Are you still excited by music?

[JSngry]

Two things come to mind. Maybe three.

1. I'm all for using analogies but............

2. Jim the moderator, please make Jim stop. :-)

3. "anytime at any place" ????

Well, I suppose we could get all Tristano-ish and discuss "ego" vs "id" in music, "emotion" vs "feeling". but after all, the question was about "excitement" not "enjoyment".

[danasgoodstuff]

Erections are scary at first. Then you learn what they are and they're kinda cool. Then you learn what you can do with them, and they get really exciting. Then you learn what happens when you do those things and you can go batshit crazy with delirium and dread (separately or together). Then you get to where the erection is not as thrilling in itself, but what causes it is. Then you get to thinking about why some things cause them, and other, seemingly identical, things don't, and some totally opposite things also do, and then well, how much of that is me and how much of that is those things? Then you get to thinking, no, I should have an erection about anything and everything, just because, who am I to judge? And that's kinda thrilling while it lasts, but, really, how long, not very, right? So at some point, you decide that you can have an erection anytime at any place, it's ok, but by the same token, can d/n = will d/n = should, so then an erection becomes something to be simply enjoyed but not just about or for one same things always, nor acted upon the same way every time. Then you can have an erection all the time, and it's ok, because then, finally, you understand that an erection is just an erection, not a mandate. Mandates come from elsewhere.

So, embrace the erection, avoid the illusion of its seeming mandate, because that's just the short game, and the long game is what lasts (is until is no longer, correct?). That's what I say about it at this time.

Not directed at me, I trust...

OMG, no!

Didn't think so, but thanks for the confirmation (gratuitous Bird reference, What would Crouch make of that?)

[TedR]

Two things come to mind. Maybe three.

1. I'm all for using analogies but............

2. Jim the moderator, please make Jim stop. :-)

3. "anytime at any place" ????

Well, I suppose we could get all Tristano-ish and discuss "ego" vs "id" in music, "emotion" vs "feeling". but after all, the question was about "excitement" not "enjoyment".

In that case I guess I'm not THAT excited by music.

dana, I can't recall seeing that original thread but I trust you are continuing to do well.

[JSngry]

Yes, geez yes, hope that all continues to be well.

[danasgoodstuff]

Ted,

I'm still here and my daughter is still an unalloyed joy. Everything else (which is actually ok if not totally great), is secondary. Thanks for asking.

[Larry Kart]

At age 71, still lots of enjoyment but probably not as much excitement as when I was, say, 21 or 31 or 41 -- probably because I associate excitement, by and large, with novelty and/or sheer intensity, and by now I've heard so much music of so many sorts that I don't run across much these days that seems that novel to me, while in the sheer intensity realm certain standards were set in my brain by hearing the likes of Coltrane, Ayler, and Roscoe Mitchell in person, and, aside from Roscoe himself, such levels of intensity are hard to come by these days, at least in my experience. OTOH, one of the most intense musical experiences I've ever had came courtesy of alto saxophonist Akira Sakata a few years ago, so there's hope.

[Larry Kart]

Here's something from one of the Sakata performances I heard (wish the sound and image were better, but it was an amazing band and night):

[A Lark Ascending]

Treat 'excited' broadly:

Not just:

Can also mean:

[imeanyou]

Treat 'excited' broadly:

Not just:

Can also mean:

That's my kind of 'excited'. Perhaps 'engrossed' is my preferred state. Although for JSngry 'engorged' seems to fit the bill just as well...

[Larry Kart]

Treat 'excited' broadly:

Not just:

Can also mean:

In the words of Russ Freeman, Hugo Hurwey.