pointless discussion about nothing

one: The audience is amazed by a spectacle. NO

two: The audience approves of a pleasing aesthetic. NO

three: The audience is presented with some unknown chaos in which they learn to find order. YES

It would seem that a member of audience three would actually be a member of audience two having a personal preference for the chaotic and disorienting, aestheticlessness as an aesthetic; but the members of audience three are also perceptive to finding orders despite their discomfort with tired genres, kitsch, hack, outsider, trendy, derivatives, corporate, etc. Personal preference is ultimately subverted and beautiful music is leftover.

chris harmon on bandcamp

www.chrisharmon.bandcamp.com 2 albums and one EP there. any donation is great or feel free to re-post on any blog

playlist for may 19 2010

honestly i wouldn't know good music if i heard it but here's the songs I like right now. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K9Z6SM8O

i make a new playlist every couple of weeks so if anyone browses this, downloads and enjoys just comment i could make it a regular thing.

theres a very good reason they don't have a torrent for the entire jandek discography.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jandek

amateur and professional.

Amateur:
n.

1. A person who engages in an art, science, study, or athletic activity as a pastime rather than as a profession.
2. Sports. An athlete who has never accepted money, or who accepts money under restrictions specified by a regulatory body, for participating in a competition.
3. One lacking the skill of a professional, as in an art.

adj.

1. Of or performed by an amateur.
2. Made up of amateurs: an amateur cast.
3. Not professional; unskillful.

[French, from Latin amātor, lover, from amāre, to love.]

amateurism am'a·teur·ism n.

SYNONYMS amateur, dabbler, dilettante. These nouns mean one engaging in a pursuit but lacking professional skill: a musician who is a gifted amateur, not a professional; a dabbler in the stock market; a sculptor but a mere dilettante.
ANTONYM professional

WORD HISTORY When Mrs. T.W. Atkinson remarked in her 1863 Recollections of the Tartar Steppes and their Inhabitants, "I am no amateur of these melons," she used amateur in a sense unfamiliar to us. That sense, "a lover, an admirer," is, however, clearly descended from the senses of the word's ultimate Latin source, amātor, "lover, devoted friend, devotee, enthusiastic pursuer of an objective," and from its Latin-derived French source, amateur, with a similar range of meanings. First recorded in English in 1784 with the sense in which Mrs. Atkinson used it, amateur is found in 1786 with a meaning more familiar to us, "a person who engages in an art, for example, as a pastime rather than as a profession," a sense that had already developed in French. Given the limitations of doing something as an amateur, it is not surprising that the word is soon after recorded in the disparaging sense we still use to refer to someone who lacks professional skill or ease in performance.

Professional

adj.

1. 1. Of, relating to, engaged in, or suitable for a profession: lawyers, doctors, and other professional people.
   2. Conforming to the standards of a profession: professional behavior.
2. Engaging in a given activity as a source of livelihood or as a career: a professional writer.
3. Performed by persons receiving pay: professional football.
4. Having or showing great skill; expert: a professional repair job.

n.

1. A person following a profession, especially a learned profession.
2. One who earns a living in a given or implied occupation: hired a professional to decorate the house.
3. A skilled practitioner; an expert.

summer is here again.

I am going to listen to so much music. I will likely go insane, beautifully.

what are all the vinyl rip bloggers are on vacation?? im dying over here!

I haven't had an update in a week from my fav blogs. I've turned to soulseek and found some really cool compilations:

va - atomic shockwaves
va - messthetics
va -[[sf+la scene '76-80s)]]
va -homework 101 - us diy (1976-1986)
va - (2007) powerpop to the people vol. 1 (1970-1985)
va - 80s garage
va - homework #1½ us experimental american diy punkwave 75-84
va - the anesthetic's wearing off - vol. 10
va-diy - shake it up - american power pop ii [1978-1980]

something about it, sometimes there's some real song writing in those trash recordings. Also im a sucker for the abundancy of analog synths in the late seventies to mid eighties. A band that appears a few times on these comps, Bay of Pigs, they always use ring modulator on guitar, they have a really cool sound.

also the zambonisoundtracks blogspot is gone but they same guy(Ian)'s got a tumblr account. zamboni.tumblr.com and its just as good only no uploads of whole records. He pointed out this beach boys song, "all I wanna do" pure bliss, cant think of a better beach boys song. and to think its the notorious Mike Love singing!

Ive had a second thought on the new ariel pink record. I love it to death. as an album even. and I hate "albums". All the songs are good. especially the ones I didn't like on the first few listens. I will definitely see Haunted Graffiti when they come to DC this summer. and I will most likely transcend reality.

still waiting on the new DEVO record, I don't even know what to expect.