dogslife

Yes, I'm still alive.

I have only this to say: I don't like the new guy editing Salon's audiofile feature. In a review of the new Nora Jones album (I like that they review stuff I'd never buy, because I'll never hear it either and I'd like to have some idea of what I'm missing from time to time) the guy credits the mood and feel of the album to Jones herself. A quick check of allmusic revealed that she's not the producer, so this reviewer suggesting that she, after 20 million records and a dozen grammies, is actually responsible for her music's one most remarkable asset--its Starbucksian mood--makes me wonder if he's ever set foot inside a recording studio, let alone glimpsed a recording contract.

And in his review of the new Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah album he drops a compound clich by comparing the band to Talking Heads while noting that the latter is more "anxious and neurotic". Did he crib that from, what, People magazine?

This bellyaching should confirm what is already apparent: I'm not writing these days.