Square people these days are a lot hipper than a lot of self-proclaimed hipsters. Squares enjoy drag queens on Geraldo and buy male pinup posters. Squares buy Soundgarden CDs and watch The Simpsons. Squares grow and haul the food we eat. Squares make our cars.
Squares support education and world-relief drives.
Nobody will care about Seattle next month. People here are so used to obscurity, when the spotlight shines they squint and wait for it to stop. But like I've written before, this could just be the flash that lights a lasting fire. It's an identifiable sound, imitable yet sufficiently diverse to allow infinite variations. If we play our cards right, Seattle could become the Nashville of rock.