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Two articles

Friday, January 13, 2006

I’m going to morph into Large-Hearted Boy for a second, if only to direct attention toward two articles I happened upon yesterday and today:

Chuck Klosterman, of Fargo Rock City and Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs note, has been submitting periodic columns to espn.com’s Page2 section, and his sports writing has proven to be as incisive and humorous as his insights on rock culture. He teams up with fellow cultural commentator and trend follower Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point, Blink) for a short piece on Gonzaga forward and Good White Basketball Player Adam Morrison and the knee-jerk tendency of writers and fans to instantly make comparisons to the Greatest White Basketball Player Ever, Larry Bird:

“Aging American white people have been waiting for another Larry Bird in the same way aging hippies have been waiting for another Bob Dylan, but nobody ever gets what he or she wants: Tom Gugliotta ended up being Beck; Keith Van Horn turned out to be Conor Oberst; Mike Dunleavy is probably Ryan Adams.”

Over at (the typically hit-and-miss) PopMatters, columnist Rob Horning eloquently opines on the remarkable overabundance of mp3 blogs and its deleterious effect on music (geek) culture:

“But with a surfeit of once-difficult-to-hear songs out there, the prestige of the music itself is waning. What one has heard no longer even signifies effort or devotion or even a particular interest. Anyone who finds a couple of good blogs can have amass a ’60s garage-rock collection that would dwarf that owned by the most inveterate collectors in the ’90s. The information contained in the music files has become exceedingly cheap; it’s out there for anyone to access. Knowing what the Insect Trust or Chamaeleon Church sounds like doesn’t mean anything, anymore (if it ever should have).”

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