My friend Drew Austin recently wrote about how food might have replaced music as “the common thread that runs through everything interesting in a city like New York.” Music, in this narrative, has gone from being something that used to have a physical presence – records you had to hunt down, or bass lines emanating from particular doorways – to something ubiquitous, decoupled from place, and that is increasingly forced upon us.
i love this, and i love "nowhereness" as part of our barometer of whether something is a commodity or culture. welcome back!