Comments on: [links] Link salad is trying hard to look like Gary Cooper http://www.jlake.com/2009/02/24/links-link-salad-is-trying-hard-to-look-like-gary-cooper/ Jay Lake's Official Web Site Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:44:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tetar http://www.jlake.com/2009/02/24/links-link-salad-is-trying-hard-to-look-like-gary-cooper/comment-page-1/#comment-2630 tetar Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:24:14 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=7439#comment-2630 As for the nonsense of New Weird - good try, fellas. It's always good to be a monopoly, or to be the producer of a hot new product. New Weird ain't it, though. As the man said: "...It's all aesthetics and delivery over substance, and although by god I like aesthetics and delivery and style I kinda feel like a subgenre should be more than clockwork monocles and sepia Photoshop overlays, you know?..." You don't jump start genres. They accrete on their own and are recognized after-the-fact. In retrospect. The rest is just marketing ploy. As for the nonsense of New Weird – good try, fellas. It’s always good to be a monopoly, or to be the producer of a hot new product. New Weird ain’t it, though. As the man said: “…It’s all aesthetics and delivery over substance, and although by god I like aesthetics and delivery and style I kinda feel like a subgenre should be more than clockwork monocles and sepia Photoshop overlays, you know?…”

You don’t jump start genres. They accrete on their own and are recognized after-the-fact. In retrospect. The rest is just marketing ploy.

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