Third Post in Three Days, But Not a Very Good One, I Just Feel Like I Have to Keep Writing.
January 7th, 2006At this very moment I’m listening to Studio 360 on NPR. It seems like every time I listen to this show they’re doing a spot on Aaron Copland. Kurt Anderson loves Aaron Copland.
Why? Why do people like Aaron Copland? Honestly. I mean, who the hell would ever pop in Appalachian Spring, sit back, and have a listen? It’s insufferably corny music. Wherein artistic circles Thomas Hart Benton is the object of deserved scorn, contemporary composers bend over backward to praise Copland. They’re both basically doing the same thing—creating goofy American propaganda using outdated European models. But still they listen)…
January 7th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
Aaron Copland’s stuff worked really well, I thought, in He Got Game.
I love the title of this entry.
Mitch, I just watched DVD of They Might Be Giants videos. We could make videos like that. Let’s do that.
January 7th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
Yeah, I think it works when accompanied with images, just not alone (for me at least).
I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve never seen “He Got Game” all the way through…
I have, however, seen the “Steak: It’s What’s for Dinner” commercials all the way through.
You, know, I might have had the idea for those big faces of us attached to tapdancers (in Citizen Nuts), from the “Don’t Let’s Start” video. Hinesy! more video projects!
January 10th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
I know little about either artist. But I do know that the link labeled “But they still listen…” is broken.
January 10th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
really? It should be linked to a page on Galileo’s famous quote “but still it moves” which he uttered after having to renounce before the church his findings that conferemed Copernicus’ view of a Sun-centered universe.
January 13th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
It’s workin’ now.
January 16th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
Yes, I think it’s “pero si muove” — Emerson quotes it in his essay “Experience.”