RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Hey look, Grayson defended "Eh, Whatever" in print in the last paragraph 
of that article. Everybody go reiterate your arguments against it in the 
comments!

I can't really comment on the rest of the article, as I almost never 
read the N&O. I *do* read David Menconi's blog, because it has an RSS 
feed & thus I'm alerted when he posts to it. I wish they'd provide 
blanket RSS feeds for all their writers, so I could drop Menconi's & 
Greg Cox's in my reader & be reminded to check 'em out .

According to the Indy, if I could remember to read David regularly, I'd 
rarely see local coverage. I know him well enough to know that he still 
pays avid attention to local music (last time I saw him was at the 
Trekky Christmas show at the Cradle last month, in fact), so I can only 
assume that there are some Bad Editorial Policies at least partly to 
blame for the unevenness of the N&O's local coverage.

I don't think I share the Indy's opinion that the Great 8 is worse than 
no coverage at all. I do find it amusing to look back over the past few 
years of the Great 8 & see how many of them lived up to the "ones to 
watch this year" hype. Unfortunately, they don't make that easy to do 
online. In fact, their archive search is so screwy that I'm led to 
wonder whether the Indy's research was accurate enough to be relied upon.

Ross

James Hepler wrote:
> I was reading this
> (http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A167454)
> today and it reminded me of a discussion we had here
> nearly 8 years ago.  Funny how shit works.  History
> and all that.  Boy was I a dumb kid.  Now a dumb
> adult, at least I'm consistent in my seeing our
> community as being a generally positive force in the
> universe, obvious exceptions notwithstanding.
>
> J Alfred Prufrock, I miss you.
>
> http://tinylink.com/?2Sm212UFYM 
>
>
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