tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11817097.post4086411238248317705..comments2023-09-20T22:07:15.915+09:00Comments on And you may find yourself...: ExhumationSebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15861556483662617818noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11817097.post-40852628128324128252009-06-09T21:50:34.732+09:002009-06-09T21:50:34.732+09:00yeah i currently have some links with japan ...yeah i currently have some links with japan myself. the brit/american divide is huge though, isn't it, i think american's have tough time over here..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11817097.post-75522648318200854992009-06-09T03:06:35.778+09:002009-06-09T03:06:35.778+09:00That's definitely an issue, you're right. ...That's definitely an issue, you're right. It'd be interesting to have a roundtable of people from those different cultural backgrounds all tackling the same object, <i>Rashomon</i>-style, to start mapping what cracks there are between us.<br /><br />Personally, I'm in a funny situation, since I'm a Canuck that spent many of my formative years in the States and now live in Japan, where my circle of expat friends, despite their different backgrounds, are strikingly like-minded. Seems to be based on our general eccentricity (no one status-quo moves to Japan) & common difference (being foreigners in the most homogenous developed nation on earth). The first time I <i>really</i> ran up against the Atlantic divide was living in Hamburg, where I became friends with two British dudes my age but with verrrrry different relationships to mass culture...Sebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15861556483662617818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11817097.post-74434898996869538852009-06-09T02:12:10.143+09:002009-06-09T02:12:10.143+09:00y'know i think there's a bit of an englis...y'know i think there's a bit of an english-canadian divide going on here by the way... i often feel that there's a tremendous amount of misinterpretation between some of the british/american/canadian blogs..really different cultures , really different perspectives on the role of class and i think we often rush to understandings on the basis of the common language that divides us..<br /><br />some thoughts on that didvide would be useful, i think.. i'll try soon!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11817097.post-16596621381302090112009-06-09T01:59:59.275+09:002009-06-09T01:59:59.275+09:00Ah, well... basically, as much as I empathise with...Ah, well... <i>basically</i>, as much as I empathise with a certain frustration at how bloody <b>normal</b> so many people making music are (especially to the extent that anything so sublime & transcendent as music can be corralled into a "career"), the truth is that music IS just another kind of craftsmanship that is universal - not only in its appeal, but in from whence it springs. The notion that certain people are "chosen" (either by Viacom or The Muse) to be Serious Musicians is more a construction of the PR industry than anything true.<br /><br />Look at any other "artistic profession": Philip K. Dick was a depressive stoner who lived in a hut, and Stanley Kubrick was another asshole from Brooklyn. But quotidian life be damned, the work they produced was without equal. Why can't musicians be granted the same leeway?<br /><br />Besides, maybe these pentagenarian post-punks will finally hang up their instruments once something other than a shitty rehash & pomo-pastiche (hauntology included) comes along.Sebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15861556483662617818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11817097.post-84776076502385300982009-06-09T01:40:27.192+09:002009-06-09T01:40:27.192+09:00i'm sorry it came off that way as your inter...i'm sorry it came off that way as your interpretation doesn't reflect my views/attitudes at least with regard to my own work. i don't think that's what i'm saying, maybe i should try and be clearer, however, this question <br /><br />"Why is it anything but emancipatory to recognize artistry as just another form of nose-to-the-grindstone craftsmanship?"<br /><br />is so complex i frankly don't understand it!<br /><br />carlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11817097.post-31901554989370354692009-05-31T00:14:57.100+09:002009-05-31T00:14:57.100+09:00Quoted from the "take-down" of K Punk-in-disguise-...Quoted from the "take-down" of K Punk-in-disguise-Burial:<br /><br />"It is veritably Burial’s ambiguous ontological status which delibidinizes his work."<br /><br />Beware fighting the monster lest ye become it...<br /><br />outside for some fresh air boys...!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11817097.post-37464677037753694292009-05-29T23:26:53.114+09:002009-05-29T23:26:53.114+09:00本当ですね!It's more complicated than sour grapes and s...本当ですね!It's more complicated than sour grapes and simple hatin'. I'm sure he has his own take on why he takes certain angles with scathing reviews, but I like yours'. Well stated.---NateAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04900131863450147538noreply@blogger.com