[Alfie enters room]
IAN: O hi there baby what are you doing
ALFIE: [sniffs around at the doorway]
I: I love you baby
A: [slowly looks around the desk]
I: Why don't you come over here Alfie??
A: [continues perusing]
I: [changes music on computer]
A: [subtly rubs tail against Ian's leg]
I: O the baby!!
A: [walks away and lays near the laundry]
I: Why don't you love me as much as I love you???
A: [looks away from Ian]
I: Kitty, Are You The Baby?
A: [crosses arms very properly, indicating that he is, in fact, The Baby]
I: OK baby I love you, I'm gonna pick you up
[Ian picks up Alfie]
A: MEOW!!!!
[Ian puts Alfie down and he saunters out of the room]
I: Baby....
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Playlist for October 2015
This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, and singles I listened to in their entirety during the month of October 2015. Also included are lists of movies/shows I watched, things I read, and bands I saw live, with notes regarding each afterwards. Enjoy.
MUSIC
10/1/15
Zero Progress - "The Void" EP
Squarepusher - "Port Rhombus" EP
Anti-Flag - "Sky Is Falling" b/w "Close My Eyes" 12" single
Breaking Benjamin - "Phobia"
Nine Inch Nails - "The Fragile" Left Disc
Autopsy - "Fiend For Blood" EP
Gnaw Their Tongues - "Abyss of Longing Throats"
10/2/15
Abysmal Dawn - "Obsolenscence"
Wanda Jackson - "Windy City Redux" 7"
The Dickies - "The Incredible Shrinking Dickies"
Terence Blanchard & The E-Collective - "Tiny Desk" live album
Dropkick Murphys - "The Warrior's Code"
No Problem - "Kid Killer" EP
HIM - "Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights"
David Bowie - "Space Oddity"
Panda Bear - "Meets The Grim Reaper"
Bad Religion - "The Process Of Belief"
Heart Attack Kids - S/T EP
Suffocation - "Despise The Sun" EP
Seizures - "The Sanity Universal"
V/A - "MTV Amp"
10/3/15
Discharge - "Never Again" 7"
Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine - "Tuxicity"
Kings Of Leon - "Because Of The Times"
Amebix - "Arise!"
Outo - "Half Life Wit" EP
Steel Panther - "All You Can Eat"
Austrian Death Machine - "Triple Brutal"
Foie Gras - "Held"
Earth Crisis - "Gomorrah's Season Ends"
Paper Planets/Ellewood - split EP
Soilwork - "Steelbath Suicide"
Trivium - "Silence in the Snow"
Angry Samoans - "STP Not LSD"
10/4/15
INVSN - "Inheritance"
Donny Hathaway - S/T
10/5/15
Marilyn Manson - "Lest We Forget: The Best Of"
10/6/15
In Flames - "Come Clarity"
Strand Of Oaks - "Heal"
Lee Burridge - "Lost & Found" EP
Red Fang - "An Absolute Music Banker Session" EP
Strung Out - "Transmission Alpha Delta"
10/7/15
Stars Are Insane/Morgue Toad - split EP
Excel - "Split Image"
HORSE The Band - "The Mechanical Hand"
Azealia Banks - "Broke With Expensive Taste"
The Misfits - "Static Age"
Lauryn Hill - "The Miseducation Of..."
