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johnny9fingersAs a correction to last night's post: Fripp nicked/was influenced by/borrowed the final 5th movement from Bartok's 4th string quartet - the pizzicato section is the 4th movement. (Beethoven late quartets exhibit the same violence and intellectual astringency.)
Mind you, my tastes run pretty catholic.
Thinking about the huge demographic shifts happening in Iran. My chum K Milligan reckons that withdrawing from Iraq will be as good as handing it to Iran. However, I'm begining to think otherwise. I think Iran is in the process of transformation. (It may be my lefty past, but there are times when I still think structuralism has more to say about situations than a simple reductive approach.) Iran is very interesting at the moment. A huge proportion of its population are under 30, and they have an agenda somewhat different to the Iranian establishment. Just as the 'Baby Boomers' in the West changed society by their numbers so, I think, on a smaller scale, will Iran be changed. Again, probably is one of those 'Lap of the Gods' situations (but so many things are).
I don't know if we actually have to do anything about Iran at all - I think it might just happen all of its own accord if we do other things right.
Will think more on't. I doubt, however, that as a position it would be a vote winner.
List of Quacks and Angels to thank. They've all been brilliant. And I'll tell 'em so in no uncertain terms.
Mind you, my tastes run pretty catholic.
Thinking about the huge demographic shifts happening in Iran. My chum K Milligan reckons that withdrawing from Iraq will be as good as handing it to Iran. However, I'm begining to think otherwise. I think Iran is in the process of transformation. (It may be my lefty past, but there are times when I still think structuralism has more to say about situations than a simple reductive approach.) Iran is very interesting at the moment. A huge proportion of its population are under 30, and they have an agenda somewhat different to the Iranian establishment. Just as the 'Baby Boomers' in the West changed society by their numbers so, I think, on a smaller scale, will Iran be changed. Again, probably is one of those 'Lap of the Gods' situations (but so many things are).
I don't know if we actually have to do anything about Iran at all - I think it might just happen all of its own accord if we do other things right.
Will think more on't. I doubt, however, that as a position it would be a vote winner.
List of Quacks and Angels to thank. They've all been brilliant. And I'll tell 'em so in no uncertain terms.
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Date: 2006-12-04 07:48 pm (UTC)I sure as hell hope Iran gets some change. The government sucks.
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Date: 2006-12-04 10:04 pm (UTC)I think he went a bit mad when he announced his 'New Standard Tuning' which if memory serves, was tuned in fourths from a C bass note (Maj 3rd below E which is the normal bass string). Mad or not, he still has a lot to say with the instrument.
I still think 'Fracture' is his most accomplished work. Two of the five motifs being based on whole tone scales played at ridiculous speed - again, I'm dredging memory here, it's been a good number of years since I've kept in the sort of practice needed to play such. Most of my time, for the last ten or so years, I've been emulating/influenced by/stolen from/paid to sound like (the latter being most likely true) George Harrison, with the odd bit of Jimmy Page/Jimi Hendrix/Nile Rogers etc. There's not a lot of point in playing to the bandstand - other musicians don't pay your wages.
And as I'm coming to admit, I no longer love it; so the hours spent on scales become hours I could put to better use.
I've become cynical about 'pop' music.
Iran's government does suck, at least from an external Western position. I rather hope the upcoming generation can begin the process of transformation, and we can hold fire for time enough for the changes to begin to be effective. Like with China, I believe trade will eventually bring with it the social changes necessary to integrate with the World Capitalist Economy. But this scenario faces an inextricably linked race with global warming, because as we know, China becoming a serious consumer and producer nation will get close to tipping us over the climatic edge.
Perhaps things are always in the balance in some way or other: which probably means we should be eternally vigilant, but right now...sorry, can't be bothered: which is not directed at you m'dear, but with the world in general.
Go well, and make the idiots think.