He's good, but a bit overrated
It may be on a humour website, but Dr. David Thorpe's Your Band Sucks column is a must for anyone who likes music and especially who likes reading about music. The "Field Guide to North American Hipsters" are pretty priceless, but today's second installment of "How to Fake It" is priceless. The best part is probably where Thorpe points out you're unlikely to be caught "because people involved in music discussions don’t actually care what other people think, they’re merely concerned about the politics of domination and submission."
He does seem to have shown some cracks in character more recently and even admitted to liking some music (like the post-rock album in the bargain bin CDs piece). Still reliably pretty funny though and doesn't seem to have affected the hatemail.
Posted by
if |
8:02 PM
If Stylus has taught me anything, it's that nothing affects the hatemail.
And the cracks in the character actually endear him to me a little, although not as much as Yellowjacket Greenapple, which is roughly what I imagined The Prisoner being like as a small child, based on my mom's stories about it.
Posted by
Ian |
12:21 PM