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the dominant mode of listening to pop music today is a "soundtracking" of yourself

La Jetee by Chris Marker

"Do better"

With the educative delivery. "So I think this is a common misunderstanding..."

A big one for me too.

You can say they've changed but they way it lines up with cultural trends suggests it's not really about that. I'm talking about people who want to enjoy the same cultural coordinates as they did in the past, but now the views associated with that position have shifted, so they shift along. I'm...

Also -- it never seems as though this concept existed for people in past eras themselves. Surely everyone in the 70s was into glam you think. But there were probably loads of weirdos running around listening to 50s rockabilly, listening only to classical or whatever.

It's interesting how when you're young, embodying the culture/aesthetics of past eras is a counter cultural strategy. You need to draw on this as proof of an alternative to the state of things. Only later can you begin to imagine change as involving something completely new.

Different times represent different epistemic positions. It's very boring discourse if we at least don't grant them the oxygen to survive.

I don't find it distasteful when John Cale praises Dr. Dre or whatever but I do find it pathetic when let's say an old punk known for their dirtbag masculinity in the 80s start to talk about microaggressions. Take some responsibility for who you are.

I like the fact that the older generation stick to their ways. I think it's a shame there isn't more argument between generations. As you say, each mostly learns to speak past one another, disregarding each other's view. It's become easier for young people to cut the elders out of the culture...

Should give him a shot at some point. Only saw a bit of Faces once and fell asleep.

They're great when they come to you these waves of defamiliarisation. The way concepts leap out at you. The concept of a train or a balcony. It's like a new channel between the senses and the intellect. They integrate in a way that bypasses the layer of outside voices and conventional wisdom...

I do feel a bit bad that I lived in Rome for six months and never payed attention to these Bernini ones

I went to a gallery that had a James Turrell installation the other day and you had to wait in line for an hour in order to see it for ten minutes. Looked ridiculous all these people sitting there waiting.

I don't know what the difference is between Mondrian and Donald Judd but I like one and feel empty at another

Those are nice and I actually did just admit I liked Louise Bourgeoise. Bernini and those I appreciate mostly as adornment of the city.

I don't understand sculpture or photography. Have never felt anything with that. I don't understand how someone likes Donald Judd.

I recently had a violent emotional reaction to this painting in a gallery: It was during a depressive episode and I remember seeing it and having some kind of reaction to the pristine flatness of the world depicted there. A sort of stepping back from the world. I don't know if it made me feel...

It was not there when I visited last summer. I like her a lot too.