So much for the IPO.
Posts remain unread. MP3s that are the result of blood & labor remain unheard. And I remain friendless.
"My" Space has never seemed so truly accurate a name...
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3 comments:
MySpace was meant to be a music network, but no it's just so... sleazy? I don't know which is worse: A) I get pictures of women's butts in my MySpace e-mail weekly, or that B) Rupert Murdoch owns Myspace.
B is pretty bad. A, I've not actually had to deal with. Just the occasional note from "Tom."
My initial reaction to this post was 'boo fuckin' hoo' but that seemed unnecessarily harsh, and likely any humor would have been lost through the neutralization of the medium.
That said, MYSpace does in fact require you to create a page with them in order to comment, something I remain ambivalent about, and so haven't done.
As to the larger issue, as I have a long history of seeming to ignore your creative pursuits, despite promises to the contrary, there is a explanation for it, even if you may not find it satisfying.
The difficulty of critiquing something which is so clearly 'bloody and laborious' and perhaps 'of your soul' is that were I (or any of us) to comment negatively that could be taken as a direct dishonor to you, and make life unduly complicated. It's a bit of a cop out, to be sure, but risking trodding on something that is so personal makes me wary. And to comment ambiguously or fatuously seems a disservice.
So, what generally happens is that I make promises to comment, followed by a time of earnest desire to do so, during which I struggle to come terms with the nature of my criticism, which inevitably continues until so much time elapses that it seems to have lost the moment of meaning.
That and, as much ink has been spilt regarding, our perception of music is like night and day. I'm not sure I have useful criticism to give.
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