I am not going to say the words you say at yourself
Denial is more than incinerated
Homes you should have never entered.
Uncalloused hands on alpha bears
Touch unkempt porous
Leather; dime
Run mysteries
Chew and spit the mush
Left from patrol-
Less grinding tomb bones.
You wouldn't be offended if you weren't at a loss,
Unable to envision
Contests dried of righteous motive;
Zero-sums leave no wreath
Of victimhood to embrace.
"I will not take any blame,"
You appall
At my jawless pinpoint scoops
Of obvious pursuits
Somehow your thicket hides from you.
My wrath hath
No sentence.
I will not see the through
Street connect
From my bubble to your algal bloom,
Your tar-fumed, vestal playplace
Where structures melt in orcal cries
Imaginary and upsetting
To fans
Saddled with cooing
You from your filth.
To care is to be pathetic.
One rotund line misshapen
Can cipher cold
From once-abounding dawns
Seemingly used
To quick, dry mentions.
Put away your Hester's hat,
Unfit for pride-less harlots
More thatched by mousetraps th()n
They are aware of what they're wretching.
Keep distance, young
Despoiled despoiler,
You most unwillingly latched;
Spare none in your vanquishment of praise.
No filter can character
Charcoal shadows you
Erect.
Much life upon thee,
Never-Held-To-Any-Ghost.
Mischeif will die someday.
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Recants
Shunted from disjointed markers,
Tagged for other ventures
Was the rag
We laughed on the way home about.
"Whose?" "Why?"
Elementary, fundamental
Questions anyone passing
That trail would ask.
Simple trash villains -
(Etymologically) -
Retain the scene witnessed
On uneventful treks each dawn presumes;
It was that hanging ribboned parcel which
Caught eyes watching
For every and any
Disparity upon the worn,
Barking curvature.
An origin free of malaise
Did not, could not occur
To us, given
The untradeworthy condition
This sunken cost now held.
Beneath our feigned interpretation
Casting the ornament a punchline
Was a lowly knocking
Stomach-ache
Composed of lingering recants;
"I don't really feel this way."
Tagged for other ventures
Was the rag
We laughed on the way home about.
"Whose?" "Why?"
Elementary, fundamental
Questions anyone passing
That trail would ask.
Simple trash villains -
(Etymologically) -
Retain the scene witnessed
On uneventful treks each dawn presumes;
It was that hanging ribboned parcel which
Caught eyes watching
For every and any
Disparity upon the worn,
Barking curvature.
An origin free of malaise
Did not, could not occur
To us, given
The untradeworthy condition
This sunken cost now held.
Beneath our feigned interpretation
Casting the ornament a punchline
Was a lowly knocking
Stomach-ache
Composed of lingering recants;
"I don't really feel this way."
Sunday, November 5, 2017
Experience Review: Zack Overdosing and then Coming Into Work, 8/13/13
** I found this while going through my email outbox earlier today. It was written more than 4 years ago. Sorry to anybody who might be offended by my bringing up the past. I hope That One Day, and That Call never come.
I (joked) about my assumption that he had got a DUI and Spencer confirmed that Zack had been driving far too fast and taking the turns a bit hastily, which soured my thoughts on having him drive me across town to go get more drunk. I called KP and it was just him, Mark, Sarah, and Nicki hanging out; we had assumed there to be like a whole grip of heads there and Zack was particularly disappointed by the amount of girls he could wantonly hit on, so the list of present characters swayed us further against the idea of driving out there.
Almost by serendipity, David called me up to see what I was doing for the game; he had planned on going to Bob's as well but was just gonna stay in and watch it at home where he could blaze and not spend money on unnecessary beers. He said I should cruise over if we didn't end up going out to the spot and that suddenly seemed way more relaxing and responsible than our previous plans. It had been nearly an hour since they returned by the time I finally decided that that was what I wanted to do, so when Zack offered to take me home I wasn't as apprehensive because he seemed to be back to his normal just-a-little-faded state.
Mom had made tacos but I was still full from the dinner I stole from Zack so I didnt's eat, but I felt really bad because tacos are like my favorite thing and mom knows that, that's why she makes them. But I just ran upstairs, took some more gravitys, and had dad drive me to David's.
David was in his basketball shorts, fully chilling, and we went into his downstairs living room to watch the game. His parents got new couches recently that we can lounge back in all comfortably so that was cool. The Chargers fucking suck so we kinda didn't really watch the game too much (it's just too painful) but we caught up with what each other had been up to recently. Just work. That's the answer for both of us. "I've been working alot." It's strange that David and I used to spend almost every single day together and now we maybe see each other once or twice a month, needing to make appointments with each other just to keep our friendship healthy. I guess we're just becoming adults. It's fucking depressing.
His dad came out and talked to me for a little bit, which was cool, but I don't really remember anything that we talked about. Probably just a bunch of bullshit. He made the point that we can't keep blaming Norv Turner anymore, he's gone. Philip Rivers had better do the damn thing now. David and I smoked a bowl, watched the rest of our pitiful loss to the Seahawks, and called it a night. His house is located right beside the trail that runs beside my house, behind Nicholas Valley Elementary, and then back around, so I jumped the wall from the end of his cul-de-sac and walked home.
The next day at work was the same as things always are. We were all sleepy and nothing is funny at 9am. Zack seemed a bit more pale-faced than usual but I assumed that they just had another shit-show at the Heath house after he dropped me off. He was slumping a bit ridiculously and got up several times within the first half hour to get water and/or go to puke so when he came back on the fourth time I looked at him and motioned like, "WTF?" He looked at me deep in the eyes and kinda stuntedly said "I hung out with Luigi last night and I did something really stupid." I already knew what he meant but I asked for further explanation, to which he responded with hand signals indicating "we will talk about it later." It wasn't too much later, however, when he under-his-breath told me "I relapsed and overdosed and went to the hospital."
A call came into my headphones like right as he said it so I just looked into his eyes and let him know how I felt.
"Hi this is Ian I'm calling about your electric bill, is this the homeowner I'm speaking with?"
I was immediately filled with a mixture of rage and despair that I couldn't even hide. My voice was stilted and I wasn't focusing on my script. My sentences sounded stupid because I was stuttering. I wasn't even seeing red, it was like dried-blood purple-black. I paused my dialer and got up to go to the bathroom so I could cry without anyone seeing me. I looked at myself in the mirror angrily, like, why am I upset about this? It's not me. It's not my girlfriend or my brother or anything. It's just my friend. It's just my closest friend who I spend all my time with and who I've been trying to help get better. Why should I care.
I came out of the bathroom and just did not want to look at him at all. He looked all dry and concaved and deathly. He was slurring his words and nearly falling asleep. He had to throw up every time he drank any water because he was suffering from dehydration sickness so bad.
At break he told me that he woke up in the Wal-Mart bathroom with paramedics above him; Luigi had left him there to die. I asked him the obvious question, "Why did you do this??" and got the obvious answer, "I WAS WASTED MAN!!" His main concern was that he was going to get billed by the hospital and those bills will be sent to the house, where maybe Spencer or worse yet, Paris, might see them. That wasn't my main concern whatsoever. My main concern was the burned-into-my-brain image of him blacked out next to a toilet with a tourniquet around his arm. That's what I was concerned about. I didn't want to talk to him.
The day went so quickly and strangely that we didn't really have time to talk about stuff. Elaina took us out for lunch so that timeframe went to waste; I wasn't able to tell him how upset I was. Our boss, Jay, came in the office to announce new solar clients we're gonna be working with and to introduce a new bonus structure that rewards people who have to run around all day verifying other people's leads. He looked over at me when he said that. I didn't even care. Elaina drove us down the street when the day was over and smoked us out. Me and her laughed about how similar we are, right down to our reliance on spiral notebooks. She was hugging her notebook as she talked about it and I believed her.
