Tonight, a very rare occurrence at Radio Free Gumbo: I had to turn off the radio because of the song that came on while I was winding down. It was "21st Century Schizoid Man" by King Crimson.
It was too much.
I like King Crimson, but their music in general, and Robert Fripp's in particular, can be a bit of a mood thing for me. When I'm ready for it, it is good. High-energy prog rock, groovy, man.
When I'm not, it's too jittery. Too all-over-the-place. Too...disassociative.
So it was tonight. I couldn't make it to the guitar solo. These days I'm a little too close to a disintegrative state of mind and the music was widening the cracks.
So I turned it off, and read a good book. Good to be back together.
27 September 2010
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What are you reading?
ReplyDeletereading some Franzen?
ReplyDeleteYeah, watcha reading?
ReplyDelete"Disintegrative State of Mind"....nobody but YOU could say that!!! Love it.
ReplyDeleteAs much as I love music, sometimes it's very annoying. Too stimulating.
ReplyDeleteQuiet can be very healing. I love to read in the quiet...it makes the book much more real.
Have you read the Hunger Games books?
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Robert Fripp! yeah!! Fripp and Eno....now there's late night writing mood music for ya?!
ReplyDeleteAnd prog rock? One of my guilty pleasures!!