On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:05:26 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:

>On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:14:11 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:
>
>> Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:
>> 
>>> Some lineup - Richard Jobson
>> 
>> There's a good reason not to watch it then. OTOH if it features RJ
>> soaked in petrol and someone applying a match it could be worth
>> watching.
>
>He's a tosser^98, but did a few good tracks. Give The Armoury Show a go.
>Ignoring someone's creations, just because they are Not A Nice Person ends
>up being cutting off your nose to spite your face. My favourite author,
>Charles Bukowski, was a nasty drunk, Hunter S. Thompson used to beat his
>wife (allegedly), William Burroughs was a misogynist, L.F. Celine was an
>anti-Semite, etc., etc. The map is not the territory, as Korzybski put it.
>Sometimes an utter twat can make great art, similarly sometimes a really
>nice person can make seriously shit art. The latter is the harder to deal
>with.

How so?  If a shitty person makes good art, then missing out on the
art because of the person means you're missing good stuff.  If a
really nice person makes shit art, just ignore the art and you're
missing nothing of any import.  So the former is harder to deal with,
as I see it.

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Peter

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