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At 12:29 PM -0800 12/27/05, David Gans wrote: >At 1:46 PM -0500 12/27/05, Emile Tobenfeld (a.k.a Dr. T) wrote: > >>I'd add that it also makes sense to accept the fact that one's lack >>of interest in what the art is trying to say does not imply that >>the art is 'bad'. > >Funny how many people seem to need to put the hurt on music they >don't like or understand. What was Joni Mitchell's famous line, >something like "The virtue of your taste inscribed upon your >contempt for mine"? It seems a lot of critics are looking for a way to show how witty and clever they are, and dissing work they don't like gives them a chance to do so. (I do admit to a guilty fondness for the way the NY Times movie critics pull this off.) It does get back to context. e.g. I don't care for industrial strength noise music, but it doesn't bother me if I don't have to hear it. I've been known to violently object when it is played through huge speakers 10 feet from a complex rig that I am trying to take down. e.g. I don't think much one way or the other of Wynton Marsalis's music per se, but I do get very upset at his putdowns of people whose music I care for greatly. e.g. I used to go dancing at a place where the people who made the dance tapes had an unfortunate tendency to program things like Michael Jackson's "On a Beach by the Sun" (-: > > >>I'm sure we've all had the experience of hearing music we really >>liked at the time and then rapidly grew sick of. I know I've had >>the opposite experience of hearing a disk I just couldn't get, >>putting it on a couple of years later and wondering how I could >>have missed it. > >Yes, and yes! > > > > >-- > >David Gans - david@trufun.com or david@gdhour.com >Truth and Fun, Inc., 484 Lake Park Ave. #102, Oakland CA 94610-2730 >Blog: http://playback.trufun.com -- "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." F. Scott Fitzgerald Visit "Before the Fall -- Images of the World Trade Center" at http://www.foryourhead.com Emile Tobenfeld, Ph. D. Video Producer Image Processing Specialist Video for your HEAD! Boris FX http://www.foryourhead.com http://www.borisfx.com