I definately think a person musical preferences reflects his intelligence
in some noticeable degree. NOW LISTEN CAREFULLY: I'm not saying people
who "listen" to rap, country, or mtv shite are "stupid" per se, I'm just
saying you wouldn't catch Beethoven, or Einstein or Hemmingway or Joyce or
Paul Klee doing that.
On Mon, 7 May 2001, activity@activaire wrote:
quoted 62 lines By the way, I couldn't help but notice that David Byrne (dressed in
> >>By the way, I couldn't help but notice that David Byrne (dressed in
> >full-on suburban dad mode) checked out an hour into the set. This means
> >that we're much smarter than him, right?
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> It means he wasn't interested in what he was hearing. I personally didn't
> notice too many people acting overly intelligent- certainly not enough to
> scare David Byrne away. He's one of the original rock n' roll philosphers.
> Also, maybe he didn't leave the building, he just wanted to get away from
> you... I'm just KIDDING!
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> I definitely think music appreciation has to do with "being in the moment".
> I don't think whether or not Autechre makes sense to you is about
> intelligence. Like I said before- some people hear it, some people don't-
> and even whether or not you can hear them in an ordered way, can vary from
> show to show. The question then might be, does intelligence very from moment
> to moment? We all definitely have moments of lucidity, versus moments of
> being confused and overwhelmed. Maybe there can be an argument constructed
> linking music appreciation to intelligence, but that would seem to be a very
> elitist and subjective argument.
>
> I personally like to call IDM "InsteaD of Music" ;)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian flanagan [mailto:studiomoo@madasafish.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 3:36 PM
> To: IDM List
> Subject: Re: [idm] Autechre at Bowery Ballroom
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: activity@activaire <activity@activaire.com>
> To: IDM List <idm@hyperreal.org>
> Date: 07 May 2001 23:20
> Subject: RE: [idm] Autechre at Bowery Ballroom
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> >>By the way, I couldn't help but notice that David Byrne (dressed in
> >full-on suburban dad mode) checked out an hour into the set. This means
> >that we're much smarter than him, right?
>
>
> no, it means that he probably left after seeing way too many people being
> "intelligent"
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