This doesn’t need me to point it out, but there are some pretty interesting thoughts buried in this James Murphy interview. Towards the end he gets right down to the deeply spooked soul of the Pitchfork / mp3 blog generation (and me), that being the unprecedented and ever-expanding pile of creative information available, and how to make/consume art in that context. Murphy barely gets past pointing at the problem, but he makes good points while doing so. Too much love, indeed.
Assuming you care, how do you all deal with this stuff? Do you focus on new music, and ignore the old? Or vice versa? Or do you tear your hair out trying to hear everything? Does checking mp3 blogs feel like staring at the void? And does that make you feel like a priveleged little fuck with no real problems?
I think about this stuff, probably too much. At one point I almost suggested the band I’m in adopt the name INFOVERLOAD in honor of this crisis/”crisis”, but decided it sounded too sci-fi. With that as our central premise we’d probably end up just sounding like LCD Soundsystem anyway. Which is not necesarily a diss.
Otherwise: I just got back from a deeply beautiful trip to San Francisco. I saw Gang of Four at the Filmore (AWESOME + my first time there), met all my girlfriend’s friends, hung out with Sonia, saw Shaun O’Dell’s amazing art up in SFMOMA (damn boy!), saw my dear old friend Emily Prince marry him while simultaneously turning 24 (my birthday was May 7th), and had mother’s day dinner with the fam. It was like this crazy this-is-your-life extended weekend, and I’m still catching my breath. More soon.
