Shout-out to the Riffs

The great thing about killing time on the Internette is that it's inspiring. When I watch The Sopranos, I am entertained for an hour but it doesn't getting me revved up to put together a pitch for Brillstein-Grey. Reading webpages, on the other hand, makes me think to myself, hey I could start a MT-blog about Japanese pop culture, hey, I could write essays invoking Bourdieu and cultural anthropology, hey, I could use comically-bolded words to explain historical events, and I could top it all off with some good one-liners, secret information about the Japanese music underworld, and the occasional reference to 8-bit video games - all for free! (And, who could forget Lance!)

So, I lead you today through the hypertext portal to Riff Raff - youth rock critic Nick B. Sylvester's new Village Voice music blog - which is absolutely the most consistently rewarding weblog currently available online and satisfies the Voice's requirement that all pieces must have more obscure references than could be possibly deciphered by one individual reader. And for those looking to experience NBS' proto-Riff Central writing based solely on incessant nitpicking of The Game (a rapper) - his rockcrit+humor "four-track demos," if you will - I point you towards Riff Central - the now-defunct, second most consistently rewarding website currently available online.

Update: In retrospect, my writing style seems to sound sarcastic here - and I beg you all - go read the goddamn Riff Raff because it's without hyperbole my favorite site on the whole internet at the moment.

Posted by marxy at July 21, 2005 11:15 PM