The Creative Cringe

Funny how it always requires someone outside the Jerk Circle to point out the bleeding obvious... that the Australian music industry/empire is over-fond of its new clothes, which the sycophantic press tells us look & sound great! Enter Everett True, UK music writer for The Guardian:

"Everyone is treated equally, which means no knocking anyone back, however great the temptation (that'll be why Australian rock is best known to the outside world for such musical abominations as Silverchair, The Vines and Savage Garden)."

Queensland's music press has hit back, with one editor of a local music newspaper dismissing the British music guru as "irrelevent".

Myself, I'm actually a bit of a Silverchair fan, though I certainly wouldn't declare them the best we have to offer the world stage... your nominations please... but The Vines??!! I've heard better singing from an angle-grinder... & more interesting melodies for that matter.

And there's something so predictable about the QLD music press getting its nose out of joint & throwing the dictionary out with the diatribe ~ 'irrelevent' indeed.

LOL, ZOMG, FFS!

Okay, I'm a closet LOLCats fan. I know it's kind of dumb & as a grammar nazi... snob staunch defender of the English language (see my previous entry) I should be appalled, but I can't help checking the site regularly & LMAO occasionally.

There ~ I've said it. Man, it feels so good to be 'out'.

As a curious aside, what does it say about one's self-esteem/image when one has a dream about sharing a flat with Sienna Miller, Keira Knightley & Emma Caulfield ~ two of whom prefer each other & one who has trouble letting go of her demon, man-hating character from Buffy & saw me as a combination complaints dept, sounding board & target practice?

I think I need help.

Especially since I don't really find Sienna Miller that trouser-disturbing...