Sinister: POWER MUSIC ELECTRIC REVIVAL!

[Steven Kado]

So yes,

i don;t write for a long time, then i write a little bit in response to a
months worth of stuff.  is that ok?

first:
HELLO!!!

WHAT'S WRONG WITH RUVI?
Nothing really, except for talking a lode of cack about necrophelia and
pretty girls vs. smart girls...Ruvi is pretty Rad.  yes, his first post
about square-dancing was NEARLY PROUSTIAN. only much shorter. significantly
shorter.  he brought up sylvia plath who at least had the guts to stick her
head in the oven unlike that dreadful elizabeth smart woman who lived
forever and ever and wrote terrible books.  the best thing about sylvia
plath so far is that talk of her compelled jillian locke to post!  rah!

>Pinefox asked: Is it true, by the way, that Pynchonians just don't like
Salinger?

yes.

PF also mentioned David Lodge.  i don;t like david lodge.  he's no Ruvi
whatsisface is he?  with his nudge nudge wink wink i've heard of
structuralism before sort of nonsense.  fuck that shit.  it is not the
nation of ulysses!  it's not even Komeda B-Sides.

>Peter Miller said:  You can get Deep Purple wallpaper!

and i was amazed to discover that you can purchase a YES earthenware beer
stein!
http://shopping.artistdirect.com/artist_catalog.asp?catalog=YES&store=YesDir
ect perfect for all those times you get together with other prog-rock/role
playing games friends of yours and drink yourselves into stupours while
loudly exclaiming 'i am the dungeon master!' or 'you shit head! you killed
my orc commander! now taste my steel!' etc...  then you wake up with beastly
hangovers and have to crawl back to the computer engineering building in yr
semen stained track suit dreaming of your next chance to listen to music
about trolls and gobblins and shit with your other dandruff-y friends while
playing roleplaying games and griping about how you never get any 'action'.

Youn J. Noh mentioned me, so i'll quote the entire paragraph:
>Who is the person who said something like the response to a work of art
>should be a work of art?  What were his exact words?  A former professor
>quoted him and emphasized the role of inspiration, but I think of it as
>a conversation.  Where is Steven Kado when you need him?  Maybe he could
>say something enlightening about Wittgenstein at this point. There's an
>endpoint to criticism that isn't always recognized: you can never get at
>the work itself.  I think Jason McKinnon was saying something like this.
>And the correspondence between words and things in the world is imperfect.
>It would be useful to talk about something on its own terms, but what are
>these terms?  And what are non-artists to do?  Offer mixtapes and quote
>other people's poetry?

right:  here's what i say.  1.  i don't like the way people throw words like
'art' around.  people could lose an eye or find themselves deligitemized by
an entire cultural system! fuck that shit.  2.  i side with Renzo Piano and
say that intuition doesn't exist, its just the fact that people who know
about things can make judgements about those things faster without having to
recourse to 'external' systems of reasoning.  3.  Wittgenstein would ask how
you know when you're inspired and if you are how do you know that its called
inspiration to tell someone else that you're inspired and such and so
on...colour incompatibility...etc. 4. no you can
t ever get at the work of art.  i agree.  what was the work of art anyway?
5.  its important to be sure that when talking about the imperfect
connection between words and 'reality' that we don't lapse into rude and
lazy platonism...in these modern times this can only lead to baudrillard and
thats sucky, since he's really just an old reactionary shit-head who wants
to go back to a time when men were men and women were women and reality was
reality...what a tired old fart.  i'm out of juice on this one.  i need more
kimchi to get any real thinking done, but its still early afternoon as i
write so i can't possibly eat kimchi just yet.  i don't think i even
addressed the question at all.  clearly.

i'm going to see some joseph cornell films tonite!  rah!  yes, its a
wonderful world within these cinema walls.

The Dave Matthews Band is bad like Israeli Trance.  boo!  did anyone else
find that the new baxendale joint is like a kind of anthem for a new
tomorrow?  a mission statement even...a kind of flashlight of hope?  no?
sorry.

someone didn't like physicists.  i take great umbrage at this statement
since a) one of my best friends is in physics b) my girlfriend is also in
physics.  and they are nice people and not at all creepy or stupid or lax or
anything, to be frank they're probably acres cooler than you, so there!  of
course me and the rest of the young barthesians in the wanky semiotics dept.
find anything remotely sciency to be mind-bendingly exotic so maybe i look
at physics with rose coloured glasses or something.

Greg Pallis is pretty fucking rad too,  despite having made an ass of me to
his teacher by printing out one of my hamfisted drunken rants...oh well.

the remarkably named dairy fairy said:
>I am going to see arab strap this friday. Which should be very good.
Although not necessarily a gig to cheer myself up with. >Aidan Moffat never
seems very happy, despite the fact that the content of his songs would
suggest he's having an awful lot of >sex. which is always nice.

not neccessarily.  sometimes too much sex makes your bits ache.

can anyone who speaks german tell me how to say 'architects against
indie-rock' in german?  i'd be really grateful.

rah rah !  i am electrocution!

s t e v e n




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