Matthew Wayne Selznick

Spent part of today working on fixing, editing, and repairing two of my web sites. This one, and the primary MWS Media site. Long enough that I’m tired of working on it, now… I think I need some food and maybe a shower and bed. I’ve been up since three thirty in the morning — my wife had to fly out of town this morning so I drove her to the airport.

Of course, I may have accomplished more if I hadn’t stopped to post my opinion about the Sex Pistols and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame “scandal” on the Mike Watt Yahoo! List. Can’t link to it, it’s members only, but basically I wrote that it was a case of a manufactured band rejecting a manufactured honor.

Oops… I went and put another sacred cow on the barbie…! Right away, one of the list members accused me of “DIY elitism,” which, I pointed out, is (to me) an oxymoron. And so the snowball rolled down the hill, gathering yellow snow and bits of shit and gravel as it went.

Anyhoo, one of these days I’ll lay down the planks of my platform vis a vis the DIY Ethic. Basically, what happens to me so often on the Watt List is I get attacked because I don’t put the icons of punk (another oxymoron?) up on any kind of pedestal. When I say X sounds tired and bored these days, when I blast Watt himself for being on Sony (and for — blasphemy — putting out a pretty darn boring, self-serving album), when I challenge the idea that the Sex Pistols had anything at all to do with punk rock… well, I hear about it.

Sometimes I have fun with it — rise to the challenge. I’m in the middle of that now… and now I’m blogging about it…. when, as some would say, I should be writing.

So… okay. I’ve run out of steam. Nice talkin’ to ya. I’ll keep you posted… time for food, a little bit more work, then bed.

Oh — I’ve got a web-based voicemail / fax service for MWS Media, now… if you’d like to leave a verbal comment about this site, “Brave Men Run,” or MWS Media in general, call 1-206-666-4DIY.