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.

proofing a piece on the folkster dave van ronk, not a very good piece but interesting none the less bc it gives me insight to the 60s folk scene birth, their influences, and the importance of well-documented compilations - like Anthology - that do what no friend or radio station could - be authoritative and inviting to another, bygone world. that's the sort of journalism one should aspire to, not hipster pandering and tunnel visioned scene reports so much as that of enriching the culture, the conversation. arrgh.

section 25, the all girl goth new wave band on factory - after many listens, not that interesting - the monotone all style where joy division used it to connotate something disturbing, broken.