Gil and SM's rants depend on an assumption that, on its face, is a little
silly. Basically, it's that the underground music scene is SO IMPORTANT
that to support the scene requires ALL of one's time and material
resources. I mean, they all but said every Autechre record I buy is a nail
in the coffin of another struggling artist.
Can we have just a little perspective PLEASE? This is something we do to
pass the time. Nothing more, nothing less. This does not encapsulate the
whole future of humankind. This is not the answer to the planet's ills.
It's *fun*. When it becomes your whole life, that's when the trouble
starts... then you start to see these ridiculous moral imperatives to die
of vitamin deficiency eating nothing but ramen noodles so you can save
money and buy another couple of Mego records this month (I know, nobody's
asked anybody to do that--it's called reductio ad absurdum...).
It's only MUSIC. It's part of life, and one way or another, we'll find
ways to keep making good noise. J
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\ / | "Who's Martha Stewart?"
H. James Harkins | "She writes picture books about gracious living."
jharkins@acpub.duke.edu |
\/ | - from _Jeffrey_
"If we keep our attention focused on the present, we can be sure of one
thing, namely that whatever we are attending to in this moment will change..."
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn