a new title, a new focus (or really kind of an acknowledgement of the old focus)

In an effort to get back up on the blogwagon after falling off - due to work and other stuff - I have renamed this decrepit outpost and admitted to myself that I like to write about (duh) music and politics. So that's what I'll do here. The thing is, I'm really down on the mainstream tenor of each right now. The American political discourse is part pissing contest, part Easter parade, and part crap cannon - and it's aimed right at us. Likewise, if you listen to the radio in most cities, you hear a steady parade of soundalikes and lowest-common-denominator genre exercises. Is it garage rock this week? Cool - put the dual rectifier away and go get me a 20-watt class A tube combo.

Anyway, I'll drop by more often and gripe and grouse and post links and whatnot. Drop me a line sometime.