Starting from a conversation between Jonathan Gray and Henry Jenkins, Wayne Marshall ponders the utility of “paratext” (”all those things that surround a book that aren’t quite the ‘thing’ itself…the cover, prefaces, typeface, and afterwords, but also reviews”) for music:
…“Crank Dat”…perhaps best illustrates the problem with trying to apply a theory of para/texts to music [...]

(These aren’t in any sort of hierarchical ordering, but numbers comfort me.)
1  She’s not quite everything I want from a balls-out-weirdo-pop-star, but Lady Gaga comes terribly close.  ”I want to take a ride on your disco stick”?  Disco stick.
2 Dan Bodah’s Dronecast podcast has managed to fit into my neurosis rather nicely.  I imagine (well, [...]