Case in point: This morning on the subway to work I was listening to my podcast of The Sound of Young America, a "public radio show about things that are awesome." I was a little behind, so I was listening to last Friday's show.
On the show, Jesse Thorn, America's Radio Sweetheart, was interviewing Jonathan Coulton about having been a computer software programmer before becoming a full-time musician about a year ago.
Get to the point, you're saying? Very well.
Coulton talked about his time as a programmer, and it struck me then, listening to his really cool song Code Monkey, that there are all sorts of milieus out there to which I'm not privvy. And they all have their own celebrities and styles of humor and hierarchy of cool.
The idea that there's a lot I'll never know is both old hat and simultaneously a depressing re-discovery. Still, I did get to stumble across a cool musician.
No comments:
Post a Comment