^Sorry to be a tease with the title but there wasn't any room :sad:

 

Does anyone else ever get the feeling when they're, I dunno, experiencing, or about to experience potentially, or something, some art form (music, movies, whatever) that they just can't watch it because it's too good? :huh: It's hard to explain other than there are sometimes when I feel like I shouldn't waste an experience with said art if said experience wouldn't be as good as the other times... like if I can't devote myself to it fully, I'll be wasting it in a way. Does that make any sense? Is this common? >.>

 

I dunno why I'm asking, it just happened to me, though, and I was like "you know what this is actually really weird of me" and then I got to wondering if anyone else gets that feeling, or if I'm just weird.

I would agree somewhat.

 

 

Especially when it comes to music and albums I find I need to sometimes be in the right mood to really devote myself to listening to an album. This particularly happens with listening to an album for the first time.

^that album thing , I have that too sometimes ...

I feel like I can't and may not ruin the first listen of an album ,

and wait 'till it's a really good time to listen :p

I would agree somewhat.

 

 

Especially when it comes to music and albums I find I need to sometimes be in the right mood to really devote myself to listening to an album. This particularly happens with listening to an album for the first time.

 

^THIS

Like with the King of Limbs for example. I waited the whole day for it to become midnight, and then I got in bed and turned of all the lights instead of the red heart lights that hang along my bed frame, and listened to it. But through that whole day my mom was saying: What are you waiting for?! Just listen to it already! And then I was like: NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND I NEED TO FIND THE PERFECT TIME AND PERFECT MOMENT asdfghjkjhgfdsdfghjkl.

 

I also waited a long time to watch Jónsi's Go Live film as well. I had to find the right time and the right moment :blank: Like I got it in the mail, held it for a couple hours and just looked at it and freaked out about it, but I didn't watch it right away because 'the time wasn't right' wat.

 

But yeah, I get that feeling too.

i feel like i can never see four tet again because the first time was so incredible i might ruin it

absolutely. I can't listen to music as background noise, I have to devote all my senses to it. And if I can't, then I listen to NPR.

yes

Yeah, a lot.

I think that's quite normal, like not wanting to watch a complicated, layered film (Which can include comedies) because you don't feel you'll have the focus to truely appreciate it. I've been putting off Apocalypse Now for about a decade (Irony geddit).

Yes, quite often.

Definitely. Like, the albums that I praise the most are generally the one's I listen to the least often (for example I haven't listened to Sigur Ros in a couple months). I think its because I'm attracted to sublimity, so Kid A or Turn on the Bright Lighys for instance are almost painfully potent to where they yield an intensely cathartic experience that I simply couldn't deal with on a regular basis. I find that the music (and this is true with film and books as well) I listen to has become progressively more neutral/ambient feeling because the more I listen to my old favorite rock albums, the more emotion and relation to life events piles up. Its tough going through life with that as your daily soundtrack so sometimes when I sit down at the keyboard I'll never play major or minor triads, but major-minor 7ths or 5ths that are more mellow and less compelling.

 

But I've gone slightly off track. Art is definitely more beautiful in moderation and after a period of absence. Everyone knows that song, album or movie that they overlistened to and are worse off because of it. Its like you've broken some sacred barrier. So like when I see an amazing album in itunes I think, "Wow, that album is insanely good, thus, I can't listen to it now." If something is really beautiful I'll be both attracted and repelled by it because its necessary to distinguish that object from some kind of 'normality'.