XPost: rec.music.dylan, rec.arts.movies.past-films, rec.arts.mov   
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   XPost: uk.music.folk   
   From: reallyreal@shaw.ca   
      
   I thought Mighty Wind was quite hilarious, but I've noticed that people   
   who take folk music really seriously tend to hate it. I've made the   
   movie a delineater, something that defines people who are too sensitive   
   about the subject or don't have a good enough sense of humour to laugh   
   at themselves.   
      
   One friend, who plays folk music a lot, was appalled by the fact that   
   these satirists could make better music than he could, after a lifetime   
   of him practicing. At least he saw the humour in it all.   
      
      
      
      
   >   
   > and surely it's not really connected to real life. i mean i know folk   
   > music is all wishy washy nippy snippy crappy dippy family friendly   
   > traditional bollocks, but surely these people arent based in real life?   
   > i mean you're not telling me that parker posey is the equivalent of   
   > rosanne cash and catherine o hara some cross between a joan baez and a   
   > joni mitchell, or whatever the hell is folk cuz i no longer seem to   
   > know now do i.   
   >   
   > and is this what made dylan such a bad boy in the sixties? this is what   
   > you call the summit of rebellion, walking out on these kind of   
   > audience/singers? come off it, now.   
   >   
   > really, apart from the natural notion that ppl are moronic, fucked up   
   > that christopher guest usually tries to give away like some sort of   
   > north american equivalent of ulrich siedl, or an updated errol morris,   
   > or yet another wanking forman meets gongo, and that aging is a cowardly   
   > entropic enterprise, i havent got a clue what these ppl are supposed to   
   > represent.   
   >   
   > peter paul n mary? were they folk? and were they like this? who the   
   > hell in the folk mooment was like this?   
   >   
   > what bout those micky n mitch? whats their equivalent in folk? apart   
   > from the teletubbies (as they grow old), which isnt folk anyways.   
   >   
   > btw, was it micky that wanted to hump mitch or the other way around?   
   > was the kiss thing supposed to be funny, cuz it seemed so loopy i cant   
   > believe u.s. media was like this at any given time. was it?   
   >   
   > i can understand it being like walk the line with cash n carter but   
   > this 'satire' surely can't have its roots in reality. maybe the ppl who   
   > go to nascar n rodeos n love ''family'' shows are capable of   
   > engineering this kind of tripe but come on. if so, wow.   
   >   
   > and as for the bunch with the ex porn actress into human beings as   
   > colour hermeneutics, well whatever.   
   >   
   > same goes for travestite scandinavian fishermen.   
   >   
   > i preferred praire home companion to this. and not only cuz the moronic   
   > lindsay makes me horny and like all great men did say one must must..   
   > really cuz with mighty wind im in a dark room with a herd of cows.   
   > pointless, not priceless. pointfilling, but not pointfull.   
   >   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)