I’m sitting around gradually recovering from the flu and listening to new songs from Vampire Weekend. One of the songs, Harmony Hall, “interpolates” (as the word apparently is) a song from their previous album.
It’s a different world now. I remember discovering Vampire Weekend via a blog post on Caleb Crain’s blog “Steamboats are Ruining Everything”. Plenty of folks have eulogized the death of the blogging culture of the early 2000s so whatever. But there was something cool about finding those nooks and crannies of the internet. Not the big-name stuff but the back corners where folks wrote with varying levels of pretension about things they actually knew about and there wasn’t really any money in it.
The thing I miss the most, and it’s impossible to tell whether this was a factor of the era or a being-in-your-20s thing, was how much there was to discover in the world. Not just on the internet but corners of history, literature, etc. not covered in school.
Anyhow: