Re: Love-Hounds Tape

[rutgers!uwvax!astroatc!gtaylor (Mr. Sharkey....white courtesy phone, please)]

Yo. Put me on the list, too. Gregory Taylor/602 Russell St./Madison,
WI 53704. In the queue somewhere.

A word of endorsement: I've got a compilation tape that Hofboy put
together for me right here in the drawer at work. One side of "humorous"
punkhardthrashcore and one side of stuff that the boy likes. My impression
of the selection (speaking as someone who's at least as much an old
fart as whatzisname) is that it's not only listenable and well-sequenced,
but *literate.* While you may not enjoy the man's mode of communication,
I'll speak for the fact that he knows his shit. So well that when I
went hunting for full albums by people I was interested in, I found that
the impression that Hof had left me with was dead on in terms of their
work as a whole. When I get around to sending off a cassette for his
cassette radio project (and Hof was *doing* it before any of the rest
of us got round to even *discussing* it.), I expect that it will be
the same.

Am just starting "The Triumph of Vulgarity: Modern Music in the 
Mirror of Romanticism". Book report later. There are index entries for
the Butthole Surfers, I note. Also, one of the premises stated in
the intro is something like "Elitists are those who refuse to embrace
the premise of Vulgarity inherent in culture." Uh-oh. No entries for
Kate Bush. More on this little bit of egghead analysis from the guy
who wrote that book on Homer and the rise of popular discourse later.
Whoops, picture of Billy Idol inside. No class analysis-Frith will
slag it. He's arguing that the milieu of popular music is Romantic
Pantheism. 

When I sow time, I gutter.
Greg