When we were finally heading back to his house I finally told him how I felt. It boiled down to this: "You can never hang out with those people ever again and you already knew this. I can't believe you would do this to yourself. I can't believe you would do this to ME. You know how much I love you and you know how fucking fragile I am. The next time this happens you're going to die, and if you survive I am never going to talk to you ever again. You can't keep putting me through this and I am the only person who seems to care if you die. You don't want to push me away."
He already knew. He didn't challenge anything I said because I was in the right and I deserved to be upset with him.
We went back to the house where Sam and Spencer were going over stuff on acoustic guitar. Zack and I split a ham sub, adding some pastrami and salami and all sorts of good shit to it from their fridge. I had my first day of work release at the new work site the next day so I started to get anxious and wanted to go home. Aaron was going home so I gathered all my things and hurried out the door with him. As I was pushing open the screen door, Sam hollered down the hallway at me. "IAN! I never get to show you my song," referencing the song he wrote like 3 months ago and wants to give me as a Gravitys song but I still havent made the time to hear. I felt really bad because it was clear that he felt shafted, "like I don't wanna be friends. But I do. I still love you, although I know I don't show it at all. Everything that once was close is sprawled. I'm sorry that I put you through The Fall. I hope you're doing okay, considering it all. We're dropping like flies."
I went home and sat alone in my room without music playing for 4 hours. I didn't want to talk to anyone.
*** Follow up note: I didn't hold true to that ultimatum I gave to Zack. We still talk from time to time.
I still haven't heard Sam's song.
Philip Rivers still hasn't done the damn thing.
Yesterday after work Zack and I were gonna go to Bobs Pizza because the first Chargers preseason game was on after what seemed like the longest off-season ever. KP, Mark, and Sarah had a table reserved and were gonna be there at 6, so we could have just gone there straight from work and that's what I wanted to do. From where our office is located, we could have made a straight shot down Jefferson to the complex that Bob's is in. But there was still another hour before the game started, and Zack had been bitching for several days about going to the mall to buy new shoes. Dustin's mom had given both him and Spencer $100 gift cards to the Promenade, leftover money from what we had raised at the memorial show.
So we went to the mall to find some shoes, which he did actually need pretty bad because there was a fatty hole on the bottom. First we went to Zumiez and Vans but both of those places had prices way out of the range that we found to be reasonable, so went down the hall to Pay-Less. There we found some Airwalks that looked exactly like the shoes that we were looking at in the other stores but for only $20. It just doesn't make sense to make any other decision.
Upon getting back to the Heath house we got to taking our ritual post-work shots and gravitys, with Spencer and Aaron on the couch watching "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" like fucking always. The game was gonna start in like 20 minutes, and the plan was still to go meet up with the buddies in a bit, but we were both in full-time lag mode and I kinda wanted to eat something before we went there. Even though we were going to a damn pizza place. Spencer needed Zack to take him to the liquor store so I used that time to cook up one of their frozen dinners.
Although I'm a notoriously slow eater, they still weren't back by the time I was finished. I had watched an entire second episode of "It's Always Sunny" and they still weren't back. The liquor store isn't that far away. I legitimately started to worry that either Zack had crashed the car or that he had gotten pulled over and given a DUI. We had just been talking about it the day prior because the car is uninsured, the windshield is cracked, there are chains and bats and open containers of alcohol constantly strewn about; even if Zack wasn't perpetually wasted even more than I am (homeboy drinks like a jug of vodka almost every day) that car is just like auto-jail. So I was kinda tripping.
Partway through the third episode they finally came back with Spencer's 2 tallcans and a brand new jug for Zack.To my relief and surprise Zack came in all wide-smiled and told me that the reason they had taken so long was because he had bought three winning scratchers in a row. He bought 2 at the liquor store, one of which had a $5 prize and the other one granting a ticket for another scratcher. I guess you can't redeem a prize ticket at the same place you bought the original scratcher, so they had to go to the Shell gas station to get his third scratcher, and on that one he won another $2. The question that suddenly comes across my head is, 'how cheap are these things if $2 is considered a prize? $1?' But that's besides the point. Their lag had now been explained.So we went to the mall to find some shoes, which he did actually need pretty bad because there was a fatty hole on the bottom. First we went to Zumiez and Vans but both of those places had prices way out of the range that we found to be reasonable, so went down the hall to Pay-Less. There we found some Airwalks that looked exactly like the shoes that we were looking at in the other stores but for only $20. It just doesn't make sense to make any other decision.
Upon getting back to the Heath house we got to taking our ritual post-work shots and gravitys, with Spencer and Aaron on the couch watching "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" like fucking always. The game was gonna start in like 20 minutes, and the plan was still to go meet up with the buddies in a bit, but we were both in full-time lag mode and I kinda wanted to eat something before we went there. Even though we were going to a damn pizza place. Spencer needed Zack to take him to the liquor store so I used that time to cook up one of their frozen dinners.
Although I'm a notoriously slow eater, they still weren't back by the time I was finished. I had watched an entire second episode of "It's Always Sunny" and they still weren't back. The liquor store isn't that far away. I legitimately started to worry that either Zack had crashed the car or that he had gotten pulled over and given a DUI. We had just been talking about it the day prior because the car is uninsured, the windshield is cracked, there are chains and bats and open containers of alcohol constantly strewn about; even if Zack wasn't perpetually wasted even more than I am (homeboy drinks like a jug of vodka almost every day) that car is just like auto-jail. So I was kinda tripping.
Almost by serendipity, David called me up to see what I was doing for the game; he had planned on going to Bob's as well but was just gonna stay in and watch it at home where he could blaze and not spend money on unnecessary beers. He said I should cruise over if we didn't end up going out to the spot and that suddenly seemed way more relaxing and responsible than our previous plans. It had been nearly an hour since they returned by the time I finally decided that that was what I wanted to do, so when Zack offered to take me home I wasn't as apprehensive because he seemed to be back to his normal just-a-little-faded state.
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| thank you to Courtney Grimshaw for the picture. |
*** Follow up note: I didn't hold true to that ultimatum I gave to Zack. We still talk from time to time.
I still haven't heard Sam's song.
Philip Rivers still hasn't done the damn thing.
Friday, October 6, 2017
Track
It's not always perfect.
"What is it?"
-"It is."
The little things,
The mistakes,
The things that make us human,
Begin to fade.
I can't control the wood or the metal or the silence.
"Further..."
From one window to the next,
That community I cannot be part of,
Those Reindeer Games,
I don't give my advice without meaning it.
Faulty may it be,
Confused and admittedly scattered,
"My Aim Is True."
"For every season, there is a turn."
"I only wanted the best Living Situations"
"Everyday, like the horoscope."
Drive Safely.
"What is it?"
-"It is."
The little things,
The mistakes,
The things that make us human,
Begin to fade.
I can't control the wood or the metal or the silence.
"Further..."
From one window to the next,
That community I cannot be part of,
Those Reindeer Games,
I don't give my advice without meaning it.
Faulty may it be,
Confused and admittedly scattered,
"My Aim Is True."
"For every season, there is a turn."
"I only wanted the best Living Situations"
"Everyday, like the horoscope."
Drive Safely.
Saturday, September 2, 2017
Tell/Told
I remember how the books would disappear,
From that place we had familiarized
Ourselves with, without expecting
That belly beast's miscarriage.
We didn't even know anything
Was there. A reason-
Able technician could maybe
Look at the cords, the walls, find
Any hidden dialogue,
Any answer at all,
But they had already been
Decided. Judges
Use the roof above discourse.
To evaluate the ever-
Malleable workings shaping
The gossip of our conversation,
Things documents cannot include:
Inflections, smirks,
The knowing of
He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named
I never had a grandfather,
But clocks won't leave me alone.
The planet is domed
As an echo chamber.
- 1/24/17
From that place we had familiarized
Ourselves with, without expecting
That belly beast's miscarriage.
