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Adventures in Art, Abstraction and Paradox
Prepare to be Challenged
Created on 2007-06-22 03:52:59 (#13217926), last updated 2007-11-18
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Basic Info| Name: | Nathan |
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| Birthdate: | 09-27 |
| Location: | Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada |
| Website: | Composition |
BioWhat is the meaning of the word "I"?
NHCF, GK, Esq.
About me:
I would be a polymath if I didn't live in such a specialized society. I'd be a renaissance man if the term weren't used to death for people who can do something like TWO things.
I've settled with just being a musician and student of life. A clarinettist, pianist, composer, arranger, publisher, editor and critic of music. A chronic reader of every style and subject, and lover of all of the arts and sciences.
I generally fail at most social interaction, unless it's of the high-falutin' intellectual type. Small talk is pretty much impossible, but I try.
I haven't yet had a job, I've only had one girlfriend, and I have no perspective or depth perception.
Why am I on here?
Let me number the ways:
My various attempts to start a journal either on paper or in random spots on my computer have always failed, mostly because I lose what scraps I manage to write, interest, or both. Is this even the purpose of this thing? I mean, the feedback from my "friends" doesn't hurt, provided that they aren't too weirded out that I, a guy, would be on here. More emotional and sensitive than most guys, for sure, but still.
I'll round this out later when I have time.
Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.
Athanasius Kircher, Ars Magna Sciendi
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
Yossarian saw it clearly in all its spinning reasonableness. There was an elliptical precision about its perfect pairs of parts that was graceful and shocking, like good modern art, and at times Yossarian wasn't quite sure that he saw it all, just the way he was never quite sure about good modern art or the flies Orr saw in Appleby's eyes.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. To women he is half vivisector, half vampire. He gets into intimate relations with them to study them, to strip the mask of convention from them, to surprise their inmost secrets, knowing that they have the power to rouse his deepest creative energies, to rescue him from his cold reason, to make him see visions and dream dreams, to inspire him, as he calls it. He persuades women that they may do this for their own purpose whilst he really means them to do it for his. He steals the mother’s milk and blackens it to make printer’s ink to scoff at her and glorify ideal women with. He pretends to spare her the pangs of child-bearing so that he may have for himself the tenderness and fostering that belong of right to her children. Since marriage began, the great artist has been known as a bad husband. But he is worse: he is a child-robber, a blood-sucker, a hypocrite, and a cheat. Perish the race and wither a thousand women if only the sacrifice of them enable him to act Hamlet better, to paint a finer picture, to write a deeper poem, a greater play, a profounder philosophy! For mark you, Tavy, the artist’s work is to shew us ourselves as we really are. Our minds are nothing but this knowledge of ourselves; and he who adds a jot to such knowledge creates new mind as surely as any woman creates new men. In the rage of that creation he is as ruthless as the woman, as dangerous to her as she to him, and as horribly fascinating. Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman. Which shall use up the other? that is the issue between them. And it is all the deadlier because, in your romanticist cant, they love one another.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (Act I, 184)
About me:
I would be a polymath if I didn't live in such a specialized society. I'd be a renaissance man if the term weren't used to death for people who can do something like TWO things.
I've settled with just being a musician and student of life. A clarinettist, pianist, composer, arranger, publisher, editor and critic of music. A chronic reader of every style and subject, and lover of all of the arts and sciences.
I generally fail at most social interaction, unless it's of the high-falutin' intellectual type. Small talk is pretty much impossible, but I try.
I haven't yet had a job, I've only had one girlfriend, and I have no perspective or depth perception.
Why am I on here?
Let me number the ways:
My various attempts to start a journal either on paper or in random spots on my computer have always failed, mostly because I lose what scraps I manage to write, interest, or both. Is this even the purpose of this thing? I mean, the feedback from my "friends" doesn't hurt, provided that they aren't too weirded out that I, a guy, would be on here. More emotional and sensitive than most guys, for sure, but still.
I'll round this out later when I have time.
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abstraction, accordions, aesthetic philosophy, aesthetics, aged cheese, alphabetization, anthropology, arrangement, art, atonality, avant-garde, bach, bagels, baroque, beauty, beethoven, being a straight-edge, bertrand russell, brahms, brutalism, calculus, canada, canlit, cartography, chevre, chopin, christos hatzis, clarinet, classical music, communication, complex numbers, complexity, composition, cooking, cynicism, deadpan, debating, demography, douglas hofstader, english, escher, euler, euler's formula, fermat, fiction, food, francis fukuyama, frederic rzewski, french, geography, george bowering, government, grand unified theories, gödel, gödel escher bach, gödel's incompleteness theorem, hawaiian shirts, hiking, idealism, indecision, intelligent people, irony, ives, jazz, judaism, justice, klezmer, klezmer-jazz, late liszt, law, lawrence durrell, leadership, leibniz, liberalism, lieder, liszt, literature, love, mahler, mathematica, mathematics, matrices, messiaen, metamagical themas, minimalism, music, musicology, newton, nielsen, nietzsche, nintendo, non-fiction, nostradamus, objectivity, obsession, occam's razor, osvaldo golijov, paradox, parliament, parsimony, philosophy, piano, poetry, politics, polymaths, post-modernism, president's choice, proof, proust, public speaking, pure mathematics, reading, realism, relationships, rick salutin, romanticism, ronald wright, schopenhauer, science, scriabin, secular humanism, secular judaism, serialism, shakespeare, shaw, sir james frazer, social justice, socialism, sociology, speaking, stir fry, subjectivity, susan sontag, symbols, tables, talking, tea, the arts, the globe and mail, the golden bough, the walrus, theoretical physics, theory, thomas king, tolstoy, tonality, tone rows, truth, writing, zero
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South Kamloops Secondary School - Kamloops, BC, Canada (2003 - 2007)University of Victoria - Victoria, BC, Canada (2007 - present)
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