From the Quaternions Sent Mon, May 10th 1999, 16:27
From the Quaternions Sent Mon, May 10th 1999, 16:27
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> Yeah, but the liner notes of the Necropolis album, he prints an excerpt of
> someone's book (Hey, i sound like the stupid one now), the book that he
> took "that subliminal kid" from.
> An excerpt of that excerpt:
> "The Subliminal Kid moved in and took over bars, cafes, and jukeboxes...
> installed radio transmitters and microphones...so that the music and talk
> in one could be heard in all..."
OK, yeah... All is good. I believe the Subliminal kid reference is from
William Burroughs. Burroughs, so I've heard, wrote about actual audio
terrorism. he thought that if you set up lots of hidden speakers in a
heavily populated urban area, like Times Swuare NYC, and played noises of
guns firing and cops saying "freeze," you could literally start a riot
through noise alone. This is just the version I've heard in a class I'm
taking now, I don't know if that's entirely accurate.
My problem with Spooky is that he seems to spout things witout
understanding them. On one level, his rhetoric is populist, what when it
comes down to it, he seems really full of himself and his own abilities.
So actually, I don't know what he thinks about mass art (he probably
supports it on an intellectual level), but someone with that big an ego,
signed to a major label against all the other populist stuff he's said,
shilling for a Vodka company, etc, can't really support populist music
emotionally.
And regarding the music as frgaments of memory etc. Again, it
isn't what he says precisely, it's how he says it, as meaningless
catchphrases with no particular meaning. Silly retrofuturism, and jargon
jargon jargon. If i want philosophy, I'll look to a more rigorous mind.
Sam