Journalism: A Cite for Sore Eyes
"Each month, hundreds of thousands of words about music are written by people wearing converse trainers. What does it mean? Why bother describing music? It's like, er… driving a bus about 1930's Russian folkdancing. Makes no sense. This ludicrousness of this practice has rarely been more apparent when it comes to music by Battles."
P J Lucas
18 May 2007
BBC Music website (accessed 12-03-2008)
Here is an artist's interpretation of how Mr. Lucas's article might have looked if properly written:
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do."
Elvis Costello
"A Man out of Time Beats the Clock"
Pg 52 Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983)
Each month, hundreds of thousands of words about music are written by people wearing converse trainers. What does it mean? Why bother describing music? This ludicrousness of this practice has rarely been more apparent when it comes to music by Battles.
P J Lucas
18 May 2007
BBC Music website (accessed 12-03-2008)
Here is an artist's interpretation of how Mr. Lucas's article might have looked if properly written:
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do."
Elvis Costello
"A Man out of Time Beats the Clock"
Pg 52 Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983)
Each month, hundreds of thousands of words about music are written by people wearing converse trainers. What does it mean? Why bother describing music? This ludicrousness of this practice has rarely been more apparent when it comes to music by Battles.
posted by Prunly at 10:32 a.m.
1 Comments:
HA HA, great journalism! *I could take credit for a brilliant use of quotation or I could be an absolute birk.*
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