IN 1952, American composer John Cage "wrote" a piece for piano called "4:33" -- or four minures, thirty three seconds -- the piece was very simple to perform: a pianist comes onstage, sits at a piano, sets a stopwatch, puts the stopwatch down and sits motionless for four minutes, thirty three seconds, whereupon he turns off the stopwatch and exits. The purpose of this was to show that the "room noise" of an audience, expecting to hear piano music was enough "sound" to justify calling it music. Who knows, who cares. What's important is that this piece demonstrates that time has quality: take for instance this video of a female acquaintence of mine who, after I took her to a tatoo parlor to get her shoulder tat fixed, used my video camera to apply lip gloss -- she turned the screen around, she could see herself. And this made me think: What would be longer: Four minutes, thirty three seconds of this girl and her rampant narcissism OR four minutes and thirty three seconds of someone not playing the piano. How would you vote -- text me an answer: 912-230-8203 Close Window