Do you write music for a specific audience or do you write music exclusively for yourself? Which do you think will make you more successful? Honestly.” … There’s a thinly-veiled “your music is odd” comment buried in that question, but I’m gonna ignore that for now…
So the crew and I have just returned from our third official Weekend World Tour…
This, dear friends, was our itinerary:
One of the many, valuable lessons we learned on our excursion is that itineraries and Tahoe don’t go together. In fact, there are several things that Tahoe apparently doesn’t tolerate:
1. coloreds
2. safe driving
3. [...]
In retrospect, I should have known better.
Hanging all of my hopes for a good evening on a DOOM performance is like getting excited for a rendezvous with a really easy girl. Sure, you hear she’s good… but she’s probably got AIDS.
I should have known better than to think that a guy in a mask wouldn’t [...]
I have a different set of values than most folks.
Many people consider award shows important. In my eyes, they’re a giant obscene act of masturbation committed by whatever industry that the particular show is honoring. I find this to be especially true of music industry shows. I noticed recently that the American Music Awards have [...]
LAST WEEK’S FREAKY PEN PALS
Akomplice writes:
Slightly Autistic-
Liked the Iron chef reference yet Illuminati Blues and Ziggy’s Interstellar are still some of my favorites (not sure if they’re even on the album) but as ive stated I will be waiting for the whole album as well.
Peace
I was hoping someone would catch that long ass Iron Chef [...]
I just wanna type the word “monkey” a gang of times. I don’t even know why. I’m just in love with how that word sounds right now. The same way I’m currently enamored with Steely Dan, turkey burgers and plums.
I feel like I need to re-introduce myself to you. I know I should probably qualify [...]
Frank Zappa, Prince Paul, Robert Anton Wilson, John S. Hall and John Linnell beat each other up in my head most of the day. Just about every action that I take is the result of one of them bashing the other over the head with a shovel. Most of the time they don’t make direct [...]
They Might Be Giants - The Else
Idlewild/Zoe Records (7/10/07)
Rock / Alternative
Let me start this off by confessing that I’m partial.
Not mathematically, snarky; I am not a fraction. I mean that I’m not objective about the works of John Flansburgh and John Linnel, the Brooklyn duo that comprise the nerd-rock institution known as They Might [...]
I’m 26 years old.
Twenty-six revolutions around the sun from my birth ’til now. Not only have I managed to stay alive this long, I’ve had the fortune of landing and losing a few jobs, having a few graduations and losing my virginity a few times. I have a pretty decent job now, a beat-up but [...]
It’s a crazy rappity rap rap world.
Urban music information whizzes around like gnats on coke. Life-long homies are beefing, multi-platinum artists are smacking youngsters around at shows, and all the black Baby Boomers in the world have decided that gangsta rap is a bigger problem than bad parenting.
God bless the elegant chaos.
The old guard is [...]