Thankyou and goodnight

Handed in that essay today. Hmm... let's not talk about that. Hope everyone else did well.

Thanks to all for a fun semester, and particular thanks to the 3pm tute (woo!) and of course Cory! Looking forward to Beyond Rock next semester :)

Blogging has been pretty fun, so much so that in procrastination of actual work and study I've started a new Pretentious Opinionated Wanky Blog About Music, don't know how long I'll keep it up for though!

Hmm...

Abridged version of a web conversation about trance with a fan


Me: what is it about trance that you like in particular

Fan: dunno.. i guess it’s easier on the ears. can listen to it in almost any mood i'm in. as i said, you have hard trance - feel pumped up, progressive trance - when your chill mood, psy-trance - loopy type of mood. i've listened to a lot of music, and i guess this is the phase i am going thru now. i've been thru death metal, metal, punk, hard house, house, 20's, classical, romance... etc… with trance, you can mix a bit of any style of music. create any mood you want

Me: k so it's very much about creating moods as opposed to ideas

Fan: for sure... you don’t hear any idealistic trance songs out there. none about the government and the war and shit... that’s all people expressing their opinion on matters, where trance is about exposing feelings

Me: do you think that's a politic in itself though - that the instantaneous feeling matters more than all the other political stuff?

Fan: you're diving too deep in the matter for me now. not to sound too offensive, but i couldn’t give a crap about politics… a question like this i would just flick off