okay-- i'd just like to start by saying that i spent a really long time writing a response to this then my computer crashed and i lost it all... now i've spent a really long time re-writing what i had said, so i'd really appreciate it if you guys would read it... thanks! :)
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here's a little outline to help you through it... tho please read it all, i know it's long, but i made the effort to write it (twice!!) and i really would like some feedback, discussion, etc... thanks! :)
1. moby not human?
2. what is human?
- free thinking
- to err
3. bringing it back to moby
4. moby's job: tickets/concerts
5. the essays -- TWO QUESTIONS FOR MOBY!
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1. i'm getting this sneaking suspicion that people are expecting moby to be more than human, this kinda troubles me.
2. i think it's really important to realize that we are all human and have the right to believe what we want to... whether it be socially determined to be wrong or not (pending not forcing our wills on another person... yea, that's not okay). for example-- while society has deemed communism wrong, evil, etc... now understand that i'm an economics major and am all for free trade, market economies and all that capitalism stuff, but i think markets/capitalism has failures, especially as markets are often independent from humanity-- so, even tho centrally planned economies have been eliminated from the realm of economic possibilities in this era, i still believe in some of the pillars of communism, specifically the idea of positive human rights (aka that people should have the right to live free from suffering, thus it is the government's job to provide food, water, shelter, and opportunity for success in the form of education)... now someone else may think that i am wrong and argue with m
e on it, but that does
along these same lines, i think it's key that we note that it is human to err. being human is all about learning and allowing what we learn to shape our opinions-- change our minds-- etc etc. science is a perfect example of this-- added information can change minds.
3. so what does this have to do with moby? (i'm sure a lot of you know this... so i'm probably preaching to the wrong people, but bear with me...) i think it's important to realize that moby too is human and isn't always going to do things we all agree with-- he's gonna do what he feels is necessary. he's doing a job-- being a musician means selling records, and picking and choosing what people know about him is just one of the things he has to do everyday-- what goes on a record, what he says in an interview... why am i talking about this-- i'm sorry. i'm an asshole...
but my point: i just think that one can respect him and his music with out agreeing with everything he says or what he chooses not to say.
4. also-- i'd like to say... it is moby's job and his "people's" job to get moby out there, to find an audience and keep and audience, get moby on tour, get him to meet people... etc etc. it really isn't in their best interests to make it difficult for people to find out when and where moby is playing, so i really don't think that inaccessibility of information is done on purpose. i also really think that it would be very 'jenn-o-centric' for me to think/expect moby, or his 'people' to call me up personally to tell me where and when a show is, hand-deliver me some tickets, or have a show come directly to me... i realize that i'm going to have to do some work to get to a show, and if when i get there, the show isn't as good as i wanted it to be, wasn't worth the effort i put in to getting there, i'm gonna lose a little bit of enthusiasm for moby. that's just the way it works. and if a time comes when i stop liking him/his music all together, well i know that there will be someone else t
o replace me on his li
5. finally, about the essays-- i think/thought/think (?) that moby writes those essays.... ummm... do you write those essays moby? (moby?)... uhhh... well, beyond that little question-- and even if he doesn't right them-- i still def applaud them-- cause even if someone disagrees with what he has written, the essays are catalysts for individual thought and decision making, encouraging active participation in the world, if only by not accepting the status quo put to us by our governments, families, peers or heroes, and making up our own minds about the state of the world and our lives. even if he doesn't write them, they still mean something...
NOTE: i do think, tho, it would be really good if moby did discuss them more (moby?)-- (i do realize that he does discuss the topics)-- rather than just writing them for people to read... i dunno... maybe he does... jeez i dunno.
okay-- that's my piece-- second time writing this puppy... and i'm brain-dead from trying to remember it all... hope you all stuck through it... thanks guys---
- --J
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>moby never talks about anything but his own music.
>when moby talks about his music, he makes sure that
>he's always talking about the next thing that will be
>coming out so people can go buy it. and just to be
>sure he get's his point across, he says it when half
>the people aren't listening, so he get's to talk about
>it himself. he does that with tour dates as well.
>because no one should have to call bass or
>ticketmaster or there local ticket seller. and they
>DEFINITELY shouldn't have to go to someplace that
>sells tickets and ask when and where he's playing.
>he's also really concerned that people think he may be
>a sell out. that's why he keeps making records that
>have a bunch of different types of music on them so
>that they can't be classified as one thing. that way
>the sell millions of albums and he's all over mtv just
>like the backstreet boys. who moby really admires. oh
>yeah! and all those things he writes about in his cd
>inserts, they don't mean anything! he has a ghost
>writer type those up so that he'll be more excepted by
>the mainstream and sell even more records! but he
