“Wintertime Jam Mix #3”
Spotify playlist. Spread evenly over gelatinous and cratered mind for best results. .
“Dolby’s ’90s Music Video Troupe”
There’s no denying it: music videos are an absolute cornerstone of ’90s culture. Just think of the absolute biggest bands of the decade: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, The Smashing Pumpkins: each unit churned out some distinct, eerie and memorable pieces of cinema to accompany their biggest singles, and to an extent, will always be remembered […]
“DD Review: The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships.”
Score: 4/10 . More than being viably tense or innovative in any way, Britain’s The 1975 are noteworthy to me for their uncanny ability to consistently shirk total disaster, time and time again. Around Spring of 2016 or so, I was subscribing to NME, setting me by a stroke of luck narrowly within their free-of-charge […]
“DD Review: Jeff Tweedy – WARM.”
Score: 8.5/10 . To be honest, a lot of the criticism on Jeff Tweedy has been so stupid, for lack of a better term, lately, that it’s almost impossible to imagine any of it materializing into a sound analysis and appreciation for the emotive things he’s doing these days, almost turning the payment of any […]
“DD Review: The Smashing Pumpkins – Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun.”
Score: 2.5/10 . There’s a lot of things I could say to introduce this new Smashing Pumpkins album, each of which is probably equally sad. One would be that I actually WOKE UP on this cloudy Midwestern day in late fall with Liz Phair’s “Polyester Bride” in my head and in the mood for some […]
“DD Review: Grateful Dead – Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: Believe it if You Need it.”
Score: 10/10 . More and more, the Grateful Dead just seem tailor made for this era of free music streaming we’re living in now. They were always a great touring band, with incredible musical chops, as this new abridged version of the Pacific Northwest box set of this year will indicate. They seemed to never […]
“Culture is a Privilege and Not a Right”
I am thankful for the times in life at which I’ve been a mindless automaton, Just dancing to the beat, That is the celestial stuff of light to me, As the buildings Empty, Deteriorate, Are burned down, Under weather which hates you to your core Around women who will suck you for every ounce of […]
“Just Rambling about This Other Dream I Had and Perhaps Briefly Discussing Persona”
Dreams are like women: if you seek them out you’re pretty much doomed. They’ll only come at you when you’re 100% positive you don’t need them at all and you’ll never see another one again, and when they do come to you, they make you realize how incomplete you’d been prior. So I keep having […]
“DD Review: THE FUNS – ALIENATED.”
Score: 8.5/10 . THE FUNS were classified as “punk” as Bandcamp, which is beyond undoubtedly a severe misnomer, as their lengthy, multilayered songs stretch out into something way more creative and rewarding than power chords and moshing. Still, I’m definitely not complaining that I found them on the recent “punk”wave (the six-minute length of opener […]
“I Dreamed up Some Funny Scenes for the Seinfeld Movie”
Ya da ya da ya da, I was sitting up drinking some beers early this morning ’cause I couldn’t get to sleep and someone shared the trailer for next year’s Seinfeld: the Movie to my No Seinfeld Group for You I follow. Suffice it to say that it looked about as funny as, well, Friends. […]