back left litz

You know, as someone who reads a lot of music criticism (and occasionally writes it but don’t worry I’d never burden you guys with links to that stuff) and who also is an alive person dealing with alive-person problems, it feels like it’s getting harder and harder to listen to music without trying to analyze its lyrics or place it in some context or use it to illustrate some point about Contemporary Blog Rock and/or Occupy Wall Street, or without being distracted with thoughts about, like, what I’m going to do with the rest of my life, or if the girl who hangs out in the library’s Reference Room looked over at me because I am a dynamic man she would like to undress or because (as I later found out) I had some shit on my face, which anyway is all fine, right, that’s all (excepting the shit-on-face library stuff) how complex, intellectually rigorous adults (like of course myself who hasn’t spent the last twenty minutes examining and devising elaborate methods to do away with a pimple that looks like a cold sore but totally isn’t one I promise, its cold-soreish position on my lower lip is just an unfortunate coincidence) think but I really do feel like listening to music should be like injecting heroin, or getting punched in the face, just total raw experience, and as we grow up and read more (and not just music criticism, anything) and amass more alive-person problems we maybe lose this crucial way of listening to music, which is maybe why the Favorite Albums lists of people not invested enough to keep that dumb ignorant face-punched teenage spark alive aren’t updated past age like 16.

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