December 2009
5 posts
good lord, my eyes
this is one of the best music videos i’ve ever seen.
ten covers that should not exist
i love the occasional well-executed cover. a band can really make it their own - as gnr did with knockin on heavens door, urge overkill did with girl, you’ll be a woman soon, and a perfect circle did with the nurse who loved me. but it goes the other way, too. these are ten soul-crushing renditions of classics that will have you reaching for the arsenic. sincerely, i hope none of you reading...
2009 in review: concert roundup
my dad once asked always asks me why it’s so important that i see bands as they come through town (or within 150 miles, which many of these required). i suppose a large part of it is knowing that the art you see will only happen once. much of the motivation is the crowd, too - no matter what style of music, there is a sort of therapy involved in singing along, headbanging, or whatever, with...
2009 in review: album roundup
i will admit to an obscene amount of music piracy. apparently i’ve downloaded over 104gb of music since february. on one hand, this has instilled a sort of guilt in me, such that i’ll never be comfortable selling my own recordings in the future. but it’s also allowed me to check out tons of stuff i might not have even considered otherwise. what follows is a list of 70 new...
around the fur
i eat at this indian joint compulsively. it’s good enough to warrant putting up with the cacophony across the street - a mob of super weird animal rights activists, screaming at the top of their lungs in front of the last fur shop in town. sure, they give me bad looks for joining in the chants as i walk by in my faux-leather jacket - “forty dead animals! one fur coat!” etc (it...