arron11196
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Posted: Mar. 07 2006, 14:48 |
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| Quote (Ian Too @ Mar. 07 2006, 17:10) | Hello Johnny and thank you for interceding, though I had no plans to stoke this fire or getting into some sort of feud. Some here will know I made that mistake on Amarok; though that was in defense of lady. 
You said in your post to Aaron that he taught you 'to each his own', so why is he making an exception with me? Why this ridiculous parody when simultaeously saying I can't say anything unflatering about Mike, because I can't know. Well how much less information does he have about me than Mike?
It's all very well adopting a fine principle like that, but if you can't enact it when it doesn't suit you, then your fine principles are a pretence and not worthy of respect. To live up to something takes discipline, that's just the way it is I'm afraid. The plus point is that when thing go well you get to feel smug about it.
Aaron, if you leave Tubular Net the only person you will fool into thinking it's my fault will be yourself. No matter what anyone does that upsets or offends you, there is a moment of decision when you and you alone choose how you respond. We are on opposite end of a wire Aaron, I don't have that much influence over you and you are going to have to accept that you have no influence over me. You're going to have to accept freedom of speech, because there's nothing you can do to stop it.
Toby, I agree wholeheartedly with your suggestion that personal and artistic well-being are linked. I don't think it an accident that TSODE and Tub3 are his best recent albums. TSODE was written on the back of Tub2's commercial success and Tub3 after Mike found a new audience in Ibiza.
If you look at Mike's career, you can see a pattern of compromise that has escalated to the point where there's hardly anything left of him - those trance tracks from L+S are impersonations of other people's work, not distinctive tracks in their own right.
And that bring me nicely back to the topic: L+S wasn't promoted because it wasn't worth it. There's hardly anything of Mike in there and even Ringscape - Mike's best tune in years - feels perfunctory in execution. It really doesn't feel like Mike cared about what he was doing and if he doesn't why should anybody else?
On a brighter note, signs have suddenly changed for the better. Mike's recent change of heart (if that is what it is) seems to promise the return of rounded emotional music that gives vent to the full range of expression. This is what Mike does best, not confectionary. |
I'm not saying you can't say anything unflattering about Mike. Again you misinterpret what I say. It's the fact that you don't flag it up as opinion, and let it ride as a universally accepted statement, that actually makes you sound really up yourself.
So yes, I may be a sensitive person, but now you have presumed to know how I think about this. Again, I think you are wrong for doing so. I realise as I write this that there's no point in me saying it - because your not going to listen. RE: your freedom of speech: Again, it's not that you shouldn't have it, it's that you choose to do it in such a way with so little regard for other people.
I've thought on this, and I've come to the conclusion that your just selfish. That is why I agree with you in at least one respect; I do have a choice on how much influence you have over me. I'm the type of person that will naturally welcome people first, but then act "once bitten twice shy". For this reason, I have re-evaluated your position in my scheme of things, and I feel that no, someone so small minded and selfish as yourself should not be allowed to poison my experience of coming here.
So, thank you for teaching me this ability to block the unimportant from my experience. If free speech is the rule, as you say, then... you can't really say much to that, I suppose.
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Arron J Eagling
Everyone's interpretation is different, and everyone has a right to that opinion. There is no "right" one, I am adding this post to communicate my thoughts to share them with like-minded souls who will be able to comment in good nature.
(insert the last 5 mins of Crises here)
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