it's not just music, i know i haven't shut up this week about music though. it's writing and everything else too.
m (10:28:49 PM): full of music.
m (10:28:58 PM): i've lost a bunch of salt this week to music.
m (10:29:26 PM): musicians are doctors and shamans you call on to help your sickness.
m (10:30:11 PM): dunno why agrippa said it was a hackneyed or whatever way of explaning art. it's my new favorite one.
j (10:30:22 PM): Art as medicine?
j (10:31:14 PM): I can't think of a better way to describe it succinctly.
m (10:31:32 PM): it's exactly true, and funny enough the opposite of the rhetoric i used in high school for what art does, ie naturalizes your experience--but they aren't incompatible, because. by naturalizing or validating your experience it points out whatever disjunct you feel between your experience and the one you think is the establshed experience, the handeddown rules experience, is also natural, and so--those handed down rules aren't all powerful and you aren't sick anymore.
m (10:32:44 PM): like. "what's wrong with me and how i feel? i don't feel how i'm supposed to." and art says, nothing's wrong with you, that is, the way you're told to feel isn't some allperfect given handed from above.
m (10:33:01 PM): and it's funny how automatically you forget that, you go about your day feeling it is, and art reminds you, wakes you from forgetting.
m (10:28:58 PM): i've lost a bunch of salt this week to music.
m (10:29:26 PM): musicians are doctors and shamans you call on to help your sickness.
m (10:30:11 PM): dunno why agrippa said it was a hackneyed or whatever way of explaning art. it's my new favorite one.
j (10:30:22 PM): Art as medicine?
j (10:31:14 PM): I can't think of a better way to describe it succinctly.
m (10:31:32 PM): it's exactly true, and funny enough the opposite of the rhetoric i used in high school for what art does, ie naturalizes your experience--but they aren't incompatible, because. by naturalizing or validating your experience it points out whatever disjunct you feel between your experience and the one you think is the establshed experience, the handeddown rules experience, is also natural, and so--those handed down rules aren't all powerful and you aren't sick anymore.
m (10:32:44 PM): like. "what's wrong with me and how i feel? i don't feel how i'm supposed to." and art says, nothing's wrong with you, that is, the way you're told to feel isn't some allperfect given handed from above.
m (10:33:01 PM): and it's funny how automatically you forget that, you go about your day feeling it is, and art reminds you, wakes you from forgetting.