No, don't worry, I pretty much agree with what you've said, I think it's sad but inevitable and the reason it's sad is that there are some good and talented people who would like to do 'good' mass-market writing and seem likely to get the shaft sooner or later.
The history of rockwrite is full of strange local 'bubbles' of goodness where it all comes together for a few years and then vanishes, and the Eddy VV was one of those I think, but I do think the mass media trends make it less likely those bubbles will occur.
(I particularly agree that the supercompressed post-Xgau style is trying, as well as being (like you say) often beautiful once you 'crack the code', and I'm guessing this is where the "serious"/"academic" stuff comes from. The compression makes the rhythm of the prose so hectic and unnatural - it's like reading a Melt-Banana record! But I'd still prefer 100 words of that than 100 words of a Dave Simpson Guardian capsule.)
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Date: 2006-04-19 11:31 am (UTC)The history of rockwrite is full of strange local 'bubbles' of goodness where it all comes together for a few years and then vanishes, and the Eddy VV was one of those I think, but I do think the mass media trends make it less likely those bubbles will occur.
(I particularly agree that the supercompressed post-Xgau style is trying, as well as being (like you say) often beautiful once you 'crack the code', and I'm guessing this is where the "serious"/"academic" stuff comes from. The compression makes the rhythm of the prose so hectic and unnatural - it's like reading a Melt-Banana record! But I'd still prefer 100 words of that than 100 words of a Dave Simpson Guardian capsule.)