Subject: RE: "How can anyone from our generation..."
Matthew_Stevenson@BAYLOR.EDU
Date: Sun Mar 16 1997 - 22:53:29 GMT
i totally agree with you malcolm, the trick is to make sure you don't let
"paying the bills" suck the soul out of you and crush your dreams.-matt
On Fri, 07 Mar 1997 15:33:48 -0800 bananafish@cassatt.Mass-USR.COM wrote:
>"I am referring to those who have something new and worthwhile to offer the
>world, but may not live up to the call of the muse. They may decide to
>live a white collar banker's life somewhere in middle America and deprive
>the world of that which it desperately needs: new ideas, new directions,
>new visions, new voices."
>
>Since the name Kafka just came up I thought I'd refute this. Kafka (try a
>better library Dan Owens daughter) is one of the probably top three most
>influential and prophetic writers of the 20th century, yet was a lowly
>clerk his whole life, and Wallace Stevens (who is as significant a poet as
>Leonard Cohen) was the head of an insurance firm. One's day job is
>completely immaterial to where one's soul is. We've all got to pay rent,
>and being jobist (like being ageist) is a low blow. I've known Jason Finn,
>the drummer for the Presidents of the United States of America, since 1988,
>and before he got to drum with his band on Leno and Letterman and O'Donnell
>and all that he tended bar at the Comet Tavern for about six years (he was
>only able to quit bending tar at the Comet in the middle of last year
>sometime), before that he was a pantryman for a bookstore's cafe here in
>town. It's kind of funny because many people here in town who are in bands
>that no one knows about outside of Seattle yet also work at Microsoft (!)
>and get at least twice as much as he made at the Comet not to mention 401K
>and stock options and what have you, whine about Jason and his ambition and
>his stature now. I mean, I don't even have to talk to him personally to
>know what's going on in his life anymore because he's interviewed
>everywhere. No matter which chance you choose to take, there's always a
>price to pay, but if you channel your soul to what your heart wants to do,
>you'll be able to tolerate ANY job.
>
>Malcolm
>
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