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Re: [microsound] the Cage fire...



if orange juice is bad for you, Im fucked. :(

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Becker" <pbecker3@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 7:49 AM
Subject: [microsound] the Cage fire...

> Surely Cage has a large discography, though one of the largest
discographies
> of any composer couldn't confirm, or agree. I think Bach has him beat by a
> mile, or many miles.   Cage's stance on records and his hypocrisy in
having
> so many in his catalog is so Cage-ian- contradictory, dada, and not taking
> himself too seriously. If Cage -really- felt them to be worthless, he'd
> never have made them. One does need to eat and pay the rent though. I
think
> his comments on records were not to be taken -too- literally.
>
> He also said that the only 2 truths he learned at midlife were that the
Sun
> and orange juice were bad for you, though I'm sure he's ventured outside
> from time to time.
>
> ; )
>
> Peter
>
> ""
>
>