Sinister: More drivel on Books and Covers

[Pete Ramsdale]

suck.com opined:

Motherhood, infant, grown man, CD collection, maternal instincts,
coddling, screwing, incessant whining, $75 an hour, professional music
critic, sex, blah, blah, cluck, cluck, wibble, wibble, shite.

Or something like that.

Anyway, this was the kind of stuff that relatively hairless, "Hermann
Goering" me was going on about in his last mail. OK, so before some
bright spark has a go, I know this was a slightly piss-takey,
vitriolic rant about music that the "author" doesn't like, but the
sheer number of people who I have had the incredible misfortune to
meet that really harbour this view is simply unbelievable. Two points:

1) So my CD collection contains quite a bit of B&S and other material
glibly labelled as "twee". This doesn't automatically make me the
stereotypical bobbed-hairdo-sporting, satchel-wearing, Sarah-listening
fey popster. And no, I'm not saying that being the aforementioned
stereotype (which still does exist, let me assure you) is a bad thing.
On the contrary, my dear Watson. And as far as I can remember, I've
never wet my bed (although I have, according to my parents,
sleepwalked and pissed in the waste-paper basket once.)

2) As well as various twee-pop, my CD collection covers everything
from Robbie Williams, through your bog-standard indie fayre, to Fugazi
and even Faith No More. For me, picking one of these genres and trying
to pigeon-hole me for it is similar to juging a book by about
half-a-square-inch of cover. As far as I know, there are no two kinds
of music that are mutually exclusive - just because you may like
something at one end of the scale, doesn't mean liking the other end
is prohibited.

Okay, so I have my own form of myopia, but that is directed towards
the music itself (Steps, anyone??), not the people who listen to it.
I'm not particularly saying that this is OK, and I'm fully prepared to
take a slagging for it, but we all have our folly, I guess. It's just
that I (and a lot of other people I know) have encountered more than
my fair share of people trying to mistakenly extrapolate my
personality from what I listen to.

Advice for the day: Be you, and never be embarrassed about it.

lol p xx.
-- 

 -----------------------------*||*--------------------------------

 "Reality never seems to work out quite the way you want it to..."

 Pete Ramsdale - peter.ramsdale at wdr.com
 Phone: 0171 568 3836

 -----------------------------*||*--------------------------------

This message contains confidential information and is intended only 
for the individual named.  If you are not the named addressee you 
should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.  Please 
notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this 
e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system.

E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free 
as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, 
arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses.  The sender therefore 
does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents 
of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission.  If 
verification is required please request a hard-copy version.  This 
message is provided for informational purposes and should not be 
construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or 
related financial instruments.
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
   +---+  Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list  +---+
  To send to the list mail "sinister at majordomo.net". To unsubscribe
   send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to
  "majordomo at 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"                   +-+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+