I'm just tired, and a cold makes me want to curl into a ball and give up on life. I get down and then i get down and then I hear James Brown in my head yelling, "Get on up...get on up...like a sex machine" and then I think of the Flying Lizards's version and laugh.
I'm so tired of half-assed music taking the place of good stuff. I've got to get my glitch on and put some stuff out there and just start working. Why does greatness seem so far away when I hear Autechre's music and think, "I've got a bass drum sound like that...oh, I know what he's doing there"? Then I hear a minimalist track from Nabukazu Takemura and think, "my speech synthesizer piece is so overdone and over-orchestrated. Why didn't I just keep it simple, stupid?"
Why can't I follow form? I need patience. There should be an incubation period of a week or so on each track I produce. Making video game music made me a working machine, churning out shite faster than I could record it...a slave to the machine. i need to remember Cage and Takemitsu and stop trying to be Rothko and 606.
I need some Nyquil.
I want to live in Seattle
http://www.ikuemori.com/
In a discussion today, I realized just how "Romantic" some bands are today...particulary KMFDM. THink about it: they have one sound that they kept pushing and pushing until people caught on; they had no patrons in the beginning so they had to promote everything themselves; they're following a German passed on from Beethoven to Schu and Schu to Wolf to Schoenberg et.al. I
'm so glad I can pay money and take a class that requires a 25 page paper just to figure that shit out.
I'm so tired of half-assed music taking the place of good stuff. I've got to get my glitch on and put some stuff out there and just start working. Why does greatness seem so far away when I hear Autechre's music and think, "I've got a bass drum sound like that...oh, I know what he's doing there"? Then I hear a minimalist track from Nabukazu Takemura and think, "my speech synthesizer piece is so overdone and over-orchestrated. Why didn't I just keep it simple, stupid?"
Why can't I follow form? I need patience. There should be an incubation period of a week or so on each track I produce. Making video game music made me a working machine, churning out shite faster than I could record it...a slave to the machine. i need to remember Cage and Takemitsu and stop trying to be Rothko and 606.
I need some Nyquil.
I want to live in Seattle
http://www.ikuemori.com/
In a discussion today, I realized just how "Romantic" some bands are today...particulary KMFDM. THink about it: they have one sound that they kept pushing and pushing until people caught on; they had no patrons in the beginning so they had to promote everything themselves; they're following a German passed on from Beethoven to Schu and Schu to Wolf to Schoenberg et.al. I
'm so glad I can pay money and take a class that requires a 25 page paper just to figure that shit out.
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heard her stuff on Tzadik?
including myself, the world is already tired of Kid 606.
and i love the kid.
you should just be yourself. I too struggle with this.
at least you finish music. it took me a long time to get that point-i'm much happier now.
Seattle is very beautiful, fun and interesting. I love it there, and definitely plan on living there someday. i hope to go back there this summer-i love having friends in all the dope major cities in the us
I was just listening to Dont Blow Your Top the other day-while reminicsing on just how awesome for me Godlike was. I remember seeing them in concert and En Esch had this tunic on and i could unfortunately see his balls!
*barf*
come to Detroit for the music festival-i'm playing live with Speedy J, Stewart Walker and Vladislav Delay.
www.paxahau.com for more info.
the weekend is going to be crazy.
roomate in Detroit? fall maybe. maybe sooner.
loft?-definitely.
you think you could handle it here?