[NewMusic] discounts

[Jon Raskin]

What I think is really amazing about living here at this time is the the community of musicians that are involved with, for lack of a better term, creative music and I'm proud to be a part of it.  It isn't driven by one person or place and it strives, is inquiring and struglling with the hard task of making new, original, interesting art. I really appreciate that it includes artsists jsut starting out and others that have been at it longer than they care to remember.  It is surviving through an attack of culture from the "right" side of the country and in difficult local economic conditions.  That this sustain effort has been going on for over a decade as amazing to me and is not "normal".  If you are driven to create than this is a good place to be with talented people that want to do work and struggle-   I say hats off to all of you.




----- Original Message ----
From: Jon Raskin <sopranino at sbcglobal.net>
To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 7:21:31 AM
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] discounts


I was sharing a 3 bedroom flat in the Haight and my share was $45 a month.  This wasn't renting out the living room either.  As for the potatoes- no problem if I can adjust for inflation.  New York was pretty cheap as well if you lived in the ABC's by Thompson Square.    Marginal is Marginal and there is has always been a lot of it.  
Artists have always been the front line of "gentrification". In the 70's warehouse space was plentiful and cheap in SF.  "Marginal" relocated.  Artists need access to culture and cheap places to live/work.  

----- Original Message ----
From: Praemedia <praemedia at yahoo.com>
To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 4:38:47 PM
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] discounts


also be curious to know what zorn's rent was back
then. won't find anything like it these days, though
starving jobs pay just the same as then and tuitions
have gone up faster than the rents....

--- Praemedia <praemedia at yahoo.com> wrote:

> find me a $7 bag of potatoes big enough to last a
> month and i'll find you some orange camo pants....
> 
> --- Jon Raskin <sopranino at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > At Zorn's  Improve21 lecture he mentioned that in 
> > the 70's when he was in starving artist mode he
> ate
> > potatoes for three meals a day and spent $7 on bag
> > that lasted a month. 
> 




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