What's an album you would have loved if you'd discovered it first...

grindy · 06-14-2019, 12:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Doug McClasky

I think making time for your own interests that aren't something communal like sports or whatever that solidify your associations with your immediate group of friends and family is a surprisingly transgressive idea. You exist purely to procreate and contribute to the societal machine. That's really all that can be said for evolution's plan for you as an individual. Saying "**** you people I like watching Fritz the Cat" or whatever the **** isn't really a part of that plan which is why you have to force time out of your day to enjoy that ****.

Sounds like something you make out to be worse than it is to feel better about being by yourself.

OccultHawk · 06-14-2019, 12:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Zhanteimi

Even if you have kids, there's no excuse. Turn off the motherfucking TV or twitter or whatever the fuck brain-deadening thing you're doing and read a book or listen to an album. Or take a walk. There's enough time in the day, even with kids.

Church

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evolution's plan

I get what you’re saying but evolution doesn’t have a plan and is probably better understood by not using the language of anthropomorphism.

And just because we are all the end product of an evolutionary process to this point doesn’t necessarily mean we’re going to continue to behave in a way that’s evolutionarily advantageous.

Still, point taken as long as we're clear that I could never consider a child unassailable. That is to say, I love the music of Coltrane far more than I would a daughter or son. Nor could any human approach my dog. Figuratively or literally

The Batlord · 06-14-2019, 06:09 PM

There's a very big difference in how music is consumed communally and how it is consumed in solitude.

OccultHawk · 06-14-2019, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Doug McClasky

There's a very big difference in how music is consumed communally and how it is consumed in solitude.

Even live it feels like a personal experience to me. I used to mosh and **** but mostly I feel like I’m alone. If it’s a great show I don’t feel like I’m at a concert. I feel like all there is is the music. Like nothing else exists not even me. I’m only talking about the unassailable here.

Anteater · 06-20-2019, 04:42 PM

I don't get recommended stuff that much, but I think people just sometimes fall into the trap of not being that interested in music outside of their pre-established ecosystems. You get accustomed to a certain temperature range and so when you get prompted to leave it, you leave reluctantly.

Zhanteimi · 06-20-2019, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

music is hella communal though

Opposite for me. I listen to 99% of my collection alone.