{"id":4392,"date":"2013-09-29T00:11:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T04:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=4392"},"modified":"2018-03-03T11:32:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T15:32:55","slug":"from-quiet-music-to-incredible-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=4392","title":{"rendered":"from quiet music to incredible music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a very interesting article on the <em>New York Times<\/em> website, called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/25\/the-end-of-quiet-music\" target=\"_blank\">The End of Quiet Music<\/a>.&#8221; It talks about, among other things, the fact that some artists really want to create art and not spend all their time in self-promotion. Which is certainly a relevant topic these days.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of artists who spend absolutely no time on self-promotion (and he may be the last one), I am, of course, reading Thomas Pynchon&#8217;s new novel, <em>The Bleeding Edge<\/em>. So far, so good. It&#8217;s way too early to write about it in any detail, but I did like this article :<br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2013\/09\/20\/thomas_pynchon_s_favorite_phrase_what_the_fuck_the_writer_is_our_great_poet.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Pynchon and &#8216;WTF&#8217;: A Love Story<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>And not only because it links to <a href=\"http:\/\/newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/culture\/2012\/04\/in-defense-of-commas.html\" target=\"_blank\">this piece<\/a> about the <em>New Yorker<\/em>&#8216;s rules about commas. Because you can never talk enough about that subject. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>I really liked reading this: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/52698\/how-does-exception-prove-rule\" target=\"_blank\">How Does an Exception Prove a Rule?<\/a>&#8221; Because sometimes, when sayings seem to make no sense, it&#8217;s because they don&#8217;t actually mean what you think they mean.<\/p>\n<p>And I think I&#8217;ve linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=EiOmhOumh-w\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> before, but <a href=\"https:\/\/music.avclub.com\/fiona-apple-s-live-cover-of-i-want-you-finds-new-dept-1798240719\" target=\"_blank\">this article <\/a> reminded me about it, and you can&#8217;t watch it too often. It&#8217;s a great song, but the performance is what knocks it out of the park.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F4392&#038;print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F4392&#038;print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a very interesting article on the New York Times website, called &#8220;The End of Quiet Music.&#8221; It talks about, among other things, the fact that some artists really want to create art and not spend all their time in self-promotion. Which is certainly a relevant topic these days. Speaking of artists who spend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-4392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6453,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions\/6453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}