tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4017286.post6836755357625879256..comments2023-07-21T18:52:54.494+10:00Comments on dataphage:blog: Music and thinkingTom Cardinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241993060644607353noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4017286.post-16766846187767126532006-12-04T06:33:00.000+11:002006-12-04T06:33:00.000+11:00Silence is good unless you're on your own - partic...Silence is good unless you're on your own - particularly in circumstances like that. Then the chattering demons can take over if you're not careful!<br /><br />I think I would probably need a bottle of Scotch to listen to Tom Waits. I find his stuff a bit too much like hard work and for some reason I've stopped wanting to sit down and listen like that.dataphagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11507733077072722957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4017286.post-59097330379864610102006-12-03T20:22:00.000+11:002006-12-03T20:22:00.000+11:00Agreed. I feel that I've been spoiled in terms of...Agreed. I feel that I've been spoiled in terms of music, like a burned out raver. The consumption of music has overtaken and smothered the will to create it. <br /><br />That said, I still enjoy listening to music, and I'm still a sucker for buying it. I enjoy doing what my sister describes as "listening to music like you're watching a film", so you actually really listen to it, rather than just have it on. Tom Waits' last but one album (Real Gone) was played in her room in Bristol over the last of a bottle of Laphroaig...now <i>that's</i> the way to listen to Tom Waits...Shining Love Pighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09517722863141499476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4017286.post-44671862466302619042006-12-03T19:11:00.000+11:002006-12-03T19:11:00.000+11:00I've always thought there's a lot to be said for s...I've always thought there's a lot to be said for silence - if you see what I mean. There's not enough of it about. (Except that right now I'm suffering from a slight excess of it while V's in another place. But that's hopefully temporary.)Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16112462990202280587noreply@blogger.com