padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
I think the anti-art school/student talk misses the point
art gonna art. always has, always will.
not a new complaint
art gonna art. always has, always will.
not a new complaint
this is part - the immediate part - of what I was asking in the "is a counterculture still possible" threadIs it possible to build and sustain a scene that exists as an independent principality or must everything be absorbed into empire?
yeah that line rings truetheir politics are precisely aesthetics
write what you knowPadraig also always finds a way to insert some old U.S. hardcore punk record into the conversation!
only if you a) allow yourself to be depressed it by (which granted, is easy to do) and b) stop trying to imagine something elseThis always feels to me like a) a depressive position and b) a failure of imagination.
anything challenging or radical being defanged, repackaged and sold as a commodityExplain exactly what you mean by recuperation please.
not remotelyI've never been able to understand quite where you're coming from but it seems to revolve around a very hardline money is evil stance. Have I got that right?
of courseI get confused cos obviously if you wanted to go to a disco you'd have to pay at the door and if you wanted to own a disco record you'd have to buy it.