From time to time I write for Lowbrow Reader which is a magazine I really enjoy being involved with because it abets my curiosity and I end every year with an article or two to contribute to it, too. Oh, that did not come out right. At any rate, I was trying to write an article about Robert Christgau, my favorite rock critic, and I just could not square the circle on it before the deadline. It ended up being too scattered because the subject involves what I do in such a way as I kept going off on tangential apologetics. I think I was trying to build a maze in which to lose myself.
So although I got lost it did lead me to some firm conclusions about the art of hackery. I want to write a few posts about that as we get ready to do some shows coming up here in June, and we're finishing up another recording. Hackery. Humanity not myth. Not simulation. Not parody, forgery or minstrelsy. Hackery. Not earnest even in search of earnest profits. Hackery forever.
