Interested people are interesting people. The non-affective is the ineffective. At least, I hope all this is the case — if it becomes the contrary, then maybe we truly do live in a Fascism and should do away with the second amendment. As it stands now, I see different people’s lives as very circumstantially distinct, […]
Well, being an American, I’m now in that realm where I want some ENTERTAINMENT because, well, it’s discussion material for work, it passes time and causes endorphin flow in the brain. Of course, this is a problematic mind state to begin with as the receptiveness to “artistic quality” means that the mind must be empty […]
I’ve been kinda laying low these past couple of days because of this whole Anthony Bourdain thing… I wasn’t too familiar with the guy but I believe in paying respects to fallen cultural catalysts with a little silence, which can sometimes amount to suffering, of our own. It’s been a day of respite today in […]
Ok, you’re really gonna hate me for this one: I discovered this flick which appropriately enough, came out the same year, 2012, as Ice-T’s equally underrated doc. Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap, by googling “Crossfire Hurricane” to find out about the Trump scandal, an entity which also surely mystifies me. Sorry, I promise […]
Were the assassinations of all those ’60s leaders conspiracies, or acts of individuals? What about Kurt Cobain’s death? These are things I’ve often thought of before, but, actually upon taking a couple more deep listens to Modest Mouse’s song “People as Places as People,” part of me feels like it doesn’t even matter. Maybe we’re […]
I think it’s safe to say at this point that rock music is, and always has been, all about context. Take for instance a band like Green Day and what they were doing in 1994, coming out with an album called Dookie, and talking to us about masturbation and having no sex life. This wouldn’t […]
Janelle Monae is an aesthetic celebrity masquerading as a musician. Somewhere out there, I imagine, is the perfect person, in tune with what’s going on with music but somehow ignorant of who this latest pop bimbo Janelle Monae is. Anyway, I’m writing to the 99% of Americans who follow music and who have indeed heard […]
Of course, nothing could top the experience of sitting in Spanish class in IUSB and hearing a girl in response to the teacher’s question go “I can’t think of a song,” but I’ve been trying to figure out what the he** an “Archive Album” is since they’re not on Spotify and The Doors have a […]
Ah, I love discovering albums that aren’t available on Spotify… hey that’s about as close to “underground” as we bloggers can get these days, enit? Read: Blitzen Trapper – Live in Portland. Apropos, I just gave Live from the Crystal Palace a whirl and it was a well oiled machine. But getting to my point, […]
Now, in the case of Sub Pop and that Wolf Parade thing last year during the wait time of which America had about three deadly hurricanes (but nothing changed THAT much), I don’t even have to ask, since I’ve seen the movie Hype! which states that “They don’t hype their bands… they hype their LABEL.” […]