feeling listless

Writing Watching 'untitled' the other night I wondered whether Lester Bangs ever tutored Cameron Crowe on his writing style as well as his approach to writing; and if he did how that advice might sound. Looking over this article by Joseph Hayes of The Burry Men, I might have an answer:

Now look again and find those pieces that turn you off, and examine that phenomenon. What makes you turn the page? Look at your own writing in terms of what impresses you in other writer's work, rather than trying to collecting credits from magazines that pay in copies. Because while those small publications have tremendous value, they can be a crutch, and the willingness to accept that crutch is based upon a lie.

You can almost see Bangs in here talking about how Crowe needed to move up to 'Rolling Stone' from 'Creem' magazine.