So I said I thought a contentious thread was interseting

[Chuck Nessa]

DAMN!

[JSngry]

In the old days, you had to pay money to see comedy of that caliber. Now you can't give it away.

World gone wrong...

[Chuck Nessa]

sorry 'bout the typo.....

[aparxa]

When the hurlyburly's done,

When the battle's lost and won.

[Chuck Nessa]

pass the meat and pass the bun.

[Quasimado]

Did you mean *intersetting*? It sounds about just right.

From the Urban Dictionary:

Intersetting. buy intersetting mugs, tshirts and magnets. A place where you are surrounded by awful people. Dude 1: How was the party last night dude?

Dude 2: It was pretty sweet, but there was a total intersetting in the kitchen dude. ...

Q

[Christiern]

Unfortunately, there are itchy trigger fingers in the house.

[jazzbo]

That thread was just going to turn into a "terrier on a trouser leg" tenacity contest between Jim and John. Best it was closed.

[JSngry]

Which one was "John"?

[Shawn]

the one with the OP fetish.

[aparxa]

Who cares? What is the single purpose of that thread? Witch-hunting?

Move on, please.

[JSngry]

Yes, officer.

[Chuck Nessa]

I find aesthetic disagreement stimulating.

[J.A.W.]

sorry 'bout the typo.....

You can correct it by going "advanced" on the editing page.

[Chuck Nessa]

It is now history.

[Tom Storer]

Damn. I miss all the fun.

[Larry Kart]

I find aesthetic disagreement stimulating.

Me, too, but by this point on this particular thread (not to mention its predecessors on the topic of OP) did you find anything much other than ways of saying "I like" or "I don't like"? The last post I recall that referred to actual musical detail was Litweiler's about OP's rumpy-dumpy (sp?) comping behind Lester Young and Ben Webster. Otherwise, mostly posturing, picadors poking at bulls, bulls trying to gore matadors, etc. Yes, it could go on forever, and maybe someone eventually would add a further observation that went beyond "I like/don't like," but the odds seemed very slim. Further, as a moderator, I admit to getting annoyed at having to watch a boiling pot that, again by this point, seemed to contain nothing but hot water.

[JSngry]

did you find anything much other than ways of saying "I like" or "I don't like"?

That was the only thing I really had to say, but apparently how I said it raised somebody's ire, about which I really do not care, but I will not be "scolded" by anybody who does not have the established personal and/or professional and/or administrative standing in my eyes to do so. Ever. It could indeed have gone on forever, and would have, so thanks for locking the thread. I do not offer deference casually. Respect? Absolutely, unless "red flags" arise. But deference? No.

Then there was the idiot who was certain that I had planned it all along, that it was my goal to shit on the thread from jump, and that maybe if somebody would shit on a Monday Michiru thread I would know how it feels (btw - it did happen once, and oh well about that). Well, yeah, ok. How do you deal with that level of paranoia and irrationality? It reminded me of the red-faced bug-eyed Jesus Freak who got up in my face when I was marching at a counter-protest at the Dallas opening of The Last Temptation Of Christ and sreaned IF THIS MOVIE WAS ABOUT MARTIN LUTHER KING YOU'D BE ON OUR SIDE!!!!!!!

So hey, to all the people who got pissed off -

Unless and until the word "motherfucker" is permanently and officially banned from all board usage, it will continue to make appearances in my posts, as is my right to post in my personal conversational idioms (like some here, I live in several "worlds", and have skills for each. It is not the place of other posters to choose which world I "should" be in when musing about the topics at hand), but not with the intent of provoking confrontation.

I realize that not everybody appreciates "street language" (much less "musician language"), but sorry, it's just an idiom, and unless you have actually fucked your mother and now feel deep unresolved remorse over having done so (in which case, professional help is both available and advised), your "offense" is not something about which I am going to go to great lengths to be sensitive to when conversing. However, should confrontation be aggressively pursued, the pursuer will not be disappointed.

Also, I want it on the record now that I have never posted on a serious thread with the intention of "shitting on it", nor will I ever. And anybody who thinks otherwise can go fuck themself, or at least try to.

So, yes - I am an asshole. I am quite often arrogantly passionate about the certainty of my beliefs, and definitely am so about my right to express them in an open forum. And no, I really don't care about inadvertently offending your sensibilities, especially if you're somebody who I don't know as anything other than a cyber-entity who shows up just to bitch and moan. Not a day goes by that at least 100 things occur that deeply offend my sensibilities, so I figure that's just the way life works. You ain't gonna get what you like every time you wake up. Tell me something I don't know.

I am also any number of other things, as are we all, A surprising number of them are actually quite pleasant.

Life - and the beat - goes on.

And I still do not like the way Oscar Peterson plays.

[Shawn]

brilliant post!

[Big Beat Steve]

In a way, yes, Shawn (and we will all be able to refer to that post time and again as and when we follow our OWN firmly held beliefs and the right to express ourselves however WE see fit to ) ... but ...

... who is Monday Michiru? Will he (or she) ever go down in jazz history?

P.S:, No - I am not the biggest fan of OP either. I don't dislike him that much but his grunting and groaning annoys me no end on quite a few of his recordings.

Edited July 27, 2011 by Big Beat Steve

[Jazzmoose]

brilliant post!

I was offended.