Turn that down!!! (formerly love lorn slaggers)

["Lee Wordsman" <lwordsman@pirnie.com>]

Didn't mean to "tar all women" just my wife ; ).  If it sounded 
condescending
that may have been sarcasm creeping in.

but seriously it's more a matter of spending a lot of time with someone 
that
isn't into something that is important to you.  I know women that are into
similar music and lots of guys that aren't.  I don't live with any of them 
so
it doesn't matter.  We find common interests and thats cool.  Not to say 
that
my wife has to enjoy the same music as I do.  I'm not into some of the 
stuff
she's into.  Fortunately for me she's not into stuff that gets played 
through
amplifiers.  Unfortunatley for her, I am into that kind of stuff.

Has this horse been beaten enough?

ervad those things don't get played over load speakers

Scott Bullerwell wrote:

> This whole "my wife listens exclusively to Ratt and/or John Tesh and
> doesn't understand me and is frightened by my music" thing is kind of
> uncomfortable.  I'm sorry you guys married un-adventurous listeners, and
> I'm glad you can commiserate.  However, before you tar all women with the
> same condescending brush...
>
> [Gloat Mode] ...I would point out that I often eat lunch with a beautiful
> young woman (you might know her, actually) and we talk about Fripp, van 
>der
> Graaf Generator, the nerdy details of miking drums and placing them in a
> mix, chordal harmony, subtle timbral differences in backwards waveforms,
> microtonalism, etc.  Her roommate, another beautiful young woman, is a
> Crafty and a total prog-head.  And my Stick-playing buddy Steve's wife
> wrote her doctoral dissertation on the music of Gentle Giant. All of 
>those
> people live within a quick bike ride from me [/Gloat Mode]
>
> I'm quite used to not finding ANYONE, male or female, musician or
> non-musician, who shares my taste for Happy Family and Djam Karet and
> obscure Bruford solo albums and rare PFM import vinyl and Glenn Branca
> discs.  Sure, I'll evangelize the hell out of
> avant/experimental/progressive/weird music to anyone I think might enjoy
> it.  Bnd I don't hold it against anyone if they don't--I accept the fact
> that *I* am the freak.  And Bob Forbid I should come across as one more
> sanctimonious prog rock dickhead--the last thing art music needs is a
> brotherhood of smug elitists carrying the torch.
>
> Scott Bullerwell
> tanelorn@dimensional.com
> Boulder, Colorado, USA