tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30752941.post116669856530373811..comments2024-02-13T09:30:10.575+00:00Comments on William Bennett: PROPAGATION OF THE FAITHWilliam Bennetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00072523416863877409noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30752941.post-57191032463315895132015-01-24T21:40:20.762+00:002015-01-24T21:40:20.762+00:00" a broadminded collection of individuals (ha..." a broadminded collection of individuals (having freed yourselves from the shackles of your respective belief systems).."<br /><br />If it were only so!<br />It is a ongoing process. <br /><br />I also wonder, art is PART and parcel of WHAT a artist is- and hopefully, this allows one to transcend the wider world.<br /><br />Don't you know this?<br /><br />What it means to the world , is what has poisoned art. Given us cheap, pop trying for meaning that exists about as long as it takes to "get" it and has about as much nourishment, as junk food.<br /><br />Its just as Bacon said, There are too many words spoken on what art "means."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02072205726372799188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30752941.post-1167952349799132922007-01-04T23:12:00.000+00:002007-01-04T23:12:00.000+00:00Well, Mr Bennett and friends, I dread to think wha...Well, Mr Bennett and friends, I dread to think what nasty invective you would have spewed in my direction if I’d actually slagged Whitehouse off. What exactly do you expect anyone writing about art to do? Yes, the Noise article (not a Whitehouse review or feature, remember) was indeed about me, to the extent that it was my attempt to provide an overview of the year’s music-making in a particular genre, based on what I’d heard over the previous 12 months. Being such a broadminded collection of individuals (having freed yourselves from the shackles of your respective belief systems) can you not accept that any work takes on a life of its own for each listener? It just happens to be my name at the top of the article this time. That’s the bit that tells you whose opinions you’ll find on that page.<BR/> So forgive me if I actually presented some of my personal thoughts about the Whitehouse project. Excuse me, Mr Bennett, for trying to examine how your art works and positing a few theories as to what it might mean and what its place might be in the wider world. I would have thought you’d have appreciated my attempt to write about your work without the usual recourse to sensationalism and biographical conjecture, but your reaction to my piece seems to suggest that Whitehouse is indeed as solipsistic and self-indulgent a project as many of your detractors claim. Why else would you make the automatic assumption that the “failure” I describe in the piece is your own? <BR/> You’re right, for the piece in question I was completely uninterested in what you (or the many other artists mentioned) feel about your work and how it functions. I was surveying what I perceived to be some common trends in the work of the artists I mentioned, not their personal drives and intentions. You, on the other hand, seem strangely and somewhat alarmingly obsessed with The Man Behind The Words. <BR/> You’re final rant is frankly incomprehensible, so I’ll just answer the questions one by one. 1) The article didn’t pay me enough to help clear any bills. 2) I doubt I could relate any future increase in the amount of sex I’m getting to the publication of the article. 3) I don’t have a journalistic CV. 4) I don’t know anyone to network with. 5) Put it this way: I don’t believe that success in my field has anything to do with being paid more than pocket money to do it, or sleeping with people who are impressed by those that do it, or having a career plan in it, or hobnobbing with other people who do it. (You’ll note that I’m not automatically assuming that this last question is a snide personal attack on my lack of success as you see it. I’m sure that you would never be so, shall we say, narrowminded as to base any notion of success purely on fame and wealth.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30752941.post-1167136224221578252006-12-26T12:30:00.000+00:002006-12-26T12:30:00.000+00:00Leave it William, they're not worth it...Leave it William, they're not worth it...steve davieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11677939299599241840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30752941.post-1166866835283589882006-12-23T09:40:00.000+00:002006-12-23T09:40:00.000+00:00Its like, I read this blog entry, and like, the re...Its like, I read this blog entry, and like, the rest of your blog, and yet, I still thought the preamble was like, in reference to that sleeper hit HBO show, The Wire. Cos like, on the urban radio stations in Philadelphia like, that's all they talk about and so, yeah, I thought that was what you were talking about, even though like, I saw you say the thing about that magazine, which like yeah. Jeeze.zacpistolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01028290429839306672noreply@blogger.com