The Decemberists - "The Crane Wife"
10/8/15
Weezer - S/T (Blue Album)
Entombed - "Unreal Estate" live album
10/9/15
100deadrabbits - "Teeth" EP
Metallica - "Master Of Puppets"
Myotonia - S/T
Fugazi - "Steady Diet Of Nothing"
Squarepusher - "Vic Acid" EP
The Cure - "Disintegration"
10/10/15
Satanized - "Sickness and Hellth: The Secular Chansons of Satanized" EP
the one and only PPL MVR - S/T EP
Michael Jackson - "Off The Wall"
Pink Floyd - "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn"
10/11/15
Moonspell - "Extinct"
Staind - "Tormented"
10/12/15
Cannabis Corpse - "Tube of the Resinated"
Tomber Lever - "C21H3O05" EP
Andreas Hanneberg - "Ocai" EP
Dance Gavin Dance - "Instant Gratification"
New Found Glory - "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
Step By Step - "I Always Wanted To Be In A Band" b/w "I Ain't Never Gonna Let Go" 7"
Knights Of The Abyss - "Shades"
St. Germain - S/T
Gwar - "America Must Be Destroyed"
Peter Tosh - "Legalize It"
The Pocket Rockets - S/T EP
Chikochikorita - "Nami The Girl" digital single
Discharge - "Realities Of War" EP
10/13/15
Madchild - "Silver Tongues Devil"
Internal Bleeding - "Imperium"
The Mummies - "Never Been Caught"
Amebix - "Monolith"
Chvrches - "Get Away" b/w "Dead Air" 7"
The Coltranes - "The Cat Of Nine Tails" EP
Gus G. - "I Am The Fire"
HORSE The Band - "Pizza" EP
Disgorge - "She Lay Gutted"
Alex G - "Beach Music"
Outo - "Many Problem, Poison Solution" EP
The Wans - "He Said, She Said"
10/14/15
Adam Sandler - "What The Hell Happened To Me?"
The Receiving End Of Sirens - "The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi"
Kings Of Leon - "Youth And Young Manhood"
Ripcord - "Harvest Hardcore" EP
Cursive - "Domestica"
Vanna - "The Search Party Never Came" EP
Onesidezero - "Is This Room Getting Smaller?"
Squarepusher - "Music Is Rotted One Note"
Liquid - "Live Singles" demo
Cascandy - "Goodbye Darling" 12"
10/15/15
Cygnus - "Radical User Interfaces" EP
Through The Eyes Of The Dead - "Bloodlust"
Stop The Phoenix - "Drifter" digital single
The 4-Skins - "Clockword Skinhead"
Slaves - "Routine Breathing"
Rotting Christ - "Khronos"
10/16/15
Mbongwana Star - "From Kinshasha"
Ugly Kid Joe - "Uglier Than They Used To Be"
The Faceless - "Akeldama"
Discharge - "State Violence, State Control" b/w "Doom's Day" 7"
The Heats - "Have An Idea"
V/A - "Punk Rock Strike"
Animals As Leaders - "The Joy Of Motion"
10/17/15
Dying Fetus - "Reign Supreme"
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
end of the summer - "Three" EP
Family Of Light - "Technicolor In Stereo"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
10/18/15
Blood Pressure - 2015 promo tape
Mr. Twin Sister - S/T
Mississippi Rail Company - "Coal Black Train"
Veil Of Maya - "The Common Man's Collapse"
The Arcade Fire - "The Suburbs"
Deadmau5 - "Dieback Music Pack"
Terror - "Always The Hard Way"
Vesperian Sorrow - "Psychotic Sculpture"
Ruptures - "Adorimidera" EP
Outo - "No Way Out" 7"
10/19/15
Good Clean Fun - "Between Christian Rock & A Hard Place"
Impending Doom - "Nailed. Dead. Risen."
Less Than Jake - "In With The Out Crowd"
Nothing From Something - 5-song demo
Conflict - "Increase The Pressure"
Mellakka - "Itsenaisyyspaiva" EP
Stereotypical Working Class - "Sans Reperes"
Cursive - "The Ugly Organ"
Goo Goo Dolls - "Hold Me Up"
SLiG - "Lives Vol. 3"
10/20/15
David Scuba - "Reworks and Edits" EP
Mob 47 - "Hardcore Attack" cassette EP
A Lot Like Birds - "No Place"
Courtney Bartnett - "Sometimes I Just Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit"
Arty - "Glorious"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Nocturama"
The Body & Thou - "You, Whom I Have Always Hated" collaborative album
2 Chainz - "T.R.U. The Real University" mixtape
10/21/15
Max Richter - "The Blue Notebooks
Between The Buried And Me - "The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues"
The Phoenix Effect - "A Light To Guide" digital single
