bridge burning (was Re: electrix repeater wanted)

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Sigh.  You can't make everyone happy, but you can make everyone 
miserable.  I thought the intelligence here would be higher than the 
mean, but boy was I wrong!  Should I spell it out?  OK!

Calling your gig with another looping musician a "Loopfest" and even 
more gall enhanced, "First Loopfest EVER" now that is EGO.  Hello!  Is 
anyone awake?  TAP TAP TAP IS THIS THING ON!?  If you weren't 
borderline retarded, you'd realize that my one man loopfest was poking 
fun at The GREAT RICK WALKER (who I actually consider a friend)  He's 
got quite a healthy ego, so I thought a little poke at it would be 
fine.  Since he doesn't seem to be the least bit offended, and has 
actually been corresponding with me off list, I'll assume I'm right.  
If I'm wrong, I guess it doesn't matter as I'm not one of his "featured 
performers" and frankly the back-patting, self-congratulatory events 
that loopfests actually are don't really interest me much.  I just find 
it weird that you'd elevate some artists to "featured" status when the 
only audience to these events are the people playing them.  Why not 
just say, "good performer" and "filler" and be done with it?

OK, I'm tired of typing, and realize that unless I could somehow do a 
"Flowers for Algernon" type of enhancement on you, you're not 
understanding me anyway.  I don't have a big ego Tim, I'm just not dim 
like yourself.  In case you haven't notice from my charming 
personality, I'm not one to be in cliques.  Frankly, I thought Terry 
was a cool guy and was twice the musician most of you are and probably 
half the ego.  I was a bit sad when he was driven off because he was 
trying to promote himself, yet when others do much worse, it seems to 
go unnoticed because they're in "the looper clique."  Bah.  I'd be  
humbled to do a show with him any day of the week.

And for my final bridge burning moment (boy am I done with this list!) 
I'm going to finish it with a little review of Matthais' last album:

Unlistenable.  The man has absolutely no sense of rhythm at all.  Needs 
to knock off the ganja and spend a month with a metronome.  Better yet, 
drop the guitar for a while and work on a modern EDP and drop that 
frustrated ex musician know-it-all Kim and get someone who gives a crap 
to help you develop and market your (brilliant) product.

Man that felt good!  If I had to read one more steller review of that 
thrown together piece of crap (the album) I was going to puke.  I'm not 
saying I'm a great musician, but I'm not trying to get money for it 
either.

So that's that.  The LD list has mostly been a source of anger and 
bewilderment to me for a while and I should have followed my instincts 
and stayed unsubscribed.  I don't have the disposition for it. LOL!


Cheerio!

Mark Sottilaro
On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 09:25 PM, Fsksync@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 10/4/03 10:36:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> sine@zerocrossing.net writes:
>
> Ah, now who feels like the idiot?  I was trying to interject a little
> humor but I always forget how few humans understand humor.  Don't waste
> your time responding Jeff, you've made my illustrious ignore filter.
>
> Mark Sottilaro
>
>
>
> Add me to your filter, Mark, I've already filtered your egocentric 
> displays. Life is too short to have people like you involved in mine 
> in ANY way. Go back to your  one "man" looping festival. Maybe you can 
> get Terry Blankenship to open for you. You can call it "EGO LOOP'.
>
> Yawn
>
> Tim