Doctor Atomic (2005). John Adams /pretend anonymity/

I'm reading New York magazine regarding some anonyomous message board. Hmm, what would I say if I were truly anonymous...

• I just have no interest in harmony. I can't hear it, I don't enjoy it when I recognize it, it's boring to read about, etc. Timbre on the other hand...
• I should feel grateful for MTT but I just don't. Is this my problem?
• Am I a consumerist because I've ripped over 17,000 tracks and still have many CDs to go?
• I haven't heard anything by Beethoven in two years.
• I own no Beatles CDs or MP3s, despite or because of heavy saturation from age four to age eighteen.
• In the MP3 era, I replay deeper into my collection and also hear much more by favorite artists and composers but probably less of any particular work. Fifteen years ago, for one month, I only listened to one Steve Reich CD and La Monte Young's Well-Tuned Piano, over and over and over...
• I'm secretly having positive feelings about "rankism."
• I just don't illegally download tracks. I tried Napster back in the day but even though hundreds of thousands of users were online, there were only maybe 20 John Adams tracks. I know of a contemporary music sharing community but I just wasn't interested. Wait, on second thought, I did download MP3s of the Radiohead concert I just attended. How cool is that? I'm sure I would have paid lots for Doctor Atomic MP3s after that opera. And anyway, are there contemporary opera bootleggers?
• Speaking of Doctor Atomic, I still think about specific music from the opera but not so much about the subject matter or the dramatic presentation of that subject matter.
• At some point, I need to come out of the closet and reveal the number of blogs I read/scan. As a side effect, I watch almost no television, gave up on Fanfare, American Record Guide, Gramophone, etc. I did just subscribe to The Wire though. I'm also a long-time Wired subscriber although their music coverage now borders on useless. I also subscribed to Goldmine -- apparently it's my guilty pleasure to read what generation jones-era bands like Supertramp and Journey are doing now even if U2/Bono make me nauseous. By the way, I can't see the Goldmine record ads without glasses. And I think I am more a baby boomer than a Gen X'er.
• As usual, interesting music at the Cabrillo Music Festival this year, but driving "over the hill" via Highway 17 to Santa Cruz is a pain.
• I've only listened to the new Thom Yorke album once and the new Radiohead songs are just ok. I still hold out hope for the former and the latter may sound better with real production values rather than as live bootlegs.
• I recently read The Real Frank Zappa Book, by Frank himself and a co-author. It was interesting and yet, profane and annoying. Just like his music.
• I'm finding similarities this summer in the music of Lou Harrison and Alan Hovhaness, but I'm starting to tire of all that trumpet melody from the latter. On the other hand, the trumpet player was the star of the DVD of Bruce Springsteen's recent Pete Seeger album.
• And speaking of musicologists/composers/fathers/step-mothers, I still wrestle with whether or not Charles Seeger and Ruth Crawford Seeger should have both composed more versus their other activities.
• And most significantly, I broke the screen on my iPod because I left it in my pocket while playing volleyball.

Ok, I admit none of these would merit inclusion on PostSecret.