... as a conversation

It occurred to me the other day, as i got out of Bert's armed with my new purchase, that and yes, that Sonic Youth LP Goo, could be given to someone once i am done listening to it. That all art is expendable, destructible(Destroyer rings!) and utterly useless. In one way, Art is essentially a conversation, like any other, between the artist and his audience. Like a conversation, it is an experience and like a conversation the interaction with any kind of art is unique every time. Just like a conversation cannot be relived and redone over and over, an artistic expression exists only once coming out of the Art-piece and every time we go back to our favorite record, Goo in this case and listen to it obsessively over and over to just try to tease out one more bit of something, everytime it is a different experience and then after a while living with certain artists through their work, it becomes us, like the way we carry the snippets of our friends' vocabulary and thought patterns in our languages and conversations as we go along. Therefore, it is kind of pointless to collect art or to keep my cds and books etc. in order. For instance, I should have given away John Banville's - The Sea to this clueless person who did actually inquire about that book. Instead of leaving it with people who i know will not read it and use the book as a prop to put their dinner plates or their pistols(if it was a Colonel from Macondo) or shopping bags or whatever on. Oh, well...
PS: Goo is a brilliant old Sonic Youth record and with 20% off going on Bert's at the moment, it is a very good bargain. I am going to press play once again.