Not feeling Pandemonium cd

[gkg]

it will be interesting to see what JSTHERACON has to say when he logs back in - i think everyone\'s remarks here are quite well presented and thought provoking.

i agree with megan that JSTHERACON\'s take on the chomsky quoting is less about chomsky and more about blind praise.  i also agree with bhead51 that one would be making a cynical jump for cash via releasing a cd solely on internet and without the benefit of a pop or latino styling, which viggo would certainly be capable of doing skill wise.  

me_again, i\'ve heard an interview with him and elijah wood on charlie rose, and he does in person seem to have what i find to be (from the 6 or 7 i know) a fairly danish habit of speaking at a measured pace without huge inflectional differences - unless angry or greatly passionate.  that vocal pattern makes his spanish on his CD most interesting because it varies greatly from most latin american speech patterns.  

i am sure the poetry is much more about him than any reading of a script, so i suspect that\'s the real mccoy and not acting.  at least, no more so than the acting we all do when we are trying to convey to others something of importance to ourselves.

sidebar - possible other thread = what do you bright and insightful folks think of Henry George?  

[Megan]

JSTHERACON do as you will respond or not is fine with me

[colmatose]

uuummmm.... I just love the CD. That\'s all. Listen to it all the time

[Machete]

Never heard it... they had it at the show, but I spent all my money already

[oldfolkie]

A much lighter question here........... Has anyone here heard Viggo perform his stuff live? I have heard that he is quite monotone when he speaks. Actually, when you hear him in interviews, he\'s a bit mumbly, but when you really listen to what he is saying, it\'s all so very well thought out.

His tone on PFA does definitely suit  Back to Babylon and some of the other tracks. Maybe that\'s his natural "spoken word" performing style (?)

Perhaps when he\'s reading his poetry, he\'s not trying to act ... maybe he\'s expressing his real self.

And regarding all the discussion that has come from this subject - I thought PFA was a CD of Viggos words and some experimental sounds put together by a group of his friends. I knew what I was buying, and I wasn\'t dissappointed with what I got.

But maybe that\'s just too simplistic.

I don\'t think this is too simplistic, me_again. Music is kind of like dry wine, or olives, or garlic - either you like the flavour or you don\'t (at least to start out with).  If you have an interest in learning more, you stick with it and it either grows on you or it doesn\'t. I feel this way especially with experimental sounds. Some I just never get into but others I have come to enjoy.

That\'s what I personally get out of PFA - enjoyment. Some of it is serious, and some of it is simply fun. Frankly, I find it refreshing that a bunch of talented people can just go in a studio and mess around a lot and come up with such interesting and varied material. No, it\'s not all deathless, but what is? I appreciate JSTHERACON\'s views, but I\'m not going to trash a fun bit of work because some of the folks doing it happen to be in the media spotlight at the moment. I feel that in some respects people are less forgiving of success than they could be. But that\'s just me.

And I have heard Viggo read live. I wouldn\'t say that he lets his whole persona hang out there, but I\'d agree that he naturally shows more of himself than he would acting a part. On the other hand, he is an actor, and a skilled one, and I\'d be surprised if over the years he hasn\'t created a stage part for himself as poet.

Having just been so cynical, I\'d like to say that while his voice was low and needed the mic, he read very expressively and often humorously. A thoroughly enjoyable performance.