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Cost of the War in Iraq
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BIO / PHILOSOPHY 2005 Update: Happy New Year everyone! After two long, hard years, my new CD entitled "Nothing Trendy" is finally complete. I think it is a great improvement over the first. Please check it out at cdbaby.com for samples of all the songs. There's some really cool stuff here. Cheers! 4/29/04 Update: Hi. I decided to update this site for the first time in a long time. I think I'm going to remove all references to corporate greed and conformity. If you don't already get it, there's nothing I can do to help you. OK. Out on the west coast working on the 2nd CD. I think it will be mostly instrumentals with at least 1 vocal song. I have a lot of ideas to explore with instrumentals so I don't want to get bogged down worrying about lyrics. To me, art is the greatest pursuit a human being can undertake as an expression of their unique identity with the most potential to inspire others. This is not to denigrate any other pursuit or profession - doctors, financiers, computer professionals, builders, teachers, lawyers, janitors, merchants - these are all good and important professions. By the way, notice I didn't include politicians in there. Easily the most horrible and unnecessary job ever invented. If you want to be a politician, you aspire to be in control over other people for really no good reason except to stroke your own ego. Absolutely the lowest and most dangerous human pursuit on the planet. Now getting back to the HIGHEST possible pursuit for a human life - creation in the form of art. Every other job or pursuit exists for a support role or for entertainment. Art exists for itself, for no other reason than to say "I am creating something beautiful because it is beautiful" thus giving some meaning to life. Now some may disagree with me here and I fully respect their arguments but I would say music is the highest of all art forms. Paintings can be looked at and studied, movies can be watched and debated, literature can be read and digested intellectually but music remains the most mysterious, ethereal and least tangible. Your eyes are not involved and there is nothing to grasp. Notes, chords, sounds all pass through you and disappear leaving you feeling what came before and wondering what's next. You need some form of developed intellect to comprehend the other art forms but you only need a soul and functioning ears to experience music. A newborn child can have the same visceral response as an adult. Music can physically affect your body and act like a drug thus making it a very powerful and universally understood medium. It's a forceful anchor to past events. Its power is in its directness. Its potential is in its mystery. If aliens visited the planet (ok, stop laughing), they would understand at least two things: music and mathematics. If respected properly, music creation is the most sacred of all human pursuits. Anyway, that's what I'm trying to do. It's also the hardest thing to get paid for. Cheers. Marc Cianciola
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