Re: in the ghetto

From: Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie>
Date: Sat Aug 31 2002 - 14:02:13 EDT

    Of COURSE I don't give a hoot who stole what from whom.
    That was simply a handy stick to thump him with - so naturally
    I picked it up (stole it).

    I've no problem at all with what he eventually became. Poor boy ...
    alcoholic father ... infantilising mother ... blah, blah, blah. That's
    EXACTLY what I should have expected. Cheap music, cheap
    words, cheap appeal, charmless cheapness throughout like
    the vulgar motto embedded in a piece of seaside candy.

    The unforgiving fact is you can grow up in Brookline & remain
    essentially as common as dirt - or you can be born to a Hoboken
    'nurse', prefer hoods for your companions & still produce stuff
    as stylishly elegant as a Worth dress.

    It can only ever be a matter of personal taste. I simply prefer
    the phrasings of the Gershwin boys or ole King Cole (no, not Nat)
    unaided, as rendered by a real musician - to sweaty evocations of
    cheesburgers, blue suede shoes & hysterical thirteen year olds.

    Scottie B.

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