I might start addressing things I read in comments sections here. It’s an admittedly passive aggressive thing to do, but then again, so is commenting anonymously in comments sections…
Read this on BrooklynVegan (which is a great music blog and source of information and should never be held accountable for the idiots who plague its comments sections except insofar as in allowing them to exist, it offers us another layer of entertainment, and therefore should probably draw praise, as long as those of us who are sometimes commented ON can maintain a thick skin and sense of humor about it) today, devoid of context and dripping with snark:
“I overheard a group of kids at the show wondering if they’d make it out of there in time to catch their train back to NJ” -Anonymous, July 5, 2010 12:20 PM
Were I not under a self-imposed ban on contributing to comments sections on music blogs, I would have responded thusly:
Oh my god! No way! Are you telling me that there are people from Jersey, which is a huge part of the NYC metropolitan area, and which is literally right across the Hudson River from Manhattan, meaning that a whole lot of it is closer to a whole lot of magical New York music clubs than a whole lot of Brooklyn and Queens and pretty much ALL of Staten Island and the Bronx, who go to shows in New York City!? And wait, let me get this straight, you’re trying to tell me that they were actually talking about train times and figuring out if they could make their TRAIN!? You have GOT to be kidding me! That is LITERALLY the craziest thing I’ve ever heard! It must be the first time in history this has ever happened (if it happened at ALL, amitrite? Ha ha ha). Seriously, though, you must be pulling everyone’s leg here, Anonymous at 12:20 PM. Nobody from Jersey ever goes to shows in New York, and if they do, they certainly don’t belong there. If the state had ever produced any decent musicians who had contributed significantly to the “New York Scene” at any point in time, it might be a different story, but as it is, I figure you’ve got to be kidding. Keep on keepin’ on and keepin’ the hard streets of NYC safe from all that Jersey trash, you crazy diamond – you’re doing god’s work! You might wanna franchise your vigilante justice company up to Scarsdale or wherever you’re actually from, too – lord knows they don’t need no scrubs from New Rochelle blowin’ up their spot!
(Was that last part too much?)