A pal of mine told me last week that he was going to this and I could only respond by asking "What have you become?!"This kind of shit has really started to annoy me in the past few years: the endless hunger (some) folks have for new and constant entertainment. The friend I speak of will constantly barrage me with questions about whether I've seen this or that latest blockbuster or heard the latest dozen flavours-of-the-month from Pitchfork. Don't get me wrong: I love a good movie or a good album, but there is such a backlog of great culture that I haven't been exposed to yet (for x: the early Aerosmith or ZZ Top albums, the films of frenchies like Godard & Truffaut or stuff from Jodorowsky) that I'd rather check out one or two things whose value has been proven by history, rather than trudge through all this new shit in hopes of finding something gold just because it's NEW & BLEEDING EDGE.maybe I'm just a grump, or maybe the new Hold Steady album just isn't that great. I just can't tell anymore.
