On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 19:19:07 -0500, "John P." <JohnP@nospam.com> did
courageously avow:
>"Nil" <rednoise+news@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote in a message
>
>> Well, I think that's very wrong, arrogant, insulting and childish. In
>> this case, I happen to like lots of Zappa's music very much and I know
>> lots of other people who's taste I respect who like it, too. So, I know
>> from personal experience that there is musical value there and I'm
>> musically astute enough to detail it if I want. I don't presume that
>> everybody else should enjoy what I do, and by a similar token, I don't
>> appreciate somebody presuming that art is "crap" just because they
>> don't personally like it.
>
>How do you feel about someone personally not liking something because it is
>crap? Need they defer to your opinion it is not, and dislike it on some
>other basis then?
>
If they have irrefutable proof that it's crap I have no problem, i.e.
you have my hot steaming stool in your hand and you say I don't like
that, it's crap. You would be right, it is irrefutably so.
If I put a music CD in your hand and you just happen to not like that
particular artist or genre and say it's crap, you are wrong. It
isn't. It is a CD with music on it. The fact that you don't like it
is only marginally relevant so say you don't like it. You have no
foundation for saying it is crap. Unless you have a feces fetish
wherein crap and crappy things turn you on.
Ken Wilson
Amer. Dlx. Tele, Gary Moore LP, LP DC Classic w/P90s,
Jeff Beck Strat, Morgan OM Acoustic, Gibson CS-336,
Mesa LSS, Mesa F-30, Victoria 5112
"Goodnight Austin, Texas, wherever you are."
Frank Zappa, Austin, Texas, May 1975
Nil
John P.
