On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:08:52 +1100, "Steve Bennett" stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/28/08, Adrian aldebaer@googlemail.com wrote:
Cute. If only I had more enthusiasm for being a memebunny, I would now be posting a link to a CD cover for my band, "Moogerah Peaks National Park" with the surprisingly appropriate background http://www.flickr.com/photos/18548381@N05/2218803959/ and the quote "Nothing fails like success".
I don't have a Flickr account, but mine would be:
Band name: Elmendorf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmendorf%2C_Texas
Album: you just trusted yourself. http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/39296.html
Cover: http://www.flickr.com/photos/loredana/2221921676/ ...which would made a really good cover, but unfortunately it's "All rights reserved", and some in the message threads over there say it's technically illegal to make derivative works of such things (though you're unlikely to get sued for doing it noncommercially as part of a meme)... so using a link somebody provided to get only free images, I got this alternative cover: http://flickr.com/photos/14555484@N02/2214694579/
I find it interesting how often this random selection comes up with combinations of band names, album titles, and images that give the impression of having some sort of deep symbolic artistic significance... makes one wonder how many of the real-world arts-and- literature stuff, about which people write academic treatises discussing what they represent, were really just born of random thoughts of their artists. I remember struggling in English classes in high school and college (where I was great at more "rational" subjects like math and computer science) where the teachers kept expecting me to understand all the symbolism that was supposedly there in the books and stories we read (the rocking horse isn't just a rocking horse... it represents the lost innocence of childhood!), but how is anybody to know what symbolism was really intended and what is a figment of the observer's imagination?
On 1/30/08, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
I find it interesting how often this random selection comes up with combinations of band names, album titles, and images that give the impression of having some sort of deep symbolic artistic significance... makes one wonder how many of the real-world arts-and- literature stuff, about which people write academic treatises discussing what they represent, were really just born of random thoughts of their artists. I remember struggling in English classes in high school and college (where I was great at more "rational" subjects like math and computer science) where the teachers kept expecting me to understand all the symbolism that was supposedly there in the books and stories we read (the rocking horse isn't just a rocking horse... it represents the lost innocence of childhood!), but how is anybody to know what symbolism was really intended and what is a figment of the observer's imagination?
"A bunch of years from now, all these assholes are going to be writing about all this shit I write, and I don't know where the fuck it comes from and I don't know what the fuck it's about, and they're going to write about what it's about." --Bob Dylan, circa 1965, as quoted (by Joan Baez) in a 2005 documentary.
On Jan 30, 2008 8:27 AM, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
I find it interesting how often this random selection comes up with combinations of band names, album titles, and images that give the impression of having some sort of deep symbolic artistic significance... makes one wonder how many of the real-world arts-and- literature stuff, about which people write academic treatises discussing what they represent, were really just born of random thoughts of their artists. I remember struggling in English classes in high school and college (where I was great at more "rational" subjects like math and computer science) where the teachers kept expecting me to understand all the symbolism that was supposedly there in the books and stories we read (the rocking horse isn't just a rocking horse... it represents the lost innocence of childhood!), but how is anybody to know what symbolism was really intended and what is a figment of the observer's imagination?
I feel less lonely now. =) With training I've become marginally better at figuring out where the symbols are, and taking a stab ("bullshitting", I call it) at what they represent, but I'm never confident that I've done it right. Surprisingly I always seem to be right, which only confirms my belief that I am bullshitting and symbolism is bullshit.
Johnleemk
On 31/01/2008, John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
I feel less lonely now. =) With training I've become marginally better at figuring out where the symbols are, and taking a stab ("bullshitting", I call it) at what they represent, but I'm never confident that I've done it right. Surprisingly I always seem to be right, which only confirms my belief that I am bullshitting and symbolism is bullshit.
Only, please call it "original research" ;-)
- d.