stripping off for someone else

[christinafairy]

I just got off the phone with prettymouth. The conversation was cut short due to picking up one's sister from a dance class. *L* I would really love to have a cup of tea with her someday, talking about the world, etc....we have a lot in common and understand each other 'til this day, and that always feel really nice. I enjoy being understood because I don't think many people get me. :/

Oh yeah, this weekend I ended up in some weird artist gallery in the Warehouse District. Everybody I heard around me was like "oh, this is sooooo wonderful!" and "sooo magical". really? I didn't think so. I know I said at one point that I didn't like it, even though the artist himself was there. Well, if I think it's not good, that's my opinion.

With art and galleries in general, it amuses me how people can schmooze about how great something is, when the truth is, it's crap! I think a lot of "art" out there is crap. Hell, I think half of my paintings are crap! It's just so boring to hear all these modern artists trying to explain themselves all the fucking time!

The truth is, I feel like there needs to be something completely original once again. In a way, music-wise this is parellel to the late 70's. We had cooperate rock like Bread, Kansas like today's Creed and Nickelback *vomit* so, yeah, crap crap crap..

Then in the 70's' we had the emergence of punk. The New York Dolls, the Ramones, the (brilliant) Sex Pistols, etc....and it started a revolution.

The difference is, today the best we have to the alternative to cooperate rock is the Strokes, the White Stripes, etc......but the problem is, it's not starting any revolution of any sort. It's recycling bits from the 70's and making it their own, but it's not good enough for me.

I love the Strokes' music, mind you and Nick Valensi and Ryan Gentles were nice guys when I met them, but.....I feel like there's a void in the music industry. a BIG void.

Hopefully I can contibute to filling that void for myself at least.

and with that, I'm going to go practice my guitar and write lyrics. bye. xxx

ps- go see the movie Frida. It's steller.

Comments

[spikenheimer.livejournal.com]

wow. you play guitar too? coool.

btw i got the email back from my sis. no one left in london. so no help from me. *:(

[(Anonymous)]

"The truth is, I feel like there needs to be something completely original once again"
YES!!!
The so called 'new rock revoultion' is a joke created by the NME to make them seem important. Sex pistols brought us revoultion in music/ideas/etc the Strokes brought us a million 'the' bands who mostly all sound the same. Of course, if you look at it another way, punk was a 'fuck off' to prog bands and rock dinosaurs. There is a lot more things to say fuck off to now: coperate punk (aka pop-punk), coperate rock (as you said), nu-metal, 'the' bands and pop music! (as well as hip-hop and dance music) So we better start the revoultion soon, before someone else does! Not like I'd let them though. >:)

- Nick

P.S. This must be the longest comment I've put in anyones journal ;o

[spikenheimer.livejournal.com]

here are some new thoughts on music from an old sour source.
(before i begin... Frida ROCKS. that was such a kickass movie)

I was at the club listening to what turned out to be a highly 80's music night (which it wasnt. which amused me since i loved all the songs they played) and i realized that the most original music in my sleepy judgement is stuff that was written / performed during highly oppressive political times. The Reagan years brought about some of the most creative stuff. I think that you will see something similar now.

the biggest hinderance is that the music that will emerge will be immediately made popular by the mainstream alternative system. back in the day, 'alternative' did not exist. there was college radio, and less than a half a dozen commercial radio outlets for punk / goth / industrial music. Nowadays, we have half a dozen commercial radio chains in the US that own dozens of radio stations all cookie cutter. (oops. i'm slipping into a corp radio rant...) not only that, we have at least 3 music video channels. all making it much easier for a band to break out and become popular.

i think what it all means is that it has become extremely difficult to have original new music styles emerge. there are some bands that do it, and make dramatic changes in their sounds without having to bow to corporate pressures. but those bands are few and far between. (examples: Garbage, Smashing Pumpkins, Beck)

What you need to do is check out College radio stations. they typically have the best access to the newer unproven bands and their styles. whats hard is to weed out the crap from the good. commercial radio is filtering so much from us that when you dive into the college radio level you have much more chaff amongst the good.

sorry for blathering... you can kick my ass later for it.

we are gonna get along just fine...

[lolita-yaya.livejournal.com]

i once went to the tate modern gallery,and spent my entire visit complaining about the so-called "art" - what a bunch of arse!!
in my opinion a stick in a box,or an un-made bed,or any kind of "found" object is NOT art.
art is a painting,drawing,sculpture,or something that has been made by the artists own hand at least!!
there are a lot of slackers making too much money from the stupidity of the people who buy this shit.hey - they're so thick,fuck them! let them waste their money,they desrve it!

end of rant.*ahem*