So, I just read this interview of Jens Lekman. Lekman is a musician whose stuff I really don't much like. My roommate once commented that dude belongs on the Love Boat. Another friend described his new album this way, "his new album does indeed sound like watching late 70s escapist TV shows while laying on shag carpet."
But anyway, that's not the point. It turns out that when this "Swedish indie pop maestro" comes through customs in the U.S. and claims he's an artist (for work permit purposes) they look him up on Wikipedia:
SFBG: I read online that the latest album was inspired by a first kiss from a lesbian friend. Is that right?
JL: Uhhhh - I love it! It sounds like someone has put together all these different things...
SFBG: I think that might have been on Wikipedia.
JL: I love Wikipedia! That's so funny. Every time I come into the US and i cross customs or border control, they always check my passport and I have a work permit now for the first time - I never had it before and I always had to sneak in before - and they check me and say. "Oh, you're an artist." There's always a guy behind the guy saying, "Check him on Wikipedia."
That's so funny that the American authorities would use Wikipedia as a trustworthy source! Anyone can change anything. A friend of mine usually goes into my Wikipedia and writes all this bullshit, just changes things. I think the last thing she wrote was that I was the son of a bear trapper.
"The atoms, as their own weight bears them down plumb through the void, at scarce determined times, in scarce determined places, from their course decline a little- call it, so to speak, mere changed trend. For were it not their wont thuswise to swerve, down would they fall, each one, like drops of rain, through the unbottomed void; and then collisions ne'er could be nor blows among the primal elements; and thus nature would never have created aught."
-Lucretius, Of The Nature of Things
My name is Jim Brown and I'm a Ph.D. Candidate in Rhetoric at the University of Texas. I teach courses in Rhetoric, Literature, and New Media. This blog mostly focuses on my academic work, but you'll also find occasional posts about music or baseball. I also maintain two other blogs, and you can see all of my blog writings by viewing this RSS feed. I'm a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. This lets you know that I'm kind of a masochist and explains the name of my dog.

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