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February 9, 2006 
there is some seriously good writing happening out there about music, the history of music, the current state of music, popism vs rockism, hauntology (?), and i’ve been spending a lot of the last week catching up on it. similar to the way that great music has a way of making me feel like i shouldn’t be wasting my time making my own stuff, i’ve found that the great music analysis and rigorous debate that goes on out there on some of the more literate music blogs has a way of making me feel completely inarticulate about an ‘art form’ that i’m supposedly intimately involved with. i’m no bozo, but i’m starting to feel like maybe i don’t think enough about what it is i’m doing, that i should be able to defend my art by using a lot of big words, or that i should be able to place what i’m doing in some kind of historical/musicological context.. for some reason i get defensive when confronted with the kind of analysis that cuts music to the bone, but that probably just reflects my own inability to properly engage in these kind of arguments.
but yeah, if you want to read about things like the impact of p2p and file sharing on music, the slow death of rock thru retro-fetishism disguised as new-pop, musical genre as racial divide, click click click click for some of the best in the business. just beware - if you, like me, are attempting to actually make music you may soon find yourself deconstructing what you’re doing, and end up in a big irrelevant, apolitical, uninteresting hole. maybe i’ll become a grime MC.
