Wednesday, May 24, 2006
(2:28 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
The Philosophy of Music and Music as Philosophy
Via Brannon Hancock, I learn that Jacques Derrida has produced a techno album. Not to be outdone, Gilles Deleuze has done the same.Martin Heidegger is in the database, but he has not finished his debut album, reportedly to be entitled, "Martin Heidegger and the Question Concerning Techno."
Slavoj Zizek has surprisingly not yet become a major recording artist, although his second cousin John Zizek has. Most observers agree that Slavoj Zizek would do well to team up with Canadian anarcho-syndicalist postrockers Godspeed You Black Emperor for a remake of their classic track "Dead Flag Blues":
The car is on fire, and there's no driver behind the wheel.(Click here for the original voiceover, which has a somewhat ambiguous relationship to what was actually recorded on the album -- at least if I remember correctly from listening to it 1,000 times.)
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand chocolate laxatives.
And a dark wind blows.
The government is corrupt, and we're all so many Leninists with the radio on and the curtains drawn....
While I'm editing song lyrics, one might try to edit Elton John's incomparable classic in order to fit the title "Tiny Blogger." Here's an attempt at the chorus:
Hold me closer tiny blogger
Count the comments in the thread
Take a look at the SiteMeter
You sure got nothing done today
