{"id":85,"date":"2004-12-22T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=85"},"modified":"2009-12-31T16:51:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T16:51:10","slug":"filler-by-proxy-vi-no-such-thing-as-coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2004\/12\/filler-by-proxy-vi-no-such-thing-as-coincidence.html","title":{"rendered":"Filler by Proxy VI: No such thing as coincidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/sandow\/archives20041205.shtml#92805\">Greg Sandow muses<\/a> on the simultaneous obituaries for poet <a href=\"http:\/\/wings.buffalo.edu\/epc\/authors\/maclow\/about\/guardian.html\">Jackson Mac Low<\/a> and ex-Pantera guitarist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/12\/09\/nightclub.shooting\/\">Dimebag Darrell<\/a>. After playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon for a few paragraphs he describes his admiration for Mac Low&#8217;s (and <a href=\"http:\/\/home.flash.net\/~jronsen\/cagelinks.html\">John Cage&#8217;s<\/a>) work in a way I can agree with but have never explained so well:<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<blockquote><p>One feeling I&#8217;ve long gotten from work like Cage&#8217;s or Mac Low&#8217;s is peace. But not just any kind of peace &#8212; not, for instance, a warm and fuzzy peace, full of love, hope, and goodwill. It&#8217;s more profound than that; the peace that comes from lack of need or striving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">And from there he looks for, and finds, the common thread which made him react to both deaths.<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">Both, in fact, oppose the mainstream, metal noisily, Mac Low&#8217;s more quietly. Metal rages angrily at normal life; the relationship of Mac Low&#8217;s kind of art to normal life is less direct. And yet it&#8217;s strong&#8230;. After World War II&#8230; meaning in normal life was hard to find. Hence rebellion, and also modernist art, which didn&#8217;t look for normal meaning. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wings.buffalo.edu\/epc\/authors\/maclow\/\">More about Jackson Mac Low<\/a>, including some of his poems, interviews and sound recordings.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Sandow muses on the simultaneous obituaries for poet Jackson Mac Low and ex-Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell. After playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon for a few paragraphs he describes his admiration for Mac Low&#8217;s (and John Cage&#8217;s) work in a way I can agree with but have never explained so well: One feeling I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}