With every inch of my mind and every sinew of my being, I cannot even fathom how amazing
Daft Punk are at creating music.
31 March 2008
25 March 2008
'Ay shorty, what it is?
Hungover at 9:40PM. Sad.
Iron Maiden.
Just what I saw. In my own dreams. Was a reflection of my woman staring back at me.
Cause in my dreams. It's always there. The evil face that twists my mind and brings me to despair.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Night was black, was no use holding back.
Iron Maiden.
Just what I saw. In my own dreams. Was a reflection of my woman staring back at me.
Cause in my dreams. It's always there. The evil face that twists my mind and brings me to despair.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Night was black, was no use holding back.
Surprise Surprise.
Anyone remember 7 Seconds? I do.
If we can walk together, why can't we rock together?
If we can walk together, why can't we rock together?
Special Education.
James just revealed to me he remixed an Imogen Heap song and it rules! I think I'm going back to James' show so we can chill and drink and do it right. 2Pac is still the best. More to come!
Speciality continued.
I just read about something totes awes. Magic Bullet Records is going to be making 3 skate decks for the Boris summer tour of North America. The decks each have a different band member on them and it's a recreation of the Feedbacker album art. I'm excited and pissed. Excited because Boris is touring again in June and because these look great, but pissed because as a lame Boris collector I have to waste money on buying all three. Unless my deck is still in my friend's car trunk from the summer, I will be needing a new one so I'm definitely going to be using one of these.
But wait, it gets better. Brent Eyestone, the guy behind Magic Bullet just wrote, and I quote, "The bonus for people who actually skate them is that I'm running a rich red veneer beneath the white base. Thus, when you do boardslides, tailslides, etc., it will look like you sliced open the band members and caused them to spray more blood." SICK YO.
Time to finish this other glass and hang out in the common room for a bit.
This post is special.
So, I'm sitting here on this beautiful Tuesday afternoon hanging out with Anthony and I have decided not to write the paper I have due in 2 hours for a class I'm not exactly going to pass.
I'm not going to pass either way.
Instead, I just poured myself a tall glass of whiskey and I'm going to leave this page open for as long as I can and just ramble about music whenever I'm at the computer.
Expect it to get better as descend further into my belligerent state of failure.
Right now I'm listening to 2Pac's All Eyez On Me because it was probably middle school when I last gave it a spin. When I was younger my friends and I listened to 2Pac not because we liked rap, we really mostly listened to classic rock, but because he was just awesome. I consider getting into 2Pac when I was young as an introduction to a kind of music where the lyrics are the focus, mostly because of the subject content. They're intelligible and harsh and gave us young suburbanites
a view of something that we had no idea about prior. Plus, 2Pac had that whole mysiticism about him with the Machiavelli shit he was into and the whole 'not dead' thing. I remember my friends Sciascia and Omer were really into that.
I'm going to interrupt this 2Pac rant now to say Chaos In Tejas just walked out of his room and made an inquiry about my drinking so early in the day. I responded with the completely untrue statement of, "Nobody likes to drink alone, James." He asked me if I had just challenged him to get drunk to which I declared that would be appropriate. He is now sippin' lean in the common room. Word.
Anyway, back to 2Pac. Not that West Coast beats are bad but with him I've always felt that his lyrics were harder and better done than any of the beats under them. The record has some cool guest spots, most notably Snoop and Method Man. Dre produced most of the tracks on the second disc but I'm not sure which one I like more overall. I also just read this album went platinum in just four hours. That's fucking crazy! Rest In Peace, Pac.
I'm going to finish this glass, have a cigarette, and then post more eventually.
I'm not going to pass either way.
Instead, I just poured myself a tall glass of whiskey and I'm going to leave this page open for as long as I can and just ramble about music whenever I'm at the computer.
Expect it to get better as descend further into my belligerent state of failure.
Right now I'm listening to 2Pac's All Eyez On Me because it was probably middle school when I last gave it a spin. When I was younger my friends and I listened to 2Pac not because we liked rap, we really mostly listened to classic rock, but because he was just awesome. I consider getting into 2Pac when I was young as an introduction to a kind of music where the lyrics are the focus, mostly because of the subject content. They're intelligible and harsh and gave us young suburbanites
a view of something that we had no idea about prior. Plus, 2Pac had that whole mysiticism about him with the Machiavelli shit he was into and the whole 'not dead' thing. I remember my friends Sciascia and Omer were really into that.
I'm going to interrupt this 2Pac rant now to say Chaos In Tejas just walked out of his room and made an inquiry about my drinking so early in the day. I responded with the completely untrue statement of, "Nobody likes to drink alone, James." He asked me if I had just challenged him to get drunk to which I declared that would be appropriate. He is now sippin' lean in the common room. Word.
Anyway, back to 2Pac. Not that West Coast beats are bad but with him I've always felt that his lyrics were harder and better done than any of the beats under them. The record has some cool guest spots, most notably Snoop and Method Man. Dre produced most of the tracks on the second disc but I'm not sure which one I like more overall. I also just read this album went platinum in just four hours. That's fucking crazy! Rest In Peace, Pac.
I'm going to finish this glass, have a cigarette, and then post more eventually.
05 March 2008
Electronic music is electronic.
Steve Moore - The Henge [2007]
I don't think I ever really liked Zombi too much but I remember I wanted to. This is a pretty cool record and it's one-half of Zombi. It's mostly keyboards and synth and stuff like that but it has a pretty different sound altogether. There's drone and ambience and horror-sounding stuff that could be in the soundtrack for a movie like Resident Evil or Blade or whatever. Some of it sounds like it's from the soundtrack from the game Doom. But uh, yeah...it's good in it's simplicity. He takes a little bit and make it into a lot, and a varied lot at that.
Gregg Kowalsky - Tendrils In Vigne [2007]
This is a really short piece by Gregg but it's interesting because it's the actual graduate thesis he submitted while in college. It was supposed to be made just on a computer but he composed it so that 25 other people would perform it. I'm really impressed with it and I think it's cool he decided to release it. It's a one-sided LP but since there were only 300 copies pressed and Gregg is getting pretty popular, I doubt I'll pick it up if it hasn't sold out yet. Shit probably cost more than it's worth anyway.
I don't think I ever really liked Zombi too much but I remember I wanted to. This is a pretty cool record and it's one-half of Zombi. It's mostly keyboards and synth and stuff like that but it has a pretty different sound altogether. There's drone and ambience and horror-sounding stuff that could be in the soundtrack for a movie like Resident Evil or Blade or whatever. Some of it sounds like it's from the soundtrack from the game Doom. But uh, yeah...it's good in it's simplicity. He takes a little bit and make it into a lot, and a varied lot at that.
Gregg Kowalsky - Tendrils In Vigne [2007]
This is a really short piece by Gregg but it's interesting because it's the actual graduate thesis he submitted while in college. It was supposed to be made just on a computer but he composed it so that 25 other people would perform it. I'm really impressed with it and I think it's cool he decided to release it. It's a one-sided LP but since there were only 300 copies pressed and Gregg is getting pretty popular, I doubt I'll pick it up if it hasn't sold out yet. Shit probably cost more than it's worth anyway.
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