[Tango-L] Why are you dancing tango if you don't like tango?

[AJ Azure]

Huck, I'm confused. You seem to be arguing both sides of the equation


> From: Huck Kennedy <tempehuck at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 14:13:27 -0700
> To: <tango-l at mit.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Why are you dancing tango if you don't like tango?
> 
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Alexis Cousein <al at sgi.com> wrote:
> On
> 06/05/2010 04:32, Huck Kennedy wrote:
> > AJ Azure <azure.music at verizon.net>
> wrote:
>>> You'll never really find a group you like if you first assume you
> won't like
>>> them.
>>
>>        Now that makes no logical sense at all.
>  There is always room
>> for the element of pleasant surprise.
>
> The fact of
> the matter (and why it is indeed logical) is that you
> don't find a flower
> blooming on earth you've just scorched.

     Thank you so much for correcting
> me on how my own brain works
after all these years.  Where would I be without
> you?

> Those kinds of "surprises" don't happen.

     And now to dispense
> with your presumptuousness on this point
altogether:  Try watching the video
> of Suan Boyle's original
performance on Britain's Got
> Talent:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

We all know how Simon
> Cowell scorns everything and everyone from
seeing him in action on American
> Idol.  You can see the same
prejudicial scorn on his face and the faces of the
> other judges as a
rather plain and dowdy woman of a certain age comes onto the
> state and
announces she wants to be a singer.  The judges, and even most of
> the
audience, are all expecting the usual flop one might be prejudiced
> to
expect from such an unlikely contestant (who obviously must be daft to
be
> up there on the stage at her age), and of course--according to you,
who
> apparently knows it all, there is just no way these judges can
possibly be
> open to any sort of pleasant surprise.  They've already
scorched the Earth,
> donchaknow.  But come to find out--gosh, the big
mean Simon Cowell and the
> rest of them melt into adoring kittens once
they hear the woman's voice.


> Do you want to tell us anymore about what can't happen, or "the
fact of the
> matter," or are you
> done?

Huck

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