correction about something i said a couple messages ago... the fella that folks are always complaining about, too much fugazi-lauding in the citypaper... i think it's Mark Jenkins, not Matt Borlik. kinda confuses me sometimes, which fella writes what about who. mostly cause i don't much care for reading the paper. so it's easy to forget the details about what people are complaining about. sorry about that mistake there. i promise, never again.

i read the article when it came out and had a bit of an albini reaction. the article was poorly written and the point was poorly defended. this does not mean that i entirely dissagree with the overall premise. while the dischord "family" has produced a catalog of music i enjoy they have never been what someone might catigorize as inclusive. but i will say that fugazi and most of the original dischord band members accuratly resemble the city they grew up in, which is washington, d.c. they are polemic with sharp tongues and caustic wits. but the scene never developed beyond the orginal cast, who are now nearing or in their 40s. it seems to me that everyone else was standing in the shadow of stalin's monument afraid to piss off the poleitburo. i think the topic was good fodder for an article but the real question for dc is why the scene languished. it is not because ian told people not to slam.