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Re:>Subject: (TV) Non TV but a read to discuss
At 4:54 AM +0000 12/28/02, sam matthews wrote:
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 15:55:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Jay <piazzasanmarco@yahoo.com posts:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/29/magazine/29RAMONE.html
wow. this article has that defensive david lee roth "rock-
critics-only- like-elvis- costello- because- they- look- like- him"
tone to it.
What I find interesting about the article is that it's a cookbook
grad-school post-deconstruction move: take conventional logic (Dee
Dee Ramone was more important than the Ratt guy) and argue its
opposite. Big whoop.
Check out that pithy nugget about "good taste" being "a subjective
device used to create gaps in the intellectual class structure."
This could be restated as "The Ramones being more important than
soundtrack-of-my-working-class-life Ratt? It's the academic
intellectual Man keeping me down!" And of course this writer isn't
one of those enfranchised tastemaker rock critics--no, he's on the
barricades with the common man, baby. You know, the kind of people
who read essays just like this one in the New York Times. Wait, you
mean those people *don't* read essays like this one in the NYT? Oh.
Well then it's written for people who *do* read these essays in the
NYT (enfranchised tastemaker wannabes who don't listen to Ratt) but
who feel guilty about it.
Sadly, I don't think that describes anyone who actually read it, and
the above is just meant to demonstrate how odd and misguided I find
the writer's stance. The tidbit about the Ratt guy being the first
80s hair guy to die from AIDS was news, however.
--
Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/
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