Courtney Love does the math (2000)

Post by yid » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 4:01 PM UTC

joejohnson wrote: post #9

yid wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...because the wild women of grunge can't possibly have brains too? Disingenuous, my friend. There are famous rockers with PhDs (the guy from green day comes to mind).

First, I don't think anyone in Green Day has a PhD. Second, I wasn't surprised because she was a women, or a musician, or because she was part of the grunge scene. I know there are lots of smart women, and lots of smart women in music. I wasn't saying anything about a correlation between gender and intelligence or professions and intelligence. I was suprised because she's Courtney Love, and most of what I've read and…

Post by harshpotatoes » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 4:09 PM UTC

yid wrote: post #8

joejohnson wrote: post #2

I can't believe Courtney Love wrote this. I had a low oppinion of her, but this seems really well written. Also, she's a fan of Neal Stephenson? That quote almost makes me wonder if this were written by some nerd and attributed to her...

...because the wild women of grunge can't possibly have brains too? Disingenuous, my friend. There are famous rockers with PhDs (the guy from green day comes to mind).

Post by JacobAldridge » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 4:36 PM UTC

daydream wrote: post #5

See also: The Problem With Music by Steve Albini http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

Post by runjake » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 5:40 PM UTC

api wrote: post #6

Generally speaking, the creative industries are full of people and businesses that operate by screwing over creative people. They view creative people the way a miner views a resource in the ground: as something to be strip mined and then discarded. I've encountered raw contempt... in a sense they are jealous of the ability of creative people to be creative, and this fuels their desire to co-opt it and take some of t…

Post by Tycho » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 6:05 PM UTC

yid wrote: post #11

joejohnson wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First, I don't think anyone in Green Day has a PhD. Second, I wasn't surprised because she was a women, or a musician, or because she was part of the grunge scene. I know there are lots of smart women, and lots of smart women in music. I wasn't saying anything about a correlation between gender and intelligence or professions and intelligence. I was suprised because she's Courtney Love, and most of what I've read and…

My bad about Green Day -- it was the Offspring I was thinking about (can't blame me, they're almost interchangeable as bands). On the other hand, rockers with PhDs: Dexter Holland from Offspring (molecular biology, but dropped out with a masters) Greg Gaffin from Bad Religion (zoology, 2007) Brian May from Queen (astrophysics) James Lilja from Offspring (medical degree, not PhD) Sterling Morrison from the Velvet Unde…