In a message dated 6/16/99 4:45:45 AM Mid-Atlantic Daylight Time, ynoh@leland.Stanford.EDU writes: << Joseph, after watching The Dreamlife of Angels, I can tell you that the way the French say cool is cool, even for New Yorkers. (Joseph, do your friends say the Velvet Underground is cool? they should, right? it's simpleminded of me to compare a single chord to a simple chord progression, isn't it? some kinds of irony are beyond me.)

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Yes, they say VU is cool and why should they not? After all they were a New Yawk band in the best (or worst) sense. The point I was trying to make is that people tend to like or dislike something for arbitrary reasons--meaning that my snobbish (although not all, I just had some annoying Kultur conversations that week)--friends would not like The Velvet Underground if they were from Ohio. I, on the other hand, would do not care where a band comes from; it is the music that counts. One digression I find interesting: I have noticed that the most snobbish of New Yorkers are those who move here from other parts of the US; the locals are not nearly as bad. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+