[Fmpro] "Freedom Of Expression"

[Fernando Rivas]

Well put!
FR


On 6/6/08 1:59 PM, "The Composer Collective"
<general at thecomposercollective.com> wrote:

> Acceptance, tolerance, and perhaps having an open mind is all that one needs
> as their criticism tools. Unless the person is doing someone else harm, or
> if they are putting themselves at more harm than they are aware, then
> you(society) don't need to intervene.
> 
> As George Carlin said: "In the future, when we finally get over racism,
> bigotry, and everyone is purple, red, and brown ... then we'll have to hate
> people for who they truly are."
> 
> Movies are no better than radio. Radio's content is not music. The MUSIC is
> just the "commercials" so the real content can be heard in between (the
> ads). And movies are just actor delivery devices. People don't see movies
> because of the stories. They just see whatever movie their trusted idol has
> endorsed this time. It's a giant product endorsed by gamble-holics (actors
> who got lucky).
> 
> Outside of that jaded view, there actually can be found some art in movie
> making. And those are the only films I care about. Films and film scores
> that are innovative, and progressing the art. If we ever squash the ability
> to express movies artistically we'll have completed the loop on Capitalism
> and become worth only what energy we're willing to give up to those who will
> take it. Capitalism is mean. It punished the weak and rewards the strong.
> It's just an excuse to be an asshole. But while we're TRAPPED in a society,
> born into capitalism, we have to spend 90% of our lives scrambling to keep
> our loved ones alive, and healthy. And a lot of us are nuts enough to think
> that MONEY is what makes one healthy (mentally, physically, and
> spiritually). We've been squeezed so tight into thinking that we can barely
> eek out any deep meaning from our life into art anymore.
> 
> Art is what connects us to the eternal life force. It helps us realize how
> we should think, what we should care about, who should be important to us.
> Anyone who is a lover of art (free expression) is doing a part in making the
> universe a peaceful place.
> 
> DO MORE ART ... LESS CAPITALISM.
> 
> Evan Evans
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ted Peterson" <ted.peterson at tcsn.net>
>> To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
>> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 2:07 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Fmpro] Where are the Distinctive Voices In Scoring?
>> 
>> 
>>> You'll have to tat over the existing one that says "Snob." By the
>>> way, my cousin is the most tattooed woman on the face of the planet.
>>> She was the first woman to get a full "suit" and has been in art
>>> journals and has had her photographs displayed all over the world.
>>> She is in the Guggenheim exhibit on body art. My mother and her
>>> mother went ballistic as did all other family relatives. When I last
>>> go married, I invited her and made sure she wore a spaghetti strap
>>> sun dress. She made a real hit. My wife's parents who were a
>>> psychiatrist and a psychoanalysis spent a lot of time telling me how
>>> maladjusted my cousin was and how she distracted from the occasion. I
>>> thought she looked great. My daughter fell in love with her and
>>> thought she was the coolest woman she had ever met.
>>> 
>>> Ted Peterson
>> 
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