Word: minor
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James Dyson--inventor, self-promoter and Britain'smost famous vacuum salesman--constantly seeks minor irritations. If the batteries in your hand vacuum go dead just when you need it, you plug it in to recharge and grab a broom, right? Not Dyson. If pet hair clogs the vac and ruins its suction, you open it and clear it out. Dyson embarks on a research project. To him, these issues aren't minor, and they're not irritations. They're business opportunities...
...that this sort of conditional independence is anything new in the hardcore scene: Minor Threat’s Lyle Preslar became an A&R representative for Atlantic Records; Henry Rollins hosted a car-battling show on The Learning Channel, among countless other questionable endeavors. Not to play the sell-out card, but do these people really need any more attention, or money...
...film manages to portray even the level-headed Ian MacKaye (founder of Dischord Records, and member of Minor Threat and Fugazi), as an off-the-wall fanatic. The Minutemen—subjects of their own excellent documentary “We Jam Econo”—are the only band whose importance equals their portrayal in “American Hardcore,” but their folksy, jazzy punk sounds could hardly be called “hardcore” in the first place...
...yourself music scene is in many ways as marginalized today as it was in the early 1980s. While “Hardcore” is right to point out that bands like Black Flag and Minor Threat laid the groundwork for the distributed national network of underground musicians that persists to this day, misplaced scene nostalgia (two points for anyone who can name more than five good bands on SST Records) comes at the expense of real support for today’s struggling bands...
...patrician heritage: Berkeley, Dartmouth, Exeter. Newbury Street is also the epicenter of Boston’s numerous art galleries, many of which are, unsurprisingly, devoted to the established names and traditional styles that complement Boston’s Yankee conservatism. And yet, among the myriad galleries full of minor impressionists and themed shows on “the Seasons of New England” are hidden some gems filled with cutting-edge art. These are innovative galleries devoted to contemporary art, featuring a new show almost every month: well worth a stop for anyone with an interest in changing trends...