{"id":3662,"date":"2013-10-05T14:20:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T18:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=3662"},"modified":"2013-10-05T14:20:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T18:20:54","slug":"jouissanceful-goose-bumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2013\/10\/05\/jouissanceful-goose-bumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Jouissanceful Goose Bumps"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>There are many things I love about growing a beard \/ facial hair.
\n<\/span>1) It looks damn good;
\n<\/span>2) I look even older (sophisticated and sexy) than I already do and am mistaken for a grad student (since they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all sophisticated and sexy #lol), even in my own classes (awkward);
\n<\/span>3) My face has a built-in blanket for the cold, terrible winter months; and,
\n<\/span>4) Face goosebumps are the best goosebumps.
\n<\/span>However, these face goosebumps (not facial goosebumps because that sounds too weird) only happen in rare, beautiful occasions. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rare\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get myself to concerts that often and even then, only classical music gives me full body goosebumps where I feel like I have stopped living and am inhabiting transcendence itself. Aka that means nothing but I feel everything.
\n<\/span>Last night I was able to attend the UM Symphony Band\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first seasonal concert at the majestic Hill Auditorium. Every time I step into Hill I forget that I pass it daily as I sprint, late, to class; I forget how I hate how big society is (although I do love cities . . .); I forget that I live 3 minutes down the road and that I can touch most ceilings with my hand if not head. Going to this venue is going-out in its finest sense–I dress up, cleanse my mind, and the seat I choose becomes my reason for living for 2-4 hours. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to worry about my thesis, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to think about my paper due tomorrow (now today), I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to cope with dramatic boys, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to do a lot of things. The only thing I have and want to do is to sit and listen, absorb and reflect, and be in a state of becoming-child (#Deleuze).
\n<\/span>Hill Auditorium is itself distracting when inside it. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so big. <\/span>Every time<\/span> I choose my seat I stare all around myself and I think that I need to update my glasses prescription. I think about how the space that I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t discern is going to be filled with music and its <\/span>mind-blowing<\/span>. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s overwhelming. It makes me . . . get goosebumps on my face. (First case, amazing buildings and space.)
\n<\/span>Then I remember that this concert is free. (Second case, I love free things–face goosebumps follow realization.)
\n<\/span>AND THEN I REMEMBER THEY ARE ABOUT TO PLAY MY FAVORITE PIECE, movement two from Bernstein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jeremiah Symphony, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Profanation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (<\/span>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZGVRaUj-YLk<\/span><\/a>) GOOSEBUMPS GOOSEBUMPS GOOSEBUMPS.
\n<\/span>Every (other) song the band performs is great. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rare that I listen to new (classical-ish) music and fall in love. There was so much love, however. And then, of course, they decide to play the Bernstein post-intermission and I feel as if I will simultaneously pee myself, vomit, and pass out all until the beginning notes of this masterpiece are played. Since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard this piece before live (and have studied the score . . .) I know which parts are difficult and every time the trumpets don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t frack a note my heart starts to soar higher. Every time everyone is syncopated at the same time I feel myself letting out an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153AHHHHHH\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and I fall deeper into my seat as if the earth is opening up just to save me from this moment of pure joy.
\n<\/span>I never want it to end and for me it never will. This concert is everything I wanted. It acts as an escape from some parts of life and lets me relax and involve myself in music. Being in music is all I really ever want. And on these select nights, my dreams do come true.
\n<\/span>[To think that my face goosebumps could be also called face goosepimples. I cannot.]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are many things I love about growing a beard \/ facial hair. 1) It looks damn good; 2) I look even older (sophisticated and sexy) than I already do and am mistaken for a grad student (since they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all sophisticated and sexy #lol), even in my own classes (awkward); 3) My face has a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[361,359,358,305,357,192,331,360],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3662"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3670,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions\/3670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}