koolthing

Hey. I just wanted to say sorry for being such a dick last night. I was in "some state".
Anyhoo.Sorry.

Wow. Family is a bitch, isn't it? Either that or a blessing, I'm not sure which. teaches for peaches?

your right

Lewd Bastard!

Just read your "airplane thoughts"....Interesting side effects of airplane trips.
I used to think exactly the same thoughts some years ago, when I was working in the advertisement industry: when I started thinking the same not only during idle hours but when at work as well, I finally concluded it was time to quit... I found out later that, although advertising is the activity that asks for the biggest amount of compromising in the world, other jobs ask for lots of compromising as well... Long time I didn't fly: I wonder what I would think of now...

I read back a few days. Using the (sweet!) new SG features, I see you'd added me as a friend...why, thank you. Anyway, as far as compromise goes, I think it's a virtual inevitablility in any artistic medium. I think the group that has the most autonomy is probably writers. They don't have the pressure of seeing an audience react to their work; they don't have to go somewhere, hire out a hall, club, or gallery, and do it. All they have to do is 1) get a publisher, 2) collect the cash.
Of course, that's not totally true. BIG publishers make them do PR and (mis)represent them in adverts, and critics can dog them. And of course, as far as number two, there is precious little cash. It was a real eye-opener for me to read Anthony Burgess's autobiographies...I'd never thought about how authors 1) controlled translations in other languages/countries 2) got paid by foreign publishers. The answers are 1) they don't 2) they most often don't.
Still, I think the other art media have many more audience/ journalism/ business pressures. And if you present art to the public often enough, there are strange compromises to be made.

Sorry to hear that you're having a rough go of it. You still in town, or did you head out?

I just hope you enjoyed the disc... and how was the festival? How was Friday?

glad you made it there safe.
i'll make of list of stuff

:kisses:
It will work out in the end
fenix

No Dar es Salaam for me, sadly I've done nowhere near the traveling I'd like to do. I hope the big meeting on Friday went well, and good luck with the closure as well as the trip in general. Softcore turned out to be a great little show, unfortunate that they followed some emo band that was totally unlike their sound. It would be nice sometime if local band promoters took a bit more time to be familiar with the acts they lined up. It ought to be that if you love and respect the music enough, it will all come together and you'll get the money. I think it's gotten twisted around so that they love and respect the money so much, and only occasionally does the music connect the way it should. Enough about my being sad about the state of the industry... have a great time at Coachella, and look forward to your next post (wherever it may come from)...

trilo

i used to have BIG dar es salaam plans. even put away some so i could sort out something there and stay awhile, maybe doing dreads, etc for the travellers while working with the locals in other ways.

have now kinda blown those plans out as the boy has no mind to go there and is stuck on his australia dream. not sure if australia could be my dream as well so may still go see it this summer when its at its worst to decide.

so when are you thinking of heading to d.e.s? need a travelling compadre...xxx

I put more pics of my tatts up

i posted a thread re nina simone on the jazz site, nobody seemed interested. it really brought me down - she was amazing.

be well,

ph

hope you had a great night, i know i did... lock... wednesday... hmmm

Good talking to you again.
Let me know when you are planning the South Africa trip. We should hang again sometime. Maybe we'll see ya at Spaceland on Wed night.