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                                             May 8, 2007


  As I've probably said before:
                                        SEVEN_NOT_PLUS
       I found the soundtrack
       of the "Macross 7"
       anime series rough going.
                                              Cecil Taylor remarked:
       Are they serious?                      "I expected the audience
                                              to come prepared to listen."
       How did they mean
       this guitar cheese
       to be interpreted?

           These endless bouncey,
           bouncey, major chord
           "anthems"...                          Dangerbaby still can't
                                                 listen to this stuff.
              According to the logic             It's all more Boston & Styx
              of the story -- to the             to her ear.
              extent it exists -- this
              music is supposed to                  "Bathe me in
              represent the Anima                    stardust,
              Spirita, the unique                    Mmm... baay-- bee"
              quality of human beings.

              Yes: "the power of song".

              Spirit as a physical force.



                                                 Ra played disco records
                                                 for the archestra:

                                                 "Don't be so hip!"

                                                        HIP_REDUCTION
       The lyrics seem literally
       decadent, a series of                           Mick Jagger:
       familiar tropes and symbols                     "make every song your
       deployed to meet a certain                      favorite song."
       style, with barely any regard
       to content...                                       JAGGED_PHILOSOPHY

       "Looking up at the purple panorama
        of the galaxy highway,
        a shooting star pierces my heart"
                                                            (June 10, 2007)
I've been studying the handful
of episodes that I have access
to fairly closely, and I've           I've got #25-28, on a used
slowly come to the conclusion         tape I bought for $4 years
that this is not a work of            ago.  Apparently, this may
cynicism.                             be some sort of bootleg.
                                      There's some licensing
Everything about the story is         hang-up on US distribution.
bound up in the idea of the
regenerative power of music.
All the disparate elements
that seem incoherent (when not
formulaic) are all remarkably
tightly integrated.

I believe that this work is
fundamentally sincere.             To use Susan Sontag's jargon,
                                   it may be "camp" but it isn't
                                   "camping".

                                           SUNDAY_CAMP


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