Re: [bomp] Response to various uniform code citations

["Immortal Porpoises" <immortalporpoises@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think I'm over-thinking this. We were talking about uniforms, not
specific articles of clothing. Your beatle boots may indeed be cool,
especially in light of the fact that it's 2006, and they are just a pair of
shoes in your total wardrobe, not a coordinated part of a Beatle-clone
regalia. But even if they were -- if you got a moppy haircut and dressed up
in an entire set of beatles gear, you'd be "in character" any time you were
so dressed, like you could be Beatle Bob and still be cool, in a strictly
day-to-day, situational kind of way, and with aplomb, perhaps even
accumulate some cool mileage with your individual statement.

But if it were 40 years ago, and you and 4000 bands and forty million kids
were all walking around in Beatle gear, you'd all be group-thinkers trying
to NOT to distinguish yourselves as individuals, consciously choosing to
avoid being conspicuous (and the whole package that conspicuity would
potentially bring upon you), and your outfit, while perhaps nifty and very
"in," would not be cool.

But on your comment, in my own life (as opposed to this specific
conversation) I hardly think about it at all. To tell you the truth, I'm not
particularly concerned with whether or not I look cool, even when I'm
performing. Sometimes I dress like a construction worker, sometimes I dress
like Doc Severinsen, sometimes I dress like Keith Streng, and sometimes I
dress like a biker, and mostly it depends on a combination of what just came
out of the laundry and what the weather is like. Cool is the last thing on
my mind, which is a good thing, because I'm no good at it. I like to get
laid, and if dressing like Clarabel the Clown was getting that accomplished
on a regular basis, that's how I'd dress.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rocky Serkowney" <rocky.serkowney@sympatico.ca>
To: <bomp@xnet2.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: [bomp] Response to various uniform code citations


>
> Steve,
>
> I think you are over-thinking this.  I have cool beatle boots which at
some
> times or places may be less cool in relation to others.  Nevertheless they
> are pretty cool footwear by my own admittedly biased standards.  I don't
> think you can objectively and absolutely label something like a uniform as
> always uncool by definition.  Guess it's all in the mynd's eye of the
> beholder.
>
> Blind Lemon Squirrel.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Immortal Porpoises" <immortalporpoises@earthlink.net>
> To: <bomp@xnet2.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 2:00 PM
> Subject: [bomp] Response to various uniform code citations
>
>
> > In my opinion, largely formed by a 27 year career performing and
enjoying
> > the performances of others in which outfits may or may not have matched,
a
> > band wearing either matching or complementary outfits is in the same
> > category as rehearsing and performing matching and/or complementary
music
> on
> > their repsective instruments to create the ensemble sound that is the
> band's
> > individual craft. In other words, a band like Devo or the Beatles
> outfitting
> > themselves as a unit is indistinguishable from individuals assembling
> their
> > own public face. So it can be considered cool (depending on the results,
> of
> > course), but by my standard doesn't really constitute wearing a
"uniform,"
> > which I maintain connotes uncoolness by its very being.
>
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