tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142082769706660290.post4257151446021122472..comments2023-06-17T05:36:40.557-04:00Comments on Transylvania Gentlemen: No Presence in the FutureTransylvania Gentlemenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563428456402168755noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142082769706660290.post-85491484890459850812010-08-03T20:35:40.839-04:002010-08-03T20:35:40.839-04:00It's strange that you mention Muse. I've ...It's strange that you mention Muse. I've never really listened to their music, but they were supposed to be a large influence on Stephanie Meyer when she was writing the Twilight series which you say you don't any interest in in your "Literary Werewolves" entry on your "Revelation Awaits an Appointed Time" blog.<br /><br />'Course the only reason I've seen the Twilight movies (I haven't read any of the books, but I like some of the art I've seen in the graphic novel) is for the hot chicks and the fact that one of them is struck on a guy named after me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142082769706660290.post-14261004902016924872010-07-15T12:42:12.918-04:002010-07-15T12:42:12.918-04:00As Timothy Ferris said in an inscription he person...As Timothy Ferris said in an inscription he personally sneaked onto NASA's Voyager Golden Record launched into deep space: "To the makers of music — <i>all worlds, all times</i>". With that scope in mind, whoever's top of the pops on this backwater planet this week becomes so trivial as to require an expanded definition of the word.JSHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16374181573983302824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142082769706660290.post-75385232796047251832010-07-14T14:12:53.593-04:002010-07-14T14:12:53.593-04:00Amen, Sam.Amen, Sam.Brian Manleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04029227035102399363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142082769706660290.post-48164042609944044892010-07-13T16:16:03.770-04:002010-07-13T16:16:03.770-04:00Very interesting commentary. I've been rumina...Very interesting commentary. I've been ruminating on many of these issues myself, of late. For instance, hegemonic America's seemingly incessant appetite for television content which peers into the bedroom/mating/dating behavior of others. What happened to the privacy & privacy rights we once so dearly cherished? Perhaps we have ignored them and they are going away. I still hold out hope for a return of their popularity.<br /><br />As Joseph Campbell espoused, you can tell a lot about a culture from its stories. Fortunately, we do have some grand, epic tales in the cultural media (in film, the mythic and super-human abound right now)--but the above-mentioned who's-cheating-on-whos are ersatz chapter plays without even a <i> deus ex machina </i> to culminate the sordid cliff-hanging.<br /><br />I do feel confident that talent never goes out of style--and thank goodness our species still produces many genius-creative artists, composers, and musicians. Indeed, it is a brave, new world for females with those propensities. That possibility has been limited at best, for quite some time, until relatively recently in the annals of humanity.Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03696418292109650421noreply@blogger.com