Comments on: Ashtag, Classtag, Asstag

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:43:52 +0000

ditto craig’s comment. I live in Knoxville and Big Ears introduced me to your music and Sam Amidon’s. Ashley, a dear old friend , told me your music was not to be missed and it wasn’t. Thanks to all of you for a wonderful three days.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:05:31 +0000

By: twilightsidol

twilightsidol — Mon, 03 May 2010 00:13:53 +0000

So, yah: fuck them, and everyone they know. And, if you think _this_ is mean-spirited, then ur clearly oblivious to the banal offenses against decency that ‘mos deal with every day.\n(btw: I <3 John Waters)\nThanks for the polemic

By: peter john boyle

peter john boyle — Sat, 01 May 2010 20:22:42 +0000

its cool that you are owning this absurd prejudice over gay/straight composers, cool because you are owning your youth and your lack of actual experience LIVING.
In my life it has been great to discover how many great artists who exist on the low end of the Kinsey scale, are truly distinguished….from hollywood to
the orchestral arena and every art form in and around them. But to see that logic turned backwards and presumed upon is not great.

By: P. Gerlat

P. Gerlat — Sat, 01 May 2010 07:39:00 +0000

curious to get your thoughts on the argument that advocacy of gay marriage amounts to a conformist impulse, or a perplexing effort to imitate the central feature of heterosexual life. That is to say, why not embrace what’s unique about gayness, accept that there’s something fundamentally, perhaps refreshingly, subversive about it? take, for example, John Waters’ (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) comments on the subject:

â€œI always thought the privilege of being gay is that we donâ€™t have to get married or go in the Army … I personally have no desire to imitate a fairly corny, expensive heterosexual tradition, though I certainly know gay couples who are married who should be.â€

–John Waters, New Yorker, 3/26/07

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2007/03/26/070326ta_talk_mead

“Being gay used to mean being an outlaw, it used to mean you were bohemian, it used to be that you embraced your lunacy rather than trying to imitate the boring life of suburban middle America.” –John Waters, nerve.com

http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/smith/stillwaters

By: jake z plumber

jake z plumber — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:08:03 +0000

oh comon frank, you downplay your ability to limit the freedom of expression! I remember being silenced by you for the duration of an entire party in vermont,
just because you hissed “not a word out of you” as we got out of the car.

By: henri

henri — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:05:58 +0000

I love you when you’re feisty! Yes, keep going, we DID have enough of that bullshit. Let’s NOT just roll our eyes anymore or make a little quip; no, we need to yell back at them and throw that shit right back into their laps and faces.

By: frank

frank — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:26:23 +0000

Husband of a Jewess? Hmmmm…I prefer to think of my relationship with your mother as a lower East Side progressive “East Village Other” Jew-babe backsliding into a marriage with a lapsed Lutheran who grew up thinking that homophobia was preferable to hydrophobia. Now it’s all I can do to stop her from getting a portrait of Timothy McVeigh tatooed on her butt . And if you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you, one that you can see from your window, over the heads of the mah-jongg players and the live chickens. Glad you made it to Newcastle, with coal in your pockets.

By: Josh McNeill

Josh McNeill — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:00:00 +0000

It’s hard to complain about the NY Phil’s need to make everything way too formal when they’re finally taking some chances on new music. I don’t follow their programming but I suspect that they don’t normally play music written after 1930. They’ll get used to it, hopefully, and adopt less alienating methods of putting on concerts eventually.

As far as your political correspondence, the only reason I would have left the subject alone is because being conservative or liking Sean Hannity doesn’t mean that you hate gays or take on every one of your idol’s beliefs respectively. It’s quite possible the kid agreed with everything except the civil rights stances of these nutbags, quite a few conservatives are like that.

By: susan

susan — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:11:54 +0000

By: craig

craig — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:45:28 +0000

please post draft one.

By: charles sullivan

charles sullivan — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:24:24 +0000

listen to your sage father’s wise advice.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:26:49 +0000

Hi .I canÂ´t find the schedule of the tour .Can you link me to the events timeline?I am from Portugalk and I really would love to see one performance here in Lisbon .The Seagulls are here for you…