tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post8940551375088055060..comments2023-09-29T02:49:02.989-07:00Comments on An Emphatic Umph: The Pleasure of the RantDaniel Coffeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-26207703880640981902011-03-13T03:35:01.621-07:002011-03-13T03:35:01.621-07:00Nah I didn't feel shot down in the slightest, ...Nah I didn't feel shot down in the slightest, dusty g, and thanks for the link to that 'trane clip. Although I knew that Giant Steps was notably full of notes, seeing it notated like that makes you take notice in a new way.<br /><br />You write like a friend of mine that you can't possibly be. Declamatory doppelganger. Weird.li'l girl bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681391791660782100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-58408800064964570262011-03-12T11:44:52.690-08:002011-03-12T11:44:52.690-08:00@Li'l Blue: Oh damn my comment looks like its ...@Li'l Blue: Oh damn my comment looks like its trying to shoot down yours, not what I was trying to do. <br />I think what I was trying to say was, Jass rant, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! (with an emphatic be BOP staccoto).<br /> <br />The jazz rant is impetuses,<br />A room fall of raving lunitiks building the dream into a frenzy!<br /><br />heres one now<br />Hay john Coltrane<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kotK9FNEYU<br /><br />Notes how Tommy Flanagan's (piano) rant reiderates john Coltrane's rant, in new words, that's generosity!dustygravelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01877215902611486889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-38190438408437002662011-03-11T16:30:46.521-08:002011-03-11T16:30:46.521-08:00The Jass rant? Yea yeah yea. the punkz though? the...The Jass rant? Yea yeah yea. the punkz though? the punks.dead milkmen, dead kennedys, susidal tendencies.<br /><br />But there is one rant that that kills me. Lets call it the incredible punk rock stare. Moving? Its a swirling vortex. when I watch it I feel suddenly motivated. And <br />what is he even saying? I dont know. Is he contradicting him self? I don't know. He's right though, you know he's right<br /><br />like when the guy says<br />"I can't figure out if you're acting ageist that label," "I'm not acting" He hates that word when it comes out of a mouth. (that part is funny to me)<br /><br />Watch as he calls out to the onlookers!! And it works!<br />They get it! holy shit<br />I'm converted.<br /><br /><br /> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqxcgPPdYwodustygravelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01877215902611486889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-19337444981399015582011-03-11T13:05:39.348-08:002011-03-11T13:05:39.348-08:00I like the idea that there are different types of ...I like the idea that there are different types of articulate possessions, the rant being one particular mode. So imagine the musician — jazz or otherwise — might get jiggy in a number of modes, from the rant to the Dionysian sublime. I have certainly known different modes of articulate expression other than the rant.<br /><br />Oh, but I do enjoy the rant, its acute orgasmic frenzy.Daniel Coffeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-39185090131203753472011-03-10T22:54:26.763-08:002011-03-10T22:54:26.763-08:00I am such a fan of the rant.
So often funny. Car...I am such a fan of the rant. <br /><br />So often funny. Car-crash fascinating at the very least. Uninterruptable, and therefore most likely a solo performance – conversation is no platform for duelling rants. Rants are difficult to formulate a response to; post rant, rationality seems flaccid and uncompelling. The end of a rant can be a truly cartoonish phenomenon – the ranter breathless and heaving: spent. Observers silently frozen somewhere between horror and amusement. A charged tension most frequently broken by laughter. <br /><br />Is it any surprise that ranting is elevated to an art-form by comedians? Thinking about it, many of my favourite comic performances are rants. Tim Minchin immortalises one of his own in ‘Storm’. <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0W7Jbc_Vhw <br /><br />And of course Bill Hicks was a virtuoso of the art, and the world is poorer for the absence of his rants. <br /><br />“People suck, and that's my contention, I can prove it on a scratch paper and pen. Gimme a fuckin’ Etch-a-sketch, I'll do it in three minutes - the proof, the fact, the factorum; I'll show my work, case closed...”<br /><br />I would venture a tentative hypothesis that a really good rant demands a similar drop in inhibition and caution as that demonstrated by a jazz musician caught up in a blistering solo...the effortless generation of ear-catching innovation from the familiar building blocks of more guarded speech. <br /><br />Unstoppable. <br /><br />(...“ “ass muffin” “ ...snort...)li'l girl bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681391791660782100noreply@blogger.com