[NewMusic] 3rd party music

[Sarah - 21 Grand]

on 10/28/08 5:44 PM, Phillip Greenlief at pgsaxo at pacbell.net wrote:


> 
> PG:
> Your criticism reads a bit like calling Tobe Hooper down for not casting a
> sexy female lead in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

-- I dunno, I thought she was kinda cute.

It doesn't hold water. You
> are evaluating Djll's work on the same platform as an Albert Mangelsdorf CD.
> They're not even in the same world.

-- Well, the Mockracy thing struck me more as a theater piece than a musical
work. I didn't see the one he did 5 years ago, except for in the excerpts in
Noisy People, but this one seemed a bit different, Damon.

Musically, this one didn't seem "jokey" - not particularly "out" and not
virtuousic in any way, but it seemed to do what the piece required. It
reminded me of Broadway musicals, which I grew up on, so that's not a bad
thing. 

I think my parents would have loved it, but I felt that a lot of the humor
(largely confined to the narrator's monologues) was dated, and I'm generally
a tough audience for comedy. That is to say, I don't want to condemn Djll's
labor of love as inherently "not funny" just because I, personally, didn't
think it was funny.  I thought the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was
funnier than Mockracy, but I'm just weird.

P.S. I finally opted out of digest mode in the service of everyone's gmail
threading.

sl