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I really like the lede to this NYTimes review of a Sonic Youth show. The article posits SY have "fought normal rock-star goals with every arty, truculent drop of non-sequiturial energy in them." Dammit, I wanna gush with arty, non-sequiturial energy! Maybe I should change the tagline from "we're stuffing cheese in places you never dreamed about" to "we're gushing with arty, non-sequiturial energy." Update (12/3): I haven't been following SY closely for some time, so I suddenly asked myself the question, "Jim O'Rourke is playing bass for Sonic Youth?" That seems like a waste of some gee-tar pickin' talent. Its like the dude has arguably the best indie label around right now, and he's half the rhythm section for major-label sluts Sonic Youth? Maybe he needs the cash.

For fear of becoming what one pretentious emoboy termed a "CNN feed," I'll consolidate another NYTimes story into the same post. This story outlines how FCC Commissioner and Colin's kid Michael K. Powell and the corporate media outlets believe that since there are about 89 channels available in the average American household, fears of a lack of media diversity are unjustified. Moreover, this would suggest that megamediaconglomerates like AOL-Time Warner serve the public interest by providing a variety of voices. While Powell says he sees an "explosion of variety," others counter "Just because there are five home shopping networks, four fix-em-up channels and five talking head news channels doesn't mean there's real diversity or competition." Update (12/3): Last night as I was walking home from school, I kicked myself for forgetting to also link to Paul Krugman's Friday column on the same topic.