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Post by isaacs on Mar 4, 2006 15:34:15 GMT 10
I think it might function as a kitchen bench. Don't really remember. Don't care.
PS Ironguts' questions are good.
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Post by Kenny on Mar 4, 2006 15:36:25 GMT 10
PS Ironguts' questions are good. I agree. Thanks Ironguts! |
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Post by jazzpolice on Mar 4, 2006 15:52:42 GMT 10
i'd like to know if you re-work your own music the way the re-work other people's. By this i mean: do you re-visit old compositions of yours and re-composed/arrange them with a new concept? I even get a new tune out of them?
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Post by jvmac on Mar 4, 2006 15:52:46 GMT 10
That's alwight Mark, 'ebony and ivory living together in harmony' quote Michael Jackson.
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Post by vickijane on Mar 4, 2006 16:05:18 GMT 10
Kenny I had no idea you were a Liberace fan too! I love Liberace. I have some items from his museum in Vegas. I nearly bought his cookbook (autographed) on ebay but it was too pricey even for me but I do have his recipe for Liberace's Sticky Buns, should anyone feel inclined to cook them.
He was actually a very good pianist which some people ignore/forget because of the camp attire I think. His autobiography is (unintentionally I believe) hilarious. The Annie Leibovitz photo of Lee with his chauffer is my favourite image of him. I have a copy in a special place in my home.
Thank you for making my day!
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Post by Kenny on Mar 4, 2006 16:07:33 GMT 10
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Post by Kenny on Mar 4, 2006 16:08:19 GMT 10
Liberace's Sticky Buns? You've got to be shitting me ...
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Post by vickijane on Mar 4, 2006 16:23:17 GMT 10
No I'm not! I have it on the back of a postcard of Lee in his ultra tacky piano kitchen.
Here's a question suggestion for Mark: Being a highly successful musician himself would he share some insight as to why musicians like Morrison, Grabowsky and Chindamo polarise the Australian jazz community?
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Post by timothystevens on Mar 4, 2006 17:00:45 GMT 10
That's an easy one. Because there's good and good. Or rather, there's proficient, there's virtuosic, and there's significant. There's idiomatic and creative. There's an audience that's happy to be convinced by the familiar, and another one that wants to be tested. Because the negotiation of a satisfactory blend of the received and the personal is a bloody business. And because behind all this bluster, even behind this bulletin board, we're having a massive struggle for identity and recognition.
I'm quite prepared to get into trouble for this, so go ahead folks: do your worst.
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Post by Kenny on Mar 4, 2006 17:12:18 GMT 10
There's an audience that's happy to be convinced by the familiar, and another one that wants to be tested. I think quite a few of us are both, often at the same time. Interesting comments, Tim, but I'm not quite sure why you think you're going to get into "trouble" for them - or even what SORT of trouble you're talking about. |
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Post by tinky on Mar 4, 2006 18:53:11 GMT 10
Hey Tim, thats good. No trouble for you I recon. Shall we play a matching game with your terms and the Artists? ( I've chosen my matches) Maybe then the trouble would start.
I'd like to hear more of your ideas on this if you're willing to share. Thats the second time you've mentioned today the idea of struggle, the other being something about creative ones being silenced.
The struggle for identity and recognition is huge in todays society and definately big in our world of music.
I hope at least that we as artists can focus on gaining recognition through identity. It seems to me that with Big Brother, Ausy Idol, X-factor etc, that identity is gained through recognition and is leading to a pathetic state of affairs. Even on Australia day on the steps of Government House we had BBrother and Aus Idol representing our culture, now thats sad shit indeed. These people only have recognition to offer, famous for being famous but nothing subtantial there at all, and it is supported and applauded by the public and seemingly the government.
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Post by betty on Mar 4, 2006 23:02:42 GMT 10
That's an easy one. Because there's good and good. Or rather, there's proficient, there's virtuosic, and there's significant. There's idiomatic and creative. There's an audience that's happy to be convinced by the familiar, and another one that wants to be tested. Because the negotiation of a satisfactory blend of the received and the personal is a bloody business. And because behind all this bluster, even behind this bulletin board, we're having a massive struggle for identity and recognition. I'm quite prepared to get into trouble for this, so go ahead folks: do your worst. um..... since u askd.... rnt these sposed 2 b ideas 4 qs 4 kennyweir 2 put 2 mark isaacs? but ur ansa is intrsting anyhow ! |
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Post by vickijane on Mar 5, 2006 13:49:23 GMT 10
Hey Tim, thats good. No trouble for you I recon. Shall we play a matching game with your terms and the Artists? ( I've chosen my matches) Maybe then the trouble would start. I'd like to hear more of your ideas on this if you're willing to share. Thats the second time you've mentioned today the idea of struggle, the other being something about creative ones being silenced. The struggle for identity and recognition is huge in todays society and definately big in our world of music. I hope at least that we as artists can focus on gaining recognition through identity. It seems to me that with Big Brother, Ausy Idol, X-factor etc, that identity is gained through recognition and is leading to a pathetic state of affairs. Even on Australia day on the steps of Government House we had BBrother and Aus Idol representing our culture, now thats sad shit indeed. These people only have recognition to offer, famous for being famous but nothing subtantial there at all, and it is supported and applauded by the public and seemingly the government. I'm not fully aware of what went on at Government House as I missed invasion day altogether. Public acclaim for third rate artists is not new; it’s been going on for thousands of years. Yet, I agree with Tinky and can't stomach the ‘famous-in-15 minutes-through-marketing-driven- TV-state-of-affairs’. Sadly, that ghastly, rank, money driven pap is indeed a huge part of Australian culture and most other countries with a lower infant mortality rate these days. How lucky we are to be so rich! |
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Post by cartman on Mar 5, 2006 17:33:32 GMT 10
dudes forget helping Mark cheat ! answer the dumbass qeustions i gotta do for my school assignment you get total satisfaction knowing you helped a poor little kid make it through school
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