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Re: THE SCENE IS DEAD



In <v02140b00ae75014eed76@[199.72.102.22]>,
    ale@backporch.pdial.interpath.net (Alec Vance) writes:
>There are only two extremes possible here. Either everything is, as Mr.
>Calloway says, *faux*--or everything, no matter how banal or contrived it
>may seem to some, is an expression of something in between the uniqueness
>of the human soul and biogenetic diversity, depending upon which
>theological system you subscribe to.

ah, now i get it. now it's the appearance that is an appearance. thank you,
mr. baudrillard. your eclectic ideology is surpassive.

>Yes, but it's not necessarily Warner Bros., MTV, or CMJ. Sometimes it's
>their roommate, or another DJ, or a girl or guy they're in love with.

sometimes. not very often, though. and if it were, often, that is, that would
be a new cmj.

>Sometimes it's the little chimp inside, that mutant devil born of
>sentimentality and self-affirming aesthetics. Everybody's got a monkey on
>their backs, and I suppose you do too, Randy.

everybody's got a monkey on their backs = everything is faux.

same difference.

>GIVE IT UP...YOU AREWASTING EVERYBODY'S TIME.....

>Some look for excuses to procrastinate. Others (like my hero Kurt
>Vonnegut--see this month's Harpers') realize that distractions themselves
>are the key, no guilt attached.

you peeps and your keys.

distractions are key excuses to procrastinate. you won't appear to attach guilt.

>For the rest of you, I'm going to breach a little Internet etiquette and
>expose just how inane this guy is--after my first humilation of this loser,
>he sends me personal mail, at which I am genuinely taken aback:

randy = alec. same difference.

the scene is dead. djs play anything. so what?

in what key were you playing, in what scale is the score, to make any of that
-seem important-.

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