February 7, 2014

How to be a deaf musical genius.

1. Just lie about being deaf. 2. Have somebody else write the music for you. 3. Both!

22 comments:

David said...

Oh Ludwig! No!

Rocketeer said...

Mamoru Samuragochi for President!

traditionalguy said...

This is like finding out that rural actor Will Shakespeare did not write the plays or that Bob Dylan did not write the lyrics.

In Dylan's case it probably is Bob's writing, because if he wanted to fake something it would have been the singing voice and not writing the lyrics.

Who wrote, "all the world's a stage..." Was it Will or Bob? Derp, we don't get to hear Will sing his sonnets on iTunes to get a clue.

Bob Boyd said...

There's a sign language interpreter in South Africa who is looking for a job. He'd be perfect for Samuragochi.

Laslo Spatula said...

I would like to read more detail about his feigning deafness. Did he learn sign language to cotinue the ruse? That would be dedication. Was he able to avoid flinching every time there was an unexpected loud noise? That takes steel. His long-form performance as a deaf composer is a set piece that would make my father, Andy Kaufman, proud.

Laslo Spatula said...

Judging from art I have seen there have been some blind painters.

Laslo Spatula said...

Stephen King writes dialogue like he is deaf; hasn't stopped him yet.

Laslo Spatula said...

Seventy-thousand seems kind of lowball considering the work that must have went into the actual composing. And who gets the video game royalties?

Laslo Spatula said...

Re: "He told me that if I didn’t write songs for him, he’d commit suicide”

Maybe he would've paid someone else to commit the suicide for him.

Even fake artists are tortured, it seems.

Laslo Spatula said...

The ghost-writer missed a great opportunity to test the Classical audience: he could've purposely written an awful car-wreck of a piece, palpable in its banality, and see if the critics would review it differently due to the Deafness paradigm. Emperor's Clothes, set to music.

MadisonMan said...

What they need is Mr. Michael Brady in the courtroom, throwing his briefcase to the floor so it makes a loud bang.

Then we'll know about the actual whiplash, er, deafness.

Laslo Spatula said...

Foremost, this awful piece would involve some bad plagiarism. Someone wrote that before? I never heard it!

Laslo Spatula said...

The plagiarism would have to be from Beethoven, of course: Deaf minds think alike.

Laslo Spatula said...

I am full of insight this morning. Or someone else is, but I'll take the credit for it.

traditionalguy said...

Is that LasloSpatula or is it LasloSpatula3000?

Laslo Spatula said...

@traditionalguy:

I should be so honored.

bandmeeting said...

Or you could be Evelyn Glennie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424509/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Anonymous said...

Laslo Spatula said...
"I am full of insight this morning. Or someone else is, but I'll take the credit for it."

You are so presidential.

Mark O said...

Why does this make me think of Obama?

Oso Negro said...

Me, too, Mark O!

Scott said...

Remember Rosemary Brown?

Strelnikov said...

4. Profit!