Uninspired, Again?

Apparently Comp USA is closing all their stores. I just got back from there with Ken (who purchased the wrong, non-refundable thing). I was shocked to hear that they no longer sell 5.25″ floppy disks. So if anybody has any lying around, I could really use them. I’m totally serious. If you have any 5.25″ floppy disks, please e-mail me. Also, if anybody out there reading this has short (5-10 seconds), non-copyrighted audio clips that we could use as track delineations on an Obscure References CD-r, please let me know. It could be pretty much anything, you know, from an old movie, or an interview back when you wrote for that now-defunct fanzine. As long as it’s been deemed “funny” by at least 51% of the people who have heard it, and it’s 100% obscure…I’m talking, like, Saul Rubinek as Harold Salt in the movie Wall Street, obscure.

I have absolutely nothing else to talk about today. Tomorrow I guess I’ll write about what I came away thinking after a second viewing of Idiocracy.

Now for some atonal music for solo piano! I just found a disk that I made in college, filled with (in my opinion) beautiful compositions that I heard in a particular music class. Arnold Schoenberg was a genius, and–if I remember correctly–championed musical reinvention so as to prevent it from becoming undesirable. He was committed to creating uninvolved (simple, but not facile) musical expressions, and his fervent adherence to this ideology was his way of repelling what was “the norm” at the time. He feared what we today refer to as market saturation, and stylization, and hoped to free listeners from pedestrian music experiences.

Or…I could be thinking of someone else.