"Unearned lack of emotion"

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The 'soulfulness' thing's a dead horse, everybody knows by now its only function is like slapstick farce to remind ppl how stupid or mendacious emotional displays are IRL. What about the far greater proportion of tunes where the artist is trying to prove how cold and callous and psychopathic they are? How many gangstaz could actually shoot somebody? (Besides the ones that have been arrested for it already I mean) How many black metal rafter-hangers could impale someone with a magickal dagger and eviscerate them? (Besides the ones that have been arrested already...actually the proportion of actual murderers in music might be the opposite end of the bell curve to proportion of actual cases of clinical histrionic disorder/erotomaniacs [divas/lurve men]) Or does the fact that these charlatans are at least making an attempt to provide role models for the coming age of desensitization make up for the fact that they actually remember their girlfriends' birthdays, etc

― dave q, Friday, 24 January 2003 08:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(Bit OT but despite the fact that it's an unlistenable song by a somewhat cretinous band I thought RHCP's 'Californication' turned on an interesting idea, ie that it's ppl with fuckups that join the creative industries, they exorcise their demons in public which makes them feel better but said demons are now in public domain where they can do all kinds of shit to the public. If that's true, then I think it's great! I haven't seen enough elitist square-bashing here lately. Remember artsy types, they're the ones who make YOUR life a misery by being stupid and passive-aggressive and buying garbage and making you earn a living''n'shit so fuck 'em!)

― dave q, Friday, 24 January 2003 08:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Ja Rule to thread (he is happily married and a faithful puppy if the press is to be believed).

Also steve albini makes really good poundcake and muffins and flan but you wouldn't know it from Big Black.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 24 January 2003 08:08 (twenty-three years ago)

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