Know Thyself Post #56

Know Thyself through MUSIC:

Try this:

• find a record player and collection you could commandeer for a few hours.
  • CD’s, cassettes and a radio are not suitable substitutes. It needs to sound like vinyl, it needs to take time to begin with few buttons pushed and needs to be physically flipped over by hand. It needs to have a weight to it, a label and grooves.
  • One in your own home is best, but friend or fam’s house works just as well. If you are at someone else’s home and their there and you feel weird being alone in their house using their acoustical gear and/or they would be cool to do this with – ask them to join you.  I recommend having them read this and make ground rules like whether you can start and stop, replay a song or play it all the way through;  discuss when to discuss: during, after, and/or in between songs, etc.
• Understand how to play said record player and whether owner has any rules of their own. The records must be respected.
• Choose a record
  • It could be by someone(s) you know or an entity you have never heard of
  • It could be an album and artist you are familiar with – or – an album you are but artist you aren’t – or – an album you aren’t by an artist you are… you get the point
  •  Choose one with liner notes, lyrics and pictures
• Play the record, song 1, side 1
• • Do NOT skip any songs nor cut any off. You are not scrolling through this music, you are actually listening to an entire album….both sides. Relax, tap a foot, think of this experiment like ‘it’s ___day and you don’t got shit to do’.
  • take the aforementioned liner notes, lyrics, hopefully pictures and/or art work, the album cover, a notebook, and pen, sit and listen.
  • follow the lyrics. note down things you like.
  • Look at the pictures and try and imagine them writing, practicing, playing, hanging out together.
  • Discuss if you want:  Why was that song first? Why were the songs in that order? What did that song mean? Do I like that one? Why? What were they trying to say? Does it translate today?

Did YOU ever lose yourself for a moment? Did YOU forget about what you have to do or what you didn’t do?

Not bad heh?

Last Updated on 08/15/2025 by Death of Hypatia Inc.