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Friday, November 8. 2019

Do art and music come from God?


It sure can feel like it.  Mr. Vanderleun considers the topic with a little Leonard Cohen and this bit which barely fits his theme:


In the beginning, I never thought that with all his warts and his tweets and all his rants and ravings that the broken human named Donald Trump could be God’s chosen instrument to try and mend this broken kingdom, but there he sits astride the world like some Strange Colossus.

Then again God chose the shattered Saul in order to get to that young unknown musician, David.



This feels like it comes from some supernatural place:





Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 17:46 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Leonard Cohen's music's magic comes not just from the music, and his voice, but almost more from the poetry of the lyrics.
#1 LP on 2019-11-08 18:59 (Reply)
An Italian writing an opera about ancient Egypt. Is that multiculturalism, or is that cultural appropriation? Inquiring minds want to know. Some Muslims probably consider it blasphemy for pointing out that Egyptians haven't always been Muslims.

Good music, good show.
#2 Gringo on 2019-11-08 21:20 (Reply)
Trump is far from Saul. More like ruddy shepherd David slaying many Goliaths.
#3 Bull on 2019-11-09 13:55 (Reply)
I can't understand why people are so critical of President Trump. You know, if President Trump wanted, he could just take it easy and do nothing; like President Obama.

The President is doing his best. That inevitably leads to controversy, because no action is neutral. His decisions create winners and losers. But nobody wants to give him credit for his work, because black people are professional losers. That's how they get paid. So they smear the President's reputation, because they are afraid to discuss the idea that people should actually work for a living. What would happen to Section 8?
#4 Ron Liebermann on 2019-11-09 18:54 (Reply)
Even more intriguing is how works of art take on a life and authority of their own, divorced from the intentions and circumstances of their creation. Like Keats we are left to say "that is all you know, and all you need to know.."
#5 Ben David on 2019-11-11 02:45 (Reply)

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