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every night. I wouldn't expect them to be. And the political coverage now, and in terms of what it means to the city politically is really valuable. Things change over time, and if people think there are cultural gaps, well, there not doubt are and there would be in anything. But, do it yourself.
But I think that as the arts paper of record in Austin there is a certain responsibility-
As a former editor, I will say this. "Hey, I wanna write." Jason had an agenda of things he wanted to do. Things got covered, he already knew. I didn't have to say, "Oh, this needs to get covered." If you have talented people that want to work, it's an easy thing to make sure that things get covered.
I love the stuff that Greg Beets writes, and Kelly Petrash when she wrote about music, but for whatever reason it seems to have been difficult to retain people. Obviously some people go off to do other things.
Tim-
Tim [Stegall] went off to be a rock star.
Tim also walked into the office, too. When I was there, I was lucky, Tim walks in, Jason walks in-
Wait a minute, somebody else claimed to have 'discovered' Tim Stegall.
I would never claim to 'discover' somebody. That's an ego trip, anyways. I mean, for Christ's sake, the man had been writing for years. That's nuts. Anybody who'd been sitting at the desk would have said, "Oh, great! Here's a talented professional journalist who wants to do things!" I would love an Austin where there were terrific, inspired writers that wanted to be heard, and I'm sure that some of them exist and I'm sure that some of them don't have their voice heard-
They all write for us. Annually.
Back in the old days, the difference was that there were a lot of fanzines where people wrote about their friends and wrote about the bands that they loved. It wasn't someone saying, "You need to write about these bands," it was the same people that were a part of the audience. It was a scene, it was a community. Truth be told, if I went and wrote about a bunch of punk bands right now, they might be really energetic and really good. I saw it 20 years ago and I'm too old now to where their concerns- I'd be, "Well, what do you know, a bunch of pissed- off kids." Great, I'm glad, but I'm not going to identify with them the way that I would if I were 20.
Greil Marcus can identify with Sleater-Kinney.
Identify- I don't know if that's exactly right. Instead he can analyze them and decide why they're culturally significant, but that's an entirely different proccess. I can do that too, don't get me wrong. I like snotty 20-year-old punk bands as much as anybody. I'm glad they're around. That's sort of the difference now- I'm glad they exist more than, "Boy, this does something for me!"
Have you experienced phases of burnout?

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