[NewMusic] We have cookies! (was Poopoganda)

[Michael Henry]

Gino wrote (re: my buggy-ass Hitler analogy):

>>Rupert is not even in that league. I won't take the bait.

I quote from your previous message "Sometimes you have to dance with the devil."

So please correct me if I am misinterpreting you.....does that mean that you wouldn't mind  dancing with Hitler (as long as he provided free hosting services for you)?

I didn't expect you (or anyone) to take any "bait" because I am not baiting any hooks.

Rupert may not be in the same league as Hitler. But that doesn't necessarily imply that his league is minor.


>>MySpace is far from over. At least for me. But I'm so not about trendiness.

Neither am I. "Trendiness"  is a good word to employe here. It describes the secondary reason I (try to) avoid even glancing at someone's MySpace page (the first being that any eyeballs there support Murdoch's fascist empire, either directly or indirectly)


>>The other options are not as well populated by musical weirdos worldwide.
The other systems tend to Balkanize too much for my tastes.

Really? I would hasten to disagree here. Why even bother with any such any corporate- blood-sucking entity? Punk was (supposedly) about DIY. Some new music too. "Balkanized"? So what?

I really regret to inform you of this, but the "new music community" (however you define it) is already Balkanized (capital "B"). And it has been for some time now. Really, since the 50's,  60's or perhaps even earlier. Maybe it has always been that way.

Just take someone....let's say,  the ever-so-pithy Kyle Gann for example, with his endless rantings on the the whole uptown vs. downtown composers (or just plain posers) tirade (and boy, is that tired.....). Talk about your "Balkanization.'.....(I'm imagining The Who, "Talking bout my Balkination")

Look, I'm all for "musical weirdos worldwide" (MWW - great name for a group, thank you), but in my view there is nothing weird about MySpace other than the mystifying weirdness of why anyone would want to go there and stare at puke-inducing banner adds while spending innumerable hours sorting through tons of lame-ass chaff in order to find the wheat, all while Rupert Murdoch watches his bank account balance skyrocket as he sips a glass of fine wine (Chateau Petrus no doubt at $28,550 a bottle) poured by a young boy wearing a toga.

Sorry, but this is exaclty what is "too much for my tastes."  Even if your daughter does offer me the most scrumptiously delicious cookies that were ever baked. ;-)

I'll just sum up by saying that most of the pro-MySpace arguments about this issue have seemed to amount to "well, yeah I know he's a fascist, but...."  Excuses masquerading as reasons. In other words, it's free, it's easy, etc. so I can overlook the rest. I have a problem with that. But then that's just me.

Thanks for the honest response to the question I posed, but I think I'll continue to be vigilant in my efforts to stay away from My-fucking-Rupert Murdoch-space.com. Even if your daughter make her incredibly delightful cookies from the "Dark Side" available there.

BTW, are those cookies vegan?


-MH