Hogan legdrop sends 14 to hospital
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 8:37 pm
Being from space may be a diliberate and concious metaphor, okay. Stating "I am from space" instead of saying "To most of you, the details of my life and lineage are unimportant, or should be, and your history and culture have made it impossible to truly know them anyway." Is an obfuscation -- one that worked on me -- and I still consider it bullshit.
I have read interviews with Sun Ra, and I have witnessed his antics on film, and I think he was about eighty percent bullshit in how he conducted himself publicly. I don't think this invalidates his music, I don't think his music is insincere or phony in the least, and I don't pretend to know why he behaved the way he did.
His shtick was obviously for my benefit (that's not the right word, but it'll do), or for the consumption of those outside his immediate circle, and that's precisely the sort of obfuscation and self-reinventing mythmaking I said earlier that I cannot be impressed by.
I feel the same about most made-up stories people tell when they are uncomfortable about the truth (or expressing it) in public. If you don't want to say something, then don't. If you want to say something else entirely, then say that.
I would rather remain unimpressed by showbusiness than pretend it is beyond me, or that it should be indulged.
I have read interviews with Sun Ra, and I have witnessed his antics on film, and I think he was about eighty percent bullshit in how he conducted himself publicly. I don't think this invalidates his music, I don't think his music is insincere or phony in the least, and I don't pretend to know why he behaved the way he did.
His shtick was obviously for my benefit (that's not the right word, but it'll do), or for the consumption of those outside his immediate circle, and that's precisely the sort of obfuscation and self-reinventing mythmaking I said earlier that I cannot be impressed by.
I feel the same about most made-up stories people tell when they are uncomfortable about the truth (or expressing it) in public. If you don't want to say something, then don't. If you want to say something else entirely, then say that.
I would rather remain unimpressed by showbusiness than pretend it is beyond me, or that it should be indulged.