08.20.06
8-20-06
As much as I like writing my other blog I am quickly finding out that I can’t be as quick witted or hot tempered there. There is a certain amount of respectability I want to maintain with that particular blog, for the kids if nothing else, but this blog will be important for diaristic reasons. Mainly to vent about the sorry start of the art in my local area. The Pennlive blog is me trying to use some positive reinforcement and nickel words with a folksy delivery. This blog will I hope be a little more raw and – unapologetic. So I am going to continue to write here as well – because I do have many opinions but also a delivery system and sheer force of will that is uncontrollable in certain circumstances.
I guess what pisses me off most about this area is the total lack of respect for true thought, not the superficial musings of the remaining bullshit beatnicks who sit around spouting wannabe truisms and nodding in agreement if something said remotely resembles articulation.
Cool art is those works that are provoking and not dependant on shock value to shake perceptions. Cool art is that where technical intelligence matches underlying messages, either known or subliminally extracted by an artist sensitive enough for the task. Cool artists are ones wise enough to take in varied information from all walks of life and scrub that information through their own value systems to come to their own conclusions. That is called respect, that is lack of egotism, and egotism is the scourge of good ideas and cool art.
I hear some people saying – if you write a blog isn’t that a form of egotism? Well – this blog may be a rant/vent but it is also a platform for trying to talk about ideas with something resembling honest inquisition for personal development. In the respect of taste I will, for now, refrain from flaunting my own ego on the bathroom stalls of the internet until such a time as I have a sufficiently permanent marker. That day will come – through force of will.
