Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: "Suspended in Gaffa" et al Message-ID: <8909291557.AA04611@lti2.lti.com> Date: 29 Sep 89 15:57:33 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 44 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: berns@lti2.lti.com (Brian Berns x26) |>oug: >>> The only thing I was lacking was the neat implication that it is >>> the very tools needed to achieve ones goals that can be what is >>> hindering you. Me: >> You're right, that is a pretty cool implication. And one that I >> have not seen before in all the Gaffa debating. But it's *your* >> idea, probably not Kate's. |>oug: > Why do you think Kate didn't intend this? Why did she pick gaffer's > tape as the material she's stuck in then? Why didn't she pick > molasses, or tar, or fly paper instead? |>oug, |>oug, |>oug. Think about your interview with Kate herself, oh so long ago. She disagreed with many of your half-way rational ideas about her songs. Even accounting for the fact that she was being coy, I think there's a lesson there. I have no idea why she chose gaffer's tape over anything else. But I'd bet a dollar that after a decade of thinking about *whatever* she chose, you would have nine different reasons why it was the most beautiful, rational decision she could have possibly made. Face it, artists only rarely *intend* very subtle implications of their work. There are lots of interesting theories about how these implications arise anyway, but that's not the point here. Kate herself just said: "I think really that art should become simpler rather than more complicated; and in a lot of ways it worries me that I think this album is quite a complex thing." We have here a person who is striving for simplicity in her work, though maybe not always achieving it. -- Brian ...buita!lti!berns