― Yves, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― yves, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― John Darnielle, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
A line of silent text set against some loud song I hate would appear to render this particular assessment invalid.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― jess, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Don't confuse your imagined relationship with a song for the song itself, Yves.
― Colin Meeder, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Michael Daddino, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― mark s, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mark, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Also this = name of character Nicholson (over)plays in One Flew Ovah the Cuckoo's Nest? Kesey was referencing the orchestration on Phil Spector records? As the existentially pure anti-hero that the machine-system must destroy? This is superdeep!!
(What is it wiv pop producers and pistols?)
― Dave225, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
jack nitzsche = good name for a character in a todd haynes movie
― Sterling Clover, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Anything to distract him from getting any work done. Like the rest of us.
― Brian MacDonald, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Sticky spider webs catching fly. Poisonous spider creepy. Insects fly in the shining webs. Delicious spider have spotty. Every spider make big webs. Running around the country. spider! spider! spider!
I was looking for a picture of ma$e but this is bettah.
― Dare, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― I killed christgau with my big fuckin' dick, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
IDEAL!
― Chupa-Cabras, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― fritz, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― gareth, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Writing about writing about music.
Shut the fuck up!
― Andrew, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― gareth, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dare, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― mark s, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― fritz, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Andrew L, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I similarly belatedly note that the word "caliginous" is better than the nasty midi cymbal sound on the otherwise gorgeous The Light 3000. Oh, you know I'm right, no matter how meaningless the assertion may seem...
― R, picking at long-dried red fingerprints on someone else's furniture, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Was "Weekend" criticism? Of what?
What about "Two or three things..."? Was it about film as a medium? Nomoreso than Brecht was about theatre as a medium. Did that make him a critic? Do you come away from "Peirot la fou" understanding more or simply feeling more?
― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― thank you ms spacecadet, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Jerk in SF, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Then Yves and I are going to retire quietly to the living room where we will listen to my song on our headphones and exchange knowing glances BUT CERTAINLY NEVER WORDS about my 808-aided paean to the curviest character.
― Mark, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
can i use this as the title for a blog? :P
― naz, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Again: art makes people bothered, and criticism makes people act, and sometimes somethings do both, but rilly they can only do one or the other well. Thus "Two Or Three Things" is good art from Godard and "Lear" is half-assed criticism.
Brecht was never a good critic, though he was a good theoretician of art.
Benjamin was nothing but a critic and couldn't inspire an original emotion for the life of him but could translate the affect of others work into new social meaning (cf. his citation of Klee in "Theses on History").
Clear, or do I have to fly over and kick your ass?
― Martin Skidmore, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― John Darnielle, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I feel sorta like groucho in duck soup now.
― Owl Man, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Bothered to do what? Act in what way? What are you on about? This is one of those arguments where definitions mean everything and your definitions are just impossibly vague. Why is the first Goddard movie good art and why is the second not art at all, but just bad criticism? What the hell is a theoretician of art? I am so impossibly lost.
I accept your apology though.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Yves, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― hullo clowdes, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Prude, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I'd also recommend that Yves stay well clear of any working musicians or placing where they ply their craft (e.g., rehearsal spaces or recording studios), for they are apt to engage in verbalization about what they're doing with alarming frequency.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― gilgamesh, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
The Onion: Couldn't the same be said of rock stars?
GS: That's right. Except we're more famous and everybody likes us.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 29 August 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 August 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave q, Friday, 29 August 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)
nothing is important except the relationship between the lie and its believer
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 29 August 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 24 April 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 24 April 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)
― MV, Sunday, 24 April 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 24 April 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)
― MV, Sunday, 24 April 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)
Ok can I just say that Gene's comments are totally fucking awesome?
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 24 April 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 24 April 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)
(wah wah)
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 24 April 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)
― rage against the leafblower (m0stly clean), Monday, 25 April 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)
― cryptic child, Monday, 25 April 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)