Wednesday, April 18, 2007

What all Music Criticism Needs - More Venn Diagrams

For your amusement and edification today, I present one of the most groundbreaking, thoughtful, and penetrating pieces of music journalism I've read in a while:
by Rob Harvilla

I read this, I weep, I wonder why I didn't think of writing this article first. Seriously, have you ever seen your hotness so accurately and devastatingly diagrammed?

5 comments:

Etta said...

That is great!! I laughed until I cried. I even linked to your post on my blog!! Thanks for sharing.

alicia said...

That was beautiful. And it's strangely freeing to see my not-hotness explained so scientifically. No disputing diagrams like that; might as well accept it.

Andrew said...

You really can't dispute big diagrams, can you? I take this as a lesson in my teaching and presenting research. Big diagrams = no questioning your wisdom. I think I could go far with this idea.

And Etta, thanks for the link!

laura gayle said...

Just one problem. All it needs are scholarly references with footnotes/endnotes and it would totally make "Perspectives of New Music." N'est pas?

Andrew said...

It totally and completely would! This gives me so many ideas...