re: lifestyle politics... i forgot abt the system of a down non-prof until i read this interview with Tom Morello where he challenges Fugazi to a punk foot race.

i am fully in the bing crosby wasteland, from 'swing low sweet chariot' to duets with louis a. (gone fishin') to animatronic xmas tunes, it's like i'm waiting for my gi to walk through the frong door every moment. i can't get enough of these weird songs where he and his duet partner just talk shit to each other over trodding orchestra. fully pre-war pc white man skit, mixed with odes to the shoe shine boy who will 'make your shoes walk in rythmn.'

anyway, i'm convinced that bing crosby is the justin timberlake of the depression. i have to figure this all out for sound collector, which i've decided is the best self-indulgent wonderfully useless printer of music criticism i've read in a while. just cause, just cause i always want to BUY everything they talk about, just to argue with them sometimes. this fully acknowledges my white, bs east coast college elitist rockist fetish, but when i want to give in to that part of me, sound collector is my porn of choice.

in other news: tomorrow i'm headed to nyc to work on a web piece on the wildwood harley show and tonight i spent an hour listen to my location recordings from the show. nothing like having 100 roaring motorcycles pour from your computer speakers in the -2 nuclear winter. in another life, i'd be a low-brow sun city girl. oh wait, i'm a post-modern ethnomusicology student, duh. i guess i just need to make more recordings!