We didn't even know anything
Was there. A reason-
Able technician could maybe
Look at the cords, the walls, find
Any hidden dialogue,
Any answer at all,
But they had already been
Decided. Judges
Use the roof above discourse.
To evaluate the ever-
Malleable workings shaping
The gossip of our conversation,
Things documents cannot include:
Inflections, smirks,
The knowing of
He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named
I never had a grandfather,
But clocks won't leave me alone.
The planet is domed
As an echo chamber.
- 1/24/17
Monday, February 13, 2017
Playlist for January 2017
This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, singles, etc. that I listened to in their entirety during the month of January 2017. Also included are movies I watched, things I read, and stuff I saw live. Notes regarding all follow. Enjoy.
MUSIC
1/1/2017
Eric Clapton - "MTV Unplugged"
Joyce Manor - S/T
Ash Borer - "Cold of Ages"
Alcest - "Tristesse Hivernale" demo
C.D. Truth - "Chemically Dependent"
Bruise - "Vicious Cycle" EP
Sugar Ray - "14:59"
Momentum - "Bliss" EP
LVL UP - "Return to Love"
Centertown Insurgents - "Dumpster Dive" EP
Justin Bieber - "Purpose"
Eulogy - "The Sinking of the Navigator"
ruiner. - "ceilings II" EP
Oak Ridge Boys - "Greatest Hits"
Deviated State - "Sweater Weather" EP
Devo - "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!"
Centertown Insurgents - S/T demo
Mozart - "Requiem in D Minor"
Kharma/Backbone/Delinquents - "Midwest Young and Restless" 3-way split EP
Jerry's Kids - "Is This My World?"
Leonard Cohen - "Songs From A Room"
David Bowie - "Hunky Dory"
1/2/17
Kharma - "Survival" EP
George Michael - "Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1"
Negative Saints - 6-song demo CD
Styx - "The Grand Illusion"
Marty Friedman - "Scenes"
Best Coast - "Crazy For You"
Fourth Grade Nothing - S/T
Pantera - "Vulgar Display Of Power"
Erykah Badu - "Baduizm"
Fit For An Autopsy - "Absolute Hope, Absolute Hell"
The Phenomenauts - "Electric Sheep" EP
Front 242 - "Official Version"
Nails/Full Of Hell - split EP
Stolas - "Allomaternal"
Burnt Palms - "Back On My Wall"
Radio Birdman - "Zeno Beach
Burnt Palms - "Back On My Wall"
1/3/17
Pennywise - "Nineteen Eighty Nine"
Human Garbage - promo 2016
Esoteric - "Pterodactyl Timeline" compilation CD
Iris Jupiter - "Life Pile" digital single
PENs+ - "Our Days" EP
The Vandals - "Live Fast, Diarrhea"
Bjork - "Homogenic"
Sigur Ros - "Happipoll (Planet Earth II mix)" digital single
Bel Biv Devoe - "Poison"
1/4/17
Mulatu Astatke - "New York - Addis - London"
Roxy Music - "Avalon"
Ringworm - "Snake Church"
Racetraitor - "Burn The Idol of the White Messiah"
Brujeria - "Raza Odiada"
Beck - "Mutations"
Mentors - "You Axed For It!"
The Pocket Rockets - "The End" digital single
Whitechapel - "Mark of the Blade"
Fugazi - "Red Medicine"
Avi Buffalo - S/T
1/5/17
terns - "The Abyss" digital single
Deafheaven - "New Bermuda"
The Dillinger Escape Plan - "Miss Machine"
Buck-o-Nine - "Water in My Head" EP
Waifle - "The Music Stops...The Man Dies"
Hatebreed - "Satisfaction is the Death of Desire"
MDC - "Millions of Dead Cops"
Welcome To Now - 8-song CD
David Allen Coe - "Longhaired Redneck"
Empyrean Throne - "Blood in the Ardennes" digital single
We're No Gentlemen - S/T EP
Vader - "The Ultimate Incantation"
Silent Scream - "From The Darkest Depths Of The Imagination"
Arkaik - "Lucid Dawn"
1/6/17
Bad Kids - "Sith & Wesson" digital single
The Effigies - "Remains Nonviewable"
Dash Jacket - "Some Songs" EP
Radiohead - "A Moon-Shaped Pool"
Hello Penelope - "Winona Ryder" EP
1/7/17
Overkill - "Our Finest Hour" digital single
Samhain - "Initium"
Antagonist - S/T EP
V/A - "PP Promo Records: Making A Scene 2015, Edition 1"
1/8/17
In Flux - "No More Macho Bullshit" demo
Syrebris - "Aetheric Dynamics"
Death Sentence: Panda! - "Insects Awaken"
The Alan Parsons Project - "Eye in the Sky"
The Screamin' Yeehaws - "The Bullet"
Ordinary People - "Nothing New" EP
The Reverend Horton Heat - "Hardscrabble Woman"/"Lyin' to Myself" 7"
He Whose Ox Is Gored - "Fainting Room Collective Triple Six" 7"
Zeke - "Death Alley"
Battalion Of Saints - "Cuts..."
The Toasters - "In Retrospect: The Best Of"
Composure - "Jump Up Mix #001"
1/9/17
Lauge - "Snowflake (Oceanus Orientalis edit)" digital singlw
Happy In Hemet - "Fappy Hour"
Infernal Coil - "Burning Prayer of Infinite Hatred" EP
V/A - "Natural Rhythm: Houseroom Ibiza" Bonus Digital Tracks
Slightly Stoopid - "Closer to the Sun"
Condemned To Death - S/T EP
Tomber Lever - "Furniture Pedagogue"
Acid King - "Busse Woods"
Panoramic/Talk, Tired, Thanatoid - split EP
1/10/17
The Who - "My Generation: The Best Of"
Noctambulant - "Legions of Hell" EP
Sepultura - "Roots"
Silver Snakes - "Year of the Snake"
Bur Gur - "Alligator Cheesecake"
Ruines ov Abaddon - "Tongue on the Lamb" EP
La Bella - "Ides"
1/11/17
Mad Caddies - "Dirty Rice"
Dear Nora - "Mountain Rock"
Answer Code Request - "Code"
V/A - "Feel Guide Vol. 6"
Atomic Dilemma - "Take That, Kids!" EP
Gorgoroth - "Antichrist"
Vampire Squid - "Nautilus World"
1/12/17
Nails - "Abandon All Life"
Blind Guardian - "A Night At The Opera"
3peat - S/T EP
Miserable - "Uncontrollable"
Morbid Angel - "I Am Morbid" remixes 7"
Tomber Lever - 10-song CD
HEALTH - "Drugs Exist (Mr. Kitty remix)" digital single
1/13/17
Gore Gore Girls - "Get The Gore"
The xx - "I See You"
V/A - "Hopeless Records 50th Release" Disc 1
Samael - "Eternal"
Maricon - "L.O.V.E." demo
1/14/17
Wintersleep - S/T
Rosemary's Babies - "Blood Lust" EP
Neurosis - "The Word As Law"
The English Dogs - "To The Ends Of The Earth"
Ruptures - "DECA" EP
TM Juke - "Forward"
De Lux - "Generation"
Reproacher - "Nature's Bastard"
1/15/17
Four Minute Mile - "Self Depriving//Cast Away" EP
LotusRoom - "Hatchet Cat" EP
Michael Praetorius - "Dances From Terpsichore"
Vanity - "Wild Animal"
Cannibal Ox - "The Cold Vein"
Amber Pacific - "The Possibility and the Promise"
Rundown Kreeps - "Breakin' the Routine" EP
Los 2x4's - "In Case You Missed It" EP
Against All Authority - "The Restoration of Chaos & Order"
1/16/17
Gin Blossoms - "New Miserable Experience"
MPG/Savage - split 7"
TerrorStorm - "Nocturnal Nightmare" digital single
The Effigies - "Reside"
Spanky Wilson & The Quantic Soul Orchestra - "I'm Thankful"
V/A - "Blasphemous Empire Vol. 1"
Tank - "Filth Hounds Of Hades"
Locked Up/Third Chance - split 7"
Dangerously Sleazy - "Bad Things Just Happen" EP
Initiate - demo 2016
Volahn - "Dimensions del Trance Kosmico"
V/A - "What Is Happening?"
