quoted 5 lines I'm> I'm
> guessing that there are a lot of fucking soul-less white
> collar capitalists
> on this list that couldn't care less that some broke ass
> artist sold his soul to VW
...
quoted 3 lines I expect witty, condescending responses from both you and> I expect witty, condescending responses from both you and
> David Turgeon, so
> here's a big Fuck You, in advance. Have a great day.
(nothing witty in this response, by the way)
So, in your universe only rich people and their trust fund kids get to be
honest artists, writers, and musicians? And those of us who want to make a
living and support ourselves and our families by working at a real job are
sell outs? How fucking old are you? Don't you know anything about the real
world where people (even artists) have jobs and have to struggle to even
have the *time* to produce the kind of work they love?
I work for a web design company and I am an artist. I have to work here
because I need to make a living. I hate the fact that my job requires me to
provide my talent and time to help shitheads I hate make money. But you know
what? I don't have much fucking choice since being a full time artist is
hard for us people who don't have trust funds. So grow up and be thankful
that at least a few people who work in the media business care enough to
inject some artistic integrity and innovation into their jobs at all,
otherwise you'd live in an empty soulless world full of Reader Digest
Condensed Books and Ally McBeal.
The fact that artists have to work in such unfulfilling jobs is indeed, as
you say, a tragic aspect of the capitalist system. I appreciate your
idealism for supporting the underground arts, and indeed such support can
only help artists avoid working in mainstream media jobs. But its a fact of
life that such support doesn't exist and people like myself and Aphex Twin
have to "sell out" sometimes to make ends meet.
I realize you mostly fault society for this, but you appear to fault the
artists as well. You're a dickhead for insinuating that working for the man
is indicative of some kind of character flaw in artists and for suggesting
that they can't take pride in the work they do for the man. I hope someday
to manipulate my career to be able to do great work which happens to be
funded by tons of money from the man, like Stanley Kubrick or Frank Gehry
are able to do. I don't enjoy insulting you (especially since you've had
such good posts about the absurd whiteness of this list), but for some
inexplicable reason you picked a fight with me and you appear to need a
stiff dose of 'news from the real world.'
-Cf
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