[PREV - BEANBENDERS]    [TOP]

BIG_HERE

                                              February 16, 2007


   Brian Eno, in a 2003 talk in the Long Now
   series, talks about the way things seemed
   to him in New York when he moved there in
   the late 70s.

      [ref]

   He tells an anecdote about a rich person
   living under fortress-like conditions
   in a run-down neighborhood.

   When asked "Do you like living here?"
   she responds "Sure, it's the best
   place I've ever lived."
                                                  GENDER_FIXS_AND_UNFIXES
   He realizes that her definition
   of "here" was much narrower                         He goes on to talk
   than his definition, and it                         about trying to
   stopped at the walls of the                         create a music
   apartment.                                          that embraced
                                                       the "Big Here",
   He commented that this                              i.e. "My Life in
   seemed like a very New                              the Bush of Ghosts"...
   York attitude --

   I would suggest that this is                           (Now this is
   probably true, but only for a                          called "world
   particular class of people in                          music".)
   New York.

   For many, many people New York is
   all about neighborhoods, to the
   point where it often seems like a        JANE_JACOBS
   gigantic cluster of small towns.


--------
[NEXT - MANHATTAN_WOODY]