3.9, rounding up. 

There's a lot to dig into here, almost all of which I'd forgotten since the last time I read it (more than 20y ago), but I think what will stick with me the most this time is the discussion of Lost Media (which has become even more of an issue in the more than 30y since this was published). Holy run-on sentence, Batman!

If you know me at all outside of reading spaces, you'll know that reading is ofc my oldest love, but second only to reading in my heart is music. Many, many, many nights in my youth were spent worshipping at the altar of live music, and many of those bands I saw before the ubiquity of the Internet have been lost to time. On more than one occasion, I have found and reached out to former members of those bands to find out if there was any way to get a copy of just one song that the Internet insists never existed. Friends will find and purchase used CDs for me just to get me to shut up about a band I've been unable to listen to for more than 25 years. It's like when Arnold Lobel's Owl (at Home) made himself cry by thinking about songs that can never be sung again bc all of the words have been forgotten and books that can never be read bc some of the pages have been torn out. It's part of why the Internet Archive is so fucking important. 

Sparrow would get it. 

(Mind the content warnings.)