but... but I can't wait (sitting around) forever, like Kevin R. says.. I hope I've written the lyrics right. Seems that patience is a very rare virtue... I'd say, a quite overated virtue... what does it help us with? I'd say patience is the other side of the coin: that of defeatism... or a better name given to a real virtue this time... the one of 'lazyness'... Kasimir Malevich said that lazyness was the natural state of humans and he wrote a book about it too! But, the times of sheer genious are long over... the times where people would meet over in little cafés to talk about their passions and the "The Non-Objective World", the worlds of will and ideas, belong to history... walking around, talking with people, reading, looking, observing, this special 'something' is lost... instead, we have mediocrity, and what follows mediocrity, indulgence and tolerance... In music too... how hard is it to make 'good' music in nowadays? not hard at all... all you need is to know your references, i.e., your shite... then you do a bit of 'copy and paste' here and a bit of 'mending and patching' there, and there you go... you're on the cover of NME... And God forbade if you listen to something original!! Its boldness and innovation will scare you away... the bad reviews will eventually have the same effect. Or like Debord said, "represantation replaced life" and "experts' opinions replaced our own senses"... In other words, catch originality before it's recuperated... Main title: Young Soul Rebels Soul sounds and punk from 1977: Parliament: 'P. Funk Wants To Get Funked Up' and X-Ray Spex: 'Identity'. 'Soul Patrol on 107 FM... uncut funk across London town...' A parenthesis... There's a band called MickTravis... they've got a 7" released... titled "Yvonne"... If you feel bold and innovative you should listen to it... But do not if you feel like the crowd in Malevich's exhibition, thinking "Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert ... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background!" ... 'coz there are more than that... what an idea to mix painting with music, eh? it's not the first time and it won't be the last... It's just that I was fed up with all the sulky, lil' twee hymns and sobberings, and I thought well, let's take it out... let it breath for heavens sake... And with my ucas application for 5 fine arts schools in London, I'll wave goodbye - for now - screaming "art schools englighten us ablaze..."... 'Let The Music Play'. The laughter and the dance continue over: END vel "WaR is the last possible creative act", Mick Travis, "IF" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+