steve holt!

today was the first daily arts meeting of the new year. that means new subeditors, associate editors and me. no, i'm not new, just the only senior writer still there who hasn't really moved on or "graduated" from the daily. patterns?

anywho, it'll be an interesting and fertile semester for music reviewing for myself and the rest of the daily artsies. check out the way i started the year off right with a review of the strokes' flawed masterpiece first impressions of earth