A Thousand Plateaus

and then a friend of mine sent me this song:
“it’s my favorite good-night song. be gentle to it!” he asks me because i’m usually not very sensitive in my comments about the music he’s sending me.

but this song starts playing and i don’t need to be gentle to it, because it is gentle to me. it has the kind of sound and ease i so much long for in the things i do myself, and which i will never reach. the guitar alone is just … great. i have no idea WHO is playing it  - and i didn’t ask and i don’t want to know. it’s probably some 23 year old handsome singer/songwriter, one of those hip musicians with their complicated shoes!

the point is that it does to me what few songs do and what even fewer people can do : it puts me into tenderness-mode. it is so effortless and as floating… when i think about what a hard time i had with the drums for ‘dialogues’ and here you have such an easy, such a perfect arrangement, the perfect, understated electronic counterpart to the acoustic guitar which is playing this simple but delicate and heartopening riff :o(
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good music makes me sad. because i can’t stand that it’s not me who is singing it. i’m a sicko. i’d give my soul for that extra-bit of talent that would lift me out of my mediocrity. no, this is not a fishing for compliments