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...The weird thing about Eno was that he looked like a girl but he got girls. Lots of them in fact. He was what you could call a "sex god." Eno made lots of unlistenable music. He also made some great music, like David Bowie's "Heroes" for example. There are other kinds of music that aren't unlistenable but aren't great either. Like disco. Disco was whites stealing from blacks. Diluting real black music and building an unbearably vapid culture around its celebration of excess. What was good about black music was how raw and primitive it was. Funk, for example, was raw and primitive music. Primtive but complex. Those aren't opposites, but a lot of people think they are. I'd like to think my writing is primtive like that. Call me a "funk writer" if you want. My name is...

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lester Bangs?

― Nate Patrin, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha, he probably wishes! This one's a little more obscure, though I'd love to see some of these posters take a stab at Lester. (Note: if y'all didn't notice, this is my impersonation of him, not an actual quote.)

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick Kent

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dele Fadele!

― Kris England, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A sixteen year old with his own website...Kinda like Mark Prindle...but on Ritalin?

― Lord Custos III, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jody Beth Rosen

― JoB, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Slim Shady?

― Queen of the Porches Leaving Their Men Club G, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Greg Tate? ("funk writer" is why I guess this....)

― M Matos, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Norma McClain Stoop. Or Legs McNeil.

― Arthur, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was actually thinking Dav*d Bowm*n, who wrote a biography of Talking Heads that I'm browsing through right now. I'm actually enjoying parts of it, but his super-short sentences get sort of old, as do his constant mean-spirited and ill-informed tirades against disco.

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

GOD! I should have known! I said the same fucking thing when I reviewed the book! (So did Douglas .)

I ONLY guessed Tate because of the "funk writer" thing--everything else pointed straight away from him.

― M Matos, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A frustrating book, definitely. I'm getting pretty sick of it, frankly, and besides I want to read Foucault's Discipline and Punish more anyway.

― Clarke B., Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So why not 'Discipline and Punish' yourself by finishing the Heads book?

― dave q, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You've got to have a hard, firm base before you piffle with the superstructure, Dave!

― Dare, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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