came home from work and my stereo was playing songs:ohia's 'ghost tropic.' i must have accidentally set the alarm long ago, because i think it goes off around seven p.m. every nite, usually to the radio in this eerie, untuned crackle of voices. today is was as if i had some utopian future home, or like my bio-smart co-intern would say, a smart house run by monitoring a microchip in my skin which measures blood sugar levels, heart-rate or the humors - my infinite sea of black bile requires this album precisely as i enter the home! (lament!)
the serbian book has made several references to 'blistering indie rock' in the 30 odd pages i've read. c'mon man. he's also the guy who wrote that history of rave culture, generation esctacy or whatever. gawd. the sentences are too short for me, the politics too senimental. he obviously does not know about or really care for the music of which he writes. uses it as a platform for which to play out the 'drama of youth against oppression.'
reminds me of a really horrific book i opened today in my role as literary intern - on music from montemarte to the mudd club, or how popular music gained cultural integrity over 100 years. written by some sociology prof. in some no name school. total fucking blather. it's how i feel about kids who take ballet lessons, or violin lessons or work extra hard at math - at some point someone should straight up tell you, 'look kid, you are never going to be a genius at this and if you really love it, go ahead, but you might just end up sucking at it forever.' more than half of my friends really need that talk soon and no one has ever given that guy the talk.
am now listening to 'don't think twice, it's all right' as part of my continued melancholic week. always return to the classics in times of crisis, i guess. can't listen to anything that smacks too much of artifice...
also, room mate spinning the chamber brothers, who seem to be everywhere around me these days. weird stuff, sort of soul, psych, a little too straighforward or not straightforward enough, depending.