Ben wrote to zorn: BA> it's always encouraging to see artists speak up. i'm not asking BA> that every artist be a eugene chadbourne (although his new protest BA> songs are really fucking funny), but i believe that artists have a BA> responsibility to address basic social realities (otherwise what's BA> the point of producing art?) Yeah, I was just reading Wyndham Lewis' 1930 volume _Hitler_ a couple of weeks ago (w/ chapter titles like "Adolph Hitler -- A Man of Peace" and "One Advantage in 'Race'-Notion"). Pretty responsible stuff there. -- Jim Flannery newgrange@talmanassociates.com When you can't give anything, you can also receive nothing. Through giving, you also receive. You can never stop giving. When you have nothing more to give, you're dead. -- Mustafa Tettey Addy np: Abunai!, _presents The Mystic River Sound_ nr: Conjunctions:39