It's weirdly satisfying when Warren Ellis plays with music writing. (I enjoy a column like this more than some of his comics.) It reminds me of the glory days of Freaky Trigger when it was the flagship of a fleet of small music blogs, before the the hype hungry mp3 blogs devoured all traffic. Pop culture naval gazing is awesome.

Still trying to think of something to say in reaction to Jess Harvell's tirade on Idolator a couple of weeks ago. Reading some of the hyping blogs has been a dirty chore, as i want to keep up with any potential developing bands, but it's boring. Music is still exciting, and a good new song can send me into opiated bliss, but i'm feeling like i'm being conned a lot of the time with mock earnestness. I love a good flash-in-the-pan, one-hit-wonder pop moment from an unknown band, but everyone playing John the Baptist to anyone who could be passed off as a potential messiah with the right marketing.... yeah, fuck that.

Now bands only really seem interesting when woven into a larger context, when played off cultural or political moments, whether it's a comic book or an election.

Nope. Don't know where to go with that, other than... Less press releases. More thought experiments.

Fuck it. I'm dumping anything remotely hyperiffic from my music RSS feed. They are weeds choking my enjoyment of music, making me doubt the sanity of the alleged tastemaking public.