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Weblog:   Brian Eno on the Long Now
Subject:   The long "bollox" more like!
Date:   2003-11-04 12:24:59
From:   anonymous2
Brian Eno has somehow created an amazing self-mythology, where normally intelligent people melt before his "erudition". Frankly, he talks a load of "bollox".


Many years ago, I paid a substantial amount of money to go to one of his infrequent "happenings" in London, but was sufficiently under-whelmed that I left after aboutv 20 minutes. As a teenage fan of his work with Roxy Music, his later solo albums, his collaboration with Robert Fripp (ex King Crimson) and production for U2, etc, I was really looking forward to the event.


However, his initial topic was banal beyond belief; that different scents are like different musical notes, and so one create a symphony of smell. Duh! Not only was that the day-to-day the language used by people in the perfume industry (hence "long" from original thinking), it was also more-or-less the fundamental premise of the book "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind.


If i'd wanted a review of a book i'd read several years earlier I would have dug out an old copy of The Times Literary Supplement.


However, I suppose one should at least be grateful that he is not charging for the event. But I would warn any participants not to expect too much. After, all, something which has no cost more than often has no value!


Happy Dreams.
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  • The long "bollox" more like!
    2003-11-04 15:39:54  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

    "After, all, something which has no cost more than often has no value!"

    You mean like the web, Linux and all other open source projects? Stop puffing that crack pipe dude.
    • The long "bollox" more like!
      2003-11-07 07:28:28  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

      Maybe you should put down the pipe. The web IS NOT FREE unless you are stealing access. As for Open Sores...
  • A symphony of smell
    2003-11-04 16:21:52  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

    Check the Eckhart Wunderich interview:
    http://frigate.ce.mun.ca:8080/great/episodes/ge_s1_01.mp3
  • The long "bollox" more like!
    2003-11-07 07:27:00  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

    >After, all, something which has no cost more than often has no value!

    Well said! Of course, this would apply to linux too.
  • The long "bollox" more like!
    2003-12-05 05:38:25  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

    Six quid is a substantial amount of money?

    Eno had been doing stuff with perfumes since the early 1980s, so it's unlikely that his views were taken wholesale from your "Perfume" book.

    For the interested, there's a review of that lecture here:

    http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/ind92.html
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