ideology rarely pays the bills
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "seek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "list 313" <313@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: (313) Disco D on CNN
Uh, he's doing the 'real' - it's called making a living. Yeah, his talk
is
his talk - but it got him on CNN which is great for his career which means
he'll be able to pay the mortgage and maybe go on vacation now and then.
You know, have a life. What are you doing to pay the bills and how is it
anymore 'real' than what anyone else is doing?
'Real' doesn't always cut it in reality and when the f*ck did you become
the authority on what is 'real' for Dave and his life anyway?
MEK
"seek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/26/2006 01:28:25 PM:
----- Original Message -----
From: <Michael.Elliot-Knight
Excuses, excuses, excuses, excuses nothing.
Disco D!!!! Disco Fnkcing D!!!!!!!!!
Forget "underground". Try 'real'.
> Of course he sought out opportunities - anyone who is smart and wants
to
> make some money using their talents would do the same.
>
> And hey, you're right, it's 2006 and commercial work is just part of
the
> whole picture now - get over it. Selling your music for adverts isn't
> selling out anymore.
> It's called paying the bills so that you don't have to take a job
waiting
> on f*cking tables with assh*les as customers. D is getting paid to
make
> ring-tones! Ring tones dude.
> I mean - bang out a number of those in an afternoon and get paid some
good
> money? It'd take a week of waiting tables with people tipping BIG to
make
> as much money as he can get from one or two tunes. Ah, but I guess
making
> money doing something you like isn't underground enough.
>
> MEK
>
> "seek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/26/2006 12:52:02 PM:
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kent Williams"
>> If people want to complain about his work that's fine, but he's pieced
>> together a living out of the opportunities presented to him, and
>> there's no inherent shame in that. We all got to pay the bills.
>> ========================
>>
>>
>> Yeah, there's no shame in waiting tables, either, and it can pay the
> bills
>> and it doesn't reek of a desire to be a star in a sick culture no
matter
>> the price of fame. And he sought out those "presented" opportunities:
>> he's a glory hog, obviously. That is a shame, imo.
>>
>> btw, I finally saw that "refreshing" VISA ad with 'Looking for the
>> Perfect Beat',
>> showing on a tv in a store where I'd purchased a daily 'paper
>> (reading: it's fun-damental),
>> and was struck by how much the dick with the checkbook looked like a
>> straight/normal
>> version of Disco D! And the worm wasn't on the beat, either.
>> Lame. Not even cool,
>> not even a tiny, worm-sized bit.
>>
>> Seriously, though, how can any of you take some white guy in the
>> year 2006 calling
>> himself Disco D seriously, seriously?!?! Disco D!!! Disco D!!!!!!!!
>> It's just too fncking funny!!!!!!!!
>> Are you all sure that guy's not really Ali G, taking the piss?!!!!
>>
>> seek
>>
>
