Every on going Generation is getting Weaker
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I'm a huge Kevin Smith fan. I have all his movies, all his "Evening With... " DVD's, I have three of his books, one of which is signed, I have a huge "Dogma" poster on my living room wall, and I used to have a cat called Randal, named after the Clerks character.
All that said, I have seriously problems with his Prince story, it's exploitative, unfair, doesn't all add up, lacks context and is clearly heavily exaggerated for the purposes of comedy (obviously since that's what Kev does). But the problem is that most people won't see it that way.
Even though I've never worked with the man in the way that Kevin did (although I have met him), I have about 100x more insight into how he works. Is he "weird"? No, it's simply that, like most geniuses, he operates on a different plane.
All that said, I have seriously problems with his Prince story, it's exploitative, unfair, doesn't all add up, lacks context and is clearly heavily exaggerated for the purposes of comedy (obviously since that's what Kev does). But the problem is that most people won't see it that way.
Even though I've never worked with the man in the way that Kevin did (although I have met him), I have about 100x more insight into how he works. Is he "weird"? No, it's simply that, like most geniuses, he operates on a different plane.
But it's funny.
I enjoy Prince. Not quite hero-level for me. Why is it important for him not to be weird, though? His personal foibles have nothing to do with his music (see: Jackson, Michael). And that story is less about how Prince "works" and more about how Prince "is."
I enjoy Prince. Not quite hero-level for me. Why is it important for him not to be weird, though? His personal foibles have nothing to do with his music (see: Jackson, Michael). And that story is less about how Prince "works" and more about how Prince "is."
Well, as a Prince and MJ fan growing up, hearing "MJ is weird" and "Prince is weird" all the time got old fast. Like, people who literally know a couple of songs at most "You like Prince? He's weird" *pulls face*
It's just lame. The man is a musical fucking genius, the modern day Mozart except even better. That should be the be-all and end-all of it. There is no single songwriter with more songs in Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". You can't criticize his position as one of the inarguably Top 5 musical artists of all time so people resort to getting cheap laughs out of the fact that he simply operates on a higher and different level to most people, which is difficult for people to comprehend. People tend to mock the methods of those who they do not understand and who operate on a higher plane.
Most of the people who see stuff like that aren't gonna be fans, so it enforces a pointless stereotype that detracts from the music.
And Kevin's story, while starting off lighthearted, gradually becomes more and more mean. It continues in the second "Evening With Kevin Smith" DVD as well and continues down that path.
It's just lame. The man is a musical fucking genius, the modern day Mozart except even better. That should be the be-all and end-all of it. There is no single songwriter with more songs in Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". You can't criticize his position as one of the inarguably Top 5 musical artists of all time so people resort to getting cheap laughs out of the fact that he simply operates on a higher and different level to most people, which is difficult for people to comprehend. People tend to mock the methods of those who they do not understand and who operate on a higher plane.
Most of the people who see stuff like that aren't gonna be fans, so it enforces a pointless stereotype that detracts from the music.
And Kevin's story, while starting off lighthearted, gradually becomes more and more mean. It continues in the second "Evening With Kevin Smith" DVD as well and continues down that path.
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