Comments for Matthew T Grant

Comment on You Live in a World Without You by admin

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:34:00 +0000

Garcia was the determinate absence.

Comment on You Live in a World Without You by Andrew Shields

Andrew Shields — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:24:13 +0000

He died and left a world without the Grateful Dead for everyone else.

Comment on Why We Do the Things We Do by admin

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:23:49 +0000

Probably.

I was thinking of things like guys who have affairs. It’s not about the sex, per se, but they want to be guys who have sex.

Similarly, I imagine that some people get into heroin because they want to be people who are into heroin (like their heroes).

Comment on What Is the Meaning of This! by admin

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:22:01 +0000

What a strange/interesting way of putting it!

Context is, by its very nature, “unbound.”

Comment on What Is the Meaning of This! by Andrew Shields

Andrew Shields — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:20:10 +0000

Meaning takes on the M side of its S&M relationship with context (which does not like to be tied up).

Comment on Why We Do the Things We Do by Andrew Shields

Andrew Shields — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:18:50 +0000

And you wrote this because you wanted to be the kind of person who thinks things like this?

Comment on Homage to Saccharine Trust by admin

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:25:13 +0000

Dan – As I started writing this, I realized there was a lot more I could write. Saccharine Trust was one of those strange bands that was vaguely associated with hardcore (mainly cuz of SST and their friendship with the minutmen) but wasn’t exactly hardcore or punk. Definitely part of an “art rock” arc, and therewith connected to something like Radio Ethiopia, but more unselfconsciously abrasive. There was always something of the naif about Jack Brewer and Joe Baiza’s playing, while owing something to the Albert Ayler’s of the world, never felt schooled enough to count as jazz, even of the “out” variety—it was always more street folk, or something like that.

In any event, I promise to return to comment further on the dark, dense work of these unsung geniuses.

Comment on Perhaps Yours Are Not the Eyes for These Posts by admin

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:29:10 +0000

First of all, Eric, I can’t express how much I appreciate that you take the time to read and comment on these posts. They are meant for your eyes.

Second of all, when you call me a “dangerous whacko,” it only hurts because it reminds me that I really don’t go all that far with this stuff. From this day forward, the gloves are off. World wide web, you are officially “on notice”!

Comment on Perhaps Yours Are Not the Eyes for These Posts by Eric Cornell

Eric Cornell — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:16:56 +0000

With ever more powerful search engines and filters becoming available, with ever more adept learning algorithms, I anticipate soon reaching the point where I never again have to read, watch, or listen to anything that might stretch my fragile sense of self. Only then can I be truly happy and at ease.

Oh, and some of your posts will be first against the wall, you dangerous wacko.

Ahhh. Peace.

Comment on Homage to Saccharine Trust by Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:12:32 +0000

Thank you for evoking an album which stands for me – thanks to you – up there with the Velvets’ White Light White Heat, Joy Division’s Closer, the Stooges Fun House and possibly Patti Smith’s Radio Ethiopia, albums that among many others we decorated your bedroom floor with one fine day in Ithaca like a new form of tile, imagining them inset into the floor and covered with plexiglass. Sadly, Surviving You Always seems the one album of theirs that is not on CD, at least last time I checked. I was curious if you might someday write a part II of this ST (S for snake and t for the cross the snake hangs around) eulogy, and explore perhaps in further exegetical finesse the strange intrigue that the old testament held for Brewer, along with a recognition of the greatness of We Became Snakes (your softer kinder intro for me, ha) and a description of the possible whats-wrong-with-this-picture meanings of the enigmatic/tragic cover image of Surviving You Always.