I just went to bed, and decided to watch some tea-wee, and there was a documentary about The Doors and their overly famous song "This Is The End". Some music guy commenting it said something about "Its very obvious that they were experimenting on this song, and all good bands has got to dare to experiment, to release music that might be weird or flawed but still somehow beautiful". And so on.
I thought that made sense. The latest albums from Coldplay and Offspring were both quite experimental, sometimes rejected by their core fans for that reason. But I really liked both albums, there's a certain something to them.
Things are beautiful when it's not entirely streamlined, when it has a well timed flaw that your mind can latch on to.
One exception however; engineering. Machines. When every little part is perfect, neither doing too much nor too little, when every part is polished and fine tuned, machinery is beautiful when it's flawless. Maybe that's why Hollywoodian beauty is so perfect, we live in an age of scientific marvel, where there are few other ideals but money and technology.
For everything else, you need that spot o' fail.
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That is like islamic art. Everything handcrafted by muslims HAS to contain a flaw according to their belief. Because only God can create something perfect.
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