It's a fairly pointless aside, but maybe you'd be interested to know. I do all my writing on a Treo, a tiny handheld keyboard communicator, on buses, in cafes, at work. I then email it from the same device and it pops up here on the web. You have to be a pretty huge geek to work out how to do this.
I can be listening to atrocious 80's lovers pop in a coffee franchise and let you know about it, like I am right now. I don't know if this has any relevance to writing about music as an activity per se. It might be a more suitable mode of communication for War Journalism, "we've just been hit by a shell" etc. Though didn't JG Ballard describe music journalism as "the real reportage"? Music goes off like veg, it loses it's freshness quickly, before becoming useful as manure.
What a handy metaphor! After all culture's energy is reinvested in old music to reconfigure it's location or even to use it as a base for newer music (especially vis a vis sampling). Music journalism is even more ephemeral and temporally specific, unless, to extend the analogy it's the equivalent of a gardners guide to compost.
So either these entries are beamed-in bulletins from the tip of the wave (hey Matt don't flatter yourself) or they're an exercise....shit just spilled my latte.
Posted by Woebot at March 28, 2003 12:39 PM