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Adam Jackson wrote:

> An Open Letter to the City, Mayor and City Council,
>
>
> I am writing to express my support for the ELIMINATION of perhaps the
> most banal and pointless waste of taxpayer funds this city has
> perpetrated upon its citizens this decade - namely, the ridiculous,
> laughable and patently fraudulent so-called "Austin Music Network."
>
> Explain to me, please, exactly how it serves the city's interest to
> provide this subsidized TV mouthpiece for the Austin Chronicle.  They
> COULD have gone and gotten an Access show, like everybody else, but
> NOOOOOO - they had to have their own CHANNEL.  So now day in, day out,
>
> these self-appointed local arbiters of "hipness" perch atop this
> noxious, pathetically inept little soapbox and reassure we the
> citizenry
> that yes, they're "down" with "the scene."  WHO CARES?  Gee, I'm just
> so
> GRATEFUL that we're WAY behind on funding for police, emergency
> services, road repair, park maintenance and the like, JUST so we can
> see
> those hideously awful Stevie Ray Vaughan videos fifty times a day, or
> some no-name loser band's Steamboat show, or an aging Chronicle
> scenester hack plugging "gigs" for talentless, futureless alleged
> "musicians".
>
> What's more, the idea that this "network" serves as some sort of
> "promotion" for local music is preposterous.  From what I've seen (and
>
> yes, I've watched) I'd suspect less than 10 percent of their
> programming
> actually consists of local acts.  Not that I can blame them, seeing
> that
> Austin music as a whole is both culturally and artistically irrelevant
>
> ("Happy Feet, da da da, Happy Feet, da da da, Happy feet..." etc. ad
> nauseum), but this fact alone completely invalidates their purported
> raison d'etre.  The Austin Music Network is, in fact, nothing more
> than
> city-sponsored ENDORSEMENT of a numerically insignificant subculture;
> a
> $300,000 trophy for Chronicle types proclaiming, "We Rule!"
>
> A few weeks ago, two people, a man and a woman, were kidnapped from a
> parking lot not three blocks away from the central police station.
> The
> woman was brutally raped, but escaped with her life.  The man, a
> bright
> and promising future civic leader known personally by our Mayor,
> drowned
> to death in the trunk of a car, along with another promising,
> intelligent and objectively WORTHWHILE human being.  Taken together,
> these two people had the potential to contribute more to this
> community
> than the sum total of the entire music "scene" for the past fifty (or
> the NEXT fifty) years.  But no - they were horribly killed, and this
> poor woman, who's become almost forgotten in the aftermath, is scarred
>
> for life. I place the blame for this horrific atrocity squarely on the
>
> shoulders of irresponsible city leaders who, for some insane reason,
> consider providing the means for beer-swilling, dope-smoking,
> guitar-grubbing LOSERS to attain some paltry degree of local
> celebrity,
> more important than putting ENOUGH POLICE on our STREETS to create an
> INTIMIDATING PRESENCE for scumfuck CRIMINALS.  How many police
> officers
> could have been funded with the money that the city flushed down this
> toilet they like to call the "Austin Music Network"?  END OF
> DISCUSSION.
>
> The city staff who had the wisdom and level-headedness to GUT this
> STUPID experiment should recieve medals, commendations and a
> tickertape
> parade.  Instead, I'm sure we'll be treated to an infinitely more
> tiresome and depressing parade of stoned, tie-dyed, ponytailed moron
> after stoned, tie-dyed, ponytailed moron blithering to the council
> about
> "groovin' on the hip, cool Aus-town vibe, man... If my band could get
> on
> Austin Music Network, we could MAKE IT!"
>
> I hereby challenge the Austin Chronicle, for once in its sorry,
> self-serving history, to actually make one sacrifice in the public
> interest, and not make the continued existence of the Austin Music
> Network their latest pet issue.  Of course I realize this is about as
> likely as my sprouting wings and flying to Mars, but by making the
> challenge, I will at least be able to point out their inevitable
> selfish, clinging, crybaby antics for what they are.
>
> NOT ONE RED CENT OF OUR TAX DOLLARS FOR THE AUSTIN MUSIC NETWORK!!!

I agree.

--
Charlie Wood
cwood@ichat.com


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