like Ornette said...

there are only two types of music: that which makes sound, and that which doesn't.

It's sometimes hard for me to believe that, especially when I'm scanning the radio wastes and come across some whiny-butt numetal crooner (OH MY LIFE IS SO HAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRD! -shugshugshugshug) or soundalike R&B teenager. But just because I don't like it (and believe you me, I don't) doesn't make it Not Music.

Sometimes I think I've just gotten old, in which case the music is just doing what it is s'posed to do to old farts, which is annoy them. But all the new music doesn't bug me - some of it I like a great deal, especially the grindy, glitchy electronic kind. And the sorta country-rock kind. And the jazz. Boy do I like the jazz. It's just the crap that bugs me.

I guess I'm alright.