From Zenon M. Feszczak Sent Fri, Oct 1st 1999, 16:43
From Zenon M. Feszczak Sent Fri, Oct 1st 1999, 16:43
> > >... I don't know. Is it me? Is it because I'm a woman? Is it >because I'm prudish (not) ??? or are all these just puerile? Not just a "girlie" complaint. The gratuitous vulgarity you reference is rather ... gratuitous? 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. Surprises that individuals who are so meticulously precise in expressing themselves musically can be so unsubtle in verbal expression. Apparently it's considered unhip in certain circles to take offense at vulgarity. Is that progress? Time to rethink. Through being hip. 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. Similarly, the more one sensitizes to the (potential) beauty of language, the less endurable the reductionist vocabulary of vulgarity. 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. Read some Rilke. Listen to something hi-fi once in a while, just for contrast. Perhaps one should simply respond: "Shaddup and play yer sampler!" (Expecting an obscene flaming mailbomb in response). Rudely and crudely, 3