John Prine - "For Better, Or Worse"
Ariana Grande - "Dangerous Woman"
1/17/17
Mudcrutch - "Trailer" b/w "Beautiful World" 7"
Dream Theater - "Images and Words"
Oak Ridge Boys - "Rock of Ages: Hymns and Gospel Favorites"
Neutral - "Unseen Between" EP
Blink 182 - "Dude Ranch"
The Morning Light - S/T
Yeod Eum Son - "Mozart's Concerto for Piano & Orchestra No. 21"
Leonard Cohen - "I'm Your Man"
1/18/17
David Bowie - "Aladdin Sane"
Weed Diamond - "Early Thingz + More" CD
Revoke - demo
George Michael - "Faith"
The Surge - 2016 demo
Hands Of God - "Demonstration" demo
The Leather Chain - Demo 16
United Nothing - "U.N. 2017" demo
Restraint - "Power Beyond Reason" EP
BarrioSlam - "Stories From The Streets" EP
1/19/17
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - "Miss Sharon Jones" OST
Rise - "Final Resting" EP
Lucky Dragons - "Widows"
Nomeansno - "The Day Everything Became Nothing" EP
tHE pAPER cHASE - "Now You Are One Of Us"
Blitzen Trapper - "Furr"
Battlehooch - 3-song demo CD
1/21/17
Slow Decay - "My Release" demo
Andrew WK - "I Get Wet"
Ground Up - 2008 demo
Between The Buried And Me - "The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues"
1/22/17
John J. Becker - "Vigilante (A Dance)"
Ashanti - "Foolish"
Star Club - S/T EP
The Mirage Theory - "Origins" EP
The Phenomenauts - "I'm With Neil" b/w "Every Day is Science Friday" 7"
New Balance - "Thoughts of Future Unbalance" EP
Benny "The Jet" Ramirez - 4-song CD
Descendents - "Hypercaffium Spazzinate"
1/23/17
Winter Vacation - "Blue Coaching"
Alanis Morrissette - "Jagged Little Pill"
1/24/17
A Wilhelm Scream - "Career Suicide"
Tan Dollar - "Rats"
Sigur Ros - "( )"
House Of Pain - "Truth Crushed To Earth, Shall Rise Again"
Black Bear - 8-song CD
Terveet Kadet - "II" EP
Terveet Kadet - "Rock Laahautsa Vastaan" EP
Cani - "Guia a Voi!" EP
1/25/17
Wolves In The Throne Room - "Black Cascade"
Don Caballero - "World-Class Listening Problem"
Tombs - "All Empires Fall"
Climate - "MMXVI" EP
Cattle Decapitation - "The Anthropocene Extinction"
The Breeders - "Last Splash"
Short Dawg Tha Native - "Road Warrior" EP
Maps - "We Can Create"
1/26/17
V/A - "What'd You Expect For Free?" Vol. 26
The Island Of Misfit Toys - S/T
Caulfield - 5-song demo CD
Zeke - "Pinstriping the Dutchman's Coffin" EP
Dr. Know - "HABILY: What Was Old Is New Again"
Brain Fragment - "LSD Is Good For You"
Dow Jones & The Industrials - "Can't Stand The Midwest" EP
1/27/17
The Velvet Underground - "Live at Max's Kansas City" Disc 1
The Black Dahlia Murder - "Abysmal"
Fake Tides - S/T
Jawbox - S/T
The xx - "Coexist"
1/28/17
Matchbook Romance - "West for Wishing" EP
1/29/17
The Sundays - "Static and Silence"
Operatic - 2-song demo
Fear Factory - "Obsolete"
The Booze Bombs - "Ice Cold Whiskey"
Nile - "At The Gates Of Sethu"
Ninja Gandhi - "Wax Empire"
The Crucifucks - S/T
No Right - S/T EP
SWINE - "Live at Skinny's Lounge" EP
1/30/17
The Asteroid No. 4 - S/T
Advanced Placement - S/T EP
Dust Moth - "Scale"
Nashville Pussy - "Higher Than Hell"
1/31/17
Rebelution - "Peace of Mind"
Mink Capital Terror - S/T EP
Tiamat - "Sumerian Cry"
Micthutecuhtli - "Pillars of Silence"
MUSIC NOTES
- KP totally ditched me on New Year's and I sat alone listening to Eric Clapton all night. I don't even really like Eric Clapton, even though he has the same birthday as me. Thanks KP.
- Sugar Ray had a lot more memorable songs than many of their peers. Fight me.
- I was surprised that I enjoyed that Justin Bieber album as much as I did. Fight me.
- "You take all my money. You take all my weed."
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: PENs+, Waifle, In Flux, Composure, Infernal Coil, Talk Tired Thanatoid, Noctambulant, Dear Nora, Answer Code Request, Vampire Squid, 3peat, De Lux, Vanity, Locked Up, Volahn, Neutral, The Surge, Hands Of God, United Nothing, Rise, The Mirage Theory, New Balance, Climate, Ninja Gandhi, No Right, SWINE, The Asteroid No. 4
- Satisfaction is the death of desire.
- New releases by Syrebris, Tomber Lever, Ruines ov Abaddon, La Bella, Miserable, Descendents, Tombs, Cattle Decapitation, Dust Moth
- Don't let the bastards grind you down.
- I listened to the strange final song on "Roots" as I rode home from work, the first time I had ridden a bike in like a decade.
- Not that I was ever really a big fan to begin with, but jeez the Mad Caddies don't sound anything like what I remember. It's a jump to even call it ska.
- How did I just learn about Dear Nora now? It's like the exact type of music that I make as end of the summer, but way better. A million times better.
- I listened to that "Feel Guide" compilation to check out a specific band who was gonna play with some friends of mine soon and that band turned out to totally suck but the rest of that compilation is pretty cool.
- I dowloaded Spotify because the new album by the xx was streamed on there the first day of its release. I'm not really a fan of theirs at all. I don't know why I did that
- Interviews with Matamoska!, The Surge, United Nothing, Restraint coming soon
- R.I.P. Sharon Jones
- Vive La Peligra
- The Temecula Goodwill has like a really good CD selection and everything is $1 each. They have "Sleep's Holy Mountain" there but I already have that. Go get it.
- I'm just looking for One Divine Hammer.
- I thought Jawbox was gonna be way different and honestly way better than they are
MOVIES
- 1/2/17: FINISHED "Office Christmas Party"
- 1/4/17: FINISHED "The Stranger"
- 1/8/17: FINISHED "A Day In The Life"
- 1/12/17: FINISHED "Arrival"
- 1/13/17: FINISHED "In Bruges"
- 1/16/17: FINISHED "Don Peyote"
MOVIE NOTES
- "Don Peyote" is a terrible, terrible waste of time. That guy from that ping pong movie and that Type O Negative music video is kinda trying to be deep or something but it is just so fucking awful. Worst movie I have seen in quite awhile. That guy just sucks.
LIVE
1/15/17: La Banda Skalavera/Matamoska!/Los 2x4s @ Out Of The Park Pizza
1/21/17: Proletariat Youth/Hands Of God/Deadheat/Surplus/Slow Decay/The Surge/BarrioSlam/Maricon/The Leather Chain/P.E.A.R.L./United Nothing/Restraint @ Awakening (Standing Hard III)
LIVE NOTES
- Some kid at Standing Hard III asked me how I'm able to stay in the pit for every single band at an all-day hardcore show, and I just asked him, how are you not? You're clearly way younger than me. All I'm doing is watching the bands and pushing people away as need be. During our conversation he told me he was 20 years old and had only started going to shows, despite being the guitarist for one of the bands playing the festival. I told him I had been doing this since I was 13 and then realized via basic math that I have been going to shows since this kid was 5 years old. I don't know how to feel about that.
