every guitar student btw would be a potential customer/audience for an album. teach 1000 students, build good relationships with them, and when you release your work it will have people excited to listen & share with their friends.
“But that takes years” yea,, all good things do
— visa is working on @introspectVV (@visakanv) March 18, 2021
That is true. People have said things like, “It’s cool that you are so naturally good with computers.”
No, I’m not. I just started when I was four years old. By the time I was sixteen, I therefore knew a whole lot. That’s a huge jump on most people. Getting good at something does indeed take a while, but it’s also not true that putting 10,000 hours into something will be enough. You also have to possess at least some natural inclination.
But lockdowns are harmless, blah blah. This is about Canada, but probably just as bad in the US. Whole cadres of young people have been robbed of so much, in many cases for no real purpose. We have no better ideas, so just destroying young people is what’s going to happen, and we’re just like, cool, cool.
I guess many countries are going to go with eternal lockdowns, despite not being terribly effective, because they tried nothing else, and all the nothing they tried also failed.
Makes total sense. If I ever get the patience, I will write something about how the embrace of lockdown by so many is a symptom of the utter failure of societal and individual imagination on all levels, and how the erasure of the social commons is a recapitulation of the expunction of the ideas of civic duty and civic virtue.
Lockdown is the sledgehammer applied to the ant, the nose excised to spite the face. It does work, sort of, but it’s a destructive tool that harms more than even those who realize its harm can admit.
A lot of early feminist internet writing stressed fears, maybe most famously a now-offline piece called “Schrödinger’s Rapist” that was about the reluctance to talk to strange men in public. This was not a bad piece, but, like a lot of pieces from around that time, got steadily expected to do more and more work it couldn’t really do, and was never meant to. It was trying to explain to men why a woman might give them the cold shoulder and became, instead, a kind of total explanation of how women feel when men talk to them all the time.
It did; that piece became the excuse a lot of women used for why they treated men like garbage all the time. “Because every man might be a rapist, I am now going to treat them all horribly! It’s my right and duty as a feminist!”
I mean, terrible people of both genders are always going to find an excuse to treat others poorly, but that piece was the excuse for a whole lot of women to let their inner sociopath out. It was disappointing to see because I thought it was a good piece, for what it was. But misapplied, it was harmful.
What a fun song! It’s a few years old now, but glad the liberal fear of sex and their absurd prudishness hasn’t take over everything everywhere.
Don’t have time to write an entire exegesis on how this differs from the performative sexuality of “WAP,” and even though I think the lyrics of WAP are funny, that song leaves all sensuality behind for a catalog of fetishes and a list of “what I will do for various fees on my OnlyFans site.” It’s not celebratory or lustful — it’s more of a consumer wishlist.
“La dalle,” however, is about lust and is far more sensual and interesting and feels like sex actually works. “Ravenous” is a better elucidation of that craving, that hunger, of pure lust. In reality, no woman (nearly) sits around thinking about her wet-ass pussy, especially in the act, in the moment — just as no man in the moment thinks about his hard cock. That’s all for the page, for show, for a silly song that’s neutralizing of desire while ostentatiously aspiring to be its exponent. “La dalle” uses the metaphor of food for sex, and though that’s common in songs it’s also quite apropos because unlike what modern liberals believe, sex is just as vital for human flourishing and its own way is just as essential as food. I don’t think that link of sustenance to sex is at all a mistake on L.E.J.’s part. They know what they are playing at.
“WAP” is the algorithmic obverse of prudishness, another aspect of that disconnected and alienating future of screen sex, combined with terror of the real fleshy sweaty act, while “La dalle” is playful and in its controlled choreography of strings and waiters (in the video) and uses this antonymic juxtaposition to further highlight the strength of those unconstrained urges and how they function in non-algorithmically-contaminated human psyches.
The problem is — as with the iPhone — that they are more interested in controlling you and what you can do than allowing you to achieve what you want to how you wish to do so. This is the case with nearly all computing now, even Linux.
There is no escape from the petty thugs of the world anywhere.
