If there's any truly intelligent life-form out there that doesn't grok the brilliance of Cordwainer Smith, I want it caught and shot immediately!
Heh - points of congruence, points of congruence, we haz them! (Although I'd rather keep such benighted souls around and see if I can turn them on to Mr. Linebarger's charms. I've done it before. Besides, shooting's so messy.)
Concerning Janis Ian, why bless your heart .... one could say, as my elders were wont upon occasion, "Each to his own, said the old lady as she kissed the cow." Which is to say, of course, that taste is taste.
It sounds as if you've listened to at least one of her albums in its entirety, else you'd have had little on which to base your opinion. Still, I've always liked this song, "From Me to You," whose sole message is "hey, friend, it's too damned painful to watch you destroy yourself, so this is one last message of love before I get the hell out and avoid getting caught in the wake." (I think she does it even better now - a little slower, a little more powerful - which makes this worth sitting through the execrable video quality.)
And that's the end of my Ian comments. I am interested, however, in some of the singers that evoke strong positive emotion in you. Examples?
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Date: Monday, 12 September 2011 02:50 pm (UTC)Heh - points of congruence, points of congruence, we haz them! (Although I'd rather keep such benighted souls around and see if I can turn them on to Mr. Linebarger's charms. I've done it before. Besides, shooting's so messy.)
Concerning Janis Ian, why bless your heart .... one could say, as my elders were wont upon occasion, "Each to his own, said the old lady as she kissed the cow." Which is to say, of course, that taste is taste.
It sounds as if you've listened to at least one of her albums in its entirety, else you'd have had little on which to base your opinion. Still, I've always liked this song, "From Me to You," whose sole message is "hey, friend, it's too damned painful to watch you destroy yourself, so this is one last message of love before I get the hell out and avoid getting caught in the wake." (I think she does it even better now - a little slower, a little more powerful - which makes this worth sitting through the execrable video quality.)
And that's the end of my Ian comments. I am interested, however, in some of the singers that evoke strong positive emotion in you. Examples?