[NewMusic] More anti-carbon floop-print poopoganda

[lx rudis]

wow.

well, it's my opinion that we can re-invent ourselves to escape the 'sell
out' aspects of commercial art.  in my opinion, that's exactly what i've
done to myself, and intend to continue doing.  i work both sides of the
fence, and am very comfortable doing so - each supports the other, in a way.

but this doesn't work for everyone, and i won't generalize or insist that
everyone adopt my POV or techniques.

there's that old saw 'best revenge is living well'.  ok, that leaves a lot
open for interpretation, but when i view the thing i'm in, it means that i
have to cast a steely gaze on my society itself, and pick and choose the
components i let in, the things i allow to move me or control me...

...with full understanding that...

...other components define themselves as control, are unavoidable, or nearly
so.  but at the end of the day, it's _my_ decision as to whether i'll let my
forced relationship with my society dictate how i feel about creativity.
the reason i say that is that i've seen so many of my friends get submerged
in blind anger and frustration at the social and political mess they are
forced to navigate every freaking day.  and often, creativity alone is not
enough to blunt the pain.

...and from time to time, i submerge too.  now that i've been down there a
few times, i know that i eventually come back up and breathe, but it's a
pretty wonky place, and i get really upset about being put down there,
especially when its a result of this horribly casual relationship between
aesthetics and economy that we ride.

but at the end of it all, and wrenching this loopy post back somewhere
recognizeable, i'll reiterate that i've gotten _friends_ thru myspace.
maybe not a rent check, but for now, right now, that's enough for me.

and myspace will never host another video of mine.
nor music.
and soon the images will be taken down.
and once the bio blog is finished , it will be taken down as well.

eventually, i'll have a doormat at myspace, i'll monitor it, and if i hear a
knock, i'll politely answer and invite them in...elsewhere.

bye, and thanks for providing such a thought provoking subject!

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Alicia Byer <aliciabyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the point here is that networking software really does have the
> potential to do something positive for art (as evidenced by everybody's
> attachment to it) and it's just shitty that some asshole owns it and
> exploits it.. the same thing happens to everything with political
> potential in capitalism, it's simply absorbed or annexed instead of
> being opposed.
>
> I interviewed this opera director in germany... she had written an opera
> about skinheads, kind of sympathizing with them in a way. The main kid
> who eventually became a neonazi had an art critic for a dad. Every time
> the kid to make art, the dad would put it on display and all the "powers
> that be" of society would comment on it and approve it and put it in a
> gallery, leeching away all the subversive power. Eventually the kid went
> crazy and became a Nazi because as the director put it, "that is the
> only thing that is so taboo that it will never be absorbed." She also
> said that "In a society like ours... that is always eating our tries to
> oppose [sic] almost always if you are a clever person at all you must go
> so far outside.. " (to stay true to yourself or have some integrity).
>
> Now I'm not advocating neo-nazism, those people are scary and gave me a
> run for my money while I was in berlin, but I think there is some truth
> to the fact that we're between a rock and a hard place: either you sell
> your soul to the machine little piece by piece, day by day, or you try
> to retain some integrity, which forces you to live on an extreme fringe
> that may warp you and is not always necessarily good for your objectives
> either.
>
> I'm not saying I have an answer, just pointing out that there doesn't
> seem to be a convenient(tm) way to exist with any integrity in America.
>
> -alicia
>
> Sarah - 21 Grand wrote:
> > Matt declared:
> > This talk about evil
> > corporations, how all CEOs are fascists, and how using any store-bought
> > product or internet service is contributing to the destruction of our
> > otherwise edenistic existence?
> >
> > - I don't think anyone is saying that all CEOs are fascists ... Only
> Rupert
> > Murdoch, which might be slightly hyperbolizing his politics, but not by
> > much. Oh, if only myspace was owned by George Clooney instead ...
> >
> > sl
> >
> >
> >
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