Terror - "The Rhythm and the Chaos" EP
Dillinger Four - "Versus God"
Tin Lenses - "Eyesplitter" EP
Matchbook Romance - "West For Wishing" EP
Battlehooch - 2010 preview CD-R
DragonForce - "Inhuman Rampage"
10/22/15
Magpie/Interracial Bookclub - "All Bacon, No Beans" split EP
Smashing Pumpkins - "Drown" bootleg CD
10/23/15
OMI - "Me 4 U"
Dance Gavin Dance - S/T
Goatwhore - "Constricting Rage Of The Merciless"
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - "La Mere Vipere" 12" single
Between The Buried And Me - "The Great Misdirect"
Zac Brown Band - "Jekyll & Hyde"
Knights Of The Abyss - "Juggernaut"
Morbid Angel - "Juvenalia" live album
Throwdown - "You Don't Need To Be Blood To Be Family"
Lost Cause - "The World Is Yours" EP
Cretins - "Atac Llampec
10/24/15
Coldplay - "Parachutes"
V/A - "Punk Rock Strike Vol. 2"
Korn - "Life Is Peachy"
10/25/15
Caribou - "Andorra"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Beloved - "...And So It Goes"
Funeral Oration - S/T
The Heats - "Have An Idea"
The Wrath - "Overcoming Failure" EP
10/27/15
Beneath The Massacre - "Evidence of Inequality" EP
Collective Soul - S/T
Them Savages/Bat Manors - split EP
Lana Del Rey - "Ultraviolence"
10/28/15
Herbie Hancock - "Thrust"
10/29/15
Kate Bush - "The Kick Inside"
Eddie Richards - "Dream 2" b/w "iMove" 12"
Mellakka - "Ei..." EP
DayShell - S/T
10/30/15
Sufjan Stevens - "Carrie and Lowell"
Zouo - "The Final Agony" EP
Graf Orlock - "Trailer" EP
Nipsey Hussle - "Mailbox Money" mixtape
The Notwist - "Neon Golden"
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Eric Nally, Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, & Grandmaster Caz - "Downtown" digital single
Terror - "The Damned, The Shamed"
DeepTribe - "Inside My Love" EP
Creations - "Boom (P.O.D. cover)" digital single
Less Than Jake - "GNV FLA"
Therefore I Am/Vanna - split EP
Tomber Lever - 10-song promo CD
Therefore I Am - 7-song S/T EP
10/31/15
Tina Arena - "Eleven"
Christian Death - "Only Theatre Of Pain"
MUSIC NOTES
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Terence Blanchard & The E-Collective, Heart Attack Kids, Strand Of Oaks, St. Germain, Alex G, Cascandy, Cygnus, Mbongwana Star, SLiG, David Scuba, Courtney Bartnett, Max Richter, Karas, Bat Manors
- New albums from Panda Bear, Mr. Twin Sister, Courtney Bartnett, The Body & Thou
- That "MTV Amp" compilation is goddamn CRUCIAL
- the one and only PPL MVR isn't like the stupidest band ever but they're goddamn close, and it's not even cool stupid like Andrew WK it's just lame as fuck
- Worst of the month: Stop The Phoenix, Mississippi Rail Company, Stereotypical Working Class, The Phoenix Effect
- Ugly Kid Joe has a new album out, can you believe that
- I learned everything the hard way.
- Good Clean Fun try way too hard to be kinda cheeky and it just always falls flat...On the note of their album, it's funny I listened to an album with that name immediately followed by Impending Doom
- It always kinda sucks listening back on an old local band you used to be friends with and realizing how god awful they really were in restrospect
- The Gravitys Bring You Down/The Goo Goo Dolls Hold Me Up
- It's weird how modern country groups like Zac Brown Band have adopted hip-hop and EDM influences in recent years, it just seems counter-intuitive...but obviously there's a market there for it
- If there's one thing I hate, its Ramones cover bands...Just because you're Spanish-speaking doesn't make it any better, Cretins
- I enjoy Lana Del Rey's music a lot more now that I did when I first heard it
- I can appreciate Kate Bush's songwriting skills and her importance as an alternative pop icon but her voice is just too fucking high-pitched for me...maybe a few months or years down the line I'll have a Lana Del Rey turnaround like my former note indicated who knows
- Graf Orlock just never stops being badass
