Well, since I was the one writing the original statement, I shall respond...
Yes, you are right, it is a matter of perception. The reason why I mentioned
it though and why I am so annoyed by this band is that it follows the
Emperor Wears no Clothes Phenomenon. It's getting so much publicity in San
Francisco, so many articles, they open for like every frickin' band, their
name is buzzing around all over the place, that the fact that their music is
empty is getting completely ignored.
And because people hear the name so much, psychologically they think that
there is something there for them to like, hence they dont notice that the
emperor is really naked. If they closed their eyes, they would realize that
it aint shit (especially in comparison to some of the other music out)
Once you get past their cool haircuts, the lights, the publicity, the smoke
and hear the actual music, you realize that it has no depth, its shallow as
hell, it basically sucks.
And with my art school outings comment I was referring to this analogy:
picture a bunch of art students looking at a piece of shit wrapped in a
really shiny wrapper. The professor describes this piece of shit while the
students are taking notes, like look at the depth and the significance of
this piece of shit to the social status of blah, blah, blah, blah. Look at
the folds and the texture, look at the statement the artist makes. The
students all think, wow, yes, yes, yes.
anyways...
quoted 42 lines From: jean paul l'asthme <jplasthma@yahoo.com>
>From: jean paul l'asthme <jplasthma@yahoo.com>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: Re: [idm] I am Spoonbender
>Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 02:52:58 -0700 (PDT)
>
>this is exactly how most people describe idm.
>it's all a matter of perception. i've seen i am
>spoonbender a couple of times and haven't really
>been terribly impressed with their performance
>ever, though on record they're quite wonderful.
>and anyway, what's wrong with art school outings?
>(please interpret that as a rhetorical question,
>because i can just imagine getting a googolplex of
>idm listers breaking down the positive and negative
>aspects of art school outings as though it were an
>unreleased autechre track. ha.ha...cough... ha...
>gregory
>
> >>Way too pretentious,
> > > such
> > > boring music, that I almost fell asleep on my
> > feet.
> > >
> > > Not that they werent talented, just lacking any
> > heart, seemed like
> > > one of
> > > those art school outings where everyone pretends
> > that they are
> > > hearing
> > > something deep while in fact they are bored
> > shitless.
>
>
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