Lysistrata
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And who judges by the Thanksgiving Parade? When I took writing classes, the first exercise involved the teacher setting a kitchen timer for ten minutes when we had our paper and pens out. The only rules were that our pens were not to leave the page and that there be no going back and scratching out. The pages were not collected or shown to others. It was an exercise in opening up our own minds as to where we went and what could come out of it. It was an exercise of "me, meet me."I am talking about the monkeys who run around claiming that their European roots entitle them to a higher status. People who don't know their Tchaikovsky from their Liszt or Puccini. So they have cowboy hats on and have something to do with cattle. These people are pretending to have ties to European culture that they do not have. Pick a culture from Europe and be on it. I'm listening to Vaughn-Williams now. Before that, Dvorak.
I still question as to where the creative force is among those who criticize "Hollywood" and "the music industry." There is no rule that those who criticize others may not contribute their own talents. Anyone can put together a production company and make a film.
Oh STFU with that shit! Every single Macy's Day Parade song was the same fucking song.
Would it kill them to break out of a single octave, or what? Or do singers not have talent enough to be able to do that these days?
Every song was a shitty pop anthem. Every. Single. One
I do, as it exemplifies the current state of music in America.
That state is sad, I'm here to say.
So contribute something that changes it for you. Do a Springsteen. If a poor boy from the wrong side of the tracks can do it, the son of a bus driver, prison guard, and car manufacturing employee, you can do it, too. It depends on your own creative genius.
You do know Springsteen sucks, right?
He made it originally on anti-war movement type stuff and sentiment.
No. He does not "suck." He made it on his understanding of what human emotion is all about. He got battered about, and he writes from a position of experience, even being in a place in which his parents, who were poor, had another baby to bring home when he was 12 or 13, an infant whom he had to care for.
I have been to many of his live shows. Not to be forgotten. He is a tremendous live performer.
And no, he did not make it on his anti-war stance (although there is a history of that stemming from his loss of a band member in Vietnam and the attempts to draft his own self to fight in Vietnam). As a matter of fact, it was that monkey ronald reagan who dragged him into politics, when reagan said outrageous things about his song "Born in the U.S.A." and he, as the author of this song, was forced to speak out and put a stop to reagan's misuse of his work to further reagan's political deals.