James Gerard Roll wrote:
>
> Admit it Matt. You are not really a Gourds' fan at all, are you??
> C'mon??
I like The Gourds.
Enough to make a movie about them.
I have the sneaking suspician that, in the grand tradition of Andy
> Kaufman, et al. you have decided to deconstruct fandom by creating the
> absolute most obnoxious fan you or anyone can imagine.
>
How am I obnoxious?
I really wanna know. 'Cause in real life I try not to be. On the
internet and in my other writings, I'm not sure that applies.
The narrator is not always the author.
> Your real genius (c'mon admit it) is that you have exploited the internet
> and become the first ever virtual performance artist. You aim to make
> those of us who are still salvageable - aware of the absurdity of
> identifying with a band or any musical movement and you have chosen our
> humble little cult to beging tyhe Cook Revisionist movement.
I do say things on here I would never say on public (unless completely
plastered).
And I know I probably shouldn't.
Identify?
What does that mean?
I could never make music like The Gourds, and I would never try.
I like it, though.
Those guys have helped me a lot in a lot of ways.
>
> I salute you good sir. Matt Cook. You have captured Beatlemania
> (lightning in a bottle!!) and thrown it back at another generation in a
> brilliant stunt and stuffed history back in its black whole.
The Beatles were a great band. Their fans don't really enter into that
fact in my mind.
>
> gourds. gourds. gourdS. gourDS. gouRDS. goURDS. gOURDS. GOURDS. GOURDS!!
>
> ha ha. oh Matt, please let us in on the joke.
The joke is all at my expense, believe me.
I've spent a year of my life on this movie, and it's not finished yet.
>
> I know you won't. But breathe easy for we are one step closer to
> freedom from bondage.
>
> Matt Cook. Performance Artist. Liberator!
I hope that there are more people as stupid as I am.
--Matt Cook
