From: AM@highwire.net   
      
   "Lane Gray, Czar Castic"  wrote in message   
   news:opsr140mwv8955ol@stylgar...   
   > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:30:05 -0600, AM  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>> What a pity.  The group gets a new troll, and he's not even fun.  And   
   >>> won't address points raised at him.   
   >>   
   >> You mean I will not allow myself to be distracted by your tactical   
   >> obfuscation.   
   >>   
   > No.  I mean that you've refused to answer whether you think that whatever   
   > you contribute should sound like it actually belongs in the music, like   
   > the use of polyrhythms in that long E-jam section of OBS (hell, I suspect   
   > you'd probably go for a Sonny Stitt-inspired flurry of triplets as a fill   
   > in "Faded Love).   
      
   You continue to assume facts not in evidence.  I just don't think there's   
   anything at all wrong with music sounding fresh and new and unlike   
   anything one has ever heard before (as this is the very hallmark of   
   *great* music) and, in fact, that's what I vastly prefer.   
      
   Music with a sense of adventure - - - if you know what I mean.   
      
   > I suspect you'll continue to go to the various open-mic  nights around   
   > whatever town happens to be unfortunate enough to have you  live in it,   
   > because you seem to enjoy getting worked up into a lather.   
      
   Oh yes - - - especially if there's a Swedish masseuse in the bathtub with   
   me.   
      
   >> You are merely flatulating your trivia gland for your own egoistic   
   >> gratification.   
   >>   
   > Which probably explains your habit of choosing polysyllabic latinates when   
   > suitable short words exist.  Greater wordsmiths than you have repeatedly   
   > pointed out the stylistic shortcomings of that.  Learn to express yourself   
   > better than either Twain or Churchill, and I'll take that back, with an   
   > apology (but I've no plans to hold my breath 'til that  happens.   
      
   I'm actually not that offended to be "mensch -shunned" in the same sentence   
   with Twain and Churchill.  When I was growing up, we had in our home a set   
   of the complete works of Twain, of which I read quite a bit, and would not   
   be surprised at some influence.  We also had the complete works of L. Frank   
   Baum, Poe, and Dickens, a personal favorite, which may partially explain my   
   exceptional expertise in the whole area of Dicktatorial Dickwits.  As for   
   Churchill, my grandmother lovingly collected all forms of Boston Terrier   
   figurines and such - - - and I simply abhor Snazis!  It was a picture of   
   Louis Armstrong - - - and not Jesus - - - that graced our wall, as my   
   father, a jazz trumpet player, idolized him, and our home, on its best days,   
   was filled with His music and the blissful familial communion - - - of   
   soul-driven, real-time jam.   
      
   The fact that dear Satchmo also looked very much like a Boston Terrier is   
   probably not at all coincidental.   
      
   AM   
      
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   "Oneness is not achieved through conformity or subordination, but   
   through the full expression of everyone's unique piece of the puzzle."   
     --AM, the Synthesist   
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