I am almost 99 percent certain this was an e-mail (written) interview. I think Jeff maybe writes a little more formally than he speaks. This often happens with e-mail interviews, people are more aware of the written word and approach the interview differently. I have to say Jeff is extremely generous with his e-mail interviews, a lot of artists write one sentence answers, whereas he puts time and thought into them! But I don't think people realise that while he is intellectually curious he has a good sense of humour which is part of that optimism. I think that obliqueness you refer to is a product of his relativistic outlook which is the thing that most fascinates me about Mills - it takes a lot of mental discipline to be relativistic about things!
This was a great read! Incidentally I expect/anticipate HYPER detailed reports of the Agents Of Change party on this list!! :) >I'm going to completely disregard the thread that unrolled from Jeff >Mills into particle physics... > >The thing that mosts fascinates me about Jeff Mills is the way that he >speaks is a little fuzzy meaningwise. It makes me want to put on my >green eyeshade and copy edit for him. You KNOW what's he's getting at >but he uses words that are a little off from the meaning he intends. >It's a little like he's translating from another language. > >Parts I loved: > >His explanation of the title "Every Dog Has His Day" >where he breaks it down literally. I guess it is an English Language >colloquialism, but it's not that obscure. It is a good avoidance >of stating directly what HE meant by it. > >"Often, I can feel and see the things that words can not say and numbers >cannot calculate." > >"Perceiving the unknown in hopes to survive the unexpected." > >"...as our society advances, we will discover more frequently and >dealing with those discoveries must be met with a better understanding >of our own limitations." > >The usage of discover is intriguing -- it could mean 'we will discover new >things' but it's more general -- it's using 'discover' as an active >verb with no object. This act of discovery is generic and open form. If >you know what you're looking for you're not really discovering anything >new. > >" ... [time] is the very thing we do not understand but, yet we try to >make sense of it and from guessing what it is, most of us settle and build >our lives. Chasing the meaning of time is resonably beyond us so, we can do >nothing but wait. It is this waiting that is fascinating." > >Whoa. That's a tail-swallowing snake of a paragraph if ever ther was. > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