- If you're a band from Australia touring the U.S. I would think you'd want more music available to listen to online than a really shitty djent-ish cover of a P.O.D. song but Creations has other ideas...then again, making a P.O.D. original favorable to what you're playing is kind of a twisted feat in and of itself I guess
MOVIES/SHOWS
10/1/15: "The Suicide Theory"
"Whitey: The U.S. Vs. James T. Bulger"
10/2/15: "Boogie Nights"
10/3/15: FINISHED: "Bob's Burgers" Season 3
"Horizon: From Here To Infinity"
10/8/15: "Dinner For Schmucks"
10/10/15: "Minority Report"
"Nature: Animal Misfits"
"It's Such A Beautiful Day"
10/11/15: "National Geographic: Meth - World's Most Dangerous Drug"
10/13/15: "Brooklyn's Finest"
10/14/15: "Real Crime With Mike Austin: The Real Jigsaw Murderer"
10/15/15: "Dead Hands Dig Deep" 10th rough cut
FINISHED: "American Horror Story: Freak Show"
FINISHED: "Mad Men" Season 4
10/18/15: "The Dark Crystal"
"Beyond The Mat"
10/19/15: "Big Fish"
10/20/15: "The Dark Side Of Everest"
MOVIE/SHOWS NOTES
- Finally I watched "Boogie Nights" all the way through and it really is a fucking great movie
- Our universe is expanding and it will never stop
- "Dinner For Schmucks" and "Minority Report" both took me like days to finish because I kept pausing them because they both suck so bad
- It's hard for me to recommend "It's Such A Beautiful Day" entirely because it truly made me feel weird inside at times, it creates a sense of claustrophobia in its repetitiveness that can be overwhelming and it really taps into some dark shit despite being a very simply drawn cartoon for the most part, but in the end it was a pretty rewarding experience...I just wouldn't recommend it to people dealing with major anxiety or paranoia issues cuz it's like designed to exacerbate those feelings
- Don't break kayfabe
- "Big Fish" was exactly how I thought it was gonna be, but I had expected it to be really good so that's not a bad thing
- Dang people are fucked up to each other when climbing Mt. Everest apparently
LIVE
10/24/15: Tomber Lever/Happy In Hemet/[The Gravitys]/Liquid/Karas/SLiG/Brain Fragment/Shojo Winter @ Anthony's House (Happy Fest III)
LIVE NOTES
- Happy Fest is the happiest day of the year. Thanks to Bean and Anthony for being \_/ with me for the night and for everybody who made that set so reaffirming and dope and for everybody else who rocked the house that night, shit was fucking dope...Love you guys.
BOOKS
10/29/15: FINISHED House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
BOOK NOTES
- House Of Leaves is one of the most intense books I've ever read and speaks to so many facets of my personality, especially in the way its a horror story, a love story, and a somewhat ironic parody of intellectual society all at once...Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys dense storytelling, especially if you're willing to suspend your respect of "reality" at times...Great recommendation Cam Cam
MUSIC
10/1/15
Zero Progress - "The Void" EP
Squarepusher - "Port Rhombus" EP
Anti-Flag - "Sky Is Falling" b/w "Close My Eyes" 12" single
Breaking Benjamin - "Phobia"
Nine Inch Nails - "The Fragile" Left Disc
Autopsy - "Fiend For Blood" EP
Gnaw Their Tongues - "Abyss of Longing Throats"
10/2/15
Abysmal Dawn - "Obsolenscence"
Wanda Jackson - "Windy City Redux" 7"
The Dickies - "The Incredible Shrinking Dickies"
Terence Blanchard & The E-Collective - "Tiny Desk" live album
Dropkick Murphys - "The Warrior's Code"
No Problem - "Kid Killer" EP
HIM - "Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights"
David Bowie - "Space Oddity"
Panda Bear - "Meets The Grim Reaper"
Bad Religion - "The Process Of Belief"
Heart Attack Kids - S/T EP
Suffocation - "Despise The Sun" EP
Seizures - "The Sanity Universal"
V/A - "MTV Amp"
10/3/15
Discharge - "Never Again" 7"
Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine - "Tuxicity"
Kings Of Leon - "Because Of The Times"
Amebix - "Arise!"
