08-30-2004, 06:14 AM
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Senior Robot
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 17,107
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I'm bored shitless with the pathetic, self-referential miserablisms that pass as 'Avant Garde' these days, as I've stated frequently in these pages. The Avant Garde has become the new traditionalism, trumpeted by the children of Thatcher's woebegotten years of misrule. It's easy enough to say: "Down with Robbie Williams," (or whatever 'entertainment' we're supposed to be buying this week...), but harder for some of us to say, "And enough of Derek Bailey and AMM et al, and their dull, hair-shirted penitent offspring too..." For all the self-styled dissenters' past attempts at waking up the masses (or even the half a dozen attendees of their gigs), they've been too easily seduced/co-opted by the pundits of Wire magazine and the arts council improv circuit to amount to anything more than another commodity dressed up in Avant glad rags. Cozy in there though isn't it? Safe and sound. Yes, I know this is an unfair criticism but it's the mood I'm in, gripped by, in fact, and I won't be denied my pint of vitriol. No apologies required.
I'm also, equally if not more so, sick to the teeth of the lazy, industry led, re-cycled crap that poses as cutting edge pop or rock music at the moment. A harsh opinion? Give me a fuckin' custard pie and we'll talk about 'harsh' later. Clowns and illusionists, the lot of 'em. Looking for ideas that don't dress themselves up in outmoded ideologies? Looking for something that feeds heart and soul and mind? Looking for something that provides a genuine alternative to coffee-table, yuppie conscripted, Ikea-style rebellion? Looking for genuine substance and sustenance? Me too...
I wonder if this thing I'm involved in could provide a clue? Not an answer, maybe...but a genuine, worthwhile clue? Well who knows..." maybe the old man of the mountain knows, that's who..."
Lots done, lots more to do...insane, so much still to do...No one would understand or believe what is involved in this. Fear not...it is getting done, bit by bit by bit by bit. It's going to be wonderful, amazing.
- Bill Nelson
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