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--- Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:

> the phenomenon wherein people
> incorporate certain bits of art/cultural ephemera into their
> life to such an extent that it consumes them (for an extreme
> example of this, take a look at the late Nathan Gale ---
> Pantera meant so much to him that he felt that he had a right
> to go murder someone he considered at fault for breaking them
> up).

  Something else consumed Nathan Gale to motivate him into
killing anyone. The music was a means or vehicle for w/e motives
he had.  Being consumed by art and implying cause is dangerously
close to all those claims that Ozzy's or anyone else's music
"caused my son/daughter to _____________." It makes music the
scapegoat once again. 

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As the masters rot on walls
And the angels eat their grapes
I watched picasso 
visit the planet of the apes


		
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