Thursday, February 12, 2004
Why John Writes About, but Doesn't Play, Music
Ok. This is the THIRD time I've started to write this post. The first two attempts exploded from a simple explanation of my musical inadequacies into intensely personal and horrible convoluted rants. But it is important to me that I deliver on my promised post, so this time I'm keeping it simple. I never excelled ad music because of some combination of: laziness, impatience, frustration, and sheer ineptitude. People who are musically inclined amaze me because I just don't "get it." I have problems with tone and rhythm and I have absolutely no grasp of music theory. But music is such an important and powerful force that I can't be satisfied with my inabilities to create it, so I try and do the next best thing and write about it.
Not really the introspective post I was originally shooting for, but better than nothing. I'll go archive the nearly 2000 words of my first two attempts in my digiscrapbook and leave it at that.
posted by JMV |
2/12/2004 09:11:00 PM
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