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[Jon Raskin]

I wonder what kind of response would happen if we sent some of the interesting articles and posts written by members of this list to the editor and journalist listed in my previous post.  Might be a better response.  I agree with sl that letters of complaint are "mothers milk" so to speak.  There is a letter almost every week complaining about Aidin Vazini in the comical with the corresponding love letter.   

----- Original Message ----
From: Sarah - 21 Grand <21grand at 21grand.org>
To: Banewmus List <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 4, 2007 1:53:02 PM
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--- Sarah - 21 Grand <21grand at 21grand.org> wrote:

> Dear Mr. Broderick & Mr. Cremaschi:
> 
> re my analogy:
> >and we shouldn't criticize the president either,
> because he's the only one
> >we got, right?
> 
> - It seemed to me that George's logic regarding why
> not to criticize the
> Express and the following lines about not writing
> righteous complaining
> emails was based on the fact that it is "all we got"
> ... basically the
> source of press coverage (i.e. power). To me, the
> argument read as "don't
> criticize those in power, because they have power
> over you and can use that
> power against you."

CB:
But that's probably true (well, not that it's all we
got, but that obsessive moaning about it is not
productive.) 

- there are things that aren't productive that could be termed
"psychologically necessary" ... hell, going back to George, and his
interview in Noisy People, vis a vis the dishwasher and activism, (I'm not
trying to put words in George's mouth here, this is what George's words got
me thinking about), how "productive" is making experimental music or art,
really? Honestly, to me, it doesn't matter ... I do it because it's
psychologically necessary, otherwise it'd be me standing around staring at
the metaphorical boulder that is life all too aware of the pointlessness of
it.

If members of this scene decided to send
out a bunch of emails to the editor of the EB Express
complaining "It's flautist, asshole!" or "nice use of
triplets, moron," at some point we'd probably be less
likely be featured in future issues.  That may not be
fair, but it shouldn't come as a shock.

- I don't think it would make a difference. As I said earlier, the Express
and New Times loves publishing complaining letters. It might have the
opposite effect.

Still, that's not what George was talking about.  He
was talking about the obsessive monday morning
quarterbacking that goes on within BA-NEWMUS,

- sandwiched in between "nice 'awards' from basically the only
publication in town ... hopefully
no one's sent a righteous e-mail to the anonymous author,
or it'll be another five years until the next honorable mention." Sorry
Chris, if I'm "misreading" by focusing on those lines, then you're
misreading by ignoring them.

which is
of course, hardly exclusive to this li'l clique.  Nor
is it a Bush-esque attempt to shut down debate (yeah,
good luck with that in this forum).

- uh, no one was talking about Bush-esque attempts to shut down debate. I
don't know where that's coming from, but maybe that bit of prose was merely
inspired by my words, and you're not intending to ascribe that comparison to
me.

sl

-Chris

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