Eternal Beauty

As I sit here listening to BPC#1 I remember Jimmy Buffet and Margaritaville. What a song! Nothing like Margaritaville appeared in Old Europe during the times of Beethoven and Mozart. I wondered how Beethoven and Mozart would have treated the subject of boozing, and I especially wondered how Beethoven and Mozart would have treated the glorious tune we all love, if only they could have had a peek into the future. How would an operatic interlude by Beethoven or Mozart treated the tune and theme from Margaritaville? Could it have been the theme for a piano concerto movement? A symphony? I wondered. That's the kind of stuff I wonder about when I'm sober, which is most of the time.

I just put on Mozart's PC#21. Heard it on KVOD today as I drove to my HMO for a flu shot. 'Elvira Madigan,' whatever that means, is a ripoff, a cheapening, of MPC#21-2. I wish I had never heard it. Which brings us back to the idea of B and M ripping off Jimmy Buffet. Would we REALLY appreciate such a rip-off? I wonder.

Furthermore I wonder whether Jimmy Buffet could even have APPEARED before Beethoven and Mozart. Does Jimmy Buffet stand on the musical sholders of Mozart? Beethoven? Did we have to go through M and B to get to JB? Could well be... But where does this theory leave us in regard to Rap? Rap is crap. Most of us see that. Is Rap, devolution? And if so, does the current popularity of Rap tell us something about - not only cultural evolution - but Cultural Evolution? I think so. And if I am correct, then does Cultural Evolution tell us anything about Evolution in General? Maybe. But the overwhelming evidence suggests that Evolution - while it may from time to time regress - tends toward Beauty. Eternal Beauty.