For us, it was liquid authenticity.

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― and what, Saturday, 21 April 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

It's the essay as Möbius strip; a literary illusion that ultimately makes less of an argument than it seems to, and yet tells us more about what's true, what's not, and why that doesn't always matter, than a more straightforward confrontation with the secrets and lies of pop music ever could.

sort of like my grocery lists

― m coleman, Saturday, 21 April 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

It's funny to watch journalists discover old ideas like they're first looking into Chapman's Homer, but I s'pose everybody has to come across those ideas for the first time, some time.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 21 April 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

That was awful at first, until later in the essay when you started getting the feeling that he might actually like music.

― filthy dylan, Saturday, 21 April 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

When white producers brought Leadbelly to New York City in 1935 to play "traditional" music, Life magazine declared in a headline: "Bad Nigger Makes Good Minstrel"

OK that's just disgusting.

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 22 April 2007 00:43 (eighteen years ago)

Suicide is never funny. Well, maybe yours might be.

― marmotwolof, Sunday, 22 April 2007 00:55 (eighteen years ago)

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