A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

THE SPORTS GUY AND CHUCK KLOSTERMAN ARE GAY COWBOYS BUT IT'S NOT CLEAR WHICH IS DONNIE DARKO: Having shamelessly baited you into pledging your allegiance to various kinds of music, I now offer you Chuck Klosterman's dead-on comment on arguments about music from his correspondence with Bill Simmons, which to me kind of contradicts the thesis of the last part of High Fidelity:

When someone argues about music, you can usually get a remarkably clear portrait of their personality -- you can get an idea of how they view authority, or if they have an adversarial relationship with mainstream culture, or if they are extremely worried about being cool. You can deduce which subcultures they experienced in high school, and you can figure out how much they are engaged with modernity.

It's fun to read the 60 comments from the cover songs thread with this in mind.