Comments for Josh McNeill

Comment on Time travel, cont. by Daryn

Daryn — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:26:53 +0000

Wonderful! I love Animal Collective but have never seen them like this. It’s so organic – not assembled in a studio track by track. (Although maybe this is the way they make their albums anyway.)

Comment on The process of breathing. by Time travel, cont. | Josh McNeill

Time travel, cont. | Josh McNeill — Sat, 18 May 2013 02:35:37 +0000

[...] process is sometimes just as important, the very few tools required to create such [...]

Comment on The morality of Emily White. by Esoteric profitability. | Josh McNeill

Esoteric profitability. | Josh McNeill — Thu, 09 May 2013 19:37:21 +0000

[...] am obviously not prone to buying music but I’m honestly considering buying Ashtray Nagivations’ new release Cloud Come [...]

Comment on The cost of art. by Esoteric profitability. | Josh McNeill

Esoteric profitability. | Josh McNeill — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:41:37 +0000

[...] am obviously not prone to buying music but I’m honestly considering buying Ashtray Nagivations’ new release Cloud Come [...]

Comment on The Japanese writing system is difficult. by Mothers’ mother’s Mothers Day. | Josh McNeill

Mothers’ mother’s Mothers Day. | Josh McNeill — Sat, 04 May 2013 04:35:22 +0000

[...] This reminds me of the debates over Japanese writing that I’ve blogged about before. [...]

Comment on Time travel. by Josh

Josh — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:19:26 +0000

Beryl: No no, make it as long as you want! Even links are great! I really like your response. I have a similar association with Tool. It reminds me of driving home from school in my Pontiac Grand Am.

Comment on Time travel. by Beryl

Beryl — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:10:03 +0000

Lets see. There are a couple of Brand New songs, specially Jaws Theme Swimming that bring me back to my sophomore year in San Antonio. I used to listen to that album a lot back then. Portishead reminds me a lot of Guadalajara and they play that at work sometimes and I get that little flashback. Tool reminds me of my senior year and my old Buick Century and driving to school in the morning. Modest Mouse, specially their song Dramamine reminds me of my ex Aaron, but kind of in a bad way. Reminds me of the shitty parts of him. Nothing to do with lyrics either, just that moment in time.
I don’t like/hate that every year feels shorter than the one before, I just hate it. I hate it that I don’t remember being 25 but being 22 felt so much longer and being 18 felt like a decade. I hate that it’s already March 2013 and it will never be 2004 again. I hate that days and years just keep passing by quicker because I work the same hours every day, doing the same things, and I have less and less energy to do the things I like when I have time. I hate that it’s only a couple of minutes that I get to go back to being 17 when Brand New comes on my iPhone and I’m immediately reminded I’m 26 now, on the bus, on my way to work.
Sorry I made this into a blog entry lol BUT YOU TOLD ME TO COMMENT HERE

Comment on Hot Air Music Festival at the SF Conservatory of Music by Time travel. | Josh McNeill

Time travel. | Josh McNeill — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:27:32 +0000

[...] Conservatory’s Hot Air Music Festival which I’ve been to before and even wrote a little review on. You should listen to other versions if you’re interested, though, as this one is pretty [...]

Comment on Making art into a science. by Marlee Labroo

Marlee Labroo — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:26:43 +0000

Hey Josh– enjoyed your post. The intersection of art and science happens to be something I’m really interested in. Reading through the article it seemed vague to me too–the researchers didn’t investigate Middle Eastern music, in which minor keys are often perceived as happy? If you’re interested in the subject, I’ve heard Oliver Sacks’ book “Musicophilia” is really good, and Ramachandran’s “The Tell-Tale Brain” is kind of its equivalent for art. Even if our understanding of neuroscience does progress enough to make sense of art and music “objectively”, though, I don’t think anyone means it to make up for the subjective experience.

Comment on Boys have penises, girls have vaginas. by Josh

Josh — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:12:21 +0000

Looking down and having your self-image hurt only matters if you’re assuming gender is static and should always match your sex. If you see gender as a malleable thing that’s culturally derived, then why should your penis or lack of be a source of unhappiness? Maybe, if it is, the cultural influences are simply so strong that they affect people in that situation?

Interestingly, there was a transsexual (male to female) who used to come to my store all the time who was obsessed with Marilyn Monroe and seems to go out of her way to create a similar appearance. I dunno what that means, if anything, but it correlates with what you’re saying.