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I have at times been involved in performance, lugging and sweat, television, film, management, etc. I am a musician by trade. My entire family is in this business.
All prettier than I. ;-)
Of course this thread is not about me. I am sorry if I have derailed it.
Lugging and sweat is an expression I have never heard of until now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sydneysider
A whole family involved is incredible. I could not begin to imagine.
It is a small family. My brother is very successful staging shows all around the world. I believe over six hundred so far this year. He is a producer.
His son is a film maker.
Our 85 year old dad manages a rehearsal studio.
I play drums and percussion having begun my professional career in the early 80's. Toured heavily until burnout set in. I mainly teach now. Have worked on tv, radio, stage etc.
This career put me in touch with many gay people. I well remember when aids first struck. Many friends and colleagues passed away, both male and female. That horrible disease took many friends.
You are one lucky person to have had such a diverse and musical experiences.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sydneysider
Many people dream of it all from the sofa of their living room.
Aids is indeed one terrible thing.
It is scary because it affects everybody regardless of sexual orientations.
Yes indeed aids is dreadful. In the early days when people did not understand it, many friends who had been diagnosed began acting bizzarely. Mainly leaping into shows as if desperate to perform. I played several such shows, wondering what was going on? Some months later these people had died.
Happily the disease is better managed today and I have not lost a friend to it in years.
Getting back to the gay and straight issue, I don't care about a person's sexual orientation. Indeed most gay men I have known have been the most civilised people I have yet met. I equate homophobia with racism. That is my choice of course. Rightly or wrongly.
Not many gay people have beaten straight people to death. Many straight people have on the other hand killed many homosexuals.
[QUOTE=Sydneysider;1173158]Yes indeed aids is dreadful. In the early days when people did not understand it, many friends who had been diagnosedYes that is one amasing strength mankind does show which is the ability to come together to fight something as tragic as this.Quote:
began acting bizzarely. Mainly leaping into shows as if desperate to perform. I played several such shows, wondering what was going on? Some months later these people had died.
Happily the disease is better managed today and I have not lost a friend to it in years.
I think gay or not people are just like any other, civislised and most of all humans.Quote:
Getting back to the gay and straight issue, I don't care about a person's sexual orientation. Indeed most gay men I have known have been the most civilised people I have yet met. I equate homophobia with racism. That is my choice of course. Rightly or wrongly.
I think the issue is not the sexual orientations as such, but the actual pyschic of someone finding faults in everything one comes across with.
Homesexuality is just the cause that allows for hatred to breed.
Hatred is out of touch and more often it is the root cause to the inability to associate with people of different aspirations roots or orientations. Finding a reason to dislike something is because that something is either out of reach for someone to understand it or because the concerned cannot associate anything with anybody.
It is an alienation towards anything that is normally just another fact of life which becomes suddenly the abnormality because the subjected to it does not have a grasp of his or her own self/ feelings/environment/identity and so treats it as a hostility rather then the norms.
That is true reality across the globe and goes beyond culture religion or faith.Quote:
Not many gay people have beaten straight people to death. Many straight people have on the other hand killed many homosexuals.
I could not agree more. Well said.
I dislike all forms of xenophobia. Recently I watched an old documentary on the history of rock n roll. So many arguments against it based in the idea of the "savage rhythm" being evil and dangerous. This idea existed in Nazi Germany as well. Rhythm itself seen as evil. All these mindless stereotypes based in the false comfort that is the idea that one type of human is better than another, is madness.
At least to me.
Xenophobia is like a venerial disease it spreads quickly but slowly and does not go away until one day a mighty drug comes along and destroys it once and for all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sydneysider
I am a firm believer in justice. Umpredictable is often seen as unlucky because it catches one unprepared but it also has its moment of true goodness and when it does hit the nail it does do justice where justice's due.
I have never heard of 'savage rythm' although I have heard of lily savage though haha the two are not related of course.
I cannot imagine how a rhythm that is exact and which create a tune could be evil.
I guess evil is the drive that wants to dismantle/wreck anything because it did not could not get there first.