Outo - "Half Life Wit" EP
Steel Panther - "All You Can Eat"
Austrian Death Machine - "Triple Brutal"
Foie Gras - "Held"
Earth Crisis - "Gomorrah's Season Ends"
Paper Planets/Ellewood - split EP
Soilwork - "Steelbath Suicide"
Trivium - "Silence in the Snow"
Angry Samoans - "STP Not LSD"
10/4/15
INVSN - "Inheritance"
Donny Hathaway - S/T
10/5/15
Marilyn Manson - "Lest We Forget: The Best Of"
10/6/15
In Flames - "Come Clarity"
Strand Of Oaks - "Heal"
Lee Burridge - "Lost & Found" EP
Red Fang - "An Absolute Music Banker Session" EP
Strung Out - "Transmission Alpha Delta"
10/7/15
Stars Are Insane/Morgue Toad - split EP
Excel - "Split Image"
HORSE The Band - "The Mechanical Hand"
Azealia Banks - "Broke With Expensive Taste"
The Misfits - "Static Age"
Lauryn Hill - "The Miseducation Of..."
The Decemberists - "The Crane Wife"
10/8/15
Weezer - S/T (Blue Album)
Entombed - "Unreal Estate" live album
10/9/15
100deadrabbits - "Teeth" EP
Metallica - "Master Of Puppets"
Myotonia - S/T
Fugazi - "Steady Diet Of Nothing"
Squarepusher - "Vic Acid" EP
The Cure - "Disintegration"
10/10/15
Satanized - "Sickness and Hellth: The Secular Chansons of Satanized" EP
the one and only PPL MVR - S/T EP
Michael Jackson - "Off The Wall"
Pink Floyd - "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn"
10/11/15
Moonspell - "Extinct"
Staind - "Tormented"
10/12/15
Cannabis Corpse - "Tube of the Resinated"
Tomber Lever - "C21H3O05" EP
Andreas Hanneberg - "Ocai" EP
Dance Gavin Dance - "Instant Gratification"
New Found Glory - "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
Step By Step - "I Always Wanted To Be In A Band" b/w "I Ain't Never Gonna Let Go" 7"
Knights Of The Abyss - "Shades"
St. Germain - S/T
Gwar - "America Must Be Destroyed"
Peter Tosh - "Legalize It"
The Pocket Rockets - S/T EP
Chikochikorita - "Nami The Girl" digital single
Discharge - "Realities Of War" EP
10/13/15
Madchild - "Silver Tongues Devil"
Internal Bleeding - "Imperium"
The Mummies - "Never Been Caught"
Amebix - "Monolith"
Chvrches - "Get Away" b/w "Dead Air" 7"
The Coltranes - "The Cat Of Nine Tails" EP
Gus G. - "I Am The Fire"
HORSE The Band - "Pizza" EP
Disgorge - "She Lay Gutted"
Alex G - "Beach Music"
Outo - "Many Problem, Poison Solution" EP
The Wans - "He Said, She Said"
10/14/15
Adam Sandler - "What The Hell Happened To Me?"
The Receiving End Of Sirens - "The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi"
Kings Of Leon - "Youth And Young Manhood"
Ripcord - "Harvest Hardcore" EP
Cursive - "Domestica"
Vanna - "The Search Party Never Came" EP
Onesidezero - "Is This Room Getting Smaller?"
Squarepusher - "Music Is Rotted One Note"
Liquid - "Live Singles" demo
Cascandy - "Goodbye Darling" 12"
10/15/15
Cygnus - "Radical User Interfaces" EP
Through The Eyes Of The Dead - "Bloodlust"
Stop The Phoenix - "Drifter" digital single
The 4-Skins - "Clockword Skinhead"
Slaves - "Routine Breathing"
Rotting Christ - "Khronos"
10/16/15
Mbongwana Star - "From Kinshasha"
Ugly Kid Joe - "Uglier Than They Used To Be"
The Faceless - "Akeldama"
Discharge - "State Violence, State Control" b/w "Doom's Day" 7"
The Heats - "Have An Idea"
V/A - "Punk Rock Strike"
Animals As Leaders - "The Joy Of Motion"
10/17/15
Dying Fetus - "Reign Supreme"
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
end of the summer - "Three" EP
Family Of Light - "Technicolor In Stereo"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
10/18/15
Blood Pressure - 2015 promo tape
Mr. Twin Sister - S/T
Mississippi Rail Company - "Coal Black Train"
Veil Of Maya - "The Common Man's Collapse"
The Arcade Fire - "The Suburbs"
Deadmau5 - "Dieback Music Pack"
Terror - "Always The Hard Way"
Vesperian Sorrow - "Psychotic Sculpture"
Ruptures - "Adorimidera" EP
Outo - "No Way Out" 7"
10/19/15
Good Clean Fun - "Between Christian Rock & A Hard Place"
Impending Doom - "Nailed. Dead. Risen."
