Re: A negative review for 2002 >> Biting the biscuit...

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Heh, don't feel bad.  It's nothing $80K and 4 years at art school 
couldn't cure.  The problem lies in the fact that when you're finished, 
you're so busy working to pay off your student loans, there is precious 
little time for any personal art making, much less description.  I had a 
professor who used to really like my papers.  We'd have a little joke 
where I'd reply to his praise with, "I should be majoring in bullshit."

I once had a roommate that loved football.  I find it totally boring.  
Anyway, so I'd fit in at his little get togethers, he taught me some 
catch phrases that really helped.  After a play was obviously over, I 
could look earnestly into the face of a coviewer and say something like, 
"Wow, they really came to play some ball." or "He's really got his game 
face on."  I swear after some beer, these worked really well!  It 
reminds me of a MASH episode where Radar has a crush on a sophisticated 
woman so they give him some canned responses like, "when she mentions 
Motzart, look bored.  When she mentions Bach, say "Ah...Bach."  I swear, 
we still laugh at this joke.

So next time you want to seem like what you do has some deep 
intellectual meaning, just say something like, "I'm trying to transcend 
futurism" or "I'm trying to take the principals that Carl Jung put forth 
to my music."  These should work like a charm, and are probably (though 
not importantly) true.

Good luck,

Mark Sottilaro

On Thursday, January 3, 2002, at 08:06  PM, KILLINFO@aol.com wrote:

>  There is a certain sense of inadequacy and failure (if not shame)
> connected to it -- like maybe I really should have some sort of grand,
> sophisticated raison d'etre for what I'm doing by now (I'm 48 for gosh
> sakes) and I don't. I'm just doing it because it somehow satisfies
> some unnamable something in me to do so...and that (in turn) drives
> me to do it again. The same impulse seems to drive my visual artmaking
> as well. I do not have words for it. I sure wish did.
>
> Best,
>
> Ted Killian
>