[NewMusic] kids, lawn, get off

[J. Segel]

--- newmusic-request at music.mills.edu wrote:

> etc.

three things this is reminding me of, quality-wise. one is in hesse's
steppenwolf, where the steppendwolf can't take the fact that mozart would
listen to beethoven on a transistor radio due to the distortion, and mozart
replies with something along the lines of "the music's still there though" (i
paraphrase.)

another is the great dissemination of "quality" made by the college culture of
the 1980s, bringing good micro-brews and gourmet coffee and bagels to, now,
every strip mall in america. we won that revolution, right? the result is
starbucks. yay!

but you're in alabama, and man you can't wait to find that starbucks.

the last is that my friend victor, bass player i've been playign music with for
20+ years now, recently quit art directing at the guardian to move his day job
to wired magazine. they have a few major art directors, one who is the young
ivy-league stud with all the right wired cred, the other worked at Look and
Time and shit like that (!). when the older guy was asking victor about the
younger (30-ish, and higher paid) guy and what he did, when victor described it
he said, "oh, a sampler." the older guy doesn't even use the computer to
design, he draws. i've been thinking about how much design we see now is lifted
from past eras. what is a 90s font? 

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