it's true.
i've been so enmeshed in phish- and wilco-land since early summer (tackling wilco's catalog and live shows with a voracity near that of my once-Cardinals obsession, and geeking out on phish after that transcendent Gorge experience) that i think it's ruining my music life. lately i've hardly been listening to music at all. which is pretty much the opposite of every day of my life for the last 15 years. part of it, of course, is just the business of this semester and the fact that now that i have a lot of friends, i don't spend a lot of time alone in my office. i'm often in my office, but there are also usually seventeen other people in here as well. which is generally awesome. but i feel more bad about blaring music in that case.
i've also realized, though, that i'm in a bit of a musical rut. i haven't been writing, i haven't been listening to anything new, i haven't had (or haven't been making) the time for either. so here i sit, day after day, spinning the same wilco and phish discs over and over again and though they are generally all awesome, admittedly, it's all starting to bleed together. the new mason jennings was a good distraction, and i also actually really like the new norah jones record. the new live gogol bordello disc is great, and all the phish shows from the summer tour are interesting. but i want to hear something i haven't heard before. i'm hoping that over christmas i can spread out a little bit, find out about some new bands. how do you find out about new, unique bands now that "indie" has become mainstream? i don't want to listen to the newest grizzly bear impersonator, i want to hear new, interesting stuff, even if it was written in the 70s.
i'm listening to loose fur right now. it's helping a little. maybe i'll throw on some minus 5 next...
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