I´m outta here

[Øivind Idsø <plateaux@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is getting to be normal: 40+ messages to the so-called microsound
mailing-list since last night, and none (none!) says anything about
music; there was lots of talk about Dell laptops and sound cards and the
weather, I guess, and all sorts of what-not.

I´m guessing Mr. Cascone left the list months ago as there´s no sign of
moderation nor him--he hasn´t posted to the list for ages.

This list is making me grumpy. And it used to be such a fun place. The
amount of music recommendations/talk the last months can be counted on
one finger. It´s now a list for people buying laptops and sound cards
and monitors and operating systems.

People are probably much better off getting the new releases list from
Forced Exposure and Anomalous and Riouxs et al, and browsing through The
Wire. That is, if they want to read about music.

Why do all lists eventually come to .this.?

....
    Celia put a foot to the ground.
    "Avoid exhaustion by speech,"  she said.
    "Have I wanted to change you ?  Have I
pestered you to begin things that don´t belong
to you and stop things that do ?  How can I
care what you do ?"
    "I am what I do,"  said Celia.
    "No,"  said Murphy.  "You do what you
are, you do a fraction of what you are, you
suffer a dreary ooze of your being into doing."
He threw his voice into an infant´s whinge.
"  'I cudden do annyting, Maaaammy.'  That
kind of doing.  Unavoidable and tedious."
["Murphy", Beckett]
....

Bye.

/Øivind/
--
"Silence is so accurate."
            -Mark Rothko