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I really should be working, but instead I'm having a fit of Fuck All This and hanging around the musical parts of youtube, nearly crying with an overdose of Beauty.
Seriously, for most of my musical life (which, admittedly, was lived on the margins, and without proper means of information for the most part) I could count the number of active bands/artists (that I knew about, anyway) that were in line with my tastes on the fingers of one hand, or at least, on the fingers of two hands. Now, since lurking around the margins of Radiohead fandom and noticing certain names being dropped again and again, and plugging these names into youtube's search, I've discovered that apparently I like almost everything that could be described as 'indie' at the present moment at least to some degree, and I really *love* an alarming percentage of it.
Seriously, WTF? When did indie transform from "four or five guys with distorted e-guitars" to "anything goes, the more bizarre the better, as long as it still rocks (though preferably melancholically)"? How did this happen?
Also, how am I supposed to choose between all these awesome bands and artists and their many many albums? There's simply too much good stuff!
(Suppose I could perhaps try to narrow it down to twenty choices, and then use a D20 to decide which album to buy next... put those old roleplay dice to some use. :D)
PS: No new appointment yet. Apparently I would have had to call before 8:30 a.m. - that's the only time when the recommended therapist is available telephonically.
Seriously, for most of my musical life (which, admittedly, was lived on the margins, and without proper means of information for the most part) I could count the number of active bands/artists (that I knew about, anyway) that were in line with my tastes on the fingers of one hand, or at least, on the fingers of two hands. Now, since lurking around the margins of Radiohead fandom and noticing certain names being dropped again and again, and plugging these names into youtube's search, I've discovered that apparently I like almost everything that could be described as 'indie' at the present moment at least to some degree, and I really *love* an alarming percentage of it.
Seriously, WTF? When did indie transform from "four or five guys with distorted e-guitars" to "anything goes, the more bizarre the better, as long as it still rocks (though preferably melancholically)"? How did this happen?
Also, how am I supposed to choose between all these awesome bands and artists and their many many albums? There's simply too much good stuff!
(Suppose I could perhaps try to narrow it down to twenty choices, and then use a D20 to decide which album to buy next... put those old roleplay dice to some use. :D)
PS: No new appointment yet. Apparently I would have had to call before 8:30 a.m. - that's the only time when the recommended therapist is available telephonically.
