quoted 4 lines ... I don't know. Is it me? Is it because I'm a woman? Is it>
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>... 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,
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