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I discovered Philip Glass' music through the movie Koyaanisqatsi, which I heartily recommend. If you haven't seen it, go into it without expectations of what a movie is supposed to be like; it's weird.
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> Weird coincidence... Nothing weird at all. After I learned horse riding (focus: dressage) I started seeing horse-related stuff everywhere - horse carrying trailers on roads, shops, etc. The "secret" is not some deep universe related mystery but your perception. Those horse-related things were there all along - I just never paid attention, my mind filtered it without any of it ever reaching my consciousness. Your mi…
It's also called frequency illusion or Baader–Meinhof phenomenon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Never commented on the internet before, but I just started to learn playing the Intro Theme to Candyman on piano [0] yesterday and then saw this. Weird coincidence... The movie Candyman itself and the rest of the songs in the score are also fantastic. Heard about that song from the sample in Travis Scott's The Prayer [1]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7FFEu7Har0 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iOH8V0KTVI
> Weird coincidence... Nothing weird at all. After I learned horse riding (focus: dressage) I started seeing horse-related stuff everywhere - horse carrying trailers on roads, shops, etc. The "secret" is not some deep universe related mystery but your perception. Those horse-related things were there all along - I just never paid attention, my mind filtered it without any of it ever reaching my consciousness. Your mi…
You are making me think when my mom was obsessed with it, and she started to actively think of toasters (for whatever reason). There was an old school screensaver on probably a windows 2000ish computer that had the flying toasters she never noticed.
She was CONVINCED the universe changed on her and made that screensaver out of thin air, instead of the simple notion that she was now consciously trying to make herself aware of toasters, which is why she never really noticed it before. Sigh.
I discovered Philip Glass' music through the movie Koyaanisqatsi, which I heartily recommend. If you haven't seen it, go into it without expectations of what a movie is supposed to be like; it's weird.
I discovered Philip Glass' music through the movie Koyaanisqatsi, which I heartily recommend. If you haven't seen it, go into it without expectations of what a movie is supposed to be like; it's weird.
I love the urban hell of Pruit Igoe [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq_SpRBXRmE
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> does that give one group an authority on taste What the hell? I never made any such comment on the subjective experiences of listeners. You can enjoy music and know it's "junk food." I like listening to plenty of bad music. I don't judge anyone for what they enjoy. To call Philip Glass a master of his domain, a rightfully-celebrated contributor to Western art music, or any of this other crap - that's what I take is…
> What the hell? I never made any such comment on the subjective experiences of listeners. It was impossible to read your post as anything other than "I am a learned connoisseur and the unwashed masses are all fools".
I discovered Philip Glass' music through the movie Koyaanisqatsi, which I heartily recommend. If you haven't seen it, go into it without expectations of what a movie is supposed to be like; it's weird.
Koyaanisqatsi is an anthropological study of Earth made by aliens. They watch it before deciding "Not Yet" to the question of whether to invite Earth to join the Galactic Federation.
Never commented on the internet before, but I just started to learn playing the Intro Theme to Candyman on piano [0] yesterday and then saw this. Weird coincidence... The movie Candyman itself and the rest of the songs in the score are also fantastic. Heard about that song from the sample in Travis Scott's The Prayer [1]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7FFEu7Har0 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iOH8V0KTVI
> Weird coincidence... Nothing weird at all. After I learned horse riding (focus: dressage) I started seeing horse-related stuff everywhere - horse carrying trailers on roads, shops, etc. The "secret" is not some deep universe related mystery but your perception. Those horse-related things were there all along - I just never paid attention, my mind filtered it without any of it ever reaching my consciousness. Your mi…
Never commented on the internet before, but I just started to learn playing the Intro Theme to Candyman on piano [0] yesterday and then saw this. Weird coincidence... The movie Candyman itself and the rest of the songs in the score are also fantastic. Heard about that song from the sample in Travis Scott's The Prayer [1]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7FFEu7Har0 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iOH8V0KTVI
Really surprised nobody commented on this. Specifically, the magnitude of what he/she is saying - not just first comment on HN (43 month old account), but first on the internet.
It was a 'Holy cow' moment for me.
Hope you found it fruitful, pdevalla!
>Yes, after Einstein on the Beach I went back to driving a New York cab. I didn’t mind that. It was interesting work. I didn’t have an agent. I ran all the business side of it and the box office myself. I enjoyed it. Interesting, I had no idea.
He also worked as a plumber. > Throughout this period, Glass supported himself as a New York cabbie and as a plumber, occupations that often led to unusual encounters. “I had gone to install a dishwasher in a loft in SoHo,” he says. “While working, I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in disbelief. ‘But you’re Philip Glass! What are you doing her…