just trying to stimulate discussion on what is the best album i've
heard in years. i see i have failed and i am sad on one hand, happy
on the other in that i can relish this music in blissful solitude,
which makes it even more special (isn't that what music gives us, a
sense of belonging so personal that we must acknowledge we are in the
presence of something greater? which makes us reach out, and write to
this most impersonal medium of the internet?) that said, it would be
nice to hear from someone so touched (i find the internet inherently
sad, kinda like gillian's music).
definition of art = something you create that is so personal you don't
think it reaches anyone, but then it does, and it confirms the fact
that we all really do need each other. This is not a sentimental
disposition. The only reason the internet exists is from a need to
communicate, despite the isolation required to create art.
christ this sounds circular, full of irony. how beautiful.
The only hope for humankind is to realize that what is within us as
individuals is somewhere within all of us, and that this makes us
complete as individuals. There is no collective, only all of us,
islands linked by a beautiful shout.
Gillian Welch is one of the most beautiful shouts I h
― karmik sometimes guy, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)