Sinister: Re: sinister-digest V4 #95

[Joseph Askins]

Man, just when I hit my lows of the evenings, the digest comes and gives me
that 11:30 PM pick-me-up that gets me through till bedtime.  Bedtime is
looking very nice tonight, as I'm leaving for home tomorrow afternoon to
spend a glorious spring break in...Rogers, Arkansas.  Wow.  Sigh...at least
I can catch up on some much needed sleep and maybe earn a few bucks mowing
the lawn for my parents (just like the old days!).  Have my road music
picked out as well...old Smashing Pumpkins, new Yo La Tengo, all those
remastered Bowie albums (!!!), Big Star, the Cure, and yes, "Tigermilk."
Don't leave for spring break without it.

I love reading some of these posts, because it just reminds me of how
secluded we American midwesterners really have it.  It's so hard to relate
to you kids, with your NME and Melody Maker and what-have-ye.  I'm sure that
topic--the difference between music journalism and promotion on opposite
sides of the pond--is constantly worn out in lists like this, but really?  I
can't think of true dominating forces in the American press that could be
equated to the NME/Melody Maker debate.  I haven't heard any Rolling
Stone/Spin debates lately, at least.  Maybe because those magazines, deep
down at their core, are simply pulse readers for the current pop
culture--there's no loyalties or promotion of certain scenes/styles of music
at those magazines.  They *might* have had a little sway even six years ago,
but I doubt it, and either way, it doesn't matter these days.  As ridiculous
as you all make NME and MM out to be, it nevertheless seems that those mags
at least their heads dipped a bit further into the pool of music than anyone
around here.  I dunno, though, since I avoid all of that sort of stuff as
much as possible (and here I am, a magazine journalism student...kill me).

Apparently the music stores around Columbia are selling the LLPJ boxset like
hotcakes.  I knew that there were many B&S fans in the community, but I've
been amazed at just how quickly the five or six stores around here are going
through the boxes...order, sell, reorder, sell, ad infinitum.  We haven't
recieved a copy at the radio station, but I'm sure we have the EPs shoved
into the stacks somewhere already.  No rumblings yet from anyone about the
new single or LP.  You'd have thought that the Pony Express would have
brought the info to these settlers by now, but mid-Missouri is still pretty
secluded. ;)

Tackled Hesse's "Demian" a couple nights ago.  The man never ceases to amaze
me, and I find that his books simply get better and better with each
re-read.  Had one of my "screw my country" fits last night and read some
choice excerpts from "The People's History of the United States," and now
I'm on to my 500th time through "Rise to Globalism."  Ah, my country tis of
thee and all that BS...blah.

JDA

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