WTF?? Aha!!...

From: Clayton Gumbert
Subject: Re: Today's Tracks

Bob -

"Say That You Love Me"

Did you know that women no longer talk on the phone? At least young women. They text. The nuances of male/female interaction have been lost because now we have Blackberries. Women no longer have to learn to lie effectively over the phone. They can send you a text to blow you off or just not respond to you at all. And you can't call to try and charm them with your rapier wit or mastery of the English language. That's passe. It's like your Grandpa who still has a rotary dial. If you can't type on your phone fast enough, you lose the chance to make a joke and get her to think you're clever. The rhythm is ruined. I met up with an old classmate this weekend. I knew there was interest there and I wanted to see what would come of it. She was one of those acquaintances where you kind of circle around each other and size each other up for years until you decide to give it a go. I felt that rush of excitement. Finally! Let's see what we can do! Well, after she drunkenly told me that I was, "too smart to be following my dreams," and that, "I should be a lawyer, because I could be making 6 figures," I asked her point blank if she would rather she me be rich and a lawyer, or happy and following my muse. She picked the former. And she meant it! Because her rich (and miserable) parents and her overprivileged (and also miserable) friends would never accept me because my aspirations are not respectable (i.e. lucrative). The sad thing is I know this woman had potential. I saw glimmers of it. But that's not enough. I don't want to be famous and I don't need to be rich. Let's face it, I'll probably be neither. That doesn't make me sad. What makes me sad is that we have become so isolated as people, so materially driven that it's hard to really connect with anyone. I want someone I can watch "Jeopardy" with. I suck at "Jeopardy". The only questions I get right are the pop culture ones. That's not the point. The point is, I ask for so little out of life and yet I feel like I can't even get that. I'm willing to put myself on the line, but I don't think the channels are open for anyone to receive the message anymore.

Donde estamos con respecto al "Music Bizz"

From: Charles Kennedy
Subject: Can't even GIVE it away

Hey Bob

I run Invisible Hands Music, London indie label, home of Thomas Dolby, (ex Strangler) Hugh Cornwell and the (reformed with new singer) Jam.

Our roster has included various other artists, and we had a stock clearout the other day, put boxes of old stock on the pavement with various charming variations of "Take me, I'm free" written on. The CDs were mostly by a semi-well known Britpop band, six Top 40 singles in their heyday. And in any case, great packaging, titles etc. I could watch out the office window (in a hip street, 120,000 rock n roll-friendly visitors each day of every weekend) how people reacted to the giveaway. The vast majority of people who stopped would pick up a CD, look at it, flip it over, look at it a bit more, then put it back. Even in the one street in Europe most devoted to the pursuit of the rock n roll dream, you literally can't give away the physical product any more. Even though, as an indie label, I rely on shipping physical product, I couldn't help giggle at the idiots at the majors who think there's a future in selling recorded music, esp in CD form. It's laughable. They should put a few boxes of one of their great new bands out on the street and see how the public feel about their crappy bands.

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iTunes Top 10 Songs

*Pink - So what
*TI - Whatever you like
*Jason Mraz - I'm yours
*Rihanna - Disturbia
*Various Artists - Just stand up!
*M.I.A. - Paper planes
*Flo Rida - In the ayer
*Katy Perry - Hot n cold
*The Pussycat Dolls - When I grow up
*Coldplay - Viva la vida

iLike Top Five Songs

*Jason Mraz - I'm yours
*Jonas Brothers - Burnin' up
*Conor Oberst - Cape Canaveral
*Jonas Brothers - A little bit longer

Rock Radio Top 10

*Metallica - The day that never comes
*AC/DC - Rock n' Roll train
*Saving Abel - Addicted
*Staind - Believe
*Disturbed - Inside the fire
*Theory of a dead man - Bad girlfriend
*Hinder - Use me
*Shinedown - Devour
*Foo Fighters - Let it die
*Buckcherry - Too drunk
(fuente: revista Rolling Stone_Oct.'08)

mas de Trent/NIN y Lefsetz

"HELP ME
I broke apart my insides
HELP ME
I've got no soul to sell
HELP ME
The only thing that works for me
Help me get away from myself"

That's what we're looking for. HELP! To make sense of this confusing world within which we live. The media says one thing, but we feel another. We want understanding and release. Trent delivers both.

"I want to fuck you like an animal
I want to fuck you from the inside
I want to fuck you like an animal
My whole existence is flawed
You get me closer to God"

¿Qué es el arte?, reflexiones de Tolstoi*

"Sobre esta aptitud del hombre para experimentar los sentimientos que experimenta otro, está fundada la forma de actividad que se llama arte. Pero el arte propiamente dicho no empieza hasta que aquel experimenta una emoción y, queriendo comunicarla a otros, recurre para ello a signos exteriores. Tomemos un ejemplo bien sencillo. Un niño ha tenido miedo de encontrarse con un lobo y explica su encuentro; y para evocar en sus oyentes la emoción que ha experimentado, les describe los objetos que le rodeaban, la selva, el estado de descuido en que se hallaba su espíritu, luego la aparición del lobo, sus movimientos, la distancia que les separaba, etcétera. Todo esto es arte, si el niño, contando su aventura, pasa de nuevo por los sentimientos que experimentó, y si sus oyentes, subyugados por el sonido de su voz, sus ademanes y sus imágenes, experimentan sensación análoga. Incluso si el niño no ha visto jamás un lobo, pero tiene miedo de encontrarlo, y deseando comunicar a otros el miedo que ha sentido, inventa el encuentro con un lobo, y lo cuenta de modo que comunique a sus oyentes el miedo que siente, todo esto será también arte. Arte hay en que un hombre, habiendo experimentado miedo o deseo, en realidad o imaginativamente, exponga sus sentimientos en la tela o en el mármol, de modo que los haga experimentar por otros. Hay arte si un hombre siente o cree sentir emociones de alegría, de tristeza, desesperación, valor o abatimiento, así como la transmisión de una de esas emociones a otros, si expresa todo esto por medio de sonidos que permitan a otros sentir lo que sintió.

