[Thor Joachim Haga]

He, he…yeah, if anything, I’m UNDERSTATING it.

But listen, I can make fun of this particular anorak moth behaviour all day long, but I don’t really want to make fun of ANALYSIS or research as such. That’s a very crucial thing, and an important tool to have. I remember when I wrote my thesis, I had to spend MONTHS deeply analyzing the music in E.T., EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and BLADE RUNNER, down to fucking time codes. It was excruciating grunt work, but it had to be done if I were to have anything meaningful to say about the works as a whole, what the music is trying to do, i.e. the fun part of analyzing something.

But that’s also my point, really. You sometimes have to look UP and see how your analysis can be used. Otherwise, it’s just picking things apart and then stopping there, i.e. analysis in its original etymological meaning. We speak about “nuts and bolts”, but nuts and bolts are usually part of a construction. Sometimes you have to look up to see how these nuts and bolts fit into the construction. That’s what’s missing in many of these posts I see; they’re content with just breaking things apart.

As I said earlier, I do find myself “mothing out” on a few things. John Williams, the ALIEN films, stuff like that. Heck, even the long Antonioni article I just shared. But I try to remember and look UP now and then. I like Malte’s description earlier, a cat with tiny, flapping wings. Maybe that describes me as well.