I’m going to keep posting these examples as they arise.  Hope that’s okay (they’ll be under this tag).  For those times we all have that make us go “these kids/these days.”  Here, we have Bartók, in the midst of the Modernist revolution:
To be frank, recently I have felt so stupid, so dazed, so empty-headed that [...]

In blog years, I’ve been away for long enough to put out a reunion album.  If only I had more to show for it.
Not that I haven’t been “being productive.”  The opposite, actually.  It’s just that said productivity hasn’t manifested itself publicly.  Yet.  Along with taking trips out of town for various reasons (the Pitchfork [...]

Back soon, until then:
…(in 1905) the humor magazine Puck satirized this rapid turnover in a series of ‘diary entries,’ written from the point of view of a popular song, recounting its creation, its plugging, its meteoric rise, and its precipitous descent into neglect–all in the span of five weeks.
David Suisman, “Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution [...]

“What constitutes a hype?  It’s the launching of tunes and records with great fanfare and thousands of free promotional records to disk jockeys and juke box operators, tunes which were recorded by top artists on major labels and which inspired numerous ‘cover’ disks and reams of publicity.  A flock of big hypes have faded away [...]

Swap out some nouns and Mad Libs this mug, 2010-style:
“Wanna be the big teen in hardcore circles?  Get some other dillheads together, call yourselves Antagonistic Decline or Vicious Tendencies or Unrepentant Youth or some such thing, copy every lick from the Dischord collection and write songs about military intervention, whether you know anything about it [...]

Some half-hatched thoughts about Lil’ Wayne in a minute, but first this nice interview snip:
How do you keep track of ideas? The good thing about that is that, thank God, I’m actually infatuated and in love with what I do, therefore I am what I do. So I never have to forget because I never [...]