1. Talking about music is either going to be trashy and gossipy (Mozart wrote this bassoon line for some guy who used to fart a lot, Bach hated the oboist at church and gave him whole notes only, whatever) or super analytical and divorced from biography. Notes, rhythms, shapes: this pitch, this duration, this texture. Similarly, I’m going to talk about it either totally personally (when I hear this, I feel this, which reminds me of that one time) or completely apersonally: telling the truth about what the music is up to.<\/p>\n
2. I’m not ever going to compare anything to anything else to give an example of how it sounds. “Like Moondog meets Final Fantasy” or “Alban Berg plus Rufus Wainwright minus Jacques Brel plus Minnie Riperton” “\u201d it’s just a waste of everybody’s time. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
All I can do is watch this:<\/p>\n
<\/param> <\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nand this:<\/p>\n
<\/param> <\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nWe should all have such close harmony. I’m dying.<\/p>\n
More:<\/p>\n
<\/param> <\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nI feel like everybody needs to watch this whole movie in every different language just to learn something about your own weird racial stereotypes. Also what is more gorgeous than her singing halfway through this:<\/p>\n
<\/param> <\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nYes:<\/p>\n
<\/param> <\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nNo:<\/p>\n
<\/param> <\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nMaybe?<\/p>\n
<\/param> <\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nHow is this alright:<\/p>\n
<\/param> <\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nThank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So for some weird reason I’ve managed to avoid listening to any of Andrew Bird‘s music. It was one of those weird things where people kept on say, oh, you’d love it, you’d love it, and I kept on resisting and nodding knowingly whenever it came up in conversation. Finally, the other day, somebody or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}