Capitol Hill Blue Forums Misc. Topics Ain't This America What is distinctive about American art and letters

It's taken a long time, but I now revel in my shallowness. I've even come to appreciate Times Square.

Until you wrote that, I had not really thought about it. I remember how much the pops and clicks etc bothered me back in the day... and so I was happy to clean digital recording. But, now as you mention it, I even have a nostalgic fondness for those dusty defects. I never thought I would say that!

But, one thing I do not miss is the struggle to move a large collection of records. OH my. Or finding space to store a large collection

I also notice that I am sometimes inclined to refer to a CD as a Record out of habit,

From the posts by numan I have read I kept thinking he reminded me of someone, and after much pondering it dawned on me that someone was the Paxton Whitehead character Dr. Philip Barbay in the movie Back to School. Pinky fully extended! Now that movie is the pinnacle of American Culture.

OMG we LOOOOOVE Chloe Sevigny...her character is absolute genius!
She's a fantastic actress.
Oh what I would not do for an autographed 8 X 10...my wife would think I was a big mover and shaker.

We're both crazy about the show, and I am a casual acquaintance of one of the former Directors of Photography (I know him through an online video group) who shot one season of the show.

---I wasn't saying that it became unplayable, it certainly does last a long time if cared for.

But using the same audiophile technical measurements and criticalities, one can indeed measure significant loss of both high and low end information from a vinyl record after a dozen plays.

There IS one machine that will NOT wear out a vinyl record.
It costs FIFTEEN GRAND but it uses a LASER instead of a stylus to read the vinyl grooves.

I will look up the make and model later.
It's an amazing piece of technology because it uses modern lasers and therefore nothing touches the record.

Here it is!
Feast your eyes and open your wallets!
The ELP Laser Turntable - only 15 thousand bucks!

Of course the problem is, if you are not playing 100 percent untouched virgin vinyl you WILL hear those pops and clicks very clearly with this machine.

Oh okay after further research I see they have a limited edition with less features for only ten grand.

Well Olyve...

Its common knowledge that Texans do have bigger egos...

As you know...South By Southwest is really a big ordeal. It draws musical artists from far away places, and it's a draw for music business people who want to scout for new talent.

So I guess it might be the "biggest" showcase of musical talent at any single event throughout the country.

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To Numan:

Have you totally lost any sense of love for "your" motherland?

I can't believe that you've developed rigid view of what constitutes art. Really...that's a total surprise. While we're all drawn or attracted to certain types of art, it all gets down to the old saying, "Beauty is in the eye (or ears, or smell, or touch) of the beholder". The more those admire a certain type of art...well, the greater the value, I guess. But one admiring a certain type of art need'nt be a instrument of ridicule.

When I was a young feller...I went to commercial art school and fine art school to learn how to paint in oils.

When I was 13 I use to work at an Art Supply Store on Saturdays...sitting in the display window doing oil paintingsd to attract customers. Well, the place didn't get ran over with customers...so my job only made it through one summer.

When I was 18, I tried to sell my car to buy a Salvador Dali 8X10 wood print for 650.00. It was sold before I could sell my car. That print today is worth about 20 times what I could have bought it for. I'm still crazy about Dali's work.

Also Dali had a young protege. His name was David Smith. He is a genius in his own right.

I also like Georgia O'Keeffe's works.

I'm even a fan of Norman Rockwell.

I'm an incredible fan of Dutch artists who brought to art a new way of presenting light and contrast to paintings.

The world is full of contemporary and of course classic arts that just inspire me and fill me up.

I have to believe that you too are impressed with a much wider range of art that you've led on to admire.

It might do you good to step out and smell the Poppies from time-to-time.

Me, too. But my husband would just look confused. Who's Chloe Sevigny? What's Big Love.

Ye gods, now that I think of it, he might share some qualities with Numan.

I can assure you that "getting everyone's shorts in a knot" has no place in my primary or secondary goals. I merely say what I think. I must admit to being slightly amused at the reaction I get when I criticize those elements of the American psyche which Must Never Be Questioned. Vaunted American tolerance goes only so far --- and a short distance at that!

I admit that I like to laugh at the foibles of other people --- and at my own. Recognition that one is a fool is one of the most elementary requisites for being an adult.

As for being repetitive --- well, other people who post here are as repetitive as I am --- though about other matters. Strangely, they do not ellicit the same animus as my humble jottings do.

Many people are very one-sided in their praise of Mom and Apple Pie, and the other venerated dogmas of the American tribal religion. May not a single person look with a jaundiced and disapproving eye at the dark side of the American scene? But it seems that in the United States, more so than in many other places in the world, people are quick to pound down the nail that sticks up.


It is a simple fact that I have never read or heard of the phrase "My Name is Earl," and I have never watched any prole-feed connected to it.

And I assure you that my pinky is quite athletic.

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nu-man, no one here has suggested, hinted or out right stated that american anything should not be questioned. if you are referring to elsewhere, then be clear about it. if not, then you have once again proven that you are clueless.