tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post8433509677997720223..comments2023-09-29T02:49:02.989-07:00Comments on An Emphatic Umph: What is Cool?Daniel Coffeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-15649651734850855522014-10-14T20:01:55.175-07:002014-10-14T20:01:55.175-07:00Yeah, good points. To be honest, I don't know ...Yeah, good points. To be honest, I don't know Miles Davis well enough (except for Kind of Blue which fits my definition to a T). <br /><br />As for booze drinks, my point about the martini glass is less its symbolic value than its performative function. Unlike the tumbler, the martini glass trains you to be cool. <br /><br />Of course, whiskey neat is a cool drink: all that smoldering heat, unadorned. Manhattans, well, I can't help you there — a little frufru to me. Whiskey neat, however, is cool — like a cigarette, it's contained heat.<br /><br />I'm not sure cool changes. It might. But I'm playing with the idea that there is a concept of cool which may shift instantiation but remains itself. <br /><br /><br /><br />Daniel Coffeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-7037532390471791722014-10-13T20:18:38.345-07:002014-10-13T20:18:38.345-07:00This is likely too obvious an example and perhaps ...This is likely too obvious an example and perhaps it is why you chose to omit it, but Miles Davis. Is there an analogy to your definition of cool and Miles Davis's performance of Jazz particularly in "Birth of the Cool?"<br /><br />Is his performance under control, restrained? I don't know enough of Davis to be sure.<br /><br />To my generation, A Martini glass is not cool but feminine and an affectation of effete. I prefer to be served manhattans as a "whiskey cocktail" in a glass that is plain. I argue that this is infinitely more cool. Cool changes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-5489477630615868612014-10-13T20:18:09.774-07:002014-10-13T20:18:09.774-07:00This is likely too obvious an example and perhaps ...This is likely too obvious an example and perhaps it is why you chose to omit it, but Miles Davis. Is there an analogy to your definition of cool and Miles Davis's performance of Jazz particularly in "Birth of the Cool?"<br /><br />Is his performance under control, restrained? I don't know enough of Davis to be sure.<br /><br />To my generation, A Martini glass is not cool but feminine and an affectation of effete. I prefer to be served manhattans as a "whiskey cocktail" in a glass that is plain. I argue that this is infinitely more cool. Cool changes.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com