rocksnob

i'm a total rock snob. i've decided it's time to blog and come clean about this because in the last week i've done two really, really rock-snobbish things:

1. gotten into an argument with a complete, utter stranger (that i met on a GSW, no less, and haven't actually met in person) about the merit of liz phair's latest two albums. my stance is that her last album was among the worst albums i've ever wasted $14 on, and that the one before that shouldn't just be forgotten, it should be used to somehow torture liz phair herself. i say that because she went from indie rock goddess (the press's term, not mine) to over-the-hill avril lavigne. you see? i'm such a rock snob that i can't even tell a story without editorializing. the point is, i argued with a stranger about liz phair. dork.
2. i've gotten very proprietary toward certain bands, particularly the gossip. now, i've extolled the gossip's virtues on this very website since its inception, and have tried to force them upon any unsuspecting rock fan who's never heard of them. beth ditto's voice will, if you let it, change your life. but now, with the release of their newest album, which is completely fucking hott-ass dance/punk, they're starting to finally get attention. they're all over mtv2, all over logo, have been featured in out magazine. and now, i was shocked to see, our dear members of the cabinet at read your blog, shelby have picked up the cause. now, i say this is shocking only because members of the cabinet mainly listen to dance music and mariah carey. i'm not saying this to be mean; it's just a fact. they love thems some mariahs. so when i saw a post about a new discovery of theirs--the gossip--and then scott put "standing in the way of control" on the jukebox at the phoenix, i was like, shit, this bad has made it! which, i have to say, i'm happy about. because how many queer punk bands with queer fat girl lead singers are in the top 40 right now? but back to me being a rock snob. every time a new person asks me if i know about the gossip, i feel like i have to say something horribly dorky like, "um, YEAH--i had their first two albums AND their first EP." you know, to prove that i was there when it started. that i'm not going to be one of those people who started listening to green day after dookie came out. see? dorky rock snob.

the first step, i hear, is admitting that you have a problem. so consider me on the road to recovery.

oh, and if you want to see the gossip talk about a lot of cool stuff, including the bush administration and beth ditto's "r&b/funk/hip-hop" side project (!) click here.