It’s yours…
Stand up bit of archival work over at Uncarved. I love this kind of thing – unearthing and scanning in old fragments from before the www info deluge. John really nails that feeling you’d get when an unexpected bit of print could open you up to a whole new realm of music and ideas. There was more detective work – more suspense and surprise. Instead of wiki and an evening’s downloads, I’d pore over pieces like this, extracting whatever clues and partial leads I could. Sometimes it would take years to sort out connections or hear things I’d read about. Other times it would be some massive, sudden revelation via print or tape. I’d be hard pressed to get sentimental over anything in my browser bookmarks but I’ve got 20-year-old clippings I treat like gold.