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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