Is it a cheap shot if it's deserved though? I wonder.
Some things do suck. That cocksucker butchering Bluebird in Ponder's post, VALERIAN, Linsay Lohan records
I appreciate your discontent with the Track. It was not my intention to disrespect the Bukowski's work in any way. [...] The goal being to promote Bukowski's work, not mine... In a way that I felt allowed the poem a degree of access and appeal to the average joe, which it may not have had otherwise.[/QUOTE]Two big "buts" here, partner; first, I didn't listen to or express any discontent with "the track."
Second, the "average Joe" does not listen to electronica. The average Joe listens to
Proud to be an American, the music on commercials on ESPN, and whatever his girlfriend tunes the radio to when they are in the truck together.
You can see by the musical tastes in a few threads here that this is not an "average Joe" crowd, so you have to expect that the bar is going to be raised a little higher for whatever you bring through the door.
There is no shame in promoting your creative work here.
Lots of us do it. But if I pimp my books or art or glitter covered Converse high tops incessantly and someone buys from me and then comes in here and says, "You know, this is crap," then I have to take that criticism as it comes.
My question, going back to the beginning of this, is why you consider what you did art. I am interested because I happen to experience a lot of art in my life, and a lot of times I say, "This isn't art, it's a pile of tar paper," "This is just a jar full of bottle caps," or "He's just hitting a pillow with a stick, how is that music?" and I get in arguments with people who apparently know more about art than I do, because they say I'm wrong. It is art.
But at least they try to explain to me
why it's art. We may not agree when all is said and done, but they don't say, "Well, I couldn't explain why. It's like trying to describe the smell of rotten fish to someone born without a sense of smell," which is sort of what you did.
