I like a bit of retro every now and then - but don't tell me it's new and different. The NYT has a big article on the band Arcade Fire (you'll have to find it yourself - I refuse to link) - apparently they have the blessing of their musical parents - who are even going so far as to stand and sing with them onstage. This band is being hailed as the second coming and saviors of that musical indie spirit. I believe it's time to put a fork in it 'cause that goose is cooked - two or three times already. It's hard not to chuckle a bit as the singer of the band is out Bowie-ing Bowie (right down to the twitching Elvis leg timer) in this celebrity infested video.

Have we really exhausted the creative rebellion that created Bowie in the first place and now are we doomed to have it repeated until our dying days in miriade forms of the ever new? Maybe breaking boundries is just too hard or maybe it's that it's around and we haven't recognized it yet. IF your parents' generation likes what you're up to then you aren't pushing the envelope! It ain't that they got enlightened in the 60s & 70s it's just they are the one's who inherited the power - and if you think the way things today are great then go ahead and sing along with Bowie, Byrne or Bono. OK that's a bit angry and OTT - mea culpa.