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- R. Tyler Mack
- Username: RTylerMack
- Location: Grand Blanc, MI
- Joined PRX: Mar 27, 2005
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- "Chasing Love"
- Summary: A poetic and creative exploration of the notion of romantic love, and the way it drives lives and societies.
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Review of Chasing Love
R. Tyler Mack
Posted on October 09, 2005 at 09:37 PM
This fascinating objective approach to modern and historical love is mind-blowing in its structure -- an intermix of "expert" and nonexpert declarations (by not labeling the lay from the pro, Miguel Macias forces us to accept all opinions without discretion, and points out the personal nature of our views on the subject), voiceacted prose and recitations -- and entirely schizophrenic. But that's the idea. As different as our ideas of love may be now, they are similar compared to different thoughts of love over time. Is love expressed? Does it exist? Is it affected by (socio)economic influences? This deeply thoughtful, sometimes sentimental, sometimes caustic, entirely cerebral piece forces listeners to take a step back and think about all these, and form our own opinions.