٭³² CULTURE PRODUCTS POLL ²³٭

to cool app not to dan, obv.

if a newborn cried and then it fell asleep and never woke up would it be a musician

no, it would be a dead newborn

I think what I'm saying is that when you are investing time and money and humanity in music is it really music you are investing it in

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, April 3, 2009 2:47 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ this is a legit question imo

explain

first, I would like to post a picture of nietzsche

http://quadri.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/nietzsche-785802.jpg

Ultimately everything you choose to spend time, money and energy on has some degree of selfish worth to you; you are doing it either because the direct thing you are doing gives you an intangible feeling of "good" (ie, you like the way you feel when you do it) or it will lead to something else that will give you that intangible feeling of good, so regardless of what you pick here the correct answer is always "you are investing in what you think will make you happy".

I don't think that's the point of the poll, though; that seems to be about "what is the thing most likely to give you that feeling?" or "what do you spend the most effort on in an attempt to gain that feeling?"

like sometimes it becomes habitual and affection for music becomes the pursuit of musical paraphernalia, which isn't really the music itself but a thrill-of-the-chase pursuit tangentially related to music - right?

i still think if you're broadly identifying the areas one is interested in then it counts as music because it's a subsection of that milieu, but it's true that it's something else. it's like liking religion because you like hymns, or liking activism because you like jumping around on oil tankers.

cool app i think i get what u mean but maybe not i mean like i dont really understand either the external or internal boundaries btw music/dance really but there are non-superficial boundaries at least enough that u can talk abt them separately

i also do think if ppl are invested in something deeply enough than it becomes a way of thinking/seeing and so even one of the others is colored by that like the whole thing w/thinking of music in terms of painting or vice versa

I don't believe for one second that anyone can think of music in terms of painting but then again I don't believe that anything can be seperated from anything else

haha wait, what is up with Nietzsche's proto-fauxhawk

hahaha easiest poll ever since only one of these pays the mortgage yo

and that is bacteria

not really

how is yr decorative arts store, btw

I don't believe for one second that anyone can think of music in terms of painting but then again I don't believe that anything can be seperated from anything else

really?? i thought i followed u on the standom is standom regardless of yr fixation and yr standom is not really about battlestar gallactica or ann margret or w/e but the process of stanning or lyfe or something idk

but why cant u separate things at all??? are all divisions really trivial to you???

who thinks of music in terms of painting?

Some of these choices, however, do cover a bit of the same thing, like radio and music and television and film.

By cuisine, is the intended interpretation foodie, yelp restaurant stuff? With a vote for something else equivalent to saying, I'd rather have music in my life and eat reconstituted mashed potatoes, generic breakfast cereal, and macaroni and cheese from a box than forgo music and have organic arugula and goat cheese or the bestest pizza ever?

on that stan thread I just said I liked some shit

oh nm you are just using the word stan

yeah divisions are pretty trivial but I make them sometimes we all make mistakes

I don't think divisions are trivial at all. I think it's a significant method of identity formation and making sense of things, especially with the glut of cultural products and information we have in our society.

what happens when sense is made of things

http://silverdocs.com/media/images/films/lg/StopMakingSense-a.jpg

By cuisine, is the intended interpretation foodie, yelp restaurant stuff? With a vote for something else equivalent to saying, I'd rather have music in my life and eat reconstituted mashed potatoes, generic breakfast cereal, and macaroni and cheese from a box than forgo music and have organic arugula and goat cheese or the bestest pizza ever?

yah pretty much. its like, what do u get the most pleasure out of even if mac and cheese from a box is yr thing

xp Byrne was my answer on the stan thread. Music is easily my answer to this poll.

Ultimately everything you choose to spend time, money and energy on has some degree of selfish worth to you

Of course music has selfish worth to me. If I can talk a good game about music, maybe make a good mix CD for someone once in a while, that's social interaction and approval from other humans. Awesome.

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television 0

Guess things would be a little different now.

still deserves zero

lol it would get minus votes now?

As someone who has dedicated the past 20-plus years to exploring painting as an art form, as well as being immersed in art museums as my profession, the answer is undoubtedly music.

bacteria ftw

Woulda voted books

take athletics as sports, that

would've voted 'conversation'

hangin' out

jorts

wear my jorts while throwing jarts

one write-in for "puzzles!" from the quizzler who lives beneath the sea

Jokes

Lying down

film and dance deserved more

There should be an option for the dilettantes who can't focus on one goddamn thing for more than five goddamn minutes.

radio 0

this would prob be different now too given podcasts

podcasts v important to me, not that they're exceptionally good but they sure do keep me from having to have thoughts

could not live w/o farty bacteria