Video Bangs Criticism

Clive Thompson, the Wired writer with the best rebuttal to Klosterman's plea for a Lester Bangs of game critics, notes that Bangs himself had some thoughts on the subject, according to this interview excerpt:

Interviewer: Do you think there's a danger of rock 'n' roll becoming extinct?

Bangs: Yeah, sure. Definitely.

Interviewer: What would there be to take its place?

Bangs: Video games. A lot of things we don't like to think about.

As Thompson says, it’s perfect because “it's both prophetic and inadvertantly meta.” Maybe Lester Bangs would’ve been the Lester Bangs of game criticism.