Less Than Jake - "In With The Out Crowd"
Nothing From Something - 5-song demo
Conflict - "Increase The Pressure"
Mellakka - "Itsenaisyyspaiva" EP
Stereotypical Working Class - "Sans Reperes"
Cursive - "The Ugly Organ"
Goo Goo Dolls - "Hold Me Up"
SLiG - "Lives Vol. 3"
10/20/15
David Scuba - "Reworks and Edits" EP
Mob 47 - "Hardcore Attack" cassette EP
A Lot Like Birds - "No Place"
Courtney Bartnett - "Sometimes I Just Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit"
Arty - "Glorious"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Nocturama"
The Body & Thou - "You, Whom I Have Always Hated" collaborative album
2 Chainz - "T.R.U. The Real University" mixtape
10/21/15
Max Richter - "The Blue Notebooks
Between The Buried And Me - "The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues"
The Phoenix Effect - "A Light To Guide" digital single
Terror - "The Rhythm and the Chaos" EP
Dillinger Four - "Versus God"
Tin Lenses - "Eyesplitter" EP
Matchbook Romance - "West For Wishing" EP
Battlehooch - 2010 preview CD-R
DragonForce - "Inhuman Rampage"
10/22/15
Magpie/Interracial Bookclub - "All Bacon, No Beans" split EP
Smashing Pumpkins - "Drown" bootleg CD
10/23/15
OMI - "Me 4 U"
Dance Gavin Dance - S/T
Goatwhore - "Constricting Rage Of The Merciless"
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - "La Mere Vipere" 12" single
Between The Buried And Me - "The Great Misdirect"
Zac Brown Band - "Jekyll & Hyde"
Knights Of The Abyss - "Juggernaut"
Morbid Angel - "Juvenalia" live album
Throwdown - "You Don't Need To Be Blood To Be Family"
Lost Cause - "The World Is Yours" EP
Cretins - "Atac Llampec
10/24/15
Coldplay - "Parachutes"
V/A - "Punk Rock Strike Vol. 2"
Korn - "Life Is Peachy"
10/25/15
Caribou - "Andorra"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Beloved - "...And So It Goes"
Funeral Oration - S/T
The Heats - "Have An Idea"
The Wrath - "Overcoming Failure" EP
10/27/15
Beneath The Massacre - "Evidence of Inequality" EP
Collective Soul - S/T
Them Savages/Bat Manors - split EP
Lana Del Rey - "Ultraviolence"
10/28/15
Herbie Hancock - "Thrust"
10/29/15
Kate Bush - "The Kick Inside"
Eddie Richards - "Dream 2" b/w "iMove" 12"
Mellakka - "Ei..." EP
DayShell - S/T
10/30/15
Sufjan Stevens - "Carrie and Lowell"
Zouo - "The Final Agony" EP
Graf Orlock - "Trailer" EP
Nipsey Hussle - "Mailbox Money" mixtape
The Notwist - "Neon Golden"
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Eric Nally, Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, & Grandmaster Caz - "Downtown" digital single
Terror - "The Damned, The Shamed"
DeepTribe - "Inside My Love" EP
Creations - "Boom (P.O.D. cover)" digital single
Less Than Jake - "GNV FLA"
Therefore I Am/Vanna - split EP
Tomber Lever - 10-song promo CD
Therefore I Am - 7-song S/T EP
10/31/15
Tina Arena - "Eleven"
Christian Death - "Only Theatre Of Pain"
MUSIC NOTES
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Terence Blanchard & The E-Collective, Heart Attack Kids, Strand Of Oaks, St. Germain, Alex G, Cascandy, Cygnus, Mbongwana Star, SLiG, David Scuba, Courtney Bartnett, Max Richter, Karas, Bat Manors
- New albums from Panda Bear, Mr. Twin Sister, Courtney Bartnett, The Body & Thou
- That "MTV Amp" compilation is goddamn CRUCIAL
- the one and only PPL MVR isn't like the stupidest band ever but they're goddamn close, and it's not even cool stupid like Andrew WK it's just lame as fuck
- Worst of the month: Stop The Phoenix, Mississippi Rail Company, Stereotypical Working Class, The Phoenix Effect
- Ugly Kid Joe has a new album out, can you believe that
- I learned everything the hard way.
