Wow. so just reading back... my life is exactly the same. it's depressing. i have the urge to just leave. i know no one reads this that i know. maybe i'll just forfeit my house house... god knows it's now worth much.
Keraunothnetophobia
Fear of Being Struck by Satellites Falling from Space (on the head, i'd assume...though to be struck on the foot by a falling satellite probably wouldn't be a lot of fun either)
February 03, 2016
September 01, 2014
I did it! I blacked out for months and forgot I ever wrote any of this. All of you with bets... you win!
Or you lose...
Whatever. I've been really "depressed" (?) lately.Not sure if depressed is the right word. I've wanted to avoid everything. I've also had a bunch of bad luck. When you pair that with aversion it makes a hard way to be.
The raccoons that infested my chimneys might, alone, be considered a funny story. Pair them with a dead fridge, a leaking roof, a fucked floor, and a possible depression and you get an epic story of aversion where nothing gets done. Nothing. Over a month with no fridge. I make love to adolescent raccoons underneath a raining roof on a rotting floor. It's great, but it's wrong.
Or you lose...
Whatever. I've been really "depressed" (?) lately.Not sure if depressed is the right word. I've wanted to avoid everything. I've also had a bunch of bad luck. When you pair that with aversion it makes a hard way to be.
The raccoons that infested my chimneys might, alone, be considered a funny story. Pair them with a dead fridge, a leaking roof, a fucked floor, and a possible depression and you get an epic story of aversion where nothing gets done. Nothing. Over a month with no fridge. I make love to adolescent raccoons underneath a raining roof on a rotting floor. It's great, but it's wrong.
June 14, 2014
I guess I should point out that the old-school player next to this is a bunch of songs that I wrote and recorded. I'm pretty proud of most of them. I think colder is my favorite, but a lot of them have some merit. If you stumbled on this blog somehow, a play or two would give me a percentage of a cent. After 7 or 8 years I still haven't met the 20 dollar threshold for withdrawing money. The Natural Gallerie is my band and we have a bandcamp page: http://naturalgallerie.bandcamp.com/ should you feel generous. Realize that the player does not represent the whole band. They're way better than me. I just happened to write some of the songs.
So, my idea is to listen to three songs per day... we'll see and just give my honest first first impressions. I'm using HabitRPG to keep me honest and motivated. Given my past performance I expect 2 days tops, but I get paid with beer... so maybe it'll last longer. I hope so. I've actually done more in the last 2 days of using this thing than I have in a month of trying to motivate myself.
In terms of the songs I'm going to try to pick songs I've never heard before and I hope to branch out to songs I might not have listened to because of my inherent biases. We'll see. I have the blog on my bookmarks bar now so it'll be a constant reminder. Plus, I get paid with beer.
In terms of the songs I'm going to try to pick songs I've never heard before and I hope to branch out to songs I might not have listened to because of my inherent biases. We'll see. I have the blog on my bookmarks bar now so it'll be a constant reminder. Plus, I get paid with beer.
Old enough by The Raconteurs
The song starts with vocals immediately which I tend to like. The vocals are quadrupled and slightly out of phase on top of a clean accoustic. They are immediately positive (you look pretty)... but immediately are tempered by the infamous 'but'. After reading the lyrics it seems the story is directed from someone older to someone younger who is headstrong and thinks they have it all figured out. The narrator identifies with the subject and eventually implores them to think about their future. Pretty deep for a pop song. It actually says something.
Shaker... fiddle... mid tempo rock heavy bass. An organ, a very pretty organ. Pretty up-front drums. Doubled or quadrupled vocals. The bass is constantly moving till the bridge.
The vocals get a little psychedellic with back and forth repeating lines.
The electric guitar seems to get dirtier in the bridge and then disappears in the rest of the song. Suddenly an acoustic guitar rises playing lead and double stops. I think the vocals even get a little more distorted towards the end.
The electric gets a little more prominant and the fiddle starts fiddling you're expecting a solo but everything drops out and there's a little a little accoustic fiddling a few voices and it's over. I liked it.
The song starts with vocals immediately which I tend to like. The vocals are quadrupled and slightly out of phase on top of a clean accoustic. They are immediately positive (you look pretty)... but immediately are tempered by the infamous 'but'. After reading the lyrics it seems the story is directed from someone older to someone younger who is headstrong and thinks they have it all figured out. The narrator identifies with the subject and eventually implores them to think about their future. Pretty deep for a pop song. It actually says something.
Shaker... fiddle... mid tempo rock heavy bass. An organ, a very pretty organ. Pretty up-front drums. Doubled or quadrupled vocals. The bass is constantly moving till the bridge.
The vocals get a little psychedellic with back and forth repeating lines.
