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What about Beethoven’s last four string quartets? His late piano sonatas? The 3rd, 5th and 9th symphonies?
Want to learn what beauty, balance, depth of emotion in music really mean? Go there. Takes work but, once you get it, you can never go back to shallow music.Once you get Beethoven, a three minute jingle will annoy the shit out of yo for evermore.
I suppose it’s music of a sort, but it’s not music anyone will be listening to two centuries from now. That stuff just gives me a headache. Words are the last thing one needs in musical art. Words are for literature. That’s why I am glad I don’t understand the words in most great opera. If I did it woudl spoil the musical experience.
People don’t read anymore. And they don’t listen. They have no patience. I think the only art that will flourish in the future are the visual arts where it can all be taken in at a glance without thought.
I went to the SF Opera three times to see what all the excitement was about and nearly fell asleep, so it was back to Lenny Kravitz and Social Distortion concerts for me.
Resurecting a dead thread, but I thought I’d blow my horn on how great it is to be me now. I got tickets to Social Distortion next Friday and my favorite He-Bro, Lenny Kravitz, for his panty collecting tour on Valentine’s Day, both shows at Oakland’s gorgeous Fox Theater.
Lenny Kravitz is to rock what Black Eyed Peas are to hip-hop. Shame on you!
What? No points for Social Distortion?
That was your saving grace!
I’ll have an extra pair of panties thrown on the stage at Lenny for you.
True story boys: Years ago, I was meeting friends at a bar in SF near the venue for Lenny’s show and unknowingly was the first to arrive. I walked through the bar seeking a compatriot, found none, so I ordered a drink and took a seat to wait. Then a lovely, well-dressed young woman approached and said she noticed I was alone and if I would like to join her and her two equally lovely friends in going to the symphony that evening, which happened to be kitty-corner to Lenny’s show. I thanked her for her generosity but declined because I had tickets to Lenny. Her face dropped and she said, “I’d rather go to Lenny’s show.” She declined my invitation, of course, she wasn’t dressed for it.
Lenny opened a rip-roaring, butt-shaking rock and roll show with a trombone solo from his horn section. There wasn’t a dry panty in the house that night.
SKIP: Lenny opened a rip-roaring, butt-shaking rock and roll show with a trombone solo from his horn section. There wasn’t a dry panty in the house that night.
See what I mean? It’s not really about music. It’s about rutting.
Can’t people these days get above their dribbly/slimy/sloppy bits?
Die fröhliche Wissenschaft (Rob) - 03 February 2012 11:19 AM
SKIP: Lenny opened a rip-roaring, butt-shaking rock and roll show with a trombone solo from his horn section. There wasn’t a dry panty in the house that night.
See what I mean? It’s not really about music. It’s about rutting.
Can’t people these days get above their dribbly/slimy/sloppy bits?
Wait a minute. Just above you posted how much Beethoven moves your emotions and stirs your soul, but now you say that’s the only music allowed to do it?
Die fröhliche Wissenschaft (Rob) - 03 February 2012 11:19 AM
SKIP: Lenny opened a rip-roaring, butt-shaking rock and roll show with a trombone solo from his horn section. There wasn’t a dry panty in the house that night.
See what I mean? It’s not really about music. It’s about rutting.
Can’t people these days get above their dribbly/slimy/sloppy bits?
Yeah. But, Skip, I never get a hard on over Beethoven. Sex is the last thing on my mind when listneing to him. Great music transports us beyond all that stuff. Great music draws me up and out of myself. I feel selfless, bodiless, when I listen to really great music.
No hard dribbling dicks or soft dripping pussies could cum close to that feeling.
Die fröhliche Wissenschaft (Rob) - 03 February 2012 11:32 AM
Yeah. But, Skip, I never get a hard on over Beethoven. Sex is the last thing on my mind when listneing to him. Great music transports us beyond all that stuff. Great music draws me up and out of myself. I feel selfless, bodiless, when I listen to really great music.
No hard dribbling dicks or dripping pussies could cum close to that feeling.
I asked for more and you provide…your such a tease.
Die fröhliche Wissenschaft (Rob) - 03 February 2012 11:32 AM
Yeah. But, Skip, I never get a hard on over Beethoven. Sex is the last thing on my mind when listneing to him. Great music transports us beyond all that stuff. Great music draws me up and out of myself. I feel selfless, bodiless, when I listen to really great music.
No hard dribbling dicks or dripping pussies could cum close to that feeling.
I asked for more and you provide…your such a tease.
Actually, secular America is a fast growing demographic from what I have read. This example points to research on the subject.
there is no question that the ranks of the nonreligious have doubled during the past 25 years and that secularization is spreading most rapidly among Americans under 35.
