Anodyne
Monday, June 18, 2007
 

Neil Strauss:

"Mingering Mike's lack of an actual [music] career, or even an attempt to have one. . . .has taken the bedroom dreams of every eight-year-old -- the ones dashed against the rocks of reality when homework, social hierarchies, and premature pick-up-a-job-or-starve pressures set in -- and extended them into adulthood. He has made a classic childhood pop-star fantasy real and tangible, yet almost entirely inaudible. It is a world as fragile and transitory as the cardboard and marker it was built with. By neither shedding his youthful dreams nor taking any steps to actualize them, his mock albums stand as a triumph of the imagination over reality, rationality, and responsibility."
- posted by cjb @ 4:52 PM


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