"Howlers of Sonic Youth."

I nearly miswrote the title and called the group "Stoic Youth."

Idea for a band name.

"Sitcom Youth."

Last week I was inundated by two instances of crass ignorance from the mouths of former Sonic Youth octogenarians.

One was on an Amoeba video, "What's In My Bag?" with Lee Ranaldo in the SF branch of Amoeba. Boring predictable guy. Not like Lou Barlow. Lou was great –– he bought a CD of himself that he didn't even have a copy of.

Does Amoeba actually give them the records they pick up or is it make-believe? I think they give them the records –– because people often get brand-new shrink–wrapped "180 gm" copies of records they must surely already have. Plainly greedy and opportunistic, Lee "Acne is My Acme" Ranaldo gets the Godard Histoire du Cinema DVD box set and he mispronounced "Histoire". Wotta dummy. What a specious poseur impostor.

They should have named the group Chronic Acne –– after him.

Okay the other occasion was Kim Gordon claiming that Britain had a Socialist government in her autobiography, She Knew He Was Wrong.

This group used to sail all over the civilized world being conspicuously cultural. Remember on SNUB TV when Lee sat there in a velvet jacket and green-tinted tortoise-shell sunglasses cradling a Raymond Carver book to his bosom. Sorrows of the Young Werther!

What a prat he was.

Incredible –– a Sonic Youth post without me once taking a swing at Thurston.