

the uselessness of art
Musician and friend Adam Simmons sent out an email a few years ago promoting something he called "The Usefulness of Art", along the lines of a music performance event, I believe. It was not until a few months later when I received another mailout that I realised I had misread the initial message; It was not what my subconscious had presumed as the most propitious reading of that jumble of letters, uselessness, but in fact (possibly) the opposite, USEFULNESS. I had a jolly goo