For Joseph (from Group W Bench & the Romantics); why Alice closed the dump on Thanksgving and other Komspiracies from the Left

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Mon Aug 30 23:57:23 CDT 2010


On Aug 30, 2010, at 9:31 PM, Osbie Feel wrote:

>> . . . I'm sure Robin will exaplin [sp] it all tpo [typo]  ya.
>
> But when the author is consciously working at the sort of discordant  
> harmonies / timbres of a Charles Ives revisionist orchestration of  
> an American Hymn--that's Postmodernism.

Perhaps even more to the point—the free-association mash-ups of Carl  
Stalling in the classic Termite Terrace cartoons of the forties and  
fifties, where every element in the soundtrack served as sign or  
signal, where the regular flow of music is constantly broken into,  
interrupted by the ongoing Carnival.

What would Postmodernism be without Bugs Bunny?


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