Re: [microsound] re:/write: Are all electronic music related writers bad writers?

[graham miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i'm saving this one. now that's good writing.

you should get a degree in this or something;)

g.

"tobias c. van Veen" wrote:

> > Has anyone else noticed how terribly articles and press materials and
> > things are written? Reviews, press, just about everything.. I'm no
> > professional myself but i've seen some pretty ridiculous stuff out
> > there. The number one thing I see is convoluted run-ons full of 88%
> > adjectives, among other things.
> >
> > Anybody care to wager a guess why it's all so embarrassingly poor?
>
> They're all freaks and perverts too, real addicts of the fast-forward
> button, juiceheads who never actually listen to the music, sonophobes who
> hate the shit with a passion, colon-lickers filled to the gills with
> verbiage composed from the verbal effluent of the shithole they rode in on,
> a black bile of spew interspersed with mixed metaphors, cowboys who never
> learnt how to write to begin with, these syncophantic parasites who have no
> education, can't remix the three R's for the sake of decency & clarity,
> vermin with little literary acumen and certainly a distinct lack of
> bourgeois taste, few even have citizenship! For the love of Hades they are
> as known for speaker_fucking & deck_diving as for drunken antics, these
> bastard absynthe-addicted gossip mongers .. a despicable class of human
> being barely deserving of a decent cave. Scrawl the screed: the last music
> writers shall be hung by the entrails of the last self-appointed critics.
>
> Your Humble Obedient Servent,
>
>     tobias c. van Veen,
>     Ph.Y?, MR.c, etc.c.
>
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