this is weird. me actually posting at home on a monday morning. it's weird because i usually want to avoid the computer when i'm away from work... there's lots of things i'd rather do than stare at a computer screen for another hour. but i guess the 3-day weekend has given me enough space to bear this little posting. i figured that, since i'm up early to transcribe an interview and i have to use the pc anyway, i might as well do a little posting.
allan and i had a couple of discussions about music the other night on our way to malate. (by the way, we have a gig there on the 7th, somewhere near aristocrat, but i don't know exactly where yet). i was telling him about this scene i watched in a TV show set in the 60's where the guy was lambasting the girl's pop favorites ("hey la, hey la my boyfriend's back" stuff) against his supposedly more intelligent bob dylan ("jingle jangle morning" stuff). and I remembered someone's comment a few months back in buzz night about our (collectively) music being intelligent pop. there's a conflict of interests right there... most of our music is influenced by the pop sensibilities of the lambasted favorites. then again, many fave artists have adopted dylan-esque drunken mumbling for their songs, too. anyway, allan and i were discussing that scene. he a basically said that the intelligence lies in how people realize the relationships between all these genres and how they've evolved as reactions to the previous ones. i agree... and i think what makes people stupid is the desire to close themselves off to another human being and his preferences just because they think they're in the right. hehe ang labo ng connection ko.
hindi basta... gets ko. history is important. hehe. sabi pala ni allan sakin... hindi na siya masyadong naeexcite pag nagdidiscuss kami ng music kasi mission accomplished na siya sakin on influencing me. hinihintay na lang niyang magnext level ako by researching artists on my own and discovering them for myself. hmm... i've always been so lazy when it comes to that. kaya nga stuck ako sa mainstream for the longest time. parang di ako makaexpend ng effort na i-deepen yung musical tastes ko, aside from maybe looking for more access to the stuff i already like (such as going on launchcast for indie faves and downloading lyrics). as he said, mababaw pa nga ako. well, maybe in time...
shet. tinatamad na akong magtranscribe. i don't want to think about video decoder chips this morning :(
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