The electric guitar seems to get dirtier in the bridge and then disappears in the rest of the song. Suddenly an acoustic guitar rises playing lead and double stops. I think the vocals even get a little more distorted towards the end.
The electric gets a little more prominant and the fiddle starts fiddling you're expecting a solo but everything drops out and there's a little a little accoustic fiddling a few voices and it's over. I liked it.
Train in Vain by The Clash
Blogger ate my first post so here's the second draft:
I'd heard this song many times on classic rock radio and never knew it was the Clash. It starts with four bars of upbeat drums followed by a reverbed out guitar playing syncopated octaves. The bass quickly follows along with a very forward piano part. There's also a fairly prominent harmonica. I really like the sneaky shaker part going on in the background.
The lyrics are really kind of bleak and speak of a man let down by someone he trusted. There's no real resolution which kind of makes it an anti-pop song. Despite this, it's very popular on FM stations that mainly play love songs. It definitely makes me like more. I think the disconnect lies in the fact that the stressed lyrics are positive while the unstressed ones are negative. A casual listen could mistake the intent. It's really interesting. Kind of subversive.
Overall though it's a very simple song. It fades out at the end. No solo or any theatrics. Actually very cool.
Blogger ate my first post so here's the second draft:
I'd heard this song many times on classic rock radio and never knew it was the Clash. It starts with four bars of upbeat drums followed by a reverbed out guitar playing syncopated octaves. The bass quickly follows along with a very forward piano part. There's also a fairly prominent harmonica. I really like the sneaky shaker part going on in the background.
The lyrics are really kind of bleak and speak of a man let down by someone he trusted. There's no real resolution which kind of makes it an anti-pop song. Despite this, it's very popular on FM stations that mainly play love songs. It definitely makes me like more. I think the disconnect lies in the fact that the stressed lyrics are positive while the unstressed ones are negative. A casual listen could mistake the intent. It's really interesting. Kind of subversive.
Overall though it's a very simple song. It fades out at the end. No solo or any theatrics. Actually very cool.
I Zimbra by The Talking Heads:
An African sounding beat. Very upbeat. Guitar harmonics on drums and hand drums to begin before quickly adding bass. Apparently the lyrics are inspired by Hugo Ball's poem 'Gadji beri bimba' and is a "made-up" language. More details here: http://www.ubu.com/sound/ball.html . Definitely has a psych-disco feel to it. It stops very abruptly, which I guess is common for first tracks. Interesting.
January 04, 2014
So... I had a mini-epiphany. Popular bands/entertainers just fill empty holes. There's overlap and emptiness at times, but if there's a market there's a band/artist who will fill that hole (no matter how niche or strange it is, providing there is money there). It's actually kind of depressing. I do believe there was a set of musicians at some point who believed, without irony, that they had a certain obligation to the kids to live the life they spoke of in their songs.
March 25, 2011
March 24, 2011
March 22, 2011
It's sad when you look yourself up on google and can't find anything. Two other more famous people have your name and one of them died in a tragic car accident in high school. Does that come off as callous? In my defense: I have never killed anything above the level of insect on purpose.And I feel bad about the insects I've killed though roaches are starting to lose their emotional tug.
To be clear, I used to show up on google all the time; back in the day. At some point some asshole with my name started writing computer books, then another started being an artist in San Francisco. The last straw was a high school student in ... Virginia? dying in a motor vehicle accident. Apparently a quiet guy in NC with not a lot going on can't get listed on google anymore. I'm considering committing some sort of crime.
To be clear, I used to show up on google all the time; back in the day. At some point some asshole with my name started writing computer books, then another started being an artist in San Francisco. The last straw was a high school student in ... Virginia? dying in a motor vehicle accident. Apparently a quiet guy in NC with not a lot going on can't get listed on google anymore. I'm considering committing some sort of crime.
Bowling.
Bowling is a performance. I think that people who don't play instruments or act or sing, or whatever, look at bowling as a way to perform. Team sports don't really offer that opportunity to get up in front a group of friends, or whatever, and perform. It's like a little dance, a little finesse, and a little strength. Then you get to act out whatever fate the ball decides. Strike? Jubilation! or maybe humility depending on your relative score to those around you. Near miss? mild dismay or maybe cautious hope. I feel like it's the actor's game. Poker is the next closest thing. Maybe baseball is close when you're batting though it seems to be in the culture of the game to be as non-reactive as possible. Hyper-masculinity frowns upon displays of emotion.
Netflix.
I get that production and distribution companies want to keep the allure of the physical product, but the lack of deleted scenes and outtakes on Netflix streaming and, very recently, Netflix discs is starting to be annoying. The people who want the disc will buy the disc. What brand of jackass is swayed by extras?
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