In order to do what I do, and quite simply because I’m a huge music geek, I spend a lot time reading bits on the old Internet as well as a fair amount of print. My print exposure has been slimmed with the discontinuance of print by some mags, but it only forces me to explore previous options not pursued. Here are few items that I found of interest over the past week or so: Pt. 2

• Stereogum posted on of the more amusing bits awhile back about Fred Durst. That’s right, I said Fred Durst. The guy who used to front the band Limp Bizkit, did an interview with Tom Green on Tom’s online show, and it’s both disburting and hilarious. This is Fred Durst in 2008.  Stereogum’s post is pretty amusing as well. If you want to go straight to the video: TomGreen.com
• This next little piece is going to be a bit lengthy since I can’t actually link to it anywhere on the net. It comes from one of my favorite prints currently, Death + Taxes, and it’s the magazine ending piece titled Music Doesn’t Matter Anymore. Just Ask Maxim, and here’s some bits from the article:

It’s true: Publishing is tough! So much so that staffers at monolithic corporations forget to actually listen to music before they write about it. (In case you’ve forgotten, Maxim recently reviewed the latest Nas album, N*gger, as well as the latest Black Crowes record, War Paint, without listening to either. Both records got two-and-a-half stars.)”
“Maybe judging people’s work is the future of critique. This is why we’ve reviewed the current issue of Maxim without reading it:
The “Letters to the Editor” were hilarious. Writes Tim from West Virginia, “Who decided to put Avril Lavigne on the cover of your last issue? You can’t whack it to a pixie stick. Who’s next? Oprah? Let’s get some tits back on there boys.” What Tim lacks in tact, he certainly makes up for in spirit, a quality we found throughout the rest of issue.

A bit later in the piece.

Though stoked on the content so far, we couldn’t stomach the eight-page “Celebrity Heart-2-Heart: Fred Durst meets Michael Bay” interview. Lucky for us, 16 pages of “Hometown Hotties:Amputee Addition (Non-Vets)” was right around the corner.

How I just managed to give Fred Durst two mentions in one day,much less in one year is beyond me. It wasn’t conscious, it just happened.

1.”The internet leveled the playing field for indie music.” – Big checkbooks and the marketing campaigns they buy still have the edge. The internet just opened the door for everyone. It’s what you do now that you’re in the now overcrowded room that matters.

lies (noun) - untruthful statements made to with the intention to deceive.