RE: (TV) Hitchcock

["Martin McClellan" <martin@rosacordis.com>]

Well, I can't speak for Malkmus, not knowing them or their work, so they may
have not done a good job of it, but I hope you're not suggesting that
Burrough's cut-up technique is lazy. Have you ever attempted it?

A good example is british artist Tom Phillips, and his work A Humument, in
which he appropriated a victorian novel named A Human Document and has
painted or altered every page to locate found poetry. See www.humument.com
if interested. Phillips claims Burroughs as a direct influence.

And besides, laziness has little to do with it. Although I agree that
Hitchcock's abstraction is just plain silly at times (I think he intends it
that way) I think that the lack of abstraction at all in modern music is
atrocious. What would good 'ol Capt. Beefheart have to say (well, we might
not be able to understand it if he did speak...)? It's not about laziness,
it's about breaking our standard modes of linear thought.

Anyway, taste is another issue and it doesn't appeal to some. That's fine.
But Eric, do we really need to know what every Pavement song is about to
enjoy it? Did anyone here understand Marquee Moon the first time they heard
it? I've heard Verlaine blasted for the inanity of falling into the arms of
Venus de Milo ("it doesn't have arms!"), but it sounds just fine to me.

Finally, would you call Cage's 4'33 lazy?

'nuff said (all in good cheer, by the by),

Martin




did you realize that malkmus took a book of ashberry's poetry, chopped it up
&
applied a burroughsian "cut-up" method to the lyrics for one of their recent
records???
& by the by, that ain't "art-rock"; it's lazy.

bedwellm@WellsFargo.COM wrote:

> Well, I would agree with you on GBV's account. In regards to Pavement, I
> think there is alot of signifying going on. In the same sense, if I may be
> so bold, as the poetry of John Ashbury (tho, not as informed. That will
come
> with experience.)
>
> Micah
>
>

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