no donnie, these men are nihilists

i think i need to clarify some things, as well as retract/reword some things.

clarification:

i do not hate coldplay. i like some of their songs. good writers, just not enough variation for my taste. all three albums could have been one super-long album. when in the mood, i do enjoy some coldplay, yet i can't remember what songs i like. pitchforkmedia.com put it best: coldplay is "listenable but not memorable. It may be pointless to hate them, but with [X & Y], they've almost certainly become the easiest band on the planet to be completely indifferent to." that about sums it up for me. if you like them, then listen away. this is just my two cents.

retraction/rewording:

i have to take back my statement, or rather hypothesis, that all people named chris write bad music. since stating that hypothesis, i remebered a one-time favorite band of mine: twothirtyeight. the frontman's name is/was chris staples (it is still his name, but he is no longer the frontman of twothirtyeight cause they broke up). he wrote some really great stuff, both musically and lyrically. not so much on their first cd, but you arent supposed to be amazing on your first cd, cause then you have a lot to live up to. i dont like his new stuff, under the moniker "discover america", but that doesnt mean that he didnt write some good things in the past. also, a friend of mine named chris wrote some really kicking music when he was with the mcclurg family singers and also with other bands that i cannot remember. but it was good, if i remember correctly. so, new hypothesis: people named chris either write great music or not so great (good to begin with but then doesnt grow as a writer).

maybe your name doesnt determine the quality of music that you write. maybe coldplay is a great band but i just want to go against the current. maybe i shouldn't have deficated in carmen's lower, left-hand drawer of her desk. maybe someday i can be sure about these wonderings. maybe.