Re: Salinger, Dylan, and more Salinger

Robert Morris (winboog@gis.net)
Wed, 09 Sep 1998 07:53:18 -0400 

> 
> >  >Kurt Cobain? 
> > 
> >    derriviative musician
> 
> ???
> 
> > with a heroin habit to cure tummy ache+ shotgun=
> > dead media whore
> 
> Let's alter this very simplistic little occasion
> 
> mental instability+some idiot journalist causing his child to be taken
> away+childhood traumas from selfish parents+constant media attention =
> death
> 

   Yeah, I imagine that Jann Wenner had to use a similar shotgun to the one
Kurt turned on himself to get him on the cover of Rolling Stone several
times.


> > 
> > An argument could
> > > be made that these people died as a result of fame and media
> > > exploitation. 
> > 
> >   You know who I think deserves this designation?  Lennon. He's the
only
> > one in recent times I can think of to actually earn the title of
artistic
> > martyr. Saying that any of these other self destructive megalomaniacs
as
> > suffered the pressures of media and the public turns my stomach. 
> 
> Now, I think that's something you can only say if you're famous. And
you're
> not famous, cause I never heard of you.
> 

   Yeah Camille, I don't know pressure. I'd have to be famous to realize
what that is. During Shaquille O'Neal's rookie season there was a media
frenzy in every city he visited, concerning his designation as the savior.
While here in Boston a reporter said;

" How do you deal with all the pressure being put on you?"

" What?"-Shaq

" How do you deal with all the pressure?"

" What?"

" How do you deal with all the pressure of being seen as a savior to an NBA
franchise or even the NBA in general?"

" I don't have any pressure. I play basketball. Pressure is being worried
about feeding your kids. "

   So all these fallen celebrities don't rate in my book. Cause I see
people suffering pressure every day. Celebrity media is just a damn
nuissance.


        robert morris
        winboog@gis.net




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