A.E. cypherin' knowledge

I receive an online newsletter from the Knitting Factory detailing all the tasty shows they are putting on. They always start off the publication with a couple of quotes. Today's first Bartlettesque?

"A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time."
- Mariah Carey

While MC may have a point, KFactory countered with an even better quote that skewers Top 40 music pretty effectively.

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice."
- Albert Einstein

Pretty awesome quote.

So good in fact that I looked it up online just to see it in context. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that this is only the first two sentences of a longer quote:

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable an ignorable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

Wow.

From a snide (yet pointedly effective) putdown of the zombie masses that listen to Brittany (or whatever crap MTV tells them to) to a stinging condemnation of the nationalist, might-makes-right attitudes of some in this country.

Well done, Al.

"McCain = more war. Either Democrat = less war. Relatively simple, no?"


Promoting other senseless brutalities:

Kompressor - Krush Television
(bug eyed evil from Deutschland via Ohio)

Austere - Distance
(wide open, flat out, and gone)

Scorn - Anamnesis
(headspace pilots)

Bonechurch - BlackStatic
(ancient and evil)

Abstract Audio Systems - Poems For Innogen
(light, lilting, and lovely)