On Durham and identity

grady grady at ibiblio.org
Thu Apr 5 11:50:44 EDT 2007


See, that's why I've never been in a band . . . too busy doing this!

Seriously, though, it takes both. Put it this way: introverts *and* 
extroverts. For every Shayne O'Neill, Durham still has a Dan Melchior: 
http://www.myspace.com/dasmenace

Talk about a crank at the bottom of a well . . .

Duncan Murrell wrote:
>  it's occasionally occurred to me that it takes an
> awful lot of energy and brainspace that might otherwise be spent  
> writing and practicing, and that viable artistic scenes seem to more  
> often  arise around obsessives and cranks who make great art, who  
> tend to be jealous of their time, and who would have no problem  
> discovering influences and inspiration if they found themselves  
> living at the bottom of a well. I suppose I'm proposing a chicken or  
> egg problem with no answer; I just happen to follow the cranks and  
> hermits more closely than the ebb and flow of the scene.
> 
> d



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