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PROBLEMATIC_TALES

                                              December 19, 2006
                                              January   6, 2007
There's a problem
with the "personal
odyssey" approach:

Why the hell should you care?

What am I to you?

  Exhibit A:
  Aquarius Records reviews:

      "Back in 1995, I said that
       this band would never get
       past the mediocre stage, then
       in their later 90s period it
       seemed to me that they were
       getting a little better, but
       then I realized that I liked
       their earlier work a little
       better now, so it could be in
       reviewing this present work
       I'm really reviewing my
       present musical attitudes --"       But what does the
                                           fucking record sound
                                           like already?



                            Probably the right thing
                            to do is to always write
                            in the present mode, and    Then add an appendix
                            assume the reader knows     comparing what you're
                            nothing about you.          saying now to things
                                                        you've said before --

                                                           The trick is to
                                                           avoid convoluted
                                                           excuses that no
                                                           one cares about.


                                                    If you think that the
                                                    apparent contradictions
                                                    are just that, you could
                                                    just say so without
                                                    elaborating.


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