Sinister: Oh yes...Richard Scarry is lurvely....

[Pelican303 at xxx.com]

Oh no...you've started the boy.  
The hours I have spent arguing "good" music vs. "fun" music...and the 
existance of those that are both and those that are neither...
But I figure I'll throw in my two cents...if you are easily bored...delete 
this now.

Okay...now that we've gotten those fools out of the way...
Obviously, there is no one purpose to music...or any art for that 
matter...but perhaps a line should be drawn between certain forms of faux-art 
and "true" art (not that I mean to say I know the meaning of art...but I 
think you all see what I mean...not being snotty just...okay okay...enough of 
that).  I am of the mind, that the role of art, above all else, is to 
transmit philosophy and deeper thought.  We are all little perfect spheres 
trapped in ourselves and surrounded by infinity...I believe it was Hume who 
spoke of a devil that trapped us in a room and fed us reality and we never 
realized that all we see are merely illusions of the devil.  I write music in 
an attempt to knock chips in that wall...to take my thoughts, bundle them up 
into little spider webs and toss them out, hoping some other perfect little 
sphere will grab onto them...praying for that connection, that hole in the 
wall where they can see me and I can see them.
    Music that isn't as serious as all that is not neccisarily 
inferior...just serves a different purpose.  that is certainly something 
inherently right about making people feel happy.  However, if the balance is 
upset and people are too obsessed with making themselves happy to think for a 
second and contemplate the deeper side of this life, well then something is 
wrong.  If everyone wants nothing but another group of hot boys they can 
cream over, then the philosopher and writer is ignored, and if the writer is 
ignored, then our collective sociatal faults fail to be recognized and our 
progress as a civilization that I believe, at its core, is good and not evil, 
ceases.
    Dance and be merry...but think as well.  We need merry makers, but do we 
not need critics, pessimists, cynics, philosophers, lovers, prophets, and 
poets as well?
    For some of us, music IS that serious...music IS art...music IS one of 
the only things that keeps us connected and sane.

    If you've made it this far, you are obviously a loser and need to get out 
more.

Love you,
Rob
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