Los sentimientos que el artista comunica a otros pueden ser de distinta especie, fuertes o débiles, importantes o insignificantes, buenos o malos; pueden ser de patriotismo, de resignación, de piedad; pueden expresarse por medio de un drama, de una novela, de una pintura, de un baile, de un paisaje, de una fábula. Toda obra que los expresa así es obra de arte.

Desde que los espectadores o los oyentes experimentan los sentimientos que el autor expresa, hay obra de arte.

Evocar en sí mismo un sentimiento ya experimentado y comunicarlo a otros por medio de líneas, colores, imágenes verbales, tal es el objeto propio del arte. Esta es una forma de la actividad humana, que consiste en transmitir a otro los sentimientos de un hombre, conciente y voluntariamente por medio de ciertos signos exteriores. Los metafísicos se engañan viendo en el arte la manifestación de una idea misteriosa de la Belleza o de Dios; el arte tampoco es, como pretenden los tratadistas de estética fisiólogos, un juego en el que el hombre gasta su exceso de energía; tampoco es la expresión de las emociones humanas por signos exteriores; no es tampoco una producción de objetos agradables; menos aún es un placer: es un medio de fraternidad entre los hombres que les une en un mismo sentimiento, y por lo tanto, es indispensable para la vida de la humanidad y para su progreso en el camino de la dicha."

Les dejo este video para ilustrar el texto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ql53x-3WAI

*León Tolstoi (1828-1910) fue destacado escritor ruso, autor de obras extraordinarias como Ana Karenina y La guerra y la paz.

mi dolor

mi dolor va en minuscula, porque es solo eso...

"mi dolor" lo escribo en minuscula porque es solamente eso: mi dolor

obviamente que es mio, y como yo, esta vivo,

obviamente estoy vivo.

Por fin algo mio!

legitimizando la autenticidad

That's what it's about. Rich or poor. Privileged or not. Waking up to the light and embracing the day. It's yours to cast, to mold into your heart's desire. And when you get it right, the memory stays with you forever.

James Taylor s' material, his impact, was so rich and to the heart that he can still tour today. You see, we want to remember...

Visit the archive: http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/

...But the performers provided their own heat, their own energy, you could have added their power to the grid. It emanated from deep inside, who they were as opposed to what the music industry had tacked on to them.

"The movies are a mother to me
There's nothing like a good movie
To mother me back to sanity
When I have gone insane"

Message from Trent:

Hello everyone.

I'd like to thank everyone for a very successful year so far in the world of Nine Inch Nails. I'm enjoying my couple of weeks off between legs of our Lights In The Sky tour and got to thinking... "wouldn't it be fun to send out a survey to everyone that's shown interest in NIN?" Well, that's not exactly how it went, but regardless - here it is. As we've moved from the familiar world of record labels and BS into the unknown world of doing everything yourself, we've realized it would benefit us and our ability to interact with you if we knew more about what you want, what you like, what you look like naked, etc. I know it's a pain in the ass but we'd truly appreciate it if you'd take a minute and help us out. As an incentive, everyone who completes the survey will be able to download a video of live performance from this most recent tour (and I know what's going through your little minds right now: "I'll just grab this off a torrent site and not have to fill out the survey!!!" and guess what? You will be able to do just that and BEAT THE SYSTEM!!!! NIN=pwn3d!!!)

BUT

What if we were to select some of those that DO complete the survey and provide them with something really cool? I'm not saying we'll ever get around to it, but if we did maybe something like signed stuff, flying someone to a show somewhere in the world, a magic amulet that makes you invisible, a date with Jeordie White (condoms supplied of course), you know - something cool. See, you'd miss that opportunity AND be a cheater.

Do the right thing - help us out. You'll feel better.

Thank you and I've had too much caffeine this morning,

Trent

Visit here to take the survey:
https://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=1049187

Simple, no?

Honest, human, emotion... These are absent from the mainstream music business, and that's why it's in decline.

La antropologia de Vibratica

...conventional wisdom, what is jammed down our throats by people with an agenda, often bears no relation to reality, to truth.

(Para recordarme de esto cuando dirija Vibratica)

gente conectandose entre ellos a un nivel profundo pero sin tanta reponsabilidad

" new forms of community creates new forms of self-understanding "

... seriously playful participatory media culture (which is extended into the real world..)

remix (of) the culture!

porque hay valores culturales que no prevalecen tanto como nos gustaria y por eso los remarcamos y sobre-exponemos de diferentes maneras

linking people in new ways

"global connections transcending space and time"

"user-generated distribution"

"media is not content, media is not tools of communication...think of media as mediating human relationships"

so when media change then human relationships change



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What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where politics is more interesting than music

What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where politics is more interesting than music?