Mission Statement

Sometimes you fume silently and close the browser window, and other times you physically give the screen a curse and a gesture and decide to start a webpage. You know, whatever works.

Gestation and the creation of this site has been brewing for what seems like forever, but it wasn't until today that I decided I've read enough hipster balogna that I couldn't stand it anymore.
The goal of this website is to point out music, movie, and whatever else reviews and articles where the reviewer is either a hipster, elitist, snob, or asshole. I feel there is not enough middle ground in the world of critique. Either someone is a misinformed surface skimmer who lauds any old piece of pop culture garbage and derides the merit of anything new/unfamiliar to them, or is a know-it-all jaded cynic that has heard and seen it all, and is therefore, "Underwhelmed by Life."

I've grown tired of it and someone needs to blow the whistle on these self-important folks. There's not much positivity and encouragement going on in the world of critics,though I suppose the connotation of the word assumes that stance on its own. But maybe, just maybe, we can start to turn it around.

So here's what I aim to do. I will post articles that I believe are unfair and superfluously negative or "underwhelmed." Then, to counter-act that, I will post a response or counter-review to try to even out the scales a little bit. Sound good?

But here's where you, the probably very few at first, readers come in. If you happen to see an article that can at least loosely fit into what I've laid out here, email it to me and I will post it. Nothing is too long or short or irrelevant(maybe)! I want this to be an open discussion on the state of not just critics, but media and culture today in the ole US of A.

Let the fun begin!