Music is very strange. How does it work ? Why does it work ? Right after those evolutionary psychologists finish explaining the religious impulse, I want this music thing explained.
I had a fractured kind of day – sitting on a committee, trying to follow library politics; worrying about the Research Assessment Exercise; picking up my lost USB stick from those nice folks at the Music Kitchen; filling out a Leave of Absence form for a colleague only to find it was the wrong form; getting leaned on by the Head of College to reply to the crank who had complained I hadn’t replied to his three letters about why all of modern physics is wrong; trying to figure out why my printer just stopped speaking to me…
The world seems like a Cubist painting and my head is full of jagged thoughts. Then I put a record on. Actual vinyl. My daughter’s boyfriend is fascinated. He has never seen a turntable before. Then the teenagers leave for a party; everybody else is somewhere else in the house; I put on Motivation Radio and sit back. Its a corny but quite brilliant album. Perfect in its way. Gradually the world recombines, closes in, and makes sense; the music is the whole world, and I am on an effortless journey.
As the man says, this is not a physical spaceship; just a set of organised vibrations – known – as – music.
The e-Astronomer 
Careful professor, you might let out that there’s the soul of an artist underneath that mortarboard! 😉
The scientifically impossible I do right away
The spiritually miraculous takes a bit longer
Careful ClapSo, or you might let out that your automatic assumption is that anyone who dares to question muddled bullshit when he sees it obviously has no soul, and is a rigid barren person.
ps they only wear mortarboards in the Beano
pps this is fun isn’t it ?
Fun it is Andxl. I too enjoy pointing out muddled soulless bullshit. I only wish we were doing this in person over a single malt or two. I was doing it to show how we all tend to generalize, don’t we 😉
I’m glad we can now be more relaxed about it all and realize much of this is in the spirit of fun.
The scientifically impossible I do right away
The spiritually miraculous takes a bit longer