the daily snivel

Most people don't realize that there is a strong correlation between your band dressing in black and wearing top hats and the rushing approach of the end of the line. That's right, it's as though pseudo-goth pretensions propel you upwards and onwards right over the shark. It took Billy Corgan straight to the Zwan-dom, banished the Stone Temple Pilots to the Phantom Zone, and I don't like the unhealthy look Green Day is sporting these days, neither. Meanwhile, I see this promotion on iTunes today, and I clutch my chest and hope this isn't the beginning of the end for the White Stripes.

Only time will tell.