I have nothing intelligent to contribute right now. or later either, probably. but that aside about the hallway helps. have you read The Rebel Sell? it's... not really related to the whole rockism question but kind of? it's about rebellion and "authenticity" getting co-opted almost as soon as the ideas were introduced. reading it again for the first time in a while I found it a little smug and too interested in patting itself on the back for its ventures into "political incorrectness" (which is authenticity from a slightly different starting political position) but still useful. also the recent Atlantic piece on Starbucks orders as identity- making. ANYWAY I am going to stop blathering and go back to working [wrote a bunch of self-insulting words here and then deleted them].