Cultural Artifacts pt. 2

Doodles.





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The Cultural Artifact

Right now I'm watching one of my favorite things ever put on film...Danielson: A family movie. Its hard to describe how a movie about a band I don't like filled with music that can be repulsive at times makes me feel positively joyous. Things with integrity do that. It's why My Morning Jacket's "Z" is a phenomenal record. It's why "For Emma, Forever Ago" by Bon Iver is a phenomenal record. Its why "Gilead" is a phenomenal book. Integrity.

Anyway, watching this documentary has me thinking about cultural artifacts. One of the ways that we construct how people used to live is by reconstructing the culture that they lived in. What books they read, what movies they saw, what games they played, etc. So I guess I'm wondering how would you use cultural artifacts to describe a specific place and time? Or maybe how you would use media and art to describe your life? The best parts or the worst parts or both?

Perhaps I'm not being clear. I don't think I'm clear about it for myself. So I guess I'll just make my list of the things that remind me of the best parts of life.

-"Torches Together", mewithoutYou!
-The Bleached Madonna
-Recording the last/lost Amnesty Letters songs in the basement of Young House
-Compline by candlelight
-Danielson: A Family Movie (Or Make a Joyful Noise Here)
-Arrested Development (as a whole)

Like I said, I don't know exactly what I'm talking about. I guess I'm groping at some feeling I have about history and culture and memory and the gumbo it's mixture produces.