The Snivelling Shits: Rock Journos as Musical Satirists
It’d be difficult to count the number of writers and commentators who have eventually turned to music in order to realize some obtuse fantasy. Of course, making a career of writing about people who stand on-stage in front of a crowd for some sort of weird self aggrandizing greed is usually the impetus for that writerly impulse. We all want some one to pay attention. And really, the written word isn’t the best way to get that. Instead, turning an ability most exercised on paper into a performance of one kind or another becomes a tremendous driving force.
