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"Robert Eberwein" <robert_eberwein@hotmail.com> put forth: > Is it not possible that *Perception is NOT everything*. --That there are NOT > an infinite way to see anything- but, rather, one way that allows the > greatest appreciation of the thing. Maybe not everything is relative, but > absolute. Well, if everything WAS relative my Christmas card list would be a lot longer than it is. Sorry, couldn't resist. :) > I notice this in putting a song together. Most of the time I settle with one > of the infinite possibilities. But SOMETIMES I find that absolutely perfect > thing [chord/word/sound/change] that had been there all along. What if > everything is like that? That means that there would be MOST RIGHT thing to > say to your girlfriend at a certain moment- as opposed to an infinite range > of possible things. There would be the MOST RIGHT time to get pregnant, the > right person to accompany you on your trip to Maui, the right song to >play > at the wedding gig, the RIGHT way to raise your kids...The RIGHT delay unit > to buy... The RIGHT way to handle the rude clerk at the computer store... I tend to think that this would be provable and true only if we had all the answers. At times it seems that, when I'm working on a song, it's similar to what Michaelangelo said about finding the sculpture/shape inside the stone, and bringing it out. As far as girlfriends go though there is usually a better time than we guys choose for most things. :) > Maybe it's not all cool/good. Maybe we need to search out the sublime. Maybe > there are folks out there who've subconsciously joined in an effort to make > us all think that there should be no standards-for anything. And maybe they > are motivated by not wanting their limitations to be highlighted, next to > excellence [excellence is the first thing to go when one believe that > perception is everything]... When someone tries to convince me of a void of standards, what is normally buried underneath all that is a shadow set of standards that is the real agenda content, that cannot be exerted until I think there are none. This is also common to a number of cult strategies that I won't go into. You know, this is actually becoming a fruitful discussion! Stephen Goodman http://www.earthlight.net/Studios * The free Loop of the Week! http://www.mp3.com/StephenGoodman * New MP3 Releases! http://StephenGoodman.iuma.com * Even more MP3s!