Former interview subject Darren Finizio submitted the following to me to run here in the L!F!P! blog:

The other day I let a 60's record collecto type of person into my home
and I let him hear something I recently created called The Antisocial Social
People -- it's a conceptual album I created because I though it was a good
idea. Probably no one will hear it. It has short songs featuring scenesters
voicing elation over various styles of music, interspersed with prayers by
The Antisocial People accompanied by pipe organ. He preceded to tell me that
familiar line about musicans can't play the same way when they get older,
'xept now this time he was referring to [me]. "Don't you realize that most
musicians [say] they get better with time, but lose track of what *cool and
just can't [do it] anymore". I thought about his comment and couldn't stop
thinking about that interview with you. I had to write this. In that
interview we barely, if at all, discussed what I'm doing now. You posted
phone messages I'd wish you'd remove. Thats not 'my new music'. I was just
trying to perform my parents old sheet music to make you laugh. Needless to
say, for the last 5 years I've began intensely practicing my guitar on a
regular basis, exploring texture/sound/feedback.....oh, all sorts of things.
I'm learning to [fly] and play tsome fairly complex music. Many musicians,
like many visual artists, create better music later on in their lives and I
believe I'm definitely one of them. I'm a slow learner. Now, when I play
guitar with my drummer friend Rich Moscowitz (from Philly 90's avante jazzers
IMU) and John Thomas (from 90's Philly fun fusionoids Tintinabulus and EDO) I
realize that I've become quite good at playing Music. The real thing. As far
as songs, well, Darren NOW (with a rubber band and mic) could easily blow
away Muscle Factory or Hoppy The Frog THEN. I'm completely sure of it. I
could arbitrarely change tempos and improvise lyrics to my songs. I've gotten
more fun and more interesting. So what gives, Philly? What's up with the
age-ism thing? Why y'all making me seem like a relic? Do any of the hardcore
punks you interviewed tell you that they merely got into the scene because
they needed a style, an identity......because they went to the same college?
I'm still young before my years and, though, it's cool to reminisce about the
past, I've so much music to offer in the NOW. What [is] the Philly scene?
What has it [ever] been? Clique upon clique? Mood music made for cliques as
an ethemeral outsping of identity? Funny to think I overrided it all by
wearing a Frog costume and singing music that pretty much sounded like Loving
Spoonful or lifting some dumbells onstage and playing Hawind light for y'all.
So much more to music. Sorry, I can't help but resent Philly for putting me
in a museum. I've so much more to offer, but you'll probably never hear it.
And those Youtube videos? Do you think I'd ever give anything reallygood away
for free? Most all of them are there to make fun of y'ouever for being online
when you should be living.



*"cool" meaning no longer attending shows and getting an idea of what people
like.....like I ever cared. And, anyway, would a carnie ever step out and
watch a sideshow with the rubes?