Wednesday, June 13, 2007
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good idea!
ehouie.deviantart.com
Be warned:
(I am reiterating)
But for those who don't know
Something should be said for our landlord, Steve Bracket, who got the shit end of the stick. Kate even shittier. We AREN'T losing the studio, we're LEAVING it. Moving (on), drinking Hawaiian Punch, baby training, etc. I ran into Steve. We chuckled. I normally don't chuckle when I am frightened.
I should also say that if whatever-his-name-is did his job correctly, he would have included Kate, Danny, Chris, etc. and Luke's section (a good chunk of the article), would have shrunk significantly. Don't give him too much flak (haha, sorry).
I respected a few sentences of what Luke had to say, thinking that what I had to say was going to be respected in return, but was wrong. You see? I forget. I can't get into that anymore.
Do I think he should be fired? What's the point? If you're going to do that, you might as well fire the whole staff, the editors, as well as the editor's editors. It's the Keene Sentinel, and it is a joke. EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT.
I am not writing a letter to the newspaper. I am a little sick of my own crying about it. The more I thought about it before, the more horrified I was. Yes, I have lost track of how many times I've had the pleasure of repeating that for folks. Because there were a few things in the paper that I didn't say and a few things that got blown out of proportion. Maybe I wasn't clear enough. Those of you who know me know that I don't know what the hell I am saying most of the time (I have had my head firmly planted in my own ass, sometimes other peoples asses), but I thought I was clear (enough) with this one. Kate has done nearly all of the work in setting up shows, and I appreciate that. I don't have the head for that shit. I'm still wrapped up in my own personal catastrophes.
Anyway, that's all I have left of the patience stored inside my mostly vacant skull.All that is left are these awkward little sentences. My vanity will eventually heal itself.
write a letter
"i guess passing the hat wasn't enough." ------I DIDN'T FUCKING SAY THAT!
guess i'll go move to a city
note: Dylan and I gave Freeman Klopott (the writer of the article) all of the relevant names and contact information he needed to include all the major players in the story, so it's not our fault that he contacted Ian and Eric and not Danny and Kate (though he did at least mention Kendra).
This is what journalists do: they have limited space, and they pick & choose what's going to fill that space, often arbitrarily. For example, the quote from Greg Devlin that closed the article hit on many of the same themes that Ian did when Freeman talked to him (Ian told me what he said when he was interviewed), but Freeman used Greg's quote, presumably because it covered the same territory and it happened to be in front of him when he was finishing the piece. I doubt he has anything personal against Ian Durling, or any personal mission to air the views of Greg Devlin. Several other performers who I mentioned to him were excluded entirely, but that's the way it goes. If you want a newspaper/magazine to include the kinds of articles you'd like to see, you have to start one of your own. It's also possible to write to the paper and criticize its articles, and your views will be included in the opinion page.
The funniest part of the article was the section that portrayed all of us as noble Do-It-Yourselfers who "refuse" to work with corporations or other powerful engines of distribution. Because I have little doubt that every one of us would be quite comfortable and happy making lots of money doing what we like to do; if there's any nobility here, it's that (I hope) none of us would CHANGE what we do in order to make that money. But the media loves the tired old template of the Starving Misunderstood Artist, so that's what it pushes. If it were to recognize the fact that many artists would be quite happy to rule the world with iron fists, it might frighten its readers, who prefer the cutely, harmlessly downtrodden.
But Freeman seems like a genial guy, and we might as well bask in the exposure, however flawed it might be. If anyone wants to notify him of anything they're doing in the area, his contact information is posted on the Keene Sentinel's website.
--Luke
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