The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #115388 Message #2473728
Posted By: Piers Plowman
23-Oct-08 - 10:40 AM
Thread Name: Folk Club Manners
Subject: RE: Folk Club Manners
Tom, I really wasn't trying to get at you.
Let me tell you one of my favorite stories: The animator Richard Williams wrote a very good book called _The Animator's Survival Handbook_ (or something similar). He had hired some old-time animators, excellent artists and craftsmen who had been thrown out like old typewriters when the Hollywood studios closed their animation departments. One of them was named Milt Kahl. Willams once asked Kahl in all innocence, "Milt, do you ever listen to classical music when you're drawing?" Kahl replied, "What? Are you crazy? How dare you ask me such a damn fool question? _I'm not smart enough to concentrate on two things at one time_."
It's up to you how you drive. I don't want to sound preachy (something I criticize folk-style singers for), but if you took what I said seriously, it might save your life or someone else's. End of sermon and thanks for not having a go at me for what I already said before. I know what one risks on messageboards when one criticizes something someone says.