{"id":471,"date":"2009-10-08T21:28:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T20:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=471"},"modified":"2009-10-08T21:28:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T20:28:31","slug":"perfection-or-sterilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2009\/10\/08\/perfection-or-sterilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfection or sterilty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Dylan has got a funny voice, wait I here you scream. Sacrilege! OK he is a genius, but he has got very a characteristic sound and manner that might well cause him to be rejected from the X factor auditions without a moments notice. Tom Waites? OK so my point is this. Should everything be pasteurized and homogenized and diluted and refined to the point of blandness to reach some anodyne notion of popular art. Well if its art no, but what if its entertainment with only a small a for art. Is it worth being true to your artistic conception or should you just take the money and run,(or just walk very fast without drawing too much attention to oneself) and what if you just want to be an artist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Dylan has got a funny voice, wait I here you scream. Sacrilege! OK he is a genius, but he has got very a characteristic sound and manner that might well cause him to be rejected from the X factor auditions without a moments notice. Tom Waites? OK so my point is this. 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