Archive for June, 2009
a connection to a river
Thom Yorke quoting Robert Wyatt
“I love pop music to death….. Most great composers rely on folk music. I rely on pop music. I’m not saying I’m a great composer or that pop music is folk music. There’s a whole endless thing going on out there. You make your little pond but if your pond isn’t connected to the river, which isn’t connected to an ocean, it’s just going to dry up. It’s just a little piss pool. I’ve lived too long to be happy in a pond.”
We’ve been discussing theoretical physics around here a bit lately… in our own sort of “armchair” fashion. Inspired by the excellent movie “Primer”. One thing that we’ve been very interested in is this idea of being tethered. Not just in a physical sense, but in all senses, tethered. Are you bounded to an outside force. Are you floating independent? Like so many things of this nature, it is probably some sort of balance. Breaking free of this structured environment, “becoming untethered”, is where the movements of creative genius and clarity seem arise. But remaining “tethered”(grounded) is also the key to productivity (and sanity?).
the beauty of language
“… the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein
