Sam Wollaston in The Guardian
I hate JK Rowling. I think any honest person who writes for a living hates JK Rowling. Yes, of course, it's jealousy. But are her words, and the order in which she puts them down, really so much better than the rest of ours? Is it right that it takes her exactly 1.7 seconds to earn my entire annual salary?
Reminds me of this internet chestnut.
Boy, I used to go thru this watching Hoobastank and Ashley Simpson and them rock the airwaves.
The thousandth cut is realizing it has nothing to do with what you do or what you’re capable of.
I’ve hung out with succesful artists who were “edgy” and “authentic” that were just shameful pussies with good publicists. Meanwhile I’m living in a nice gutter and my music is lambasted for being too “polished” and “mannered”.
Once you realize nothin’s got nothin’ to do with nothin’ you can get to making your art and slowly dying like you’re supposed to.
Me, I got no value on this planet.
But I get it now- it says more about the fuckin’ planet than it does about me.
JK won th’ pools, man. Somebody had to. One in a million is still one, right? Lennon understood that. He used to refer to himself as “the guy who won the pools” and one of th’ reasons I think we love him so much is that he actually deserved to.
Meanwhile I’m living in a nice gutter and my music is lambasted for being too “polished” and “mannered”.
Jack White has ruined everything.
Once you realize nothin’s got nothin’ to do with nothin’ you can get to making your art and slowly dying like you’re supposed to.
oh, i am on that. f the masses and the machines, i got 90-second songs to make!