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Also, good health is taken as simply the way things are, until you get really sick.

I love Melville.

That makes me sad.

I was talking to my friend last night about the unique position of live musicians in the different media of art- they get immediate feedback from the audience. When a writer puts down a good couple of paragraphs, you don't hear 200 drunks go, "AAAOOOOOOW!!" When a sculpture perfectly nails a nymphs eyebrow-ridge, there aren't 50,000 people chanting, "Ro-DIN! Ro-DIN!!"

It's something that's always intrigued me- the balance between playing for other people and playing for one's self.
A good an example as any is Van Morrison's contractual-obligation album. Now, everyone will tell you it's awful. Big fans. Casual fans. The man on the street. Critics. The label owner he was trying to piss off. Even Van himself will tell you he was making shit. ...so why can't I stop listening to these songs, over and over?
Anyway, I was just pondering the options open to a musician who's audience stops buying, or gives the tepid-claps at a show: regress to previous, popular style (and failing or becoming rote), regress to previous, popular style (and doing quite nicely), flailing around in style-shift desperation, stubbornly doing the unpopular, quitting, etc.
I just don't think any other artisitic field requires its practicers to respond with quite the same alertness.

it's like the M/A/R/R/S video, man- 1987 was dope.

wow - amazing stuff, man. it illuminates the peaceful and serious persona i've had the pleasure to perceive so far.

makes me feel that i owe it to you to follow through with my own. i must still shake my fist at you a bit for tagging me, though.

gimme a little time, and i'll have something.

i find it funny. the whole 20 questions think after reading june's i came to the conclusion that the four of us (kids included of course) have to get together. the simularities are incredible. i can totally relate to everything you related. from family to sisters to spending time alone. what the hell....we did switch places

I would like to read a LIST OF 20 THINGS about you

let me know if you decide to do this

i don't want to miss it

Bill Murray is the only guy I'd let say that to me

thanks for the links and such, man. that is not an avenue i've pursued much at all, as it seems so overwhelming - but with my iPod fired up, i'm ready to reach out. it's nice to have a launching point.

re: the research you've done - are you writing this stuff freelance, or is there a publication you work for?

I'll have to check that out when I get home tonight, thanks.

you confused me.

I was asking about you this morning. I hope you feel better soon. I'm trying to figure out the logistics of mailing you something special.

Sweet, I'll check it out later...

That rocks.

yeh...minutemen.... SO 1983!

رائع مختار بعنايه, نادر, نفيس

Thanks for the Birthday wishes...belated or not they are still appreciated....
I'm willing to bet that a nice pair of mammories affects the salivatory glands of both you and your son equally, haha. My son is 6 now and he's still fixated on breasts, I think it's something we don't ever grow out of.

i've been enjoying yr quotes lately.....!

Thanks for the pumpkin love. Nice story 'bout the Cocteau trip, too. And now, a quote for you that pertains to your 'crooked assholes' remark, but not so much to baby shit up to your eyes.

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

Lincoln's First Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861.

Cheers!