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From:
Chris.Hilker
To:
Ironic Dance Music
Date:
Wed, 1 Oct 1997 00:15:28 -0700
Subject:
Re: (idm) bjerk
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quoted 7 lines the problem most people like gonzi have with bjork's music is that it [can not] be>> the problem most people like gonzi have with bjork's music is that it [can not] be >> romantizied about, financed by a major label & worked on by a host of hired hands > >hmmm. people 'like' me? There have been fortunes made by those >romanticizing the music of Elvis, the Beatles, The Beach Boys etc. >There's never been a conflict between romance and capital in music as >far as I can discern.
Stuart wasn't saying that *nobody* can romanticize major-label records, just that "people like Gonzi" can't. People like Gonzi* think "eeew, this is on a major label and lots of corporate money was spent on creating, promoting, and marketing it - I'll just buy this *limited-edition* *import* with Stunning Minimal DR Artwork and "magic gum" that's shaped like the Rephlex logo and has a Pac Man game on it and the guy who made it has a Really! Huge! Beard! and drives a tank and smokes a lot of weed and his studio is in his bedroom and he has a day job!" * Note that this is not a characterization of Gonzi himself but an exaggerated composite based on both his net persona and comments made on this list by various people over time, many of whom may be very unlike Gonzi.
quoted 1 line This is not an ideal world.>This is not an ideal world.
It's not? You mean I can't have all the candy in the universe? I want a refund! C. -- Chris.Hilker (cspot@hyperreal.org) "One being, that talking about things, while not exactly causing them to happen, does cause something,-- which is almost the same, tho' not quite. Unless it is possible to smoke a Potatoe."