When Free Radicals Become Free Agents

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Tue Sep 25 13:23:05 CDT 2007


patti smith is too full of it--can't seem to avoid giggling when I
hear 'jackson pollack was a n- - - - - r'

she seems to think poets die better than the rest. i disagree

rich

On 9/25/07, Henry <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fine example. I heard music like that back in the days of the Velvet
> Underground and Patti Smith, but they weren't so ponderously full of
> themselves, or whatever it is they're full of.  Lighten-up, SY.  Ya talk
> more like Sonic Geezers!  Coltrane in Japan, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ligetti,
> Stockhausen, and Cage blew out all four walls A-and the roof, are MUCH more
> entertaining, and rarely so effen stupid!  Shut-up, and play yer guitars!
>
> HENRY MUSIKAR
> Information, Media, and Technology Consultant
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> http://www.urdomain.us/kcuf.htm
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> From: Johnny Marr
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 1:42 PM
>
> Completely agree.
> I'm not mourning Tony Wilson uncritically - he was capable of being a prat
> and could go on at length about things he didn't really understand in an
> attempt to show off - but when he was good he was very good indeed. And you
> can just feel his contempt for Sonic Youth here. They show themselves up as
> poseurs with no real feel for music.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDvsUujUCkc
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> On 9/25/07, Henry wrote:
> I hope TRP is NOT a fan of Sonic Yute.I've been listening to
> noise/avant-garde music, self-styled or otherwise, most of my life; I've
> heard SY live (Wash. DC's 9:30 club), and I wasn't, and I'm not, impressed.
> To me, they're the "Lost in Translation" of music, i.e. they impress the
> hell out of people who haven't heard their betters, and who think that they
> now have an appreciation of indie art.A-and I don't think they're fun,
> either!Naked, naked, naked!
>
> Henry Mu
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