Does anyone remember “Eek the Cat!”?
Sometimes I feel like that optimistic and annoying purple cat when it comes to the way I discover music and stay persistently behind the curve; I remember an image from one episode of the show that has always stuck with me. Though I don’t remember why this happened, the main character, the purple cat with a horrible voice, ended up in Hell; he was given the requisite punishment of cleaning out the largest litter box in existence. When I’m trolling around the internet looking for music or driving in my car squirming through the awful dreck that pads the good songs on “The World Cafe” I feel like that ridiculous purple cat, wandering around and scooping up finds.
\”Stillness is the Move\” by Dirty Projectors
A world of sunshine, bubblegum and vinegar. You’ll want to dance there, but you won’t know how at first. After much reflection, you realize the only appropriate rhetorical response in the form of dance would take the form of a gradual rising motion after which the dancer would jerkily float off into the clouds. This is dance music if dance floors were litter-covered streets with endlessly open skies colored by chemicals.
If it isn’t a dance track, its a love song between ideas. What if Plato’s cave fell in love with Foucault’s Panopticon?As ideas, would they date and compare their respective levels of profundity? Would they question one another’s discourse and potential hegemonic agenda? If things went sour, would they complain passive-aggressively about how their own respective metaphoric structure is built around a series of ill-formed premises and fallacious arguments?
This song is not what it sounds like when ideas break up. I think I’ve heard that song once or twice, though.
JCH
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