Re: [microsound] re: points and dots

["\\js" <js0000@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi

On 7/13/06, Jason Hollis <contact@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wow.  I'm on a LOT of online forums, and between you, j/s and Kim this is
> the most communist spew I've run into all at one go in years.

well, i am not a communist. [so even though you've repeatedly accused
others of misreading you, perhaps you have also misread others] you
seem to be harkening back to the time when any criticism of
'america/capitalism' would result in the person making the critique
being labeled a communist.

'committee on unamerican activites' anyone?

the arguments that we have been making are not unique to kim, i, or
'revolution #9' ['if you beome naked ...']. i have always thought ani
difranco said it quite well:

and I must admit today
that my inner pessimist seems to have gotten the best of me
we start out sugared up on kool aid and manifest destiny
and then we memorize all the presidents names like little trained monkeys
and we spit into the world so many spinny-eyed TV junkies

incapable of unraveling the military-industrial mystery
pre-emptively passified with history book history
and I've been around the world now and I can see this about America

the mind control is deep here, man
the myopia is steep here, man

and behold those who try to expose the reality
really try to realize democracy
are shot with rubber bullets and gassed off the streets
while the global power brokers are kept clean and discreet
behind a wall
behind a moat
and that is all
that's all
that's all she wrote

> But, if I recall correctly, this is a MUSIC FORUM, yes?

but music doesn't exist in a vacuum.
a tool may not be just a tool.
artists are inspired by many things.

> Microsound? When do we get to talk about that?

politics informs my music.

also, the myspace discussion has certainly livened things up around
here- which i think of as a good thing.

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\js  [ http://or8.net/~johns/ ]

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