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Sorry I took off those hate posts, sorry, I thought 'hating' was supposed to be funny and I guess I just have a bad sense of humor, you know, like the famous joke: why do the Red Hot Chilli Peppers like to go 'Under the Bridge?' Because there is a plate of shit there that they can beat-off...

They won't help Confucius. The thing is, I'm not that picky about 'movies,' for example. But music has always really had a way of bothering me, especially when it seems interested more in something other than music, understand? Like fashion or something, or reifying the status-quo. But even...

Glenn Gould always joked that he should have died sooner.

Emails? I've had two requests now for the article from which this is quoted... Unfortunately, I have no site of my own to ftp it up for download, however if you give me your emails I will promptly send you a PDF (just large enough that it would be inappropriate to post on a thread like this).

Musical Truth(s) Please check out my new thread on Musical Truth(s), Badiou coopted by modern composer Michael Pisaro, over here. I think it could make for interesting exchange if it doesn't collapse into senseless 'genre' compilations (which are all, more-or-less, Rock).

Michael Pisaro, October 2004: On Schoenberg and his circle though Boulez and Xenakis; Jazz from Armstrong to Coltrane; Rock n' Roll music from Presley to the Sex Pistols; Cage and his circle. What do we think of this? Would we add any? Would not most of what is talked about here fall (in a...

Rsm I can't seem to shake the thought that RSM is a privileged way of getting at it all, i.e., (to use Badiouian terms) he is the subject of Rock N' Roll par excellence. He is for Rock what the cantor from Leipzig was for the Baroque. Proof positive since about 1964. Unfortunately, (though...