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I like the music
I choose because:
a: in its timing- relative to its "arrival" in
my life- regardless of when it might have been recorded- chronology doesn't
matter in the hands of Fate
and
b: in its narrative, it is part of the prophecy
foretelling the coming changes in the world as foretold by the musical prophets
of rock- metaphorically- but not too indirectly. My choices are
careful.
All good
musicians are visionaries, but my personally favorite visionaries are: Bob
Marley, Cat Stevens, Sting, David Bowie, the Who, Pink Floyd, Eminem, TLC, Tina
Turner, Pat Benatar, Boy George, George Michael, Kenny Rogers (believe it
or not- on later albums- particularly "If I was A Painting"), Johnny Cash of
course- Madonna these days, Paulina Rubio, and Enrique Iglesias. I'll tell
you which songs and why if you want to know.
But DARE you
judge the musical choices of others? If I knew even less than I know now
about music- I might still express my intelligence in a conscious or (as with
relatives of mine I think) subconscious psychic attraction to the lingering
aftertaste of songs with future realities defined in their prophetic
words.
I challenge any
one task me to read the lyrics of a song, or an whole album, like a palm or
Tarot card, and tell you what it means and what it foretells. I
challenge you. I can absolutely do it. And with a great deal of
confidence also. And you don't have to like the songs
either.
I could also
point out when the songs speak nothing of the future, but this would only be me
speaking of my own ignorance, probably- or stories that have been avoided or for
which no hints have yet been dropped- but this is an unlikely scenario
anyway.
But I will tell
you this. I have had to live the narrative in some of my own songs, and
when I wrote some of them- the narrative was not LITERALLY true. I won't
go into it (you might want to listen to "Build a World" and "Throw the Baby Out"
again.... LOL)- but I take no credit for the higher
meaning...
Musicians - in
fact most artists- don't know or see even their own prophetic statements until
they have undergone spiritual evolution of consciousness (the s.. and e... might
need to be reversed)- and in fact many of you right now don't get my "innuendo"
comments unless you are "one of us" - who are not a happy lot nor a better lot-
just people with bigger headaches than before that now we must call a world
wwhere we are puppets.
i'd even go so
far as to say that there is no artistic genius that exists other that as a love
relationship with fate where fate grants you gifts now and thenin appreciation
of how well ou have played with it... and there's nothing for which any true
artist- having been rebirthed with the premonition of his or her onwn
canonization somewhere- can feel him or herself able to truly take credit- it's
dangerous to credit yourself as a music relative to a world that seems unaware
of music- I know NO ONE, truly, who listens to NO music- I'lol die the day I
meet such a person I think. We are part musical, all of us. That's one of
the angelic "hereditary traits" that make us not so much animals as different
and gloriously strange "piece of work"- as Shakespeare would
say.
Yes I'm
crazy. Yes this has nothing to do with looping. Yes this has no
place on this mailing list. Yes, I'm an egomaniac. WRONG on all
counts.
LISTEN
CAREFULLY. I AM NOT MAKING MISTAKES WHEN I TUNE INTO A CHANNEL - A RADIO
STATION FROM THE FUTURE- I CALL "Looking Backwards"...
The speaks
Keith-"Delete-Me"-Urbaine" MIKO
From: jimfowler [mailto:jimfowler@prodigy.net] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 9:18 AM To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Subject: Re: Collaboration in music
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