Todd's Top Ten Suggested but Obscure Aesthetic Pleasures:
10. repetition in music. hooks, choruses, basslines, grooves, anything.
9. people who can be funny instead of whiny when they complain.
8. that fat, blobby moon between the more glamorous "crescent" and full moon (called "gibbous").
7. not the foregrounds but the backgrounds in paintings--those miniature landscapes over a sitter's shoulder that you want to go walk in like in renaissance painting. or the simple landscapes in the illustrations of children's books.
6. bare trees, grey skies, pale dead grasses. purty.
5. the unpredictable gleams of feedback billy gibbons gets out of his guitar at the end of "La Grange" by choking way up on the pick.
4. non-magnificence in nature.
3. old sixties keyboards which make rock sound outerspace or candystriped, like in the B-52s, or the organ as used in blues, hard rock, or psychedelic rock, like Deep Purple, Pink Floyd or Steve Winwood in Traffic or on Voodoo Chile.
2. dirges, funeral marches, and other doomy, minor key music.
1. sunlight on anything.
9. people who can be funny instead of whiny when they complain.
8. that fat, blobby moon between the more glamorous "crescent" and full moon (called "gibbous").
7. not the foregrounds but the backgrounds in paintings--those miniature landscapes over a sitter's shoulder that you want to go walk in like in renaissance painting. or the simple landscapes in the illustrations of children's books.
6. bare trees, grey skies, pale dead grasses. purty.
5. the unpredictable gleams of feedback billy gibbons gets out of his guitar at the end of "La Grange" by choking way up on the pick.
4. non-magnificence in nature.
3. old sixties keyboards which make rock sound outerspace or candystriped, like in the B-52s, or the organ as used in blues, hard rock, or psychedelic rock, like Deep Purple, Pink Floyd or Steve Winwood in Traffic or on Voodoo Chile.
2. dirges, funeral marches, and other doomy, minor key music.
1. sunlight on anything.
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