Re: (TV) now this is really dreadful.

["Rex Broome" <rexbroome@gmail.com>]

On 9/30/06, edi, redux. <the_postmodern_closet@adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> >What was this about?
> >
>
>        ah, in my tired but knowledgeable opinion, it was about
> drxgs. thats okay, just as long as one makes sure to edit ones
> writing so the feds dont dig into ones personal head. what a tiresome
> & ghastly government we have!
>
>        i had *no* idea i would stir up such a hurricane. it's kind
> of fun, actually, although i didnt mean it. getting people excited
> about something is generally a *good* thing.
>
>        okay, i do indeed have all the tom verlaine records-- note
> species-- but i havent heard them all in a while-- my weltron-like
> stereo lacks a cartridge. i hadnt realized this was old, theres the
> rub. i was undecided on whether or not it was actually Him; never saw
> him so, um, -chunky- before. i knew the photo in the fire was the man
> himself [very recognizable as himself, even now, at fifty seven
> {which we shall all eventually be, sadly, unless we spin from the
> coil at an eariler age}] --but here i was undecided.
>
>        i also didnt know this predated "blair witch." i =hated=
> "blair witch." sound & fury signifying nothing.
>
>        i do not believe i mentioned kurt russsell, as an aside,
> because the only thing i know about kurt russell is that he was once
> married to goldie hawn. i dont know if his daughter is the one in
> "almost famous," another movie i detested, this one even more,
> because i played both sides of -that- game [skipping grades, having a
> fake birthdate *&* being one of the Quintessential L.A, Rock Chicks]
> --the whole bloody exercise felt false to me. i dont like things
> which feel false. which, redux, brings me back to the tom verlaine
> music video.
>
>        did i mention that i *loathe* music video? somewhere i must
> have said that. all us old punkrockers-- & i certainly include tom
> verlaine here, bien sur --liked things clean & pure. or dirty & pure.
> the purity remains. think of the three-chord ramones & you will get
> one side; think of the glory of the seamless perfection of tom
> verlaine's guitar playing & you will get the other.
>
>        my favorite thing, probably, posted on this list was the
> review from some travel paper, i think, re the festival in england
> where tom verlaine was chastised for, largely, not pandering to the
> audience, not doing the hip-shake, not "performing." this is, to me,
> perfect, redux-- retains the genius & retains the purity. making
> videotapes for ANY of the music channels --i noticed the letters V &
> H & the numeral 1 on that clip-- does not.
>
>        i am sorry if it is forced upon him in his contract.
>
>        he is so brilliant that, in a way, to lessen his talents by
> insisting upon what can only dilute their impact-- oh that's bad.
>
>        i do not know if anyone at all remembers the punkrocker
> attitude towards  mtv in the first place-- that it should never have
> been, & being, should be abolished-- at any rate, i concur, &
> heartily, & evermore. i do not think forcing an image upon a piece of
> music enhances the music; what i think is that, not necessarily in
> this case, but in so many-- it brainwashes a person to see the
> advertisement that was presented in pictures along w/ the song. i do
> not think this is good. i think people should conjure their own
> pictures.
>
>        as a video artist from something of the same era as tom
> verlaine, i was also not thrilled w/ this particular tape. *too*
> solidly commercial --the images, i mean, not the music-- & the man,
> of course, comes from as INTENSE an artistic background as ever
> existed-- why the movie- {as opposed to experimental film} type
> pandering? but that was probably imposed upon him by his record
> company as well.
>
>        had he been allowed to make something utterly amazing [cf
> maya deren, kenneth anger, jack smith, jonas mekas, certainly "the
> act of seeing w/ ones own eyes,:" by stan brackhage], i would have
> been a lot happier. in the realm of the genius of tom verlaine, this
> tape was, i dare say, -banal-. it breaks my heart, you know. if a
> person -can-, a person -should-. being able to is so rare these
> days.....
>
>        yr tired friend,
> --
> "i'm disappearing," he says, "avoiding most things."
> R I P syd barrett
> yr friend,
> proserpine, guardianette of the dead
> the last slum goddess,
> +edi+
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