i dont belive in no evolution

[luka]

Cos ideas ain't your territory tbh

 

[pattycakes_]

I'm a droplet, you're a stone

 

[pattycakes_]

But yes, I'm too sentimental to ever belong on your shelves

 

[luka]

Yes hippy I know what I am.

 

[pattycakes_]

This is a thread about evolution. Started by you

 

[luka]

But anyway, yes, you don't have a tin ear, musically speaking, and you've got a discernible strength in one area, tactility, you're good in that area, the direct sensual apprehension of the world, pre thought forms

 

[luka]

It's quite interesting. I'm a very tactile writer I do everything in life by feel. So I know when people have got what I call the feeling eye and you do have the feeling eye

 

[pattycakes_]

 

[luka]

I don't think I can teach you taste, you're a hopeless case in that respect . you don't have a sophisticated ear for the social, different registers, shades, you're a bit lost there, you don't understand people and their codes

 

[pattycakes_]

The old plenty of potential, if only he applied himself line. Heard it all before, teach

There was an interview with one of the sun ra arkestra I read years ago where he said sun ra was telling him he was playing too sentimental. At the time it resonated with me on a musical level which was and still is true. But as time passed by, I realised that it was pretty much the line between here and the potential. Bigger picture. Still have not learned how to cross it. A Burroughs or Anton Wilson would never be accused of such things, that's for sure. But is that the only place to aim for?

 

[pattycakes_]

Ultimately its about growing up.

 

[luka]

Yeah sentiment is disgusting nobody wants that gloop smeared over their food

 

[luka]

It's about growing up and it's about being serious about your art too and understanding that it's a science of life

 

[luka]

being a genius artist is about the instrument of perception

 

[luka]

Being a genius artist is about having very very sensitive instruments it's the science of making yourself sensitive

 

[luka]

How do you win and maintain that pure point of contact

 

[luka]

Danny L said to me last night, how does everyone all know Craner is a genius
How does this happen? All he does is get drunk and reminisce about his favourite showbiz and at record. So how do we know

 

[luka]

And it's about delicacy of his instruments he has extremely well calibrated perceptions he makes great choices the discriminations he's capable of are very fine. He's one of only two people that made me feel threatened and competitive as a writer.

 

[luka]

At the end Burroughs becomes more susceptible to sentimentality that last sequence of books is too soppy

 

[luka]

Talking about stupid cats