[Dixielandjazz] Fw: Not Dada

[Rob McCallum]

> Hi Charlie and all,
>
> That wasn't what I was trying to say.  That thought came out of a comment
> that Burt made about different motives of music and different ruts that
> people find themselves in.  What struck a chord with me (musical content),
> and it has less to do with music and art than the way people live their
> lives, was the idea that people become "comfortable" (we tend to structure
> our lives in order to be comfortable), and that that impacts our desire to
> move out of the comfortable zone we've created.
>
> My 1% aren't artists who piss on icons, but people who seem to live life
to
> it's fullest by continually changing and exploring (you know, like people
we
> watch on t.v. and admire them because they don't seem to be afraid to take
> chances - like on the biography channel! and sometimes it pays off for
them
> and sometimes it doesn't, but it's always interesting).  So we, the other
> 99%, "aren't willing to push out past the point where 'our' comfortable
> notions will be challenged (and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with
> that), we "suspect" that people who are willing to accept more risk and
> change into their lives, lead more interesting lives, but not enough so
that
> we jeopardize our stable situation by introducing more change into our own
> lives.  That's all I was saying, just musing at the keyboard.
>
> Another reason why the thought occurred to me is because I am almost an
> anti-risk type of person.  My life is very comfortable and structured and
> because I'm so guarded to maintain that level, I've come to believe that
it
> does have an impact on creativity.  In that original post (which I don't
> think I posted to the list) I mentioned that I had a teacher who told me
> never to play music just after eating.  I think this is because then the
> body is satisfied and full and that satisfied "comfortable" feeling
inhibits
> creative desire.  I was branching that thought out a bit and saying also
> that a physically comfortable lifestyle in general has that same type of
> effect on creative desire of any kind.
>
> So before someone calls Tony Robbins for me,  I'll sign off.
>
> All for now,
> Rob McCallum
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Charlie Hooks <charliehooks at earthlink.net>
> To: DJML Dixieland Jazz <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 6:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Dadaism and early jazz
>
>
> > on 5/30/03 12:37 AM, Rob McCallum at rakmccallum at hotmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > I think that we suspect that people who are
> > > continually challenging themselves and are more in a state of flux and
> who
> > > embrace and encourage change lead more interesting lives, but 99% of
> people
> > > aren't willing to push out past the point where their comfortable
> notions
> > > will be challenged and perhaps jeopardized.
> >
> > Rob, please:
> >
> >     You are one of my favorite younger people.  So stop this and
> distinguish
> > more clearly:
> >
> >     There are most (I'll use your 99%) of the people who want to
venerate
> an
> > image of the Virgin (or of Buddha, or of whomever) and about 1 %
> ("artists")
> > who want to piss on this icon.  Usually that 1 % (or whatever percent
you
> > choose) is comprised of the young turks who know relatively little but
> have
> > enormous urgings to save the world and to assuage every grievance.
> Knowing
> > next to nothing about history and interested in even less, they love
> > rhetoric and the sound of words.  They've seen movies.  They love
> posturing,
> > imitating photographs of adulated poor folk, hands raised and hungry
> mouths
> > open like birds.
> >
> >     Rob, there are reasons for our "comfortable notions."  Quite often
> they
> > are good reasons.  Its having been around for centuries is not a reason
> for
> > peeing on any idea; on the contrary, age may suggest fundamental truth.
> >
> >     Many young folk are growing old every day; that's how it works.  Why
> > should we older folk, having passed through all the years and learned
many
> > of the lessons only now being presented to you younger folk, be fair
game
> > targets for your urine?  Why should we not be regarded as assets?
> >
> >     We've been through a lot; we've come out on this side; maybe--just
> > maybe--we've learned something valuable and are willing to tell you
about
> > it. You should ask us.  You should listen and consider.  We may be, all
of
> > us, entirely full of shit.  But unless you listen to us and consider
what
> we
> > are saying, then how the hell do you know?
> >
> > your fan,
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> >
> >
> >
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