Sunday 21 July 2002

Climbing Daypop is One Hundred Albums You Should Remove from Your Collection Immediately, Edited by Wesley A. Kose. I notice with particular interest that they do not mention one Britney Spears album at all in this list, which pretty much invalidates any album they have selected for inclusion. Perhaps Spears would be too obvious a choice, but if you don’t mention the greater sins, why should we pay attention to the lesser sins? If murder is not wrong, why should lying be wrong? And if Pink is overrated, why the hell is Britney not? So, albums I am not ashamed of possessing, or, **** you, Kose and Co. Joshua Tree U2. Nevermind Nirvana. And I have never been embarrassed by anyone playing “Stairway to Heaven.” Any album The Beatles. You can pry any one of my Beatles albums from my cold dead hands. If you like Lennon and Harrison more than you like McCartney, you’re an atheist or a pagan, and, by the way, ha! they’re dead and rotting, while McCartney’s still growing as an artist and taking risks. Imagine that, Lennon. 13 Songs Fugazi. Straightedge? I thought they were emo or something like that. One of the others afterwards, I would cop to having made those mistakes, but 13 Songs is not one of them. The first few chords of this album and Hendrix’s Are You Experienced? rate as some of the most recognizable album openings ever. Pretty Hate Machine Nine Inch Nails. Aw, I just don’t have the energy. Being a list compiled, rather than edited, by Kose, the reasons given are inconsistent, which means there was no overall policy or sensibility in making this list, so it’s liable to piss anyone who cares about their music at all. If it had had a guiding sensibility, at least you would have an idea of the person behind the list, get to know them. Having done it this way, all you can tell about them is that these twenty or so people are a pretentious bunch... I just don’t have the energy. 9:56:22 PM    comment [] Harper’s this month has one of those question-titled articles that I mentioned earlier. “What is Poetry?” 8:45:12 PM    comment [] Finally, picked up Amélie. Charming. 2:17:57 AM    comment [] Picked up a PS2 and the works, but could not find Ico. With Replay coupons, took fifty dollars off. Still came off hugely in the red. By the way, Zarf’s Ico Review. 2:15:39 AM    comment [] Hellsing. A fun anime, that I really enjoy, about an organization dedicated to hunting vampires, I suppose founded by van Helsing, and currently run by his descendant, or so I suppose, based on her name. It surprises me how clueless Japanese are about Catholics. The whole Buddhist blessing-paper thing in the third episode had me choking with laughter. Why isn’t there a stronger Catholic presence in Japan? Because the Dutch exterminated them in the 1600s, after stepping on the Cross and spitting on Christ. Godless assassins and mercenaries. I believe if I tried hard enough I could probably trace the Japanese depradations in China and the Philippines to this single event. 1:53:05 AM    comment []

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