Not going to name names, but I saw possibly the most retarded thing ever in my Facebook feed today. It was a discussion related to the issue of whether one thought carrying a weapon was a good idea, which devolved into a shitfit about what one would and would not […]
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So… another acquaintance of mine has gone and declared themselves a DJ, apparently thinking that standing around twiddling knobs will make their non-DJing music career succeed where sitting on their ass twiddling their thumbs didn’t. Just one problem with that: wouldn’t getting off your ass and playing gigs and touring […]
Obsessed with this track at the moment: Aerosmith – “Darkness”: Imperfectly perfect. Human music, not robot crap. So fucking sick of presets. Preset drums. Preset synth patches. Fuck your backing tracks too. Gimme music made for human ears by human beings. Give me something with a soul and emotion. Let […]
So I arrive in the synth cave today soaking wet from the rain after walking in from a couple blocks away where I left my car. Why would I park a couple blocks away? Especially as there’s adequate parking in the little lot off the back alley and more spaces […]
You know what my favorite part of a live show is? When the only guitarist onstage is randomly picking out single pinch harmonics up high on the neck which you can’t even really hear and letting them ring out for at least a bar or two each but you do […]
Can someone explain to me why the fuck anyone watches crap like Glee? Because at least when I went to school, the glee club was where all the geeks and losers (the ones not cool enough to play triangle in the jazz band) were relegated. Actually, I don’t even recall […]
I speak not in terms of actual conduct with people you do business with [even if some people in this industry need a good hard throttling] but in terms of image, attitude, and sound. Nice is boring. So is pretty. So is polished. Am I the only one who ever […]
So today is “SOCAN Day,” that quarterly payout of artist royalties for airplay on radio, TV, etc. through Canada’s performing rights society (equivalent to ASCAP). I fucking hate SOCAN Day, because for me as for anyone else getting airplay primarily through Canadian college radio, it’s pretty much a big middle […]
Remember that fucking kid you always hated in school? The one who ratted you out to the teacher if you didn’t want to play with him? The one who no one wanted to play with because he was an obnoxious prick? You know, if he didn’t win the game he […]
Jesus… so a couple days ago in the midst of the hysteria I made a post on my personal Facebook about ignore the media hype, the sky’s not falling and you’re more likely to get hit by a bus than shot in a movie theatre by a Bad Man With […]
Had to chuckle last night as I saw someone on Twitter insist that in 50 years tattoos won’t be cool and no one will be getting them anymore. I happen to know he hasn’t got any, and it seems to me perhaps there’s a bit of projection on his part. […]
They negate everything you’ve said before them. Yet people don’t seem to get this first-grade vocabulary issue. eg: Chick insists she’s like totally a free speech kinda gal, but how dare Daniel Tosh make jokes she doesn’t find funny. [Anti-feminist stuff, and Tosh’s whole schtick is to push the envelope […]
So, I wrote this last night and was going to post it later on the weekend, but when I got up this afternoon I found Michael Mann at the Straight had posted his comments about the “just press play” milieu of the electronic dance music scene and I thought maybe […]
Funny as I’m settling down to write a rather dark batch of songs I find this: Kathy Shaidle’s list of favorite revenge songs Of course “You Oughta Know” is on there, though it’s not her #1. Years ago I recall reading some interview with Trent Reznor where he was commenting […]