Working with the public is a bit like being nibbled to death by ducks. My heart goes out to any of my Sinister Siblings in the service fields that have any contact with the general public. I like people, I like working with people, but some days...ah, if I get a bit ranty in this post please excuse me. I'm a little high strung today and in a rush. So as my four heroes with mop tops once sang, "pardon me it's just my mind that is confusing things" Rachel was a dear and noticed my Jeff Noon quote. Go out and read anything you can by him. He's brilliant and funny and relevent and has alot of things to say. Even if you don't like science fiction pick up Vurt and just ride the language. It's beautiful stuff and without a doubt he sucks you right in "I don't know that I can define pornograpghy, but I know it when I see it", sayeth a supreme court justice and I must relate this to art, I can't define it but I know it and my opinion is greatly different from anyone else's. Or as Dennis Miller says; "95% of art is shit, 4% of art is shit with an asterick, but that last 1% is what makes us proud to be human". Of course, we are all going to disagree with what that one percent is. Personally, the Mona Lisa bores the piss out of me and on the flip side Christ in a bottle of said piss is even less interesting but that doesn't mean you should think so too. The problem, and I think this might have been more of what tiago was trying to say, is that the art community just like the literature community has become the providence on a small group of people with sticks jammed so very far up their bums they think the world revolves around them. John Updike pans Tom Wolfe's latest novel and then says, actually says, the only reason he reviewed it was so he could piss on it. Well, screw John Updike and all the other members of the New York Literary jack-offs because the homeless street poet or street painter has as much right to be considered an artist as anyone. The problem is that there *is* a group who likes to decide what art is and is not, what literature is and is not, and they are the ones keeping good , relevent artists down. Of course, I don't totally agree with Tiago in that if someone out there is moved by an unmade bed then screw it, it's art. Maybe eveything is art, and maybe this discussion is a bit pointless yes? Moving on... The subject of breasts has popped up (ignore obvious joke...move along, move along) and since I have already bored you on the subject of art I'll give my view of beauty. That crap I spewed about art...just apply it to beauty. Look, there are very, and I mean very few ugly people in the world. I really believe that and not just spouting twee boy rubbish. Some people are more glamorous than others, and that's something different. Some people may be a bit heavy or such, but that something different. Some people may have ugly personalities that color how people see them, but that's something different. So ignore all the crap, you're all pretty, it's just the perceptions that differ. On the subject of beauty, I just watched American Beauty. If you have the chance see this film. It's brilliant. Prolly the best american film of the last year, and prolly longer than that. It says all there is to say about beauty and normalcy and why no one is ordinary. There, I have explained the one true theory of art, revealed the secret of beauty, and now I'll explain the ethical structure of the universe. You see, all you have to know is...oh, damn. I seem to have run out of time :-) With the exception of the movie and book recomendations, don't take a spot of that seriously :-) Cheers!! Be Sinister! Jim "Johnny takes Metaphorazine...and you know that last, exquisite mathematical formula rubbed off the blackboard before the long summer holidays begin? Well, that's him. Speeding language through his veins. Johnny takes Metaphorazine. He's a real dog"- Jeff Noon, Pixel Juice +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@missprint.org". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@missprint.org". WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+