This is me from SelfAdoration.com:
What I’m doing here is a sort of commencement speech, a celebration of my moving on to a different state of excitation — even if everyone else stays exactly the same.
But I’m using extended arguments about the idea of preferring the subjunctive to the existential to defend my way of thinking in a comprehensive way.
I’ve spent my whole life thinking about how to talk to you — I say that in the movie — and this little clip may be the most comprehensive job I have done so far of communicating at least this small idea: We are not talking about the same things.
I don’t trade in your currency — I say that in the film also — but I am trying to convey to you why my currency is so much better for you than the stuff you’ve been trading with until now.
This stuff ain’t easy, I know, and it is plausible to me that my take-no-prisoners approach makes things harder for you, not easier. Oh, well…
This is me at my most me, the meest of the mes I have presented in these videos — all of which are intended to acquaint you with my style of being as the result of your having spent time with me being me.
I love this movie. I hope you do, too.
The video is in this YouTube clip. Fair warning, it’s 40 minutes long.
Dan Statlander says:
Nice post.
September 4, 2012 — 3:33 am
William Miller says:
Well, Greg, the speech is interesting and informative. But that guitar “torturing” while talking driven me crazy)) I stopped it in14 min.
Take care)
September 4, 2012 — 3:45 am
Greg Swann says:
Sorry to disappoint you. If you find I’m in your head in the coming days, come back to see the rest.
September 4, 2012 — 7:06 am
William Miller says:
That melody is still in my head)))
September 4, 2012 — 7:39 am
Greg Swann says:
It’s a 12-bar blues in wide-open E, a song I wrote called “Jenny’s got some rhubarb.” My wife wants to know who the hell Jenny is. 😉
I talk — and listen — with a guitar in my lap much of the time now. I don’t even think about it, it’s there for me just like talking with my hands is there for me.
September 4, 2012 — 10:45 am
William Miller says:
No offense, but for me personally it is much more interesting to listen what you say and what you sing/play separately.))
p.s. Today I have watched the video to the end))
September 7, 2012 — 5:08 am
Serge says:
nice post, and awesome website!
September 9, 2012 — 5:37 pm