Who KNEW
..it was This Awful ??

Sometimes ignorance IS bliss. I treasure this particular set. If we ever lose control of how the nearby dials get set...

Whatever the current state of my neurons - I must attribute a portion of the cause (for any remaining ones that pass POST): to a lifelong aversion to >ALL. THIS.< and anything else that prompted the beginnings of the gag reflex. Was exposed to Not More than a couple vacuous triads of {almost} Any of this detritus.
Except this nonMagnificent Seven - - - make that Five -

77. Scarborough Fair.
OK, a vapid exercise in simply, harmonizing voices / no content: but isn't that last almost contract-Compulsory for Pop? Why pick on plotlessness.. Human voices singing in-tune, on the well-tempered scale -- even with no message: will ever score Waay above agitated random-violence-as-'music' and tape-loop-backwards 'lectronic drum sounds; thankyouverymuch.

66. Crying.. chapel (I can't even Write that title)

Only caught my inner ear with that toxin Once. At somebody's house, so I couldn't cut the AC cord. Well, not immediately.

42. 'When I'm 64'

Demur; 180\ufffd to this smarmy cluless critic.
You'd have to be a pretty unimaginitive fucking tightass to miss all the pianissimo satiric winks at the id's fantasies, spelled out only on the {Duhh} surface. (And this was created well before the attention span was nearly universally decimated by 24/7 direct-feeds of machine-generated rewrites of The One Undead-melody.)

It was fun! especially back where people really Did sing, coming out of a movie like Yellow Submarine.
Kewl do0Dz wouldn't Dare Try *that* (even if they could.) And singing! in a Red State, without a nearby cross - - - bring out Bull Connor and the dogs.

33. That inane Titanic thing.. Oh.. _Yeah....

So then, all those curious about the brouhaha around this blockbuster wallow - Had to endure this one, at least once. Some neurons were injured - I could Feel their Pain.

22. 'You Light Up My Life'

What can anyone say? the Red State Anthem. Change a few words and the key: 'nother new $maker. 'Treacle' -- excellent word choice by this reviewer.

18. 'I Believe I Can Fly'
Can one sue for continuing consciousness-harrassment? Yet..?

15. 'Cry'

270\ufffd outta phase.
Heh.. I thought that one was interesting - kinda like road-kill can sometimes create strange textures? A Rorschach (but I didn't know that word, then) for pure-distilled maudlin-hysteria. Thus, like Plan 9 from Outer Space: a keeper (for when try'na explain the species, should Intelligent Life ever arrive on the ship?)



{Shudder} - why if I'd listened-on-through! every. One. of. these. I mighta become an MCSEIEIO, serial killer or a Repo. Probably all 3.

Thanks! Cthulhu!! for your tutelage in honing my sensitivities.. at least 95% of the time.

When long out of practise, the hippocampus tends to have a leaky buffer - never transfers the details / or often, even the gist/overview to er, harder storge.
{roughly.. speaking}

Will agree that, Interest is ever The key to bringing one's full Attention to any event (visual or just audio, or even - touching things in the dark. ;-) But I think one's capacity can become lowered.. by a steady diet of all those 10-sec-span trivialities, now a daily flood -- especially for those with diverse devices.
(Could the factor be N! for this effect? Can I get another Honorary Degree for that?)


Hey! it's Rupert Murdoch on Charlie Rose tonight, for the hour...




er, what were we talking about?