A perceptive writer gets with the System
I never thought I’d read a near-perfect summation of one of my favorite bands in just 12 words: “[System of a Down] juxtapose the absurd and the serious while playing with tempos and temperaments” (“Now It’s Personal,” April 22).
Simple, yet terribly, painfully complex. Susan Carpenter deserves a humanitarian award for her article on S.O.A.D.
Most writers of such articles on System cannot fathom or encompass the history, the policies, the crime, the culture, the sorrow and the beauty that have shaped their music. Carpenter’s politically informed intelligence and love of humanity is too often lacking these days in writers.
Thank you, Ms. Carpenter; thank you, L.A. Times. And thank you, System!
Alex Kalognomos
Shadow Hills
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