I was listening to Sam Seder guest-hosting for Mike Malloy in the middle of this last week.  He was interviewing the lead singer of the band “Built to Spill” — Boise, Idaho’s great musical export–, who was sort of singing the praises of the oft-dry as toast oft-intriguing Thom Hartmann.

The effect was to shrug and figure “Just so long as it doesn’t infect your music”.  More or less I like Built to Spill, though the music wears… me… out.  I think you know if you listen to Built to Spill.

I found interesting one explanation of the evolution of his politics.  Somewhere moving out of the generic Anarchism of coming out of the Punk Rock Scene — or, rather, the independent music scene coming out of the punk rock scene, the Henry Rollins line of “Get into the bus” and GO.  You observe Katrina, and realize that that is Anarchy.  You watch that which you hate walk into that vacuum, and see the futility of this nihilistic point of view.

And with that, you grow up.

An interesting evolution, an interesting jump, and probably not entirely atypical.

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