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well i'm sure that kim will chime in here, but there are definitely more opportunities in the EU and elsewhere in the world than in the US. i have friends in the EU who get stipends from the government to do their work. and in general it seems that art gets better funding over there. now i'd also to be the first person to state that those scenes are NOTHING like what the 80s scene was like - there's a reason so many books are being written about it, etc. it was a moment in time, a convergence that only happens occasionally. and you never know when you're in it that it will turn out to be that way, though you suspect and hope. and while there was more money to be made, clubs paid better than today (do they pay at all?) it still wasn't a great living. most of the people i knew scraped by and lived in cheap little places in the east village (and still do!)<div>b</div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 5, 2009, at 10:46 PM, Ken Restivo wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">My question is this: where in the world-- if anywhere-- is there such a scene like early-80's New York taking place? i.e. a place where artists and musicians can make a decent-- maybe even good-- living?</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">-ken</font></p> </blockquote></div><br><div> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">bruce tovsky</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">www.skeletonhome.com</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.."</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Philip K. Dick</font></p> </div><br></div></body></html>