January 4th, 1997

We are all going to die.

My friend Phil wrote something on the internet that actually shocked me a little. He said that people who talk about the 90's now are the same as people in the 80's who talked about the 60's. Oof. But it's true. Here's a picture of me talking to a friend about the first Snapcase album:


As soon as I got home yesterday, there was another artifact of the past on the doorstep. A record had arrived in the mail of some of those "great songs we used to groove to back then". And while it wasn't Freedom Rock, it was a record that is older now than the music being sold on the Freedom Rock compilation was when it was first advertised.

I'm referring to the MTS Records re-issue of The Age of Quarrel by the Cro-Mags. It's a good record, and you should go and buy a copy right now. (Collector scum footnote: I got the second most limited pressing, the red/black swirl. I could have gotten the limited-to-100 black pressing, but I'm a sucker for colored vinyl.)


So much of the music I listen to now is a total nostalgia trip. I'm okay with this, I guess, because I have a choice to listen to modern music, and I don't (well, I do, but not as often as I don't). There's something that I could write, and it's a thing that I actually started writing before I changed it to what you're reading now about how I got to the point of thinking about music basically all the time. And I'll write it sometime and it'll bore the hell out of you because it'll be just another hippie droning on about how there's no way you could understand the groove of Woodstock because you weren't there man.

In the song "Clenched Fists, Black Eyes" Kevin Seconds sings that "we're aiming for a different goal / succeeding where the hippies failed". Did it work? I don't know. That's up to the next generation to decide, just like it was up to old dudes like Kevin Seconds (and me) to decide that the hippies had failed. I've got a feeling that my son will be able to reference a song that speaks pretty bluntly about the failures of old people like his dumb old dad. That's as it should be. I can't wait to hear it.

Of Zeroes and Heroes

Some things happen.

So this "blog" is kind of stupid. I started it over three years ago as a kind of excuse to post things that I thought were "interesting" that I had around the house.

Then it kind of maybe turned into an "mp3 blog" for a while and then it stopped being anything at all. I guess I have recently had a hankerin' to once again write about things on the internet in ways that are neither limited to 140 characters nor appearing on a "wall" or in a "news feed", so here I am.

I have, you've probably noticed, changed the url of this place to something quite cumbersome and difficult to remember, so I guess I'm limiting myself once again. Anyway, thanks for showing up. I can't promise things here will get any less stupid. I can only promise to make a half-hearted attempt to make them happen a little more frequently.

Tell all your friends!

George Jones and Melba Montgomery - "Blue Moon of Kentucky"

I'm just sitting around this morning not really doing anything at all, and I'm listening to this record. It's a really good record to listen to while you're just sitting around on Sunday morning and not doing anything, so I wanted you to have the same ability.

So, here it is. There's a skip in the song "Before She Changed Your Mind", but we're not really the kind of people who care about things like that, are we?

Every Creeping Thing That Creepeth Upon The Earth Shall Be An Abomination

Hey! Remember the last thing I posted that said "the next post I make will most likely be another dumb mix tape I made for you"?

Well here it is!

I'll be honest with you...most of the people who even know this "blog" exists are people I know in real life, and most of the people I know in real life could not care less about the music on this thing (except Killick, who is actually on this mix tape...twice), but I don't give a shit. Here's a bunch of metal and noise and weird folk-whatever stuff and also some monks chanting. You probably won't listen to it, but I'd be really interested to hear what you think if you do.

Get it!

Neglected

I have interests. One of them includes posting things here, and maybe things that aren't dumb mix tapes I made for you. Though I will tell you that the next post I make will most likely be another dumb mix tape I made for you.

All I'm saying is that yes, this thing is updated very infrequently, but whoever you are I'm glad you're looking at this.

I'll be back soon.