Good analog and good digital converge?

[Pharos]

I agree entirely Marco, we need to respect how the target perceives the ridicule, they may be searing in self doubt about their value and this may not be noticed, or even worse played upon.

It is reassuring though, my having been regarded as rather odd by many social groups, to see what their adhesion to orthodoxy has produced for them in their lives; they often pay a price for conformity.

I watched a film on Janis Joplin last night, she was ridiculed by her peers and full of self doubt, and I guess torturing herself quite a lot.

[Joe]

If someone disagrees with me, I just assume they're wrong, but more to be pitied than censured.

Or, as Alice Roosevelt Longworth said, 'If you can't say anything good about someone, come right over here and sit next to me'.

[Jimbo]

This has strayed very far away from the original post by the willy waving intellectuals.

[Marco]

I think you may have missed the irony in Joe's post, Jim!

Marco.

[Spectral Morn]

Apropos of nothing particularly, the tread title reminded me of Lou Reed's definition of jazz-rock:

'If you can't do good rock, and you can't do good jazz, why not put the two together and make one real piece of shit?'

And that coming from one of the most overated musicians next to the Beatles and Stones. I would readily exchange Return to Forever or George Duke etc for a minute of any of Mr Reeds dirges. In fact even a second of the Velvets is too much for me personally.

[Joe]

I think you may have missed the irony in Joe's post, Jim!

Marco.

Oh, was he meaning me? I'm not an intellectual.

[Joe]

And that coming from one of the most overated musicians next to the Beatles and Stones. I would readily exchange Return to Forever or George Duke etc for a minute of any of Mr Reeds dirges. In fact even a second of the Velvets is too much for me personally.

Well. there you go, no accounting for taste etc etc; there's even some people who don't like Shakespeare. I went to a Return to Forever gig way back in the early '70s. Once was more than enough. By contrast, I'll never tire of listening to the Velvets.

Still,

[Spectral Morn]

Well. there you go, no accounting for taste etc etc; there's even some people who don't like Shakespeare. I went to a Return to Forever gig way back in the early '70s. Once was more than enough. By contrast, I'll never tire of listening to the Velvets.

Still,

Each to their own, and it would be a boring place if we all liked the same stuff.

Shame you didn't like it I would love to have seen them live.

[Marco]

Well. there you go, no accounting for taste etc etc; there's even some people who don't like Shakespeare.

Indeed (me included), as it BORES me to death...!! Shocking, isn't it?

Marco.

[Macca]

Oh, was he meaning me? I'm not an intellectual.

I thought you were doing a PhD?

If having a doctorate does not make you an intellectual then what does?