The ultimate medium — hmmmmm.
Posted By rlc on April 18, 2007
Getting ready for the Pikes Peak Writer’s conference, just wrapping off some minor details and trying to compact the first chapter of November Romeo into 3 Killer Pages for a Read&Critique on Friday afternoon. Helping me think, I’ve got Molly Hatchet’s Jailbreak… stripped fromLP, not a CD… still has the scratches and fat warmth… playing at full crank in media player… with Savoy’s Brown’s Tell Mama queued up close behind.
Got to thinking about all the different ways that human beings express themselves. Certainly, the ones we know most about, and see most often are speech, music, visual arts, and writing. Sometimes we combine them… a good song… is a story set to music. For those of us old enough to remember the LP, there was almost ALWAYS a visual element as well. One of my favorite browse books is “1000 Record Covers” by Michael Ochs (Taschen, 2001). Have a few of them myself…. another little aside… I’m sure glad somebody invented an LP wall frame that doesn’t hurt the album…
Then we’ve got film, combines voice, writing, visuals, AND music. Music videos can sometimes be right up there… if the story is good and the visuals are gratuitous T&A…
(Sympathy for the Devil’s up now… another LP strip from “Beggar’s Banquet… following that up are Cream’s Tales of Brave Ulysses and Procol Harum’s Whiter Shade of Pale (that one is on the worklist for the Ohio concert on June 8.)….
Books have historically drawn milllions, but a lot of publishers are reporting declining sales. It’s also getting harder and harder to get a major newspaper to do book reviews… There are just zillions of them coming out every year… e-publishing, Print-on-Demand, and other technologies seem to be pressing hard against the industry.
Ok, it’s probably time to get back to my real work before Mick Jagger “Lays my soul to waste…”
The ultimate medium to be has to be film. It combines everything, and everything has to work right for the film to work… A good story song is a VERY close second… Harry Chapin’s “Taxi” for instance, is as engrossing as any film…
ttfn,
rlc
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