#joy of man's desiring

[th3-0bjectivist]

Dear listener, I turned on my car radio for about five hours on a long drive this week and found myself suffering and appalled through the advert-heavy and song-lite nature of it all. Seriously, this is what passes for radio programming these days? The ninety-nine and one-half trillionth T-Swift breakup ballad? Pop-country tunes that manage to all sound the EXACT same as the previous pop-country tune?? Radio rock stations featuring tunes with less balls than a castrati troupe!? Modern hip-hop/rap music that all sounds roughly equivalent to setting up a lawncare sprinkler system in my car only without the water!!? Nine-to-ten agonizing commercials in a row before you get to the commercial-free hour, only to be then reminded between each individual song that it’s the commercial free music hour!!??!?!!?? I flipped from station to station hoping for some form of alleviation, for SOME hope that music is still alive and well on the radio in 2023. Y’know what I found out? The absolute BEST music programming on modern radio is based on tunes created around two to three centuries ago. That’s right folks! The best radio station I came across was a classical one. The classical radio deejay was informative, his voice was soft and pleasant, there were minimal commercials and the musical interludes lasted forty-five minutes at a stretch until the next commercial break. Inspired by this, until the end of 2023, I’ll be posting 3 classical tune sets (Bach, Vivaldi, and Brahms) starting with my personal favorite German musician of all-time, Johann Sebastian Bach.

Generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western culture, this man was truly fit for the title ‘Master of Composition’. Starting off as a mega-talented organ player and violinist, Bach had a distinct flair for blending widely varying instruments and regional musical styles, regularly synthesizing multifarious sound techniques to make a noise ain’t nobody on Earth had heard before. Having been employed by local churches early on, Bach began composing his own ‘sacred music’ (see also ‘church music’) and being something of a musical jack-of-all-trades engaged in his own ‘non-secular’ works which did not jive with very simply defined and rigid church traditions. Having a penchant for engineering complex and experimental arrangements, Bach developed a special talent for weaving melodic lines and immensely complex interdependent harmonies together to provide compositional structures that were simply second to NONE in the early 1700’s and even up to this very day. His concertos for orchestras, sonatas, suites, cantatas, keyboard works, choral works and organ works really are the stuff of legend which is why they are hailed up to the current day! I could go on endlessly about his accolades, but instead I’ll just leave you with the following final thought. Some of Bach’s individual works are like observing an incredibly detailed drawing or painting, except with audio. If you concentrate enough on a single piece, you’ll very clearly hear the overlapping elements, the solid lines accompanied by the abstract rudiments floating softly in the background and be moved emotionally by the very physics of the harmonic motions. It’s not just the melodic nature of the man’s tunes, but also the harmony that accompanies them. Smash play and enjoy a variation of Cantata BWV 147: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring and experience for yourself why people like Bach were truly the rock stars of their era. And if you want more, like way more, click just below for The Best of Bach and enjoy!

He also married his own cousin, had 20 children through separate wives, and died after eye surgery in 1750. I like to separate the art from the artist on my blog. Nobody’s perfect, it was different times back then with vastly inferior social and medical standards at play. I don’t judge too harshly. I mean, he was so talented that Duke Wilhelm had him imprisoned after Bach simply tried to leave the Duke’s royal court to find a better gig. He did something that the vast majority of modern musicians just can’t seem to be bothered to do… innovate (to simplify that word for modern musicians, it means creating brand NEW stuff that no one has heard of or tried before, you’re welcome…)! And for that reason, he has more than earned his placed in the annals of human history as one, if not the greatest composer, and my personal favorite classical composer of all time. Image source: https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2019/07/how-bachs-anatomy-may-have-handed-him-greatness

[3-pounds-of-flax]

“Music for 18 Musicians” 2023. Oil on canvas 64 x 64"

One of 12 BIG paintings for solo show, “Resonance: Seeing Sound With Abstract Expressionism”.

