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[weasel walter]

 >   Hipsters welcomed?

at a certain point i stopped caring about "why" people like what i do and
just learned to be happy if they liked it at all. i had to stop worrying
about the "reason", i.e. are they poseurs? do they just like it because
so-and-so said so?  . . . popularity, it seems, is won by lottery a lot
of the time. if you win it (usually for a few minutes at best), you owe
it to yourself to take advantage of the situation, especially in the
underground. everybody's money is green as far as i'm concerned! i might
make challenging music, but i'm not making it so i can drop it in a hole
and bury it. if someone can find any relation to it, i don't care who the
fuck they are (most of the time). 

hell, i could be mistaken for a hipster at 40 yards except that i spend
most of my time alone in my office working on perennially unhip music and
rarely can be seen anywhere hip other than my own gigs. 

in high school (and life) i always though it was funny, this binary
concept that one was either "cool" or a "nerd". apparently there wasn't
much in the middle . . .

considering that one of my bands, the flying luttenbachers, plays a form
of "progressive rock" (the literal meaning, not necessarily conforming to
the idiomatic constraints of the dreaded "prog" bands), i've found it
pretty amazing that it's "prog" fans that tend to really really hate our
music out of all the market demographic related music fans. i find it
interesting that the most scathing reviews i've ever gotten from music
reviewers were written by people that pride themselves on "liking" music
that by definition is supposed to push the boundaries of rock music.
perhaps the problem they have is that i've pushed it too far for their
liking (but they won't admit it - on the contrary, they say the music has
been done a million times before) . . . 

so, apparently i can't really be bothered to worry about why people HATE
what i do as well. 

fuck everybody!

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