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Originally Posted by Cardinal Rob

The Wire's probably the most happenin' magazine ever. If you want dreary banality, go NME.

your response is based on the fallacy that everything that is not the wire must be like nme. i say however that there should be an alternative to esoteric critical prose and the bullshit marketing of artificial trends. those two do not fill the spectrum of the possible.

i want something of substance that anybody can read and enjoy. i have said earlier that i'm sure the wire is enjoyable for a few initiated souls; but i don't hink it's very accessible. and see-- every time someone like you calls it "the most happenin' magazine", 10 hipsters are going to put it in their "must have" list, and tout its virtues, regardless of their actual enjoyment of it. (a little bit like certain noise bands)

i got a year subscription to the wire because it was hailed in this board as the greatest and best thing ever. i expected it anxiously. but reading it left me more perplexed and jealous (again, all those british shows) than fulfilled. it's almost like an academic journal.

as an example of what i like-- i enjoyed arthur immensely while it lasted, even when they started doing more politics & hippy stuff. still... perfectly accessible prose, zero banal crap.

and that's my unpopular opinion-- eat my shorts, wire.