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I'm biased against the concept of escapism, it turns out. Escapism implies a lot of negative connotations that I think are unwarranted. It seems just as essential in human experience to dream, pray, meditate, remember, ruminate, fantasize and so on as it is to eat and sleep and love and die. We - broadly speaking, not Onya particularly - I think tend to see escapism as lesser, and I think that's just bunk. We should celebrate everything we are that does no harm to ourselves and others . And though escapism can go too far, so can any other aspect of behavior.
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Sep 3, 2015 - 7:05 AM
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Thor
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I'm biased against the concept of escapism, it turns out. Escapism implies a lot of negative connotations that I think are unwarranted. It seems just as essential in human experience to dream, pray, meditate, remember, ruminate, fantasize and so on as it is to eat and sleep and love and die. We - broadly speaking, not Onya particularly - I think tend to see escapism as lesser, and I think that's just bunk. We should celebrate everything we are that does no harm to ourselves and others . And though escapism can go too far, so can any other aspect of behavior.
Agreed. If there is one thing I think people like us (most of the board members too) can agree on, it's that. We're all a bunch of escapist nerds! 
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Okay I guess I am getting into a debate on it, but just this week at work I was quoting Strunk and White's three rules for writing:
1. Simplify
2. Simplify
3. Simplify
so you can see where I'm coming from.
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Fair enough. I've been 15 years in academia, both as student and lecturer, so I'm prone to appreciating a good academic quote. But over the years, I -- too -- have grown fond of more simpler "layman" phrasings now and then.
Yes, exactly, whereas I had to leave academia for public radio for similar reasons. Chacun a son gout!
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At the risk of sounding like a twat (too late again!), I think that what I was rabbiting on about earlier - all this "human condition" naval-gazing - might not actually be as introspective and personal as I made out. It could be that I was confusing "the human condition" (I know I should stop putting that in inverted commas - we've decided that it's just a catch-all expression) with a more "cosmic" experience, as in Man's place in the universe, the vastness of it all, and our place in existence - about as important as one amoeba in all of the primal oceans which ever existed. Or are we the centre of our own universe(s)? What kind of music expresses for you that "reality"?
Gorra get some more weed, man. It's freaky.
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Thanks for starting this thread. My film music listening is largely escape. For a lonely kid growing up, film music allowed for me to use my imagination and create my own movies...in my head. It brought tremendous comfort as the lonely years lead to being a late bloomer. I had a therapist say to me once, "I get it, your soundtracks are like the family and friends that will never run away." I'm sure I'm not the only one whose anchor in soundtrack passion is rooted in a need for something otherwise unmet.
Trevor Jones said in one of the FSM Online audio interviews that he was drawn to film music to deal with the hardships of his lonely formitive years, particularly family divorse and went with it as a career. That's me too.
While I've wriiten articles on Film Music, I'm not a formal scholar or musician. It's great to meet composers and discuss their process, but the default is that mix of emotive soothing or adrenaline inducing feelings that is my experience under the influence of soundtrack listening.
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