I wanted to come back and say something profound, but have been way too busy to think profoundly.  

So just a few things that I found notable: 

1) kc’s words here:

 “. . . the truth is a complicated thing and pats on the head and back don’t really solve it.”  

2) GPN ETEWAF - Wake Up, Geek Culture.

Reader comment after the article:  “Creativity didn’t die with our generation any more than it did with any previous generation.  Each Memetic mutation enjoys its own arc of inception, popularization, and eventual acceptance into the “memetic code” of culture.  Patton is lamenting the acceptance of the particular Memes for which he was one of the first carriers, while ignoring the fact that new Memes are coming about, which are just as interesting and all-consuming to their carriers as his were.”

3) Coilhouse - “Never trust anyone who doesn’t like Tom Waits” 

This from the article:  “Every few months, my friends and I would drive from Hamilton up to Missoula, the nearest college town, to stock up on the shit we couldn’t get in our small town: indie rock albums and copies of Alternative Press or Raygun or Mondo 2000, Cure T-shirts, Violent Femmes posters … all the trinkets and signifiers of the underground that were so tantalizingly unavailable to us most of the time.”

Reminded me of this from “Scene” *: “We lived right on the Canadian border so we would drive up to these record stores in Ottawa. They would be selling George Harrison vinyls for, like, $3.99. We’d go in and sift through the dollar bins and pick up all of this great music. Then we’d pile ourselves into the car and come back, cook spaghetti and listen to all of the records that we’d bought.”

* http://www.scenenewspaper.com/arts-entertainment/24-arts-entertainment/466-concert-watch-grace-potter-a-the-nocturnals.html