"A working class hero is something to be..."
early, since i'll be in new york tomorrow.
when all of your idols are dead
and sold
you start to wonder
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when all of your idols are dead
and sold
you start to wonder
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Most of the people I respect and love [the ones I haven't met, that is] - authors, musicians, artists - were long gone by the time I got here. That's upsetting to me, not only because I'll never get to meet them or get to be moved by something new they're produced, but, on a more scopic scale, the fact that the only people I have to look up to in that respect are long dead makes me angry because where are the revolutionaries?
I know, I know there are still people out there writing great things, making great music, great art, but it just seems like they have such a lessened impact today, probably due to the overwhelming, perverse saturation of all of those markets.
"Markets." Christ.
Also due to the fact that, to be frank, it seems there aren't many people interested in any kind of media that isn't easily accessible and saccharine anymore.
Anyway, maybe it'll change posthumously for the revolutionary artists of today. I don't know. It's hard to say, because for every universally recognized and adored during his time John Lennon, there is an Edgar Allen Poe, writing beautifully but drunk and living on the streets, going unrecognized until he's gone.
This is something I always ending going on and on about. Sorry to ramble at you.
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