Showing posts with label Rock N Roll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rock N Roll. Show all posts

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Be Naked!

I'm not sure that just because someone can hear music.. it says anything at all about their ability to actually HEAR the music.. (Zen)

Art (like truth) communicates on multiple levels and it happens in ways that simply talking, teaching, etc.. can never do.

For instance, being naked is not always about being unclothed.  Sometimes it's about being real... or open.. or vulnerable..

In the perfect world... vulnerability is sexy.. (sexiness is not always about sex). 

And the title of my blog, "Blue Notes" refers to the blurbs... the words of my spiritual journey... my blog...

But it also refers to the specific musical notes that make the Rock N Roll/Blues tradition unique to any other music in history. Those notes are called "blue notes".

That said... In the metaphor of nudity.... musical notes.. just hearing vibratory sound pass incessantly over the tympanic membrane of my head is a routine mechanical function at best. It's more like dropping clothes for a flash-3-minute-shower on a cold clockwork Monday morning before work. There's no "sexy" in that.. Sometimes with tooth paste (and saliva) running down your face.. you just do what you gotta do.

But hearing the MUSIC.. Blue like it is.. as it swirls real.. lithe and light.. electric like a live-wire in the head... and the bed.

Now... That's like being Naked.

Be Naked!!