Obligatory Post Based On Intermittent Grammy Watching

Alas, Jethro Tull Darcy and the Secret Society were robbed.   Still, it’s heartening that even an awards organization so relentlessly committed to mediocrity in the winners of its major awards can stumble over something good.   I’ve always liked Arcade Fire, but while I can understand people who can do without prog and earnestness you have to admit that they’re better than Lady Antebellum by a factor of about four billion.

Lest I be accused of Canadian chauvinism, despite the fact that even good “poptimist” critics were telling me that Justin Beiber was a fine purveyor of pop…ye gods is he shitty.    He made Usher look like Otis Redding.