I guess my question is this:
How do you stop analyzing and deconstructing everything you hear?
How do you stop worrying about trying to "get things out there (to share with interesting people more so than any bullshit glamor)" and playing more shows, etc, without giving up on your dreams of getting your music out there and playing more shows?
And not to dredge up a tired binary, but how do you reconcile the intellectual with the emotional without giving complete preference to either side?
I know there are artists who do all of these things and more (or at least we think they do), and for all you philosophical wankers, I know that everything is everything which is nothing and there is no division between emotional/intellectual blah blah blah... I'm more or less looking for things you do when you're trying to rediscover your roots, but you've forgotten where those roots are. | |
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11/27/06
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xik
As for the main topic, it sounds like reality is sinking in. Don't worry about it too much, life is a tradeoff, you do one thing, your taking time away from doing everything else ect. Besides just think of all the thousands of partys you'll be missing in the future, "in the year 2100" and shzzy.
Just make a todo list and get some kool sht done before you die.
11/27/06
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nagrom
That's an interesting philosophy... very different than the one I idealize. Thanks: something added to the repertoire.
11/27/06
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Tripnik
I agree. Very sober and concise way of putting things, and definitely clicks things into better perspective.
11/27/06
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monty
xik said: "
Just make a todo list and get some kool sht done before you die."
ive been listening to this 4 CD comp of Irish music recorded in the 20s & 30s
as i listened to it i got this cold wind of realisation that everyone involved in the recordings are dead.
all that remains are these audio vibrations from the past.
i see the sounds i make as gifts to the future.
just imagine people in the year 10 410 discovering your music on a compilation CD bought from a record shop in another galaxy.
11/28/06
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ekstrak
I'm more or less looking for things you do when you're trying to rediscover your roots, but you've forgotten where those roots are.
grow some balls, stop being a fairy
11/28/06
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ricemutt
hahahaha!!! fuck yes. go rob.
11/29/06
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flies
just wanted to throw out the term 'quarter-life crisis', and mention that Jung is a primary source for the term 'mid-life crisis'. He talks about 4 stages of life with tough transitions between each, childhood, early adulthood, middle age, old age. The transitions between each is suppposed to be a major event and tough for most everybody. Birth and death are also major and difficult events 
anyway, jung is hardly scientific in his methods, but he's well worth reading
11/29/06
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nagrom
that's because psychology isn't science... even less so then.
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cbit
nagrom said: "that's because psychology isn't science... even less so then." that's opinion presented as fact.. eh.. imo ;)
11/29/06
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jdg
FACT: headshrinkers are really witchdoctors.
11/29/06
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nagrom
cbit said: " nagrom said: "that's because psychology isn't science... even less so then." that's opinion presented as fact.. eh.. imo ;)"
it's trying to be science... it's a demi-science.
kind of like physics in the 1800's.
i say this because there are few absolutes. we don't really know what's going on.
11/29/06
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nagrom
like string theory in a way.
11/30/06
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cbit
t's trying to be science... it's a demi-science.
kind of like physics in the 1800's.
yeah i understand. i would call it a 'young science' (same with physics in 1800s).
11/30/06
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bsr
flies said: "anyway, jung is hardly scientific in his methods, but he's well worth reading "
and all the better for it!
11/30/06
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flies
nagrom said: "like string theory in a way."
except for the whole testable hypothesis thing. I have to say that i think you're way off base. (not about string theory tho, which has no testable hypotheses)
Your criticism are valid with respect to jung or freud or lacan (who is just a total jackass), but modern psychology is basically reacting against that kind of thinking by going really hard in the other way. Popular psychology tends to be BS, but, for example this book link is completely based on actual data taken from hundreds (thousands?) of people across continents. Great book, btw.
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