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Phonogram

  • Aug. 5th, 2007 at 1:23 PM
Unmasked Highwayman

I picked up this graphic novel last week that is pretty cool. It's called "http://www.phonogramcomic.com/blog/" . Phonogram is based off the idea that pop music is magic, which it kind of is in real life: science really only has only the barest trace of a clue how and why music creates such enormous emotional responses inhuman beings. In Phonogram, any of the ways music can affect people are treated as magical events.What I liked about it is that the writer is about the same age as me and he had a character that goes through the same issues like growing older. There is a great line in the book: "Nostalgia is an emotion for people with no future." Which is probably pretty harsh on one end but also very true on the other end.... at least it made me think for a bit flying 37,000 feet above the clouds @570mph an hour.

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[info]silentbanshee wrote:
Aug. 5th, 2007 06:17 pm (UTC)
I like that quote. Reminds me of an ex who was serving in the Navy.

I had to stop talking to him because everytime we did all he would do is go on and on about our years in high school and our defunct relationship. It was awkward and annoying because my life was expanding and changing rapidly.

Until he left the navy he was the same person the day he graduated from high school.

So good quote and very true.
[info]fyoosh wrote:
Aug. 5th, 2007 06:18 pm (UTC)
Sounds like an interesting read. Music has always deeply affected me.
[info]belhonorine wrote:
Aug. 5th, 2007 06:36 pm (UTC)
I like that line about nostalgia. I sometimes get caught up in being sentimental about all the great things that happened in the past, and too much of that can be draining and unproductive.
[info]fallenasleep wrote:
Aug. 5th, 2007 07:15 pm (UTC)
Itss funny how there are so many things in this world that differ culture to culture yet the one thing that has remained is music.... the global language.Its been used as means of entertainment, sentiment even mediation...music just brings you some where. No matter what song or genre it causes some kind of reaction with the listener. When I was in high school, my poetry teacher had us listen to various types of instrumental music, whether it be techno, classical, whatever! We all had to either draw or write while we listened and in the end we all had very similar outcomes. I suppose music is like any other cognitive emotional trigger...sensory memory triggers...smells, taste... hmmm... Id probably like the book..
[info]fyoosh wrote:
Aug. 5th, 2007 08:03 pm (UTC)
One thing I wanted to say about nostalgia...

I like nostalgia to a point -- I think many people like it because it is "safe". It is the known. It has already happened, and the outcome has already been grasped. I don't really know if I agree with the quote as a whole. You can be nostalgic at times without losing sight of the future. Granted, if you are *ALWAYS* nostalgic, that's pretty unhealthy, but the same can be said of any emotion, no?