The Fredösphere

Welcome, weary travelers from the land of The Rest Is Noise.  Sit down and stay a while.  Listen to my choral music if you like, or take in a paranoid dystopia if that's more your line.

Alex Ross apparently liked my line about "yodeling about film noir."  (Aw, shucks.  He likes me.  He really likes me.)  In a later post he said he disliked writing about other music critics because that is like "yodeling about yodeling."  Have you ever been bothered (like I always am) that a lot of lyrics of dance songs follow the pattern of "there's a brand new dance, and it goes like this...."  Why is it necessary to make the dance talk about itself?  It's almost -- you guessed it -- dancing about dancing.

Have you ever noticed the poverty of the language devoted to worship?  A lot of worship consists of "we praise you God," or "we worship you."  If I were God, I wouldn't have any patience with it.  "Stop talking about worshiping me and start doing it."  I suppose that's why I'm not God.

So there you have it:  worshiping about worshiping.  Is this a problem common to all languages?  Do we need a better understanding of what worship is?  Does this post need a clearer, more unified theme to keep it from losing all sense of focus?