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Almost Famous/rockcritics/blahblah
November 18, 2007 | | 1 Comment
Dear Rock Diary,
I watched “Almost Famous” for the first time since middle school. It’s still a great movie, but I couldn’t stop thinking about this class while watching it. It made Lester Bangs seem like such a miserable bastard, I don’t even want to imagine was James Miller was like when he was writing rock critiques. I used to write music reviews for a small website based out of California, but part of the movie actually explained why I quit.
Clara Clara
When I started writing, I was able to only review things that I liked, so it was easy to write about melodies and use nice adjectives to describe songwriting, but once you have to start reviewing things that aren’t so good…well, it’s kind of depressing. No longer are you sharing what you love with the world, but rather what is just mediocre…which is kind of a weird thing to share. I got fed up with feeling like I had to give a good review to a band I didn’t like, so I just stopped. Anyways, rock is dead, stop whoring out things to the masses. That’s distasteful.
I’m much happier doing my specialized radio show on wmwc. I don’t have to play music that I don’t have a connection with, so the entire show that I get to share is everything that I actually like. Now, I know since I have a specialty show, I can only play lofi/diy stuff, but that is what I truly love about music. These artists aren’t doing it for the money. They make music because it is fun. Plus it is like making mixtape every week.
oh blog entries.
love,
Andrew
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