Sad; old and tired at 29.

I’ve just been out for a walk with the Boo. I’ve just been out thinking one could say.

No one has any time for music any more. Everybody wants to have time but no one has it, not even the people doing the music.

Music is, or was, more than the actual piece of music. Music was the reading, the waiting, the anticipation, the shopping and the listening. Now, to many people, it’s barely the listening. There isn’t any time.

I really don’t know where I’m going with this (it all seemed so clear when I was out walking).

In modern days I guess there has always been two sides to music: the art and the product. Lately it seems as though there is just the product. I hear people speaking about how the art and the product intertwine and you can’t tell the one from the other. Obviously I think that such a statement is wrong. There is no intertwining. There is marginalising. Could it be that it’s ugly to consume? Or that it’s shameful not to get the art?

Musicians really need to take back music. Drawing a sharp line between the art and the product. I belive it is absolutely necessary. I think. Maybe I’m just old and tired. Sad; old and tired at 29.

I could go on for thousands of words more but since the first couple of hundred are so crap and not thought through, I won’t. I’ll spare you my downward spiral of bad arguments and idéas.

Good night.

Sick, read, music.

Feeling better today (with absolutely no thanks to the Swedish government) but far from well.
We supposed to train to day but that won’t happen. On my schedule, on the refrigerator, where I write all my training doings (on the schedule not on the refrigerator), there is a big S on todays date. It means Sjuk which is Swedish but it easily translates to the English word Sick, which is what it means and what I am.

I am going to use this day for studying. I am going to read, and hopefully understand, a bit in my book. The one mentioned and linked to a couple of posts down.

On another topic, the topic of my album, I’ve received the covers for the promos which will be sent out soon and I think that I today will receive the print for the record itself. Then it’s just order away. Things could be moving faster I know, but it’s not all up to me. I have to call in the skills of my friends and I have to respect that they do it when they have time.

Music First, Music Last!