I'm reading a book called Hey! Nietzche! Leave Them Kids Alone! by Craig Schuftan.
It's this really cool book about how today's music is a continuation of the romantic literary period, and instead of de-valuing today's music, it talks about how great it is as another 'artistic' movement. For example, it compared Goethe to My Chemical Romance.
It's really weird and interesting, and it always distracts me because it has all this insightful comments about how a lot of music today is accepting that the world sucks, and artists turning within to find something they can be positive about. It feels like when I read it I get all these insights into my life, but in a positive way, like it opens up a whole new angle that I can look at things from and it makes me feel better.
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