So we have Guerilla marketing and cross marketing with websites and graphic novels and webisdoes and download the freakin’ podcast and . . . ah! I used to think that the world was going to end because stuff like Nine Inch Nails would never play as “Solid Gold Oldies”. As I get older and realize that there are only so many hours in a lifetime, I am finding that I am a fan of the oldies. By oldies I mean music organized into an album OR TV shows into programs on the tube OR films into 2 hour narratives that you can enjoy in full sans any kind of contextualization by hours of website surfing and code breaking. Perhaps all this complexity is a game for the young or the more selectively obsessed, which I used to be until it jumped this shark. I will hold out hope that I can enjoy the new Nine Inch Nails album without devoting more than the time it takes to listento the tracks. Art is supposed to have an element of interpretation, I just don’t know how well that will hold up if things are going to get this dense.