ok lets try this again..

this is going to be an abridged version of what I had typed on the myspace blog...reader's digest version, if you will. There's a Philip Glass composition entitled 4'33". Its basically a piece of music where the performer sits at the piano for that amount of time. No more, no less. not a single note is played. the intent, I believe, is that everything going on in the room is the actual performance...feet shuffling, nose sniffling, maybe someone unwrapping a particularly loud piece of candy. I kind of think of life as art, in a way. I'll often just kind of stop whatever i'm doing and just begin to see life as a spectator..I'll stand in a room and just watch what everybody else is doing. I usually think of a piano playing somewhere in the back of my mind as this is happening. No, its not like I have any great musical breakthroughs as I'm standing in a room motionless...just the concept of the soundtrack to one's life comes to mind. A few days ago I was in a piano shop with kevin, and as he and the salesman talked about pianos, I watched the window washer outside. It was kind of fitting, it was like the movie in my mind was playing out. The man goign about his business, casual talk about nothing important...and piano music in the background. That was pretty much the gist of my last blog. Although that one was better, this is all I can muster up right now. Ooh, this blog autosaves whatever you typed every few minutes. I like that. Google rocks