quoted 7 lines Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 21:12:04 GMT
>Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 21:12:04 GMT
>From: control@mcsi.net (clint nixon)
>Subject: Re: (idm) Aphex Twin- "Window Licker"
>...
>gosh now this sounds like a post i read when AE's LP5 came out.
>somebody turned the album into this Life and Death struggle, when its
>just music and you either listen and dislike or like to listen.
gosh now maybe we should go old-old-skool and climb back up the trees and
start throwing our shit at one another again for mind-numbing kicks; maybe
go back to banging rocks together. after all, it's just music. why bother
having an opinion in the first place?
i don't know if i said lp5 was a pay per view special on Life vs Death, but
i did and still think that there is special meaning to the music. i don't
believe there's any reason to have to apologize for having an opinion, as
long as it is clearly labeled as such. (and it was)
music/art/reality is what you make of it and life is just too short; might
as well get something out of it, even if it's likely that nothing is
'there' and that i'm just a deluded monkey.
"making a dollar outta fifteen cents,"
-a.
extra credit (for advanced idm monkeys only): how statistically absurd is
it that our universe comes together in such a way that wealthy, privileged
apes with email accounts and lots of records get to bicker over whether an
opinion held over a piece of music is valid or not?
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