[OT] Extra time spent

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 10:07:59AM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 6/5/2014 2:49 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> >On 2014-06-04 21:02, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >
> >>It's strange, I find that even ambient music distracts me, yet the
> >>loud noise of an occasional passing train doesn't. Similarly, even
> >>whispers will distract me, but birds chirping, trees rustling, etc.,
> >>don't. It's something about intelligible sounds that engage my brain
> >>somehow, that non-intelligible sounds don't have. So far, I haven't
> >>found anybody else who experiences the same thing.
> >
> >Then you have now problem listening to modern pop music ;)
> 
> I've heard that observation about modern music when I was a kid -
> "There's a bathroom on the right!" - "Wrapped up like a douche!" - and
> most famously, "Louie Louie":
> 
>    http://www.louielouie.net/11-fbi.htm
> 
> Never mind that I could never make out the words in opera, either. My
> mother once tried to inculcate me with culture by taking me to the
> opera. When I complained that I couldn't understand any of the lyrics,
> she explained that that was unnecessary, as one should already know
> the story.

I'm a classical music aficionado, but I hate opera. It bores me to death
and grates my ears with exaggerated, unnatural pronunciations of words
that make it basically unintelligible, and distracts from the real
stuff, that is, the music. :P  I don't like vocal music; give me an
instrumental any day.


T

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