Ponyone: heh... you've got me intrested... you'r doing what i've stated doing a little while... which is listening to CULTURALY different music... I must be honest and say i cant get my hands on much other than some traditional arab stuff... but my friend (who's the best guitarist, for his 18 years of age anyway, i've met), played a very jewish sounding peice... and i asked him about it (it sounded kinda happy and celebrational... congures up images of a jewish wedding for me)... he never got round to explaining it... Anyway, is there such a thing as a Jewish scale? or it a style that relies on modes and phrasing (kinda like celtic music)?...
What kinda Japanese stuff do you listen to?
Moder Art: ok, here's my two cents briefly... it's very lucrative buisness, ok? there is a large chunk of poeple of who buy paintings/ sculptours/ concept pieces, not because it's pretty or moving or thought provocative or whatever, cos it's an investment... I mean i have the Rocco period where it's cheesy pictures of gardens, or a woman on a swing or whatever, I just dont like it, but I have to give it credit.. Also art isn't about detail (dont get me wrong, if you see my work, you'll see how much detail i put into it).. Art has been wonderfully liberated... We are no longer poeple who are keeping historical records by drawing poeple / places/ thing, Cameras do that for us... and this opens the door for unhindered creativity... I like creativity and expresion in my art, and some of my favourite artist are Leon Golub, david hockney, Francis bacon, Picasso, Gris (and the other numerous great cubist artists of the time), Blake (both peter, pop artist, and willaim, 400 years earlier great painter not so keen on his poetry), Botticellu (there is no denying talent), grandma moses, mary Cassat, Degas, Eyck, Fontana (yep, the guy who put up blank canvases, a canvas with a slit... and i hated him at first, but if yo read some of the explanaitions it's pretty good), Man ray, millet, miro, gaugauin (altogh van gough really had more of an effect on me), Giacometti, mondigliani, rossetti, rouusseau ... I mean the list goes on, but the common factor is these poeple did some great creative pieces (be it commisioned or not)... and the paintings asking prices differ, because of how their prices are expected to change, not really by how they appeal... I mean the problem is it's all about fads... who's doing what, what's the new "in"... I totaly understand the too much money and too much private school air to these poeple... (and ok, I dont totaly respect pop artist, becuase of their atitudes where everything can be packaged and sold, and some stuff like yves klein's work, like IKB 79, wich is just a blue screen for love of god!!... but that dosent mean to say i dislike minimalists... there is some good stuff)...

Jazz: I admit, alot of jazz I either dont get or sounds like slightly different renditions of the same song.. but stuff like "take 5" by the dave brubeck (sp?) quartet sounds wonderful, and it's not something that needs to be acquired either :)... i do like alot of "smooth", I really like the mellow sound of a double base that can come out of a double bass... I dont get bebob at all.. I find it too percusive.. but to be fair i haven't heard that much... louis armstrong's stuff i get on with, and Rienhaert, and some other jazz guys (philonious munk I like, simply because (he and) his music are an oddity)

ps Any of you work up on line ponyone?

[Edited by educatedfilm on 03-09-2002 at 05:52 PM]