The Guardian for this meeting was Eos Amaterasu. The comments are by Eos Amaterasu.

Eos Amaterasu: in music there are rests

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Rasima Petrovic: Hello there
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Rasima
Rasima Petrovic: How are ya?
Eos Amaterasu: welcome to Play as Being
Rasima Petrovic: Thank you =)
Eos Amaterasu: (have you been here before?)
Rasima Petrovic: Yes I have

Eos Amaterasu: theme of the week is "music"
Rasima Petrovic: Oh nice =)
Rasima Petrovic: Music is great
Rasima Petrovic: Does PaB still usually meet at 7?
Eos Amaterasu: 4 times a day: 1, 7, 1, 7 pacific time
Rasima Petrovic: Oh okay =)
Eos Amaterasu: but attendance, and mileage, will vary
Rasima Petrovic: So it seems!
Rasima Petrovic: I've always had interestnig discussions here =)
Eos Amaterasu: was thinking of music as being the muse in audible form
Eos Amaterasu: the heroine with 1000 faces / songs
Rasima Petrovic: Well the root of the word "music" is from "muse"
Rasima Petrovic: Same with "museum"
Rasima Petrovic: I think the Greeks were onto something with that =)
Eos Amaterasu: we _are_ amused
Eos Amaterasu: bemused
Rasima Petrovic: Yes ^^
Eos Amaterasu: songs are like several minute trances
Rasima Petrovic: Mhmm. Music can simulate intense human emotions too
Eos Amaterasu: you bet
Rasima Petrovic: Or evoke them
Santoshima Resident: 's current display-name is "San".
Eos Amaterasu: "if you get confused listen to the music play"
Rasima Petrovic: Hello San ^^
Santoshima Resident: hello Rasmina,
Santoshima Resident: eos
Eos Amaterasu: Hi San
Santoshima Resident: pardon ... Rasima
Rasima Petrovic: Everyone makes that mistake xD

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Rasima Petrovic: Feelings of love or anger, invoked by music... or even boredom. And its more powerful than visual art, on the avergae compared to moving masses
Rasima Petrovic: So like playing the watered down crappy music at the grocery store
Rasima Petrovic: Makes everyone very bored, calm, and banal
Rasima Petrovic: Whether or not they have much of an art appreciation
Malinson Resident: 's current display-name is "Malinson Bloobury".
Eos Amaterasu: pop singles are like packaged states of being
Rasima Petrovic: Hello there ^^
Rasima Petrovic: Yes. It's kind of amazing how you don't need much level of music appreciation to be deeply influenced by it
Rasima Petrovic: Whereas other forms of art are different
Eos Amaterasu: music is pretty ubiquitous
Rasima Petrovic: ^^
Rasima Petrovic: Anyone mind if I take off my top?
Eos Amaterasu: our neurons supposedly sing to each other
Eos Amaterasu: np, nbd
Rasima Petrovic: Okay =)
Rasima Petrovic: Music is very ubiquitous
Eos Amaterasu: tweets preceded the internet
Rasima Petrovic: ^^
Eos Amaterasu: seems to also be a form of thought
Eos Amaterasu: emo thought
Rasima Petrovic: Yes
Rasima Petrovic: =o
Rasima Petrovic: I'm being called... See you guys later!
Rasima Petrovic: Much fun =)
Eos Amaterasu: ciao!
Santoshima Resident: salut
Eos Amaterasu: "Like the morning sun you come and like the wind you go" (Uncle John's Band)
Eos Amaterasu: yeah, in music we have a kind of spiritual being
Santoshima Resident: direct
Eos Amaterasu: and also in dance with music a mutual blessing of body and spirit
Santoshima Resident: yes,
Eos Amaterasu: I sometimes think that the height of our human civilization, human knowing being human, was Mozart, is his music
Santoshima Resident: ah,
Eos Amaterasu: Marriage of Figaro
Santoshima Resident: particular refinement
Santoshima Resident: yes, wonderful
Santoshima Resident: certainly, the best of humanity, expresed through music
Santoshima Resident: s
Eos Amaterasu: as in this scene from the movie The Shawshank Redemption:
Eos Amaterasu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSzatzy8WvM
Santoshima Resident: horray . clicking

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Santoshima Resident: beautiful scene
Eos Amaterasu: seeing the human condition completely, and clearly
Santoshima Resident: ty
Eos Amaterasu: in a heart of mercy
Santoshima Resident: true
Eos Amaterasu: all the passions, deceptions, weaknesses, excesses
Eos Amaterasu: people playing roles
Eos Amaterasu: Lord Buckley's garden where human beings are the flowers in the garden
Eos Amaterasu: and their interactions make music :-)
Eos Amaterasu: I guess we're like interacting particles with charged multisensory fields
Santoshima Resident: :)
Santoshima Resident: good night, Eos ~ i will remember this
Eos Amaterasu: Good night San!
Eos Amaterasu: thanks!
Eos Amaterasu: a short musical ride by Chopin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXwjeEJtyLM
Eos Amaterasu: Etude Opus 25 #1

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To see the Mozart scene as opera, and see what they're singing about :-) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLtqZewjwgA