Friday afternoons can be so liberating that it is disorienting. Last weekend was “Fall Break” which deserves quotation marks because
1. We get just one day off, and
2. It wasn’t very relaxing because it was quite busy and stressful.
That’s why this weekend is such a relief. I can relax, I have plenty of time to rest and do my schoolwork, and I can get to some other things that schoolwork has been keeping me from.
Oh, also, I’m FINALLY seeing Where the Wild Things Are (because Amanda is wonderful), and I get to take in Monsters of Folk live tomorrow night.
CWillZ is here, it’s a very busy week, and the weather is nice, so I’m not really going to post anything today.
There is a picture of an adorable dog after the jump, so there’s that…
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It’s often pointed out that the current, album-oriented format of popular music has really only existed since, oh, 1965 or so, when the Beatles put out Rubber Soul, and Bob Dylan put out Highway 61 Revisited.
Less frequently pointed out is that recorded music is also a relatively recent phenomenon, certainly less than 200 years old.
All of which to say, I guess, that critics and amateurs putting out year end/decade end lists of favorite singles, let alone albums, is a very recent development. And in some ways, that live music is still in the millenniums-old tradition of music-as-performance art and/or songwriting as the measure of an artist.
(sorry this idea is really undercooked, I’ve just found that fascinating recently.)
So Tumblr has a feature that allows my Tumbls to be sent to twitter, as tweets with links back to the post every time that I make one.
It also has a feature that allows me to import my tweets as Tumbls.
If I were to activate both features, I think I would get an infinite loop of Tumbls becoming tweets becoming Tumbls becoming YOU GET IT.
I have spared you and only turned on the Tumbls—>tweets function, not its inverse.
Haven’t blogged recently due to various TU stuff (moving in and moving other people in, et cetera). Expect that for a bit.
In the meantime, tweets.
I feel like we should differentiate between rich/famous people who donate money to art museums and those who do things like, oh, you know, fund AIDS orphanages, or help send underprivileged kids to college.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, art museums are culturally more important than they probably get the credit for in the 21st century. I also realize that “philanthropist”, the word which started this thought in my head, is technically about increasing the well-being of humanity. However, I think we can all agree that human lives are more important than human exposure to art. Because the latter doesn’t matter very much without the former.
As if I have time to tumblelog tonight.