MAGAZINES/BOOKS
1/17/17: FINISHED "UCI Magazine" Winter 2016 issue
1/19/17: FINISHED "Rolling Stone" issue 1278/1279
1/24/17: FINISHED Why Do Cats Do That? by Kim Campbell Thornton
MUSIC
1/1/2017
Eric Clapton - "MTV Unplugged"
Joyce Manor - S/T
Ash Borer - "Cold of Ages"
Alcest - "Tristesse Hivernale" demo
C.D. Truth - "Chemically Dependent"
Bruise - "Vicious Cycle" EP
Sugar Ray - "14:59"
Momentum - "Bliss" EP
LVL UP - "Return to Love"
Centertown Insurgents - "Dumpster Dive" EP
Justin Bieber - "Purpose"
Eulogy - "The Sinking of the Navigator"
ruiner. - "ceilings II" EP
Oak Ridge Boys - "Greatest Hits"
Deviated State - "Sweater Weather" EP
Devo - "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!"
Centertown Insurgents - S/T demo
Mozart - "Requiem in D Minor"
Kharma/Backbone/Delinquents - "Midwest Young and Restless" 3-way split EP
Jerry's Kids - "Is This My World?"
Leonard Cohen - "Songs From A Room"
David Bowie - "Hunky Dory"
1/2/17
Kharma - "Survival" EP
George Michael - "Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1"
Negative Saints - 6-song demo CD
Styx - "The Grand Illusion"
Marty Friedman - "Scenes"
Best Coast - "Crazy For You"
Fourth Grade Nothing - S/T
Pantera - "Vulgar Display Of Power"
Erykah Badu - "Baduizm"
Fit For An Autopsy - "Absolute Hope, Absolute Hell"
The Phenomenauts - "Electric Sheep" EP
Front 242 - "Official Version"
Nails/Full Of Hell - split EP
Stolas - "Allomaternal"
Burnt Palms - "Back On My Wall"
Radio Birdman - "Zeno Beach
Burnt Palms - "Back On My Wall"
1/3/17
Pennywise - "Nineteen Eighty Nine"
Human Garbage - promo 2016
Esoteric - "Pterodactyl Timeline" compilation CD
Iris Jupiter - "Life Pile" digital single
PENs+ - "Our Days" EP
The Vandals - "Live Fast, Diarrhea"
Bjork - "Homogenic"
Sigur Ros - "Happipoll (Planet Earth II mix)" digital single
Bel Biv Devoe - "Poison"
1/4/17
Mulatu Astatke - "New York - Addis - London"
Roxy Music - "Avalon"
Ringworm - "Snake Church"
Racetraitor - "Burn The Idol of the White Messiah"
Brujeria - "Raza Odiada"
Beck - "Mutations"
Mentors - "You Axed For It!"
The Pocket Rockets - "The End" digital single
Whitechapel - "Mark of the Blade"
Fugazi - "Red Medicine"
Avi Buffalo - S/T
1/5/17
terns - "The Abyss" digital single
Deafheaven - "New Bermuda"
The Dillinger Escape Plan - "Miss Machine"
Buck-o-Nine - "Water in My Head" EP
Waifle - "The Music Stops...The Man Dies"
Hatebreed - "Satisfaction is the Death of Desire"
MDC - "Millions of Dead Cops"
Welcome To Now - 8-song CD
David Allen Coe - "Longhaired Redneck"
Empyrean Throne - "Blood in the Ardennes" digital single
We're No Gentlemen - S/T EP
Vader - "The Ultimate Incantation"
Silent Scream - "From The Darkest Depths Of The Imagination"
Arkaik - "Lucid Dawn"
1/6/17
Bad Kids - "Sith & Wesson" digital single
The Effigies - "Remains Nonviewable"
Dash Jacket - "Some Songs" EP
Radiohead - "A Moon-Shaped Pool"
Hello Penelope - "Winona Ryder" EP
1/7/17
Overkill - "Our Finest Hour" digital single
Samhain - "Initium"
Antagonist - S/T EP
V/A - "PP Promo Records: Making A Scene 2015, Edition 1"
1/8/17
In Flux - "No More Macho Bullshit" demo
Syrebris - "Aetheric Dynamics"
Death Sentence: Panda! - "Insects Awaken"
The Alan Parsons Project - "Eye in the Sky"
The Screamin' Yeehaws - "The Bullet"
Ordinary People - "Nothing New" EP
The Reverend Horton Heat - "Hardscrabble Woman"/"Lyin' to Myself" 7"
He Whose Ox Is Gored - "Fainting Room Collective Triple Six" 7"
Zeke - "Death Alley"
Battalion Of Saints - "Cuts..."
The Toasters - "In Retrospect: The Best Of"
Composure - "Jump Up Mix #001"
1/9/17
Lauge - "Snowflake (Oceanus Orientalis edit)" digital singlw
Happy In Hemet - "Fappy Hour"
Infernal Coil - "Burning Prayer of Infinite Hatred" EP
V/A - "Natural Rhythm: Houseroom Ibiza" Bonus Digital Tracks
Slightly Stoopid - "Closer to the Sun"
Condemned To Death - S/T EP
Tomber Lever - "Furniture Pedagogue"
Acid King - "Busse Woods"
Panoramic/Talk, Tired, Thanatoid - split EP
1/10/17
The Who - "My Generation: The Best Of"
Noctambulant - "Legions of Hell" EP
Sepultura - "Roots"
Silver Snakes - "Year of the Snake"
Bur Gur - "Alligator Cheesecake"
Ruines ov Abaddon - "Tongue on the Lamb" EP
La Bella - "Ides"
1/11/17
Mad Caddies - "Dirty Rice"
Dear Nora - "Mountain Rock"
Answer Code Request - "Code"
V/A - "Feel Guide Vol. 6"
Atomic Dilemma - "Take That, Kids!" EP
Gorgoroth - "Antichrist"
Vampire Squid - "Nautilus World"
1/12/17
Nails - "Abandon All Life"
Blind Guardian - "A Night At The Opera"
3peat - S/T EP
Miserable - "Uncontrollable"
Morbid Angel - "I Am Morbid" remixes 7"
Tomber Lever - 10-song CD
HEALTH - "Drugs Exist (Mr. Kitty remix)" digital single
1/13/17
Gore Gore Girls - "Get The Gore"
The xx - "I See You"
V/A - "Hopeless Records 50th Release" Disc 1
Samael - "Eternal"
Maricon - "L.O.V.E." demo
1/14/17
Wintersleep - S/T
Rosemary's Babies - "Blood Lust" EP
Neurosis - "The Word As Law"
The English Dogs - "To The Ends Of The Earth"
Ruptures - "DECA" EP
TM Juke - "Forward"
De Lux - "Generation"
Reproacher - "Nature's Bastard"
1/15/17
Four Minute Mile - "Self Depriving//Cast Away" EP
LotusRoom - "Hatchet Cat" EP
Michael Praetorius - "Dances From Terpsichore"
Vanity - "Wild Animal"
Cannibal Ox - "The Cold Vein"
Amber Pacific - "The Possibility and the Promise"
Rundown Kreeps - "Breakin' the Routine" EP
Los 2x4's - "In Case You Missed It" EP
Against All Authority - "The Restoration of Chaos & Order"
1/16/17
Gin Blossoms - "New Miserable Experience"
MPG/Savage - split 7"
TerrorStorm - "Nocturnal Nightmare" digital single
The Effigies - "Reside"
Spanky Wilson & The Quantic Soul Orchestra - "I'm Thankful"
V/A - "Blasphemous Empire Vol. 1"
Tank - "Filth Hounds Of Hades"
Locked Up/Third Chance - split 7"
Dangerously Sleazy - "Bad Things Just Happen" EP
Initiate - demo 2016
Volahn - "Dimensions del Trance Kosmico"
V/A - "What Is Happening?"
