Someone wrote the band an email in which he wrote something about "the music community". I have to write something now, because the music community, which doesn't make much music and fosters even less worthwhile community, conceives itself, so it tells me, to be at the beck and call of whatever the music websites write about. 

I am proud to have been raised to seek out, revere, and practice the power of the pun without apology--or explanation. And I am pleased to be in a position where I perceive it useful to write such a thing in such a style, both as a joke and in earnest.

The socially or individually idiosyncratic association of words and phrases on an aggressive, and often aggressively trivial, asemantic basis is so certainly a, if not the, main source of any sort of dynamism that pertains to the ludic, and what perhaps derives from the ludic (that what has often been conceived as the opposite of the ludic)--this is so certainly the case as to release me of my obligation to finish the sentence directly. 

That was written in a style I associate with a certain sort of Zappa fan. Of course, if you admire and encourage an art of creative misunderstanding in others, and you practice the art of misunderstanding yourself, in both senses that might be taken, then you certainly expect to be misunderstood.

Which brings me to the next point. As a member of a rock band--a high calling indeed--I certainly cannot be concerned that something I say might be misquoted, taken out of context, quoted without reference to the tone in which it was said or the question to which it was an answer, and therefore be misunderstood, even in an inflammatory fashion, or, from a primitive perspective, unflattering light.  To be concerned with such a thing in such a way is the exclusive business of the politician's consultant or the marketing man. A member of a rock band has no truck with their conceptions or their proclivities.  (Please don't imagine otherwise on the basis of some extremely crude notion of Pop.) One simply welcomes any such misunderstanding as part of his or her calling. Rock music is a practice in which one explicitly does not control the context in which one's work, in the sense of both objects and processes, is received and used. One does not, therefore, control or seek to control the understanding of one's work, in anything but a trivial sense. And one's work in a rock band includes the performance of 'interviews'.

 Rock music owes its current pre-emenince in the contemporary arts to the fact that it is pre-eminent in the art of being made one's own. In this sphere, one is entitled, without regard to standard or competence. Expertise in all matters of operation is conferred automatically. This in the case in principle, but not in practice. The analogy I  would draw is to a piece of progressive legislation, enacted but not enforced.