[thebigdeepcheatsy]

Anyone else besides me notice the similarities between Joy of Man's Desiring and the Pallet Town theme?

[vaguely-concerned]

rook falling asleep on the red couch in the lighthouse dining room while lucanis is making dinner....... they were helping out by keeping him company and peeling and chopping potatoes for a while there but then the potatoes are done and the room is so safe and warm and smells like coffee and good food and lucanis is trying to explain something to spite and his voice is low and soft and good to listen to and rook's eyes only slip closed for a moment. they'll get up to save the world again or whatever in a second just. one moment. while the world is warm and kind. and then they're being shaken gently awake an hour later because it's time to eat and everyone's starting to drift hopefully dinner-wards

[botanautical]

'We all yearn for the woods. That's why every fellow on this island wants to settle down near a tree - just one will do.'

[ipxakachi]

Guilty Challenge but he also got stuck

[angelsdean]

no but actually. looking at gifs from that IG vid again seeing how happy jensen is after they show dean on screen makes ME so happy like !!!! he truly does love dean so much and i get it !! it’s the same joy i feel whenever i see dean too !!! he really was so upset abt dean’s death and we see it every time he has to talk abt it and the whole finale and just. yeah he wants dean to live !!!!! he wants him to LIVE !!!!!!!!

[deconstructivesurgery]

if you guys are wondering why i don't have a pride pfp on here i just want to say. this is the pride pfp. jonathan crane is the pride pfp. this has been a public service announcement. on my discord it's the ridiculous gay computer image i drew once.

[angelofthemornings]

I think this is why nearly every last character in Right Side is female. You have Haley, who even has a girl's name (and who isn't really human anyway), and I think there was a nameless guard at the funicular station and a shopkeep. Everyone else is female and that means I could make them as unlikable as humanly possible. Saskia especially is horrid. I love her so much.

[a-suspicious-lack-of-bagel]

welp! my presentation went So much better than I was expecting but I may have gone on a sidetrack explaining temperament and taken 3 minutes longer than I was supposed to. ah well! I think my lecturer enjoyed it

[3-pounds-of-flax]

“New Friends Finishing Their Drinking” 2023. Monoprint and acrylic on paper, 18 x 24"

[infiniteorangethethird]

I've been wondering for a while now about how come I love writing romance but at the same time hate reading about it.

I think it's bc 99% of the time, the only basis of romantic relations in fiction is "we have an innate unchangeable love towards each other that cannot be disturbed by outside forces", which tbh doesn't really give for good suspense? I mean if their love isn't based on the others' actions and just. exists, no matter what, then it really doesn't matter what each party does bc there's nothing that could challenge their love for each other. And where's the intrigue in that? Where's the drama??

Whereas when I'm writing about romance for my own entertainment, the relationship isn't about some intangible vibe but rather the acts of the participants that bring them closer to each other. It's not some passive "I love you" but rather an active "I would reevaluate my whole existence as a person to make sure all my actions leave a positive impact on you". It's not about how they feel about each other it's about what they would be willing to do for the other, and it's just so much more satisfying to watch a relationship survive the challenges of the universe when the characters have to fight for it themselves.

I'm not sure if I'm making any sense I guess I just wish more romances were based on more tangible stuff than "I like that guy, just because"

[chronokepts]

There is a beautiful woman talking to me in my brain telling me to quit my job

[cuntstable]

need to think about how like both pucci and wes are entirely motivated by and their characters and actions are tied to the trauma they went through and the loss of perla but how like wes is denied the ability to move forward and process that pain meanwhile pucci like actively refuses to move forward from it, turning the rest of his life into like a quest to try and find meaning and penance from it. hm. i think the pucci clan is fucked up maybe

[culturevulturette]

When I was a kid in high school orchestra, the thing was to rip through this as fast as one could just to show off.

Yes, I appreciate the nuance of the piece a tad more now.