{"id":31198,"date":"2024-04-09T17:50:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T21:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=31198"},"modified":"2024-08-07T09:51:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T13:51:30","slug":"the-arts-music-lit-visual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/09\/the-arts-music-lit-visual\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ARTS: MUSIC, LIT, VISUAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Musicians probably<\/span> <\/strong>get more ego satisfaction in one night than most people get in a year. When I don\u2019t have a gig, I mope around the house like a guy in rehab. Where are my gigs? My cigs? My booze? Where\u2019s my heroin? Do I want to see a movie? No, I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-31591\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Amen-laying-on-of-hands-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Amen-laying-on-of-hands-205x300.jpg 205w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Amen-laying-on-of-hands.jpg 552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/>Music is a different than than writing and painting; music is the laying on o&#8217; hands. Have you tried laying on o&#8217; hands with writing or painting? You\u2019re in a room by yourself. That\u2019s called solitary confinement.<\/p>\n<p>Street festivals, parties, simchas, nursing-home soirees, concerts &#8212; all feel-good situations. Humans like hubbub. Noise is life. Deaf people like music; they like the vibrations.<\/p>\n<p>In writing and painting, it&#8217;s a shush scene. America needs about 100 decent novelists and 100 painters. There is no minor league for writers and painters (except academia). Musicians &#8212; they&#8217;re playing in every city.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I\u2019m in<\/strong><\/span> the Ohio Musicians League. That&#8217;s a minor league operation, but still, satisfying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Musicians probably get more ego satisfaction in one night than most people get in a year. When I don\u2019t have a gig, I mope around the house like a guy in rehab. Where are my gigs? My cigs? My booze? Where\u2019s my heroin? Do I want to see a movie? No, I don&#8217;t. Music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31198"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31597,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31198\/revisions\/31597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}