From Eddie Peel Sent Sat, Oct 2nd 1999, 02:14
From Eddie Peel Sent Sat, Oct 2nd 1999, 02:14
> > Just read an interview with a certain favorite and influential duo of > noizemakers, with some interesting insights. > Was about to forward said interview to several people, then decided > against it for the liberal splattering of obscenities throughout. If you're not secure enough in your own reasons for forwarding the material that you might let something like obscenity keep you from sending it you have problems. Even for someone who is knowledgeable enough to reference Anselm Kiefer. Lenny Bruce: Words aren't dirty, they are words. It is the meaning we attach to them that empowers them (paraphrase). > Surprises that individuals who are so meticulously precise in > expressing themselves musically can be so unsubtle in verbal > expression. hence the career choice of musician and not public speaker. > Apparently it's considered unhip in certain circles to take offense > at vulgarity. > Is that progress? > Time to rethink. > Through being hip. what is vulgarity? you need to qualify that term in order to "talk shit" about it. > The more one sensitizes to the beauty of sound, the more difficult to > endure the constant assault of unconsidered sound - car alarms, > sirens, motorpsychlists, raving street people threatening to kill, > idiot beeps of reversing trucks, screeching sport (insert laugh > track) utility (?) vehicles, nasal car horns, ugly unrequested music > shared from generous windowsdown trunkopen speakersdistorting > driversby. Rewritten version: The more one sensitizes to the beauty of sound, the more one can enjoy unconsidered sound - car alarms, sirens, motorpsychlists, raving street people threatening to kill, idiot beeps of reversing trucks, screeching sport (insert laugh track) utility (?) vehicles, nasal car horns, ugly unrequested music shared from generous windowsdown trunkopen speakersdistorting driversby- as a new approach to appreciating what it is that we consider music in the first place. > Similarly, the more one sensitizes to the (potential) beauty of > language, the less endurable the reductionist vocabulary of > vulgarity. Read some Rilke. Listen to something hi-fi once in > a while, just for contrast. Try (just a suggestion) a less dogmatic, less modernist approach to enjoying art. Postmodern are the times, enjoy them for all of their signifigance. Could any of our current crop of musical geniuses give a > bit more thought before uttering such informative elucidations of the > creative process: "Well, I take the sound and f**k with it. If that's > still f**ked, I take it over here and f**k with it some more." Thank > you and goodnight. > You can tell by listening to the work of an artist whether he/she needs to say anything about it at all, let alone something "pretty and pleasant." Go have some kids and perpetuate the dominant paradigm you hate breeder. "Look at them look at how 'bad they're being'." "Let's not be 'bad', let's tell everyone how 'bad' it is to be 'bad'."