Once again I have found myself feeling alienated from the general world at large. Reading in two books about readers advisory I have realized that my approach to reading is so different from what I guess is the norm that none of the techniques they offered in the books would bring a librarian anywhere near being able to probably give me something to read that wasn’t just a super obvious choice. The questions don’t seem to have any kind of weight towards someone interested in non-genre / ’serious’ fiction, and they seem to pre-suppose a blandness in taste that I can’t say is startling, but which does sadden me. I don’t think I understand why people read, what’s the point of reading things that are no different from a movie that you can watch in a fraction of the time? Shouldn’t there be something in reading besides just either silly entertainment or ‘learning’ about something (as in, I’d like to learn about other cultures, can I have a book about India?). I read almost constantly and neither of those two things generally come into play, I don’t know how I would state what my interest is, but I know that there is something to it besides diversions or arm-chair tourism. Of course thinking things like this makes me a snob, because it’s wrong to realize that there are things out there that are really fucking awesome and amazing that people don’t experience, but which maybe they should, because they are so awesome and amazing, but since they don’t already know about it and by saying that it’s better than say a James Patterson novel you’re considered some asshole. Sigh.
Category Archives: School
I tried to do some research on Karl-Heinz Stockhausen’s Helikopter Streichquartett for class, but I failed. Although part of the assignment was to get under 50 hits on a search engine, and I succeeded brilliantly in that respect. The best thing I found in the search was this short video on YouTube showing a 2 minute excerpt of a performance of the piece. The piece is basically four musicians playing the music composed by Stockhausen while flying in helicopters around the venue where the audience is. All of the musicians are being amplified into the venue, along with the helicopter noises.
Who can say Modern Classical music is boring?