John Prine - "For Better, Or Worse"
Ariana Grande - "Dangerous Woman"
1/17/17
Mudcrutch - "Trailer" b/w "Beautiful World" 7"
Dream Theater - "Images and Words"
Oak Ridge Boys - "Rock of Ages: Hymns and Gospel Favorites"
Neutral - "Unseen Between" EP
Blink 182 - "Dude Ranch"
The Morning Light - S/T
Yeod Eum Son - "Mozart's Concerto for Piano & Orchestra No. 21"
Leonard Cohen - "I'm Your Man"
1/18/17
David Bowie - "Aladdin Sane"
Weed Diamond - "Early Thingz + More" CD
Revoke - demo
George Michael - "Faith"
The Surge - 2016 demo
Hands Of God - "Demonstration" demo
The Leather Chain - Demo 16
United Nothing - "U.N. 2017" demo
Restraint - "Power Beyond Reason" EP
BarrioSlam - "Stories From The Streets" EP
1/19/17
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - "Miss Sharon Jones" OST
Rise - "Final Resting" EP
Lucky Dragons - "Widows"
Nomeansno - "The Day Everything Became Nothing" EP
tHE pAPER cHASE - "Now You Are One Of Us"
Blitzen Trapper - "Furr"
Battlehooch - 3-song demo CD
1/21/17
Slow Decay - "My Release" demo
Andrew WK - "I Get Wet"
Ground Up - 2008 demo
Between The Buried And Me - "The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues"
1/22/17
John J. Becker - "Vigilante (A Dance)"
Ashanti - "Foolish"
Star Club - S/T EP
The Mirage Theory - "Origins" EP
The Phenomenauts - "I'm With Neil" b/w "Every Day is Science Friday" 7"
New Balance - "Thoughts of Future Unbalance" EP
Benny "The Jet" Ramirez - 4-song CD
Descendents - "Hypercaffium Spazzinate"
1/23/17
Winter Vacation - "Blue Coaching"
Alanis Morrissette - "Jagged Little Pill"
1/24/17
A Wilhelm Scream - "Career Suicide"
Tan Dollar - "Rats"
Sigur Ros - "( )"
House Of Pain - "Truth Crushed To Earth, Shall Rise Again"
Black Bear - 8-song CD
Terveet Kadet - "II" EP
Terveet Kadet - "Rock Laahautsa Vastaan" EP
Cani - "Guia a Voi!" EP
1/25/17
Wolves In The Throne Room - "Black Cascade"
Don Caballero - "World-Class Listening Problem"
Tombs - "All Empires Fall"
Climate - "MMXVI" EP
Cattle Decapitation - "The Anthropocene Extinction"
The Breeders - "Last Splash"
Short Dawg Tha Native - "Road Warrior" EP
Maps - "We Can Create"
1/26/17
V/A - "What'd You Expect For Free?" Vol. 26
The Island Of Misfit Toys - S/T
Caulfield - 5-song demo CD
Zeke - "Pinstriping the Dutchman's Coffin" EP
Dr. Know - "HABILY: What Was Old Is New Again"
Brain Fragment - "LSD Is Good For You"
Dow Jones & The Industrials - "Can't Stand The Midwest" EP
1/27/17
The Velvet Underground - "Live at Max's Kansas City" Disc 1
The Black Dahlia Murder - "Abysmal"
Fake Tides - S/T
Jawbox - S/T
The xx - "Coexist"
1/28/17
Matchbook Romance - "West for Wishing" EP
1/29/17
The Sundays - "Static and Silence"
Operatic - 2-song demo
Fear Factory - "Obsolete"
The Booze Bombs - "Ice Cold Whiskey"
Nile - "At The Gates Of Sethu"
Ninja Gandhi - "Wax Empire"
The Crucifucks - S/T
No Right - S/T EP
SWINE - "Live at Skinny's Lounge" EP
1/30/17
The Asteroid No. 4 - S/T
Advanced Placement - S/T EP
Dust Moth - "Scale"
Nashville Pussy - "Higher Than Hell"
1/31/17
Rebelution - "Peace of Mind"
Mink Capital Terror - S/T EP
Tiamat - "Sumerian Cry"
Micthutecuhtli - "Pillars of Silence"
MUSIC NOTES
- KP totally ditched me on New Year's and I sat alone listening to Eric Clapton all night. I don't even really like Eric Clapton, even though he has the same birthday as me. Thanks KP.
- Sugar Ray had a lot more memorable songs than many of their peers. Fight me.
- I was surprised that I enjoyed that Justin Bieber album as much as I did. Fight me.
- "You take all my money. You take all my weed."
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: PENs+, Waifle, In Flux, Composure, Infernal Coil, Talk Tired Thanatoid, Noctambulant, Dear Nora, Answer Code Request, Vampire Squid, 3peat, De Lux, Vanity, Locked Up, Volahn, Neutral, The Surge, Hands Of God, United Nothing, Rise, The Mirage Theory, New Balance, Climate, Ninja Gandhi, No Right, SWINE, The Asteroid No. 4
- Satisfaction is the death of desire.
- New releases by Syrebris, Tomber Lever, Ruines ov Abaddon, La Bella, Miserable, Descendents, Tombs, Cattle Decapitation, Dust Moth
- Don't let the bastards grind you down.
- I listened to the strange final song on "Roots" as I rode home from work, the first time I had ridden a bike in like a decade.
- Not that I was ever really a big fan to begin with, but jeez the Mad Caddies don't sound anything like what I remember. It's a jump to even call it ska.
- How did I just learn about Dear Nora now? It's like the exact type of music that I make as end of the summer, but way better. A million times better.
- I listened to that "Feel Guide" compilation to check out a specific band who was gonna play with some friends of mine soon and that band turned out to totally suck but the rest of that compilation is pretty cool.
- I dowloaded Spotify because the new album by the xx was streamed on there the first day of its release. I'm not really a fan of theirs at all. I don't know why I did that
- Interviews with Matamoska!, The Surge, United Nothing, Restraint coming soon
- R.I.P. Sharon Jones
- Vive La Peligra
- The Temecula Goodwill has like a really good CD selection and everything is $1 each. They have "Sleep's Holy Mountain" there but I already have that. Go get it.
- I'm just looking for One Divine Hammer.
- I thought Jawbox was gonna be way different and honestly way better than they are
MOVIES
- 1/2/17: FINISHED "Office Christmas Party"
- 1/4/17: FINISHED "The Stranger"
- 1/8/17: FINISHED "A Day In The Life"
- 1/12/17: FINISHED "Arrival"
- 1/13/17: FINISHED "In Bruges"
- 1/16/17: FINISHED "Don Peyote"
MOVIE NOTES
- "Don Peyote" is a terrible, terrible waste of time. That guy from that ping pong movie and that Type O Negative music video is kinda trying to be deep or something but it is just so fucking awful. Worst movie I have seen in quite awhile. That guy just sucks.
LIVE
1/15/17: La Banda Skalavera/Matamoska!/Los 2x4s @ Out Of The Park Pizza
1/21/17: Proletariat Youth/Hands Of God/Deadheat/Surplus/Slow Decay/The Surge/BarrioSlam/Maricon/The Leather Chain/P.E.A.R.L./United Nothing/Restraint @ Awakening (Standing Hard III)
LIVE NOTES
- Some kid at Standing Hard III asked me how I'm able to stay in the pit for every single band at an all-day hardcore show, and I just asked him, how are you not? You're clearly way younger than me. All I'm doing is watching the bands and pushing people away as need be. During our conversation he told me he was 20 years old and had only started going to shows, despite being the guitarist for one of the bands playing the festival. I told him I had been doing this since I was 13 and then realized via basic math that I have been going to shows since this kid was 5 years old. I don't know how to feel about that.
