tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326339.post3800354481736881435..comments2023-10-21T07:14:37.880-07:00Comments on Jazz: The Music of Unemployment: When music matters mostAndrew Durkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471871547839907538noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326339.post-66735760305316127772010-04-27T00:32:10.769-07:002010-04-27T00:32:10.769-07:00Nice! Thanks for the backstory...
I think you'...Nice! Thanks for the backstory...<br /><br />I think you're the only other person I know who has seen these two films (this one and the Danielson one...)Andrew Durkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11471871547839907538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326339.post-26582579451466173152010-04-22T18:48:54.518-07:002010-04-22T18:48:54.518-07:00Coincidentally, I saw this movie in NYC at the MOM...Coincidentally, I saw this movie in NYC at the MOMA for its first-ever, surprisingly, big-screen viewing. Actually, that's where I'd been coming from when I ran into you guys walking toward our first rehearsal in Brooklyn for our tour last October. And I had just met the members of Acrassicauda outside the museum, smoking cigs on 53rd St. <br /><br />[Spoiler Alert] Yeah, I would have left the movie feeling very depressed had I not known that these guys actually made it out of the Mid East war zone and were busily recording their first studio album in Queens. That reporter was from Vice Mag, and Vice started its own music label and signed these guys on first, w/ my friend Alex Skolnick producing. Oh, and they got to grown their hair long, finally.<br /><br />Suffering is relative and music is powerful, as you stated. And, doesn't truly powerful music, like genius comedians who make us laugh, not just out of cleverness but also because they speak to the honest truth about how absurd and sometimes dark life is, come from its creators having an intimate knowledge of great sadness and irony?tanynoreply@blogger.com