XPost: rec.music.gdead, rec.music.bluenote, alt.showbiz.gossip
From: seraphim@frontiernet.net
Fuck Woody..... all his movies suck anyway imho.......like I really give a
shit about his fuckin opinion ....what a great invention the remote comtrol
is I can just click idiots like him right off the tv ....and be quick about
it too......btw I only read maybe one or 2 lines of your message[well...
actually the first paragraph] if it is about Woody ..I am glad I didn't
waste any time on him just wasting time writing my dumb assed reply...later
"psychiropractor" wrote in message
news:1104805062.007373.50480@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> woody allen has said repeatedly that he loathes rock music in
> interviews. he even made fun of rock music and culture in movies like
> hannah and her sisters, deconstructing harry, etc.
> allen insists rock music is barbaric, mindless, and retarded.
> he prefers classical and jazz.
>
> personally, i like rock music(or at least up to late 80s before the
> total domination of rap and grunge and even worse stuff, though i can't
> stand heavy metal and punk either), but i must concede allen has a
> point, or at least halfway.
> rock music has to be good or else it is VERY bad--insufferable. while i
> disagree with allen's blanket assessment of rock, i must agree rock can
> be offensive in ways that classical, pop, and jazz cannot.
> rock is powerful music so when it's great, it's powerfully great but
> when it's bad, it's powerfully bad. it's like an odor. a strong odor
> that is aromatic can be intoxicating. but strong odor that stinks is
> really ugggh stinky. rock music, by its very nature, is strong.
> classical music can be good or bad but even bad stuff doesn't assault
> your ears and clobber the shit out of you. you can treat it as
> background music. but, you cannot ignore bad rock music. rock music
> makes itself known to everyone within the mile radius. it's like if
> someone's gonna shout, he better have a good reason for shouting. we
> can tolerate stupid chitchat in a public setting but we cannot tolerate
> stupid shouting.
> when rock music burst onto the scene, it had something to shout about
> as kids were making their tastes and desires known. but, over the yrs,
> the shouting has become a matter of routine with no meaningful or
> organic purpose. we have the shouting but no joy; indeed, twist and
> shout has become twisted and loutish. today's rockers shout because
> that's what they're supposed to do or because you wanna offend everyone
> and make a nuisance of yourself in this infantile culture of
> ours(though some have abandoned shouting for a kind of a gruff tired
> whiny schtick which, i suppose, is self-consciously aware of the death
> of rock but is still mounting a stoic effort to cry out--or just
> cry--in the lonely post-everything/gen xyz wilderness).
>
> granted, classical music can be bombastic too and allen hates wagner.
> and jazz can be blaring and brash. but, classical music--even at its
> most hysterical--preserves some form of dignity, seriousness, and/or
> high artishness, and jazz--even the worst of it--has an element of
> groove, elegance, slickness, and sophistication. but, the core of rock
> has no pretensions and very little sophistication(indeed, whenever rock
> got too arty, there was always a backlash of the primitives--punk,
> metal, rap).
>
> so while i can enjoy good classical music and ignore bad classical
> music, i can only enjoy good rock music--beatles, ccr, the who--but
> cannot stand bad rock because it shakes and rattles every eardrum,
> chair, table, and window in sight.
>
> if you're gonna make the food very spicy, make sure the spices work. if
> you're gonna rock and roll and bring the house down, make sure you have
> plenty of talent. otherwise, pick up an accordion and play some beer
> drinking music.
>
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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