pyramid of animals

Subject : http://www.katarzynakozyra.com.pl/pyramid_txt.html
 Posted Date: : 08 Jan 2007, 09:10

  http://www.katarzynakozyra.com.pl/pyramid_txt.html

Subject : Katarzyna Kozyra: 'Pyramid of Animals'

horsmouth is particularly keen on this, especially as it is based on a fable by the brothers grimm.

Subject : Q. Does lower supply lead to higher demand? (perruqe)
Posted Date: : 08 Jan 2007, 11:38

ugly nephew records recently sent horsemouth a friend request horsemouth responded with his disclaimer - and a (poorly thought out) lecture on economics ugly nephew responded with the following; Q. Does lower supply lead to higher demand? A. well probably not, at least not in horsemouth's experience - maybe only of identical things and if people are aware of them - horsemouth has fallen back on a very common rhetorical trick these days of using poorly understood notions from marketing textbooks as if he were his own personal multinational. The problem was, as jacques attali has argued in his book bruits/ noise, that copying digital things is effectively effortless so its difficult to create a scarcity of them (or even charge people for them) - it all becomes an economy of the gift ....

Now The wider issue is whether anybody with broadband will ever download anything again (even the applications for their computer). The main problem, it seems to horsemouth, remains creating demand (to talk again like a marketing textbook) and this is what chris de wolfe (of myspace) realised when his record executive wife told him that a&R departments were slashing their budgets... etc blah blah more economic determinism -------------------- see - horsemouth has poor social skills (let alone poor netiquette) - he has responded to a perfectly charming 'teaser' with a marketing lecture that even he doesn't believe in.... no wonder americans similarly treated have denounced him as a douchebag ----------------------

horsemouth would like to make it clear that the above is a 'perruqe' or 'wig' a piece of work produced by the worker for himself while he's supposed to be at work - in horsemouth's case he's off sick with a nasty cough - this calls for caution - bad things happen to animals when they are ill and no longer able to work - look at the musicians of bremen. twelfth night the christmas songs will be removed and replaced by something less seasonal. So this is your last chance to download these tunes and support horsemouth as he follows in the footsteps of john fahey's christmas records and bert jansch'sin the bleak midwinter. horsemouth is essentially a collector - but the new digital age is hard on collectors - he has consistently used commodities to replace emotional relationships - but why collect anything when it is available on line - the only reason to possess something is for periods of artificial scarcity (such as camping holidays) ... and this is why horsemouth is making his music artificially scarce. we are leaving the potlatch economy of the gift and entering a pleroma, but it is a bitter hard thing and I must get on with my real task as a viral advertiser of attempting to stimulate demand. horsemouth would like to point out that the release dates for all the cultural items on display are grossly innacurate and make everything appear modern and up to date - this is not the case... there are old things in the world too. perhaps virtue now only resides in undigitised kipple looted from junk shops this is the record that rekindled horsemouths love of hip-hop, something he has never successfully been able to integrate in his own music, in particular r.a. the rugged man's  'record comapany suicide' anti-industry plaint, mos def, talib kweli, pharoahe monche back when they were bearable - the unjustly neglected shabam shadeeq- the whole format - making the record like a performance - like a radio show.

Posted Date: : 27 Dec 2006, 11:46

go see and hear antifamily and their very fine minimal page with lots of links to their fine music. horsemouth feels guilty about berating them when in fact their opaque strategy is perfectly modern and up to date only old communist curmugeons like horsemouth could possibly require something else. horsemouth is reading bourriaud's  relational aesthetics again because he is writing an article on crowds and web2.0 (whatever that may be) . this even looks like the book horsemouth has - but he's only borrowed it from martin - he probably needs  his own copy - he's finding hte section on guattari incomprehensible - but thinks that bourdieu's arguments on the need of educational institutions for autonomy may be useful to him - indeed he has a bluffers guide to bourdieu somewhere ... horsemouth may be tilting at windmills again - his friends who know about art tell him that hte scene has moved on there is now a return to aesthetics, a return to painting. Yes, but in what form asks horsemouth.