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okay...now it's just ridiculous. it's june 7, over a month since last time i wrote. things have been crazy.

music. i'm now living in south jersey, listening to classic rock radio almost exclusively and being way too nice to press people because they hold the one key to my sanity. new music. it's incredibly hard to explain to friends in the real world how difficult it is to be back, after five years, in a world where being really 'into' music makes you an outsider, a child, a geek. That's not the only thing that classifies me as such but...

long time, no blog. the hives, reactionary garage pop drivel sugar sweet to the ears with leader's ferocious shout-speak, perpetual organ and piano stabs a la john cale's sensible minimalism with the stooges. no less a construct than the studio pop on the radio, especially as scandinavian in origin, but somehow less offensively untrue than those strokes. they'll morph and move where the fine new yorkers are already out of mind.

arrgh. today i downloaded every led zeppelin song worth listening to - it was from hearing 'cosmic dancer' on a mix tape today while riding to work - the combo of bolan's effete strings/acoustic with that weird bit of male arrogance just gave me the connection ...and i'm almost done with hammer of the gods, proving to be a hideous, fawning piece of journalism but a great late night read.