You think you know me?...
Aug. 24th, 2007 06:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
...What others tell you won't be true.
Since it came up yesterday on the big board, I feel justified in letting you guys know where you can read my Las Vegas Weekly columns for yourself. (Despite what the numbering system implies ["twelve"], there have been fourteen so far, starting at the beginning of June.)
Links to all my columns
Page two of the links to all my columns
We discuss these things every week on my livejournal (most recent discussion here).
( I say several things about what I think I'm trying to do )
The Rules Of The Game #5: What's Wrong With Pretty Girls?
The Backstreet Boys piece.
The issue - "they don't write their own songs" - is a stand-in for something else. But this doesn't mean that there is a clear but unspoken Real Reason behind it that we can easily ferret out, or a set of Underlying Beliefs of which the reason is an expression. What stand-in issues do isn't so much to conceal some Real Issue as to leave issues and ideas inchoate.
So what this piece is fundamentally doing is taking a stick and poking around to see what some of those inchoate issues and ideas might be. (So it's not not not primarily concerned with refuting someone's idea about how authorship makes a piece of music valid or invalid. Rather, it's interested in understanding how the idea came about, what the idea thinks it's trying to accomplish, and what the idea evades. And - to reiterate - it doesn't assume that the ideas and issues are someone else's but not mine.)
Since it came up yesterday on the big board, I feel justified in letting you guys know where you can read my Las Vegas Weekly columns for yourself. (Despite what the numbering system implies ["twelve"], there have been fourteen so far, starting at the beginning of June.)
Links to all my columns
Page two of the links to all my columns
We discuss these things every week on my livejournal (most recent discussion here).
( I say several things about what I think I'm trying to do )
The Rules Of The Game #5: What's Wrong With Pretty Girls?
The Backstreet Boys piece.
The issue - "they don't write their own songs" - is a stand-in for something else. But this doesn't mean that there is a clear but unspoken Real Reason behind it that we can easily ferret out, or a set of Underlying Beliefs of which the reason is an expression. What stand-in issues do isn't so much to conceal some Real Issue as to leave issues and ideas inchoate.
So what this piece is fundamentally doing is taking a stick and poking around to see what some of those inchoate issues and ideas might be. (So it's not not not primarily concerned with refuting someone's idea about how authorship makes a piece of music valid or invalid. Rather, it's interested in understanding how the idea came about, what the idea thinks it's trying to accomplish, and what the idea evades. And - to reiterate - it doesn't assume that the ideas and issues are someone else's but not mine.)