MAGAZINES/BOOKS
1/17/17: FINISHED "UCI Magazine" Winter 2016 issue
1/19/17: FINISHED "Rolling Stone" issue 1278/1279
1/24/17: FINISHED Why Do Cats Do That? by Kim Campbell Thornton
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
CD MINI-REVIEW: Zoology 5-song demo/EP
Zoology was some band from Orange County who played back when I was in college. I don't think I ever actually saw them play but I remember the main dude would come to Acrobatics Everyday shows every now and again and always had really big headphones on. I've had this 5-song self-released CD for like a decade and probably only listened to it two or three times cuz its just not very good. It's middle-of-the-road kinda-indie rock so bland I can't really think of who to compare it to except for other nondescript kinda-indie bands that were destined to be a short-lived local thing from the start. Besides how just uninteresting the songs are, they go on way way too long. Each song on this thing I thought to myself, this song already kinda sucked and they're just gonna keep it going? Like they extend the songs to four minutes cuz thats how long a song is supposed to be or whatever but its needless. Maybe it wouldn't have been so droll if they just knocked them suckers out quicker.
The only semi-decent song is called "Coffee Song" and that's cuz its a upbeat instrumental track verging on sounding maybe like The Minutemen being hella lazy. The vocals are really bad throughout the EP, not even just that the guy's off-key - which he is - but he sounds bored by his own boring music. It's just a really thin release. I think that guy stopped going to shows at UCI when I was in my junior year and I can't even remember his name.
Nothing special at all; not recommended.
www.myspace.com/zoologymusic
The only semi-decent song is called "Coffee Song" and that's cuz its a upbeat instrumental track verging on sounding maybe like The Minutemen being hella lazy. The vocals are really bad throughout the EP, not even just that the guy's off-key - which he is - but he sounds bored by his own boring music. It's just a really thin release. I think that guy stopped going to shows at UCI when I was in my junior year and I can't even remember his name.
Nothing special at all; not recommended.
www.myspace.com/zoologymusic
Sunday, February 5, 2017
INTERVIEW: Born Guilty, September 20 2016 at Awakening in Murrieta, CA
IAN: Alright, I'm recording. What are your guys's names again?
ARIEL: We're Born Guilty. I'm Ariel, this is Rob.
ROB: hey
I: Okay, so I have vocals and drums from Born Guilty here; how long have you been playing as Born Guilty?
A: Probably about 2 years now. I mean, we started about 2 years ago but we really got it going in 2015. That's when we kinda started rolling the ball.
I: Do you have, like, an LP out? Or just singles?
A: Yeah we actually have our old demo out, which is called "Hounds," which is online. You can check us out at bornguilty.bandcamp.com . We also have the EP we released this year, which is self-titled; we put that out ourselves and that has like every song you can kinda catch nowadays.
I: So this is kind-of a random place to play, just a church in Murrieta; are you guys used to playing this type of show?
A: To be honest, we'd rather just play shows like this, where it's more local. That's kinda what we grew off of. It just makes you better at playing. Playing venues like this tells you whether you're really here for hardcore or not. These little venues are what make it for kids in smaller towns, so for me I'd rather play at a local venue then play... you know, eventually we'll probably play something big but for right now we're kinda rolling the ball.
I: I feel you; if it's not real, it's not real. Now this is out of nowhere but we had talked a moment ago, that you may have known my friend KP; he may have worked with you guys. How did that work out?
A: It worked out a little bit. I think he came to 2 practices. It all came down to him and our old drummer, this kinda younger guy who filled in, it really didn't work for them. You know, we're hardcore-based. We don't really play too fast and stuff like that. Our biggest influences are, like, Terror, Cruel Hand, stuff like that.
I: Kinda mid-tempo hardcore
A: Yeah, so like, I guess people would call it "tough-guy" hardcore but we don't claim that kind of shit. We just play the music we grew up with.
I: [towards Rob] So for you as a drummer, who would you say are influences for yourself?
R: Like, the style we play or just in general?
I: Just yourself, as a drummer.
R: I love Expire. That dude's beats are on-point. He's solid. Another favorite drummer of mine is the dude from Turnstile, and a bunch of other bands. The drummer from Defeater, he's amazing.
I: So mainly hardcore stuff
R: Oh yeah. Yeah. Honestly. I mean, I respect all other drummers and other categories of music but I'm meant for hardcore more than any other genre.
I: So one of the things I wanted to talk to you guys about is that you are all connected with other bands as well [as this one]. What are some of the upcoming projects that you guys have going on?
A: What we're really trying to get going right now, somebody hit us up from Australia and we might try to do a split with that guy if anything. We're also trying to put out a 5-song EP. We're kinda just in the motions of getting everything done, trying to pull all the songs together. We don't like to put out any songs that are, like, half-assed. We really take time with our music.
I: And I appreciate that. There are alot of bands, not even just in hardcore, but in punk rock, indie rock, etc. where they release stuff before its ready.
A: Yeah, like with us, if we hear something wrong, we're not afraid to say it. In the end we play what we want to play, like, this is the shit that we're playing and we don't care if you like it or not. It's our style.
I: Alright well it sounds like the next band is about to come up so I'm gonna end this thing out real quick; my question that I always try to end things out with: What's your favorite breakfast food?
A: Ah, fuck...um...Bacon. Bacon and waffles. I love that shit.
I: Hey, whatever works. [towards Rob] And you?
R: Egg whites scrambled with avocado on it. With some hot sauce.
A: And he doesn't play when it comes to that.
R: Every morning, Monday through Friday, same breakfast.
I: That sounds pretty good, pretty healthy. Well thank you so much for your time; are you guys heading out anywhere else after this?
R: Che Cafe
A: Yeah we got the Che Cafe coming up pretty soon; we also have a couple shows maybe in L.A. We're really trying to push it. If anyone wants to check us out we have a Facebook and Instagram.
I: All the normal social media
A: Yeah so check us out
I: Alright well thanks again for talking with me, great set tonight!
bornguilty.bandcamp.com
ARIEL: We're Born Guilty. I'm Ariel, this is Rob.
ROB: hey
I: Okay, so I have vocals and drums from Born Guilty here; how long have you been playing as Born Guilty?
A: Probably about 2 years now. I mean, we started about 2 years ago but we really got it going in 2015. That's when we kinda started rolling the ball.
I: Do you have, like, an LP out? Or just singles?
A: Yeah we actually have our old demo out, which is called "Hounds," which is online. You can check us out at bornguilty.bandcamp.com . We also have the EP we released this year, which is self-titled; we put that out ourselves and that has like every song you can kinda catch nowadays.
I: So this is kind-of a random place to play, just a church in Murrieta; are you guys used to playing this type of show?
A: To be honest, we'd rather just play shows like this, where it's more local. That's kinda what we grew off of. It just makes you better at playing. Playing venues like this tells you whether you're really here for hardcore or not. These little venues are what make it for kids in smaller towns, so for me I'd rather play at a local venue then play... you know, eventually we'll probably play something big but for right now we're kinda rolling the ball.
I: I feel you; if it's not real, it's not real. Now this is out of nowhere but we had talked a moment ago, that you may have known my friend KP; he may have worked with you guys. How did that work out?
A: It worked out a little bit. I think he came to 2 practices. It all came down to him and our old drummer, this kinda younger guy who filled in, it really didn't work for them. You know, we're hardcore-based. We don't really play too fast and stuff like that. Our biggest influences are, like, Terror, Cruel Hand, stuff like that.
I: Kinda mid-tempo hardcore
A: Yeah, so like, I guess people would call it "tough-guy" hardcore but we don't claim that kind of shit. We just play the music we grew up with.
I: [towards Rob] So for you as a drummer, who would you say are influences for yourself?
