How To Disappear Completely

Are You Experienced?

Is it just the purple haze that makes me feel like Jimi Hendrix's "Third Stone from the Sun" (The Jimi Henrix Experience: Are You Experienced?, 1967) sounds like something off Kid A?

I like finding possible influences in music. Nothing's a vacuum, especially culture.

"Manic Depression": The song's waltz meter contributes to the restless unease: 1) A triple meter is unusual in rock (unless a slow, lyrical mood is intended). I've encountered brief passages in 3/4 in the Beatles, but usually as intrusions and disrupters of the symmetrical--and thus forward driving--duple meter standard. I've heard duple meters subdivided into triple beat patterns, but the macrobeat was still one-two-three-four; 2) triple meter is asymmetrical and doesn't imitate the walking stride of the body's normal method of locomotion.

"May This Be Love" has a bolero rhythm interestingly enough.

In other news, Steinbeck makes my heart ache. I watched Of Mice and Men tonight. Not the version Aaron Copland scored unfortunately, but still an excellent film.

One more thing: due to the end of the year relaxation of strict fencing conditioning, the MAC Fencing Team's annual Epee pyramid competition has officially begun. Never having held an epee before, I realized I had nothing to lose and everything to gain, and accordingly signed myself up. To my surprise, I really enjoyed the first few bouts of the contest. I ended up in the same spot in which I started (which isn't too shabby), but hopefully next week I can move up a level or two. I've discovered that fencing non-epee persons is the easiest way to win a bout (we are allowed to challenge whomever we like as long as they are immediately one level above or below us). Not to be disloyal to my weapon, but I almost like epee better. The weapon is easier to hold and I don't need to worry about rules like priority.