{"id":3184,"date":"2008-05-27T22:26:43","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T05:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2008-05-28T07:20:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T14:20:07","slug":"all-roads-lead-to-rome-but-where-three-roads-converge-the-trivia-that-is-yet-another-meme-game-is-to-be-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3184\/all-roads-lead-to-rome-but-where-three-roads-converge-the-trivia-that-is-yet-another-meme-game-is-to-be-found\/","title":{"rendered":"All roads lead to Rome, but where three roads converge, the trivia that is yet another meme game is to be found"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eight questions, eight mostly inadequate answers:<\/p>\n

1. Who is your favorite musical artist? (post a youtube video)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I like so much stuff that this becomes completely unfair. If you watch my choices of videos on BHB, those doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of my tastes. The folks at Unchained got to hear songs from my iTunes library, which includes a lot of bootlegs and otherwise unobtainable stuff. All that notwithstanding, if I had to pick one first-among-equals favorite, it would be Bob Dylan. But just writing that feels like a betrayal, because everything I love in art comes from a kind of visceral honesty that Dylan almost never achieves — mostly studiously avoids. But take a look at this:<\/p>\n

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The real Blind Willie McTell was a fairly ordinary early blues musician. He was nothing compared to Skip James, in my opinion. And why is Dylan celebrating the blues in a ballad? I think McTell is a cypher for Dylan in this song, and I think this is as close to an auto-encomium as we can ever expect from the man. In any case, this is great art from the first note to the last, an Apollonian frenzy made more violent because it is so tightly constrained.<\/p>\n

2. Who is your favorite artist (post a flicker photo)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t have a favorite visual artist. Of everything I’ve seen, Rodin is the most interesting to me, this because he is truly in love with humanity. I’ve worked in photography most of my life, at one time very seriously. I hate almost everything associated with the visual arts.<\/p>\n

3. Who is your favorite blogger?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Again I must disappoint. Everything I love in art is a form of literature — even the music I love best. Almost no one in the history of literature was able to write both very quickly and very well. Shakespeare could, as could Mencken, but they don’t update their blogs that often. There’s no one in the world of weblogs who makes me crazy like the great writers of the world’s literature. How could there be? That’s an unfair standard to judge by. To have Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eight questions, eight mostly inadequate answers: 1. Who is your favorite musical artist? (post a youtube video) I like so much stuff that this becomes completely unfair. If you watch my choices of videos on BHB, those doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of my tastes. 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