Goddamn, I just told Forrest that I was glad I didn't go to this (and honestly, given the day's obligations, I stand by that), but what a great fucking time this would have been.
Yeah - I wish I could've gone, too. I feel like my marathon experience was incomplete.
You know what I did instead? I went and listened to a lecture on the Revolutionary Communist Party's "New Synthesis," which I'd committed to attending a while ago. It was pretty great (if ultimately unconvincing, in light of my cynicism about human nature and the thus problematic transition period of the necessary Dictatorship of the Proletariat), but ew buoy, would I have rather been in the front row for the MsFits, drinking whiskey and listening to rock, instead of in the tenth pew, holding in my pee and listening to sqwauk...
Ew boy, TL, you just bumped Julie Klausner in my #1 FOT-I-feel-bad-for-for-what-they-had-to-sit-through spot (there has to be a more elegant way to put that). Though I am curious about this "New Synthesis" business, despite being somewhat skeptical about the RCP in general. The inevitability of socialism is the one thing I don't really buy about historical materialism.
I'd ask you to expound on it, but it feels almost criminal to boring-up this particular thread with to two-way Marxism blather. Maybe I'll Google it later if I remember.
Back on topic, I just started volunteering at WFMU and am bummed that I had to miss the entire marathon because of this Composer-Librettist Studio (though it was worth every second). I did a lot of vicarious listening. I mean, I was actually listening. But the experience was vicarious.
