January 2011
12 posts
Creative Review - Covering Kafka with colour →
I suppose what some find most relevant and compelling in Kafka is his ability to inspire in them that paradoxical feeling that great literature always aspires to arouse in readers – the feeling of the universality of their own alienation. Kafka is the ne plus ultra of alienation – alienation being arguably the defining emotional condition of the twentieth century.
“I lost all respect for Mr. Chase after reading his off-topic, personal attack on...”
– Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: How Music Really Works : The Essential Handbook for Songwriters, Performers, and Music Students
Yo La Tengo albums are great for napping to, and I insist that’s no insult.
“The creative impulse, when it comes to us, is delicate and does not hang around...”
– Jim G, in the comments to a preview of some music software
jrbr is not (just) a music blog
And to prove it, erm, here’s a thought about the dialogue in Jonathan Creek: it makes me think of my cynical auntie.
I really like Jonathan Creek though, though as an adult I am now painfully aware of its post-watershed nature and how it submitted to that strange mid-90s pressure to make every other sentence an innuendo.
Anyway, I like it mostly because I am susceptible to a good locked...
Artist In:Depth – Saine – Long Time No See →
Rise of the Obsidian Interstellar | Disasterpeace →
New album by Disasterpeace. Chipped-out space opera music with narrative ambitions. Been waiting for this one for ages.