tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post2613616651524798924..comments2023-04-30T07:27:54.645-07:00Comments on <b>HUNGRY GHOST BLOG</b>: NagasawaDavid Chutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-12848177456337933222010-12-09T16:54:21.723-08:002010-12-09T16:54:21.723-08:00That's why God invented Entertainment Weekly a...That's why God invented Entertainment Weekly and the sports pages: so that you can talk about things without having to take the time to experience them.Tulkinghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380273659057130770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-11091952819537378752010-12-09T16:12:02.283-08:002010-12-09T16:12:02.283-08:00We do want to know what everyone else is thinking....We do want to know what everyone else is thinking. To some extent. Unless we've said so long to our species entirely. Being able to talk to a bus driver about baseball, or "Avatar," is not a bad thing. Although being limited to that would be a nightnmare.David Chutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-30871360924203859392010-12-09T15:09:10.008-08:002010-12-09T15:09:10.008-08:00This is a beautiful (albeit more than a little amb...This is a beautiful (albeit more than a little ambiguous) statement of one of the two points between which I vacillate -- the other being simply "Make it new."<br /><br />To state the obvious: Any artist ignorant of the past is a fool, but any aesthetic position that rejects the present entirely is at least half-dead.<br /><br />I just bought a record by an Italian pianist named Marino Formenti called "Kurtag's Ghosts", on which he plays with only short pauses seventy short pieces from composers ranging from Machaut (14th century) to Purcell (17th) to Kurtag (21st).<br /><br />Wonderful.. and confounding to conservatives and liberals alike.Tulkinghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380273659057130770noreply@blogger.com