Came for the Valerie June record album review and stayed after being hooked on good writing of careful listening to Amina Claudine Myers, Mekons et al. This despite having a very voluntary muscle cramp contraction whenever I see the word "genius" describing an artist in a critical context, and involuntarily albeit usually turning off then and there. In this case it is the artist herself playing off my own sense of irrelevance whenever an artist or aspirant to art (or perspirant to art's making as in production process....) indulges that useless word where human variation, need and circumstance\situ come into the many ways we individually view, hear or otherwise "feel" our way to Process.
"Perfume Genius" as an album and\or track title therefore hooked me rather than sent me searching for some transcendent connection. Thank you to all artists, their reviewers and their editors and speculating publishers engaging my haggard senses after yet another challenging and gritty if fruitless day coming off a night of online prep for to seek employment with nary a nibble nor reasonable\discernible prospect. May all muses retain enough wisdom or crapshoot intuition to understand that's gonna be how most of their work sifts through.
Aesthetes or journalists hoping to parse muses and the monied backers and consumers speculating on such investments & ventures, in an instant gratification domaine like the intuitive and\or refined arts or performance Distraction Industry while willing to stare the crapper of high finance down, especially wherever the word "genius" gets bandied about despite it having no useful meaning in context of either maker or seeker's pursuit.
Mekons!
Came for the Valerie June record album review and stayed after being hooked on good writing of careful listening to Amina Claudine Myers, Mekons et al. This despite having a very voluntary muscle cramp contraction whenever I see the word "genius" describing an artist in a critical context, and involuntarily albeit usually turning off then and there. In this case it is the artist herself playing off my own sense of irrelevance whenever an artist or aspirant to art (or perspirant to art's making as in production process....) indulges that useless word where human variation, need and circumstance\situ come into the many ways we individually view, hear or otherwise "feel" our way to Process.
"Perfume Genius" as an album and\or track title therefore hooked me rather than sent me searching for some transcendent connection. Thank you to all artists, their reviewers and their editors and speculating publishers engaging my haggard senses after yet another challenging and gritty if fruitless day coming off a night of online prep for to seek employment with nary a nibble nor reasonable\discernible prospect. May all muses retain enough wisdom or crapshoot intuition to understand that's gonna be how most of their work sifts through.
Aesthetes or journalists hoping to parse muses and the monied backers and consumers speculating on such investments & ventures, in an instant gratification domaine like the intuitive and\or refined arts or performance Distraction Industry while willing to stare the crapper of high finance down, especially wherever the word "genius" gets bandied about despite it having no useful meaning in context of either maker or seeker's pursuit.
Tio Mitchito
Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers
Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers)
Media Discussion List\Looksee