Dear Musicians – Please Be Brilliant or Get Out of The Way
An interesting take on new/old music biz gripes by Dave Allen.
“The debate surrounding online music distribution still evokes passion from critics and supporters alike, the most vocal being musicians who believe that I am working to make music free online and therefore deny them income from CD sales. Nothing could be further from the truth, I simply argue that musicians need to monetize everything around their musical output and stop dreaming that CD sales will one day return to previous levels; where the 2009 equation means 100k is the new 1mm, 10k is the new 100k etc. I should point out for the record that I am focusing almost exclusively on non-mainstream, independent musicians.”
Also: Related.
Ah. I see.
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
By Richard Hofstadter†
Harper’s Magazine, November 1964, pp. 77-86.
American politics has often been an arena for angry minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work mainly among extreme right-wingers, who have now demonstrated in the Goldwater movement how much political leverage can be got out of the animosities and passions of a small minority. But behind this I believe there is a style of mind that is far from new and that is not necessarily right-wind. I call it the paranoid style simply because no other word adequately evokes the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy that I have in mind. In using the expression “paranoid style” I am not speaking in a clinical sense, but borrowing a clinical term for other purposes. I have neither the competence nor the desire to classify any figures of the past or present as certifiable lunatics., In fact, the idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant.
Related/From/Of Interest: The Paranoid Mentality
“You may have heard the news about Tuvalu—with global warming, the sea is rising,” he says cheerfully. “So better we come here to be safe.” Tuvaluans, resigned to fielding reporters’ questions about their homeland’s impending doom, often offer observations like this unprompted.
What Happens When Your Country Drowns? by Rachel Morris
(via Mother Jones)
Earth: The (Mostly) Boob-Liking Planet
“In terms of the analysis of Melanie Klein, ‘good breast’ is the prototype of the fountain of all nourishment; the breast that Sade’s libertines take such delight in whipping, upon which they take such derisive glee in wiping their arses, is, as Freud says, ‘the place where love and hunger meet’, a moving symbol of the existence and the satisfaction of the most basic of all human needs. The body of the mother is the great, good place, the concretisation of the earthly paradise; these fantasies, according to Klein, enrich the primal object, the first thing we meet when we come out of the womb, the great, good place in which we lived without knowing it. The experience of the primal object becomes the foundation for trust, hope and a belief in the existence of good. Sade profanes the primal object in the conviction that hope, trust and the good are delusions.”—
Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography (1978)
Everyone loves boobs. Except Sade, the poor bastard. He was hopeless.
Oh, Sade, you dumb boob.
You make sense of it: “KONDO ROBO SPOT Sun May 9 shooting in Akihabara.
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