Ever feel music'd out?
A lot of people were given Last FM subscriber status for the rest of the year, and I've taken advantage of it to find tons of new music... wicked. But now I feel like there's constant background noise in my mind as I subconsciously replay all the cool bits from new songs, continously, hour after hour, incessantly... I just wish there was an 'off' button in my head, that's all. Seriously, it's getting to me.
I felt a similar way after cramming Musée Dorsay into three hours. It's like there is a limit to the sensory input the human brain can recieve before it stops being enjoyable... I actually had a mild headache afterwards, it was really weird. Could've just been dehydration, I don't know for sure. Maybe that's it- too much coffee? Maybe I just need to drink more water?
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//constant background noise i just ...
//constant background noise
i just read an online article about that ... with the big rise of personal players it's starting to affect people's at rest mental states ... i'll try to find it - it might have been on macformat news or arts and letters daily ... or scientific american mind ...
I'm sure there's something in the ...
I'm sure there's something in the human brain that gets sensory overload. It's kind of funny, it's like we short circuit or something. Well, that's how I feel anyway - after too much intense stimulus I start flinching, twitching and become generally incapable of pleasant conversation.
Do a google on "soulseeking" and ...
Do a google on "soulseeking" and you'll find an interesting article from someone who went nuts on downloading and has a bit of a rant about how that did his head in ... pretty interesting, I thought. I could relate. The dl for dl sake thing.
Thanks for the heads up, Jet- I found ...
Thanks for the heads up, Jet- I found it a good read as well, I can really relate to this guy.
"There is also the demand, a perception heightened and perhaps solely manufactured by the proliferation of easily-available music and music criticism on the internet, that we all be infinite dilettantes, that simply because we have the opportunity to sample everything at the click of a mouse that we necessarily should. But if you’re a dilettante then you are a dilettante.
dilettante
adj : showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish; "his dilettantish efforts at painting" [syn: dilettantish, dilettanteish, sciolistic] n : an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge [syn: dabbler, sciolist]
Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but how satisfying can it be to know nothing about everything, to value vague, instant opinions over deep understandings and appreciations, to have heard a hundred records but to have loved none of them? "
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I shouldn't moan about Musée Dorsay ...
I shouldn't moan about Musée Dorsay really, it was incrediblé, as they say. I have a new favourite impressionist, van Gogh was knocked from top spot by Renoir. I haven't thought critically about art for some time, but Renoir's stuff just exudes this warmth... looking through a book of prints is one thing, but if you ever get a chance to see the actual painted works- damn. Big warm fuzzies.