Grant St. Press as Critical Theory


When recently asked why do I exhibit work that can be easily pirated, and thus this led to the issue of why create a web log at all (?),

A: I replied I do not consider my abstractions to be worthy of covet, especially in the monetarial sense. My foremost purpose is to alter the consideration of the viewer, to let them exist for a moment outside the mundane. This site also serves an aperture for the overflow, allowing all to join in on the grand paradigm. The view is not cynical, it is straightforward critique, with an unbaised eye. Hoping for change.

On to the Velvets, (my current rotation);

"Peel Slowly and See" is one of the most rewarding listens I've ever experienced, being somewhat of a naivete of their music, I now have found myself fully immersed, trying to absorb a shard of the dimension the Velvet Underground occupied for the short time they were together. They defy genre, and are of the anvil that modern rock was forged, (See Mr. Rain take 1, on Disc 3, with some serious surrealistic viola) . The 5 disc box set contains their first four albums with outtakes and live material, and a disc of their original rehearsals at John Cales loft. And given today, when recorded music is so choreographed and rehearsed to acheive the success of the single, to hear this music evolve in a single session of takes on the first disc is incredibly archealogic, and Lou Reed's New York City street savy lyrics provide the frosting to this euphonious cake. This is without a doubt very important music, and the appendage must be the 3 disc "Quine tapes", live recordings from 1969. Considered by many, the best quality live material recorded for mass comsumption. Bon Apetite.