R: Like, the style we play or just in general?
I: Just yourself, as a drummer.
R: I love Expire. That dude's beats are on-point. He's solid. Another favorite drummer of mine is the dude from Turnstile, and a bunch of other bands. The drummer from Defeater, he's amazing.
I: So mainly hardcore stuff
R: Oh yeah. Yeah. Honestly. I mean, I respect all other drummers and other categories of music but I'm meant for hardcore more than any other genre.
I: So one of the things I wanted to talk to you guys about is that you are all connected with other bands as well [as this one]. What are some of the upcoming projects that you guys have going on?
A: What we're really trying to get going right now, somebody hit us up from Australia and we might try to do a split with that guy if anything. We're also trying to put out a 5-song EP. We're kinda just in the motions of getting everything done, trying to pull all the songs together. We don't like to put out any songs that are, like, half-assed. We really take time with our music.
I: And I appreciate that. There are alot of bands, not even just in hardcore, but in punk rock, indie rock, etc. where they release stuff before its ready.
A: Yeah, like with us, if we hear something wrong, we're not afraid to say it. In the end we play what we want to play, like, this is the shit that we're playing and we don't care if you like it or not. It's our style.
I: Alright well it sounds like the next band is about to come up so I'm gonna end this thing out real quick; my question that I always try to end things out with: What's your favorite breakfast food?
A: Ah, fuck...um...Bacon. Bacon and waffles. I love that shit.
I: Hey, whatever works. [towards Rob] And you?
R: Egg whites scrambled with avocado on it. With some hot sauce.
A: And he doesn't play when it comes to that.
R: Every morning, Monday through Friday, same breakfast.
I: That sounds pretty good, pretty healthy. Well thank you so much for your time; are you guys heading out anywhere else after this?
R: Che Cafe
A: Yeah we got the Che Cafe coming up pretty soon; we also have a couple shows maybe in L.A. We're really trying to push it. If anyone wants to check us out we have a Facebook and Instagram.
I: All the normal social media
A: Yeah so check us out
I: Alright well thanks again for talking with me, great set tonight!
bornguilty.bandcamp.com
Monday, January 16, 2017
SHOW MINI-REVIEW: La Banda Skalavera/Matamoska/Los 2x4s @ Out Of The Park Pizza, 1/15/17
This was a very last-minute endeavor, the result of having started a new job with lots of promises when in the back of my mind all I want to do is leave the place I've been in for so long.
That's for a different blog.
I had hit up people about this free ska show when I woke up for the second time on this holiday weekend. I didn't really have any interest in watching the NFL Playoffs because the Chargers had offended me to the point of numbness and even the underdogs this year didnt interest me. We all know its gonna be some stupid Steelers/Patriots shit or something, like HHH needs ANOTHER Heavyweight Belt.
My weed dude Dizzy D was down to go, which actually surprised me. I didnt think anybody would want to drive all the way to Anaheim for ska bands that we didnt even know who they were, at a pizza place no less. But ain't shit going on in Temecula lately and his car was full on gas so we left around 7:30 and talked about whats been going on with all our go-nowhere friends and our own go-nowhere day-to-days.
We arrived a bit before 8pm, as the first band was playing their last song. I think they were called Rundown Kreeps.
I could tell immediately that I was in the top 10 percentile "oldest person here" bracket, and thats taking into account band members and pizza chefs. This was like an almost purely high school crowd, with a nearly-invisible scattering of almost-30s-looking people seen peripherally from time to time. I felt old as fuck, like I was doing something bad by holding a beer outside while surrounded by high school kids. But ska, right?
Los 2x4s were the first band I saw all the way through, and they were pretty good. All the music was pretty good throughout the night. They definitely were catering to their young crowd, as they appeared to be like a year or two removed, like they're the college freshmen to the crowd's high school senior. The saxophone player was definitely making eye moves at some blonde up-front that would have been great for a parody music video.
I had ordered some beer or another, I can't remember what, and still had like half in-between that set and the next, so I went with my remainder and scoured the Chuck E. Cheese Jr.-type layout of this pizza place until I found D, who had the foresight to have already chicken wings and cheesy bread. It wouldn't be ready until after the next band, however.
Matamoska is a Voodoo Glow Skulls type ska-punk band that doesn't skimp on classic ska bounce or street-punk circle-pit aesthetics while also bringing in hardcore and semi-metallic elements as well. This was the band I had come to see primarily and they didn't let down. Great energy from the young crowd for each band, really; it's nice to see kids are still about ska these days. It was kinda odd seeing bands in such a dad-rock atmosphere, because the restaurant trappings were inescapable, but in another way I guess that speaks to the acceptance that formerly-"niche" things have received as of late.
That cheesy bread was goddamn delicious. The people who had been sitting next to D all night gave him 3 things of unused ranch dressing so when the wings came we didnt need to ask for more. Shit was so good.
Dizzy D bought me another beer for the last band, La Banda Skalavera. They were cool, if unchallenging. Really, all 3 bands tonight were very similar in their mix of 90s ska with 90s pop-punk with modern pop at times. But they were all good and its refreshing to see so many kids so stoked on music as they were at this show. It didnt change the world but it made for a nice little time out of my normal space and an affirmation that the kids are alright.
My roommate commented when I recounted my night to her the next morning:
"So ska is back?"
My response:
"It never really went away..."
That's for a different blog.
I had hit up people about this free ska show when I woke up for the second time on this holiday weekend. I didn't really have any interest in watching the NFL Playoffs because the Chargers had offended me to the point of numbness and even the underdogs this year didnt interest me. We all know its gonna be some stupid Steelers/Patriots shit or something, like HHH needs ANOTHER Heavyweight Belt.
My weed dude Dizzy D was down to go, which actually surprised me. I didnt think anybody would want to drive all the way to Anaheim for ska bands that we didnt even know who they were, at a pizza place no less. But ain't shit going on in Temecula lately and his car was full on gas so we left around 7:30 and talked about whats been going on with all our go-nowhere friends and our own go-nowhere day-to-days.
We arrived a bit before 8pm, as the first band was playing their last song. I think they were called Rundown Kreeps.
I could tell immediately that I was in the top 10 percentile "oldest person here" bracket, and thats taking into account band members and pizza chefs. This was like an almost purely high school crowd, with a nearly-invisible scattering of almost-30s-looking people seen peripherally from time to time. I felt old as fuck, like I was doing something bad by holding a beer outside while surrounded by high school kids. But ska, right?
Los 2x4s were the first band I saw all the way through, and they were pretty good. All the music was pretty good throughout the night. They definitely were catering to their young crowd, as they appeared to be like a year or two removed, like they're the college freshmen to the crowd's high school senior. The saxophone player was definitely making eye moves at some blonde up-front that would have been great for a parody music video.
I had ordered some beer or another, I can't remember what, and still had like half in-between that set and the next, so I went with my remainder and scoured the Chuck E. Cheese Jr.-type layout of this pizza place until I found D, who had the foresight to have already chicken wings and cheesy bread. It wouldn't be ready until after the next band, however.
Matamoska is a Voodoo Glow Skulls type ska-punk band that doesn't skimp on classic ska bounce or street-punk circle-pit aesthetics while also bringing in hardcore and semi-metallic elements as well. This was the band I had come to see primarily and they didn't let down. Great energy from the young crowd for each band, really; it's nice to see kids are still about ska these days. It was kinda odd seeing bands in such a dad-rock atmosphere, because the restaurant trappings were inescapable, but in another way I guess that speaks to the acceptance that formerly-"niche" things have received as of late.
That cheesy bread was goddamn delicious. The people who had been sitting next to D all night gave him 3 things of unused ranch dressing so when the wings came we didnt need to ask for more. Shit was so good.
Dizzy D bought me another beer for the last band, La Banda Skalavera. They were cool, if unchallenging. Really, all 3 bands tonight were very similar in their mix of 90s ska with