The Internet

I am young. Young enough that I didn't directly experience New York's most recent rock wave where everyone lived in Williamsburg and everyone was like, Wow what the fuck is the deal with Animal Collective are you telling me that they aren't ironic? Since they're not, that means I missed the death of irony in music which is a huge thing to miss, probably second to the show where every New York band married each other and Dave Sitek produced an entire Strokes album on stage. I'm cool with missing all these events—real and otherwise, but what sucks is how the internet made it so something like that probably can't ever happen again and it is all Nicolay and that guy from Little Brother's fault for making that boring album over instant messenger and reminding people that talking on the internet is easier than talking in real life.