saragei wrote:Perfectly on-topic....
I wasn't implying otherwise, but he quoted me specifically, which usually indicates he was responding directly to that quote. To wit...
Word wrote:I guess I'm using that anecdote as an example to say that Slov's posts would be a more pleasurable experience for all of us if he'd have some wit or if he could filter something original out of the music he's presenting.
OK, after rereading it (it was early the first time) I
guess I get your overall commentary, but two things. First thing: it's irrelevant to my post, including the specific part you quoted. I don't know if you don't understand what I was saying, or were just using it as an impetus to go on one of your odd little musings. My criticism wasn't about a lack of wit or originality (although that's obviously true of him). It was that he mindlessly celebrates modern-day minstrelsy. You think I was talking about medieval minstrels or something? No, man, the
American Minstrel show; that's why I made the remark about
blackface earlier. (Both of those articles are really insufficient, but enough to clue you in.) This stuff is f*cking important.
The other aspect of that criticism was that he may be incapable of understanding or accepting this fact—for a variety of reasons ranging from cultural and historical ignorance (of both African-American and American in general) and
white privilege, to his own simple obstinate stupidity and shallowness.
(Note, I'm referring to the criticism directed specifically at Slov, putting aside Titanoboa for now; although some of that does apply.)
As an aside, another term I used in that post with which you all may not be familiar:
Cultural appropriation. Again, an insufficient article, but something to get you started.
Second thing: Slov may be an abject moron, but by comparing him to someone with a legitimate mental disability you're denigrating and reinforcing false and negative attitudes against
those who can't help it by using them, their very existence, as an insult. Same goes for all that "herp derp" stuff, by the way. You may not have consciously intended it as an overt insult in your larger commentary, but you treaded closely, and actually perhaps even more so in the second post.
Lastly, I don't think 'ethology' is the word you wanted to use up there.
vogue wrote:Listening to my fav album, Exploded Drawing, atm. ^^
I can do without a few of the songs on
Exploded Drawing. I consider
Cor-Crane Secret and
Celebrate the New Dark Age the "quintessential" Polvo, myself—possibly because they were the first I heard, but I also just think they're the frickin' rawkin' best.
So, did you pay for it? Do you believe Touch and Go is a powerful, corrupt, greedy corporate label; or that the guys from Polvo are lavishly rich rock stars?
EDIT: Just the end bit.