- Good Clean Fun try way too hard to be kinda cheeky and it just always falls flat...On the note of their album, it's funny I listened to an album with that name immediately followed by Impending Doom
- It always kinda sucks listening back on an old local band you used to be friends with and realizing how god awful they really were in restrospect
- The Gravitys Bring You Down/The Goo Goo Dolls Hold Me Up
- It's weird how modern country groups like Zac Brown Band have adopted hip-hop and EDM influences in recent years, it just seems counter-intuitive...but obviously there's a market there for it
- If there's one thing I hate, its Ramones cover bands...Just because you're Spanish-speaking doesn't make it any better, Cretins
- I enjoy Lana Del Rey's music a lot more now that I did when I first heard it
- I can appreciate Kate Bush's songwriting skills and her importance as an alternative pop icon but her voice is just too fucking high-pitched for me...maybe a few months or years down the line I'll have a Lana Del Rey turnaround like my former note indicated who knows
- Graf Orlock just never stops being badass
- If you're a band from Australia touring the U.S. I would think you'd want more music available to listen to online than a really shitty djent-ish cover of a P.O.D. song but Creations has other ideas...then again, making a P.O.D. original favorable to what you're playing is kind of a twisted feat in and of itself I guess
MOVIES/SHOWS
10/1/15: "The Suicide Theory"
"Whitey: The U.S. Vs. James T. Bulger"
10/2/15: "Boogie Nights"
10/3/15: FINISHED: "Bob's Burgers" Season 3
"Horizon: From Here To Infinity"
10/8/15: "Dinner For Schmucks"
10/10/15: "Minority Report"
"Nature: Animal Misfits"
"It's Such A Beautiful Day"
10/11/15: "National Geographic: Meth - World's Most Dangerous Drug"
10/13/15: "Brooklyn's Finest"
10/14/15: "Real Crime With Mike Austin: The Real Jigsaw Murderer"
10/15/15: "Dead Hands Dig Deep" 10th rough cut
FINISHED: "American Horror Story: Freak Show"
FINISHED: "Mad Men" Season 4
10/18/15: "The Dark Crystal"
"Beyond The Mat"
10/19/15: "Big Fish"
10/20/15: "The Dark Side Of Everest"
MOVIE/SHOWS NOTES
- Finally I watched "Boogie Nights" all the way through and it really is a fucking great movie
- Our universe is expanding and it will never stop
- "Dinner For Schmucks" and "Minority Report" both took me like days to finish because I kept pausing them because they both suck so bad
- It's hard for me to recommend "It's Such A Beautiful Day" entirely because it truly made me feel weird inside at times, it creates a sense of claustrophobia in its repetitiveness that can be overwhelming and it really taps into some dark shit despite being a very simply drawn cartoon for the most part, but in the end it was a pretty rewarding experience...I just wouldn't recommend it to people dealing with major anxiety or paranoia issues cuz it's like designed to exacerbate those feelings
- Don't break kayfabe
- "Big Fish" was exactly how I thought it was gonna be, but I had expected it to be really good so that's not a bad thing
- Dang people are fucked up to each other when climbing Mt. Everest apparently
LIVE
10/24/15: Tomber Lever/Happy In Hemet/[The Gravitys]/Liquid/Karas/SLiG/Brain Fragment/Shojo Winter @ Anthony's House (Happy Fest III)
LIVE NOTES
- Happy Fest is the happiest day of the year. Thanks to Bean and Anthony for being \_/ with me for the night and for everybody who made that set so reaffirming and dope and for everybody else who rocked the house that night, shit was fucking dope...Love you guys.
BOOKS
10/29/15: FINISHED House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
BOOK NOTES
- House Of Leaves is one of the most intense books I've ever read and speaks to so many facets of my personality, especially in the way its a horror story, a love story, and a somewhat ironic parody of intellectual society all at once...Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys dense storytelling, especially if you're willing to suspend your respect of "reality" at times...Great recommendation Cam Cam
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