March 14ths

3/14/1998

Stopped by Village Theater to see Tarantino's film Jackie Brown. (Such a deal at $2.75). Typical Tarantino, replete with scenes of blood splattering against windshields. But I do like his non-linear style. Cool score of funky 1970s jazz. 

[I loved the Village. Apparently now demolished (2021)]

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3/14/1999

The thing I’ve been learning about experimental procedures is that 50% of the time you have to abandon it because the results are disappointing. Every piece has a saturation point where the brain gets confused by what’s going on. but this can be interesting as well because it creates tension. 

3/14/2023
 
I’ve always championed the idea of working in series, especially in art, and I thought that would transfer over to music but it hasn’t worked that way.
 
When you work on things that have a lot of different parts, as music does, and you do an album of 12 songs and they all have 16-24 tracks, it’s hard to hold a series together. If you’re going to do a music series it has to be done within a certain amount of time where you work on it every day for many hours and you have a producer that’s adhering to the overall concept. But if you’re the producer, you have to hold it all together. A series, as one would have in visual art, is harder to do in music. Perhaps the EP is the way to go, where you have 3 songs—a “triptych” and is easier to serialize.
 
For the current album Nostalgia Galaxy I thought that I could just work on it piecemeal and that the concept would ultimately have a natural integrity.