THE BLUNT KNIVES....

Current mood: SHARPEN THE BLADE BOYS, SHARPEN THE BLADE.....
Category: SHARPEN THE BLADE BOYS, SHARPEN THE BLADE..... Music

If you can find it, Stool Pigeon Magazine is one of the few paper rags worth picking up...

Stool Pigeon is free...

It covers mostly obscure and little known acts

It contains some very good writing...


All this goodness doesn't however prevent the artists interviewed therein from talking STEPHEN JAMES JOLLOCKS!! and the December 2007 issue exhibited the following words from Henry of The Young Knives, that perhaps
illustrates my point of the previous blog, better than I...


Henry is reported to have said:

'We don't have strong opinions on anything. We're of that generation that's quite confused about what we think. We're neither left-wing nor right-wing. We've been taught at school how to be objective in our arguments. Empathising with both sides of the argument and never coming to any kind of conclusion'


Well Henry....allow me to respond...


"The point of school isn't to simply sit there, listen to and then do everything you're told to do and think, by the failed simpletons who call themselves teachers...

The point of school is to be naughty and/or, do as little of the silly work as possible, whilst simultaeneously cherry picking the good stuff and educating yourself in your spare time....

If you find this hard, simply sit quietly, and stare into the middle distance, as if therein lies a beautiful apparition of hope bliss and heavenly unity!!

In other words, I have a word for people who have no opinions about anything because that's what they've been taught to do, and that word begins with a 'C' and ends with an 'unts!!!!!'

Furthermore, though it's something you clearly struggle with, I've found myself able to come up with an opinion about your band...

This opinion is that I'm completely unable to even get as far as listening to your records to form an opinion, because the fact that you have NO opinions makes it very, VERY unlikely you're going to produce anything even remotely interesting!!!!"

AKA

NEXT!!!!