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quoted 10 lines Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 00:15:08 +0300

>Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 00:15:08 +0300 >From: esa ruoho <esaruoho@dlc.fi> >Subject: bola:mauver & squarepusher: music is rotted one note > >i've figured out why some of you don't like these releases OR >can't accept the directions. > >it's because some of you people want to put musicians into plastic >bags and you honestly do want to listen to Bola: Soup XVII >and Squarepusher: Hard Normal Daddy XI

actually, i would much prefer a Feed Me Weird Things LVI

quoted 1 line now, why is this?

>now, why is this?

it boils down to the fact that we are monkeys with brain chemistry that responds with positive feedback to the things that taste good: sugar, salt, fat, crack cocaine, Autechre's Tri Repetae days, etc. we want more and we want it in metric tonnes. mr. ruoho, did you ever voluntarily eat the finnish equivalent of brussel sprouts when you were a three-year old? or did you skip directly to the ice cream? and please answer truthfully. monkeys are inherently conservative when times are good. this is why american monkeys are propping up a dumb, corrupted monkey like bush as a legitimate candidate for president, for example. idm-listening monkeys, while with tastes and attitudes that are similar to my own, are not so different. breaking free of a fear of change is a tough proposition for all monkeys when doing so can leave a sour taste in your mouth. it takes a brave and adventurous heart to make that jump; when squarepusher puts out uneven oddities like 'selection sixteen', monkeys start pining for the old days. not so much for a Hard Normal Daddy XI, but for a Hard Normal Mommy or a Hard Normal Distant Cousin. yrs, a. "i'm just a monkey man, and i hope you are a monkey woman, too..." -- M. Jagger --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org