is the word 'diary' better than the word 'blog'? probably not.
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twilight of the idols?
Have I now been blogging long enough that I can do a websearch and happen upon something I wrote that I have no memory of writing, and then, once I find it, declare that it is a "classic"? Yes, I have been blogging that long. But whether I should indeed claim the power to declare something I wrote but do not remember writing a classic, that's up to you. In any case, here's a classic from December 2006:
At �music night� the other night there were a few semi-extended music-geek or just geeky arguments. Some of them were fun. The group was casual enough that you could pick and choose which arguments you even had to engage in. At some point someone was blaming Pearl Jam for Creed and Nickelback, and someone else was objecting that we couldn�t possibly saddle Eddie Vedder with such a burden. My contribution: �Nietzsche tells us that we have to be prepared to be responsible for the unintended effects of our will to power. In that way, Nickelback is Pearl Jam�s fault. It�s not like legal responsibility.�
[Then there was some silence. Not because I�m profound but because I somehow find a way to inject Nietzsche into any situation, and often the best anyone can do with such a rejoinder is pause to let it pass, like an odd smell. These results often remind me of that scene from Greg the Bunny when Eugene Levy is telling jokes, and after every joke you hear crickets in the background and see a bunch of blank faces in the crowd. However, after the third joke, the camera pans the crowd and then rests on a couple of highly entertained crickets.]
[I am simultaneously Eugene Levy and a cricket.]
[Did I mention that in high school my nickname was cricket, but that I was named that against my will?]
Then I added that maybe Nickelback was already the end of this particular road because we don�t even have to mock or satirize a Nickelback song, it does it for itself. Like the last season of a sitcom that has been on the air for too long, each song (like each character) is already reduced to a caricature of itself, and there is no danger that our expectations will ever be challenged or shattered by what we hear. Indeed, our expectations will barely be met, and all the while the song will be trying to seduce us into believing that �barely met� is just what we want from our expectations. So, yeah, we�ve already reached the end of this road. However, as Nietzsche also knew, the twilight of an idol can be very, very long indeed.
6:59 p.m. - September 23, 2010
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