Weird = Bad?

Something that bugs me more and more as I grow up is when people call something as "weird". A piece of music. A painting. A photo. A book. A story. A person. A hobby. It really catches in my ear and my brain like a little hook and I'm often on the verge of cutting into the aforementioned freaked out/confused individual.

When people say "oh that's weird"- e.g. about the album track "Lion in a Coma" by the band Animal Collective:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_42Sighttk

Or "Minus Zero" by harsh noise producer Merzbow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGzrL8J0t-c

Or artwork like this:

http://declubz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/weird-art-300x286.jpg

or they call the reclusive, speccy kid at school weird, or you call someone you don't know very well who clearly has radically different tastes weird, when people use the word "weird" like that, it carries a tone and weight that seem to indicate what that person really means, on some level, is "bad". They mean "this is bad". Bad because it's "weird".

You know what I mean. I've most certainly done it. You've done it. Maybe you know others who've done it. And that use of the word "weird" just seems so wrong to me. Why is it weird? To you, to me, to them?

1. Maybe You Just Don't Know Everything
It's an insult a lot of us would instantly deny- "oh you think you know everything". But we often live like we do. Like our particular view of reality and life is THE view. But it's not. I know so little. You know so little. Together, we know so little. And that which we don't know isn't "weird". It's just undiscovered- and is waiting to BE discovered! So discover it! Embark upon a wonderful journey of finding things that are NEW.

2. Maybe You're Lazy
Nowadays, we're bombarded with so much, so fast. Media, gossip, all that jazz. And so much of it is so shallow that we just eat it all up, gorging ourselves , snacking, taking a few gratuitous bites from one thing as it passes and leaping on the next. When something out of the ordinary comes along, we're so dulled and fat that we don't investigate, or appreciate real creative food.
We need to SEE- not just LOOK.
We need to LISTEN- not just HEAR.
We need t DO- not just watch.

Things can be UNCOMMON. Or EXTRAORDINARY. Or UNLIKELY. Or NEW. But weird? Weird can also mean, if we were to get a collective description "something that doesn't make sense". But make sense to who? Maybe something can only be weird when we've exhausted every possible avenue of "sense" relating to it- and is that even possible? Maybe not. Everyone has different experiences, so nothing can really be weird. Only un-experienced. It's a totally a posteriori matter.

This is different from discerning what is morally right and wrong. That isn't relative to the person. That's a priori, really. But back to the "weirdness".

Few things are weird. Is a lonely 46 year old man who's lived alone all his life and wears his dead mother's dresses whilst making sweet love to a freshly caught tuna weird? Probably. I'm guessing as it would only really make sense to him. But even then who knows.

But as for music. Art. Literature. Ideas. I don't think they can really be weird. Whatever the case, don't CALL them weird just because it's not what you normally listen to, or because you haven't read anything like it before. That's often masking narrow mindedness. Maybe you don't know you're narrow minded. If you think that stuff that's not in the charts is weird, you probably are narrow minded. No wait. You are.

Sorry for the rambling nature of this post. Feedback me? I'd quite like to get a discussion going on this with anyone if possible- a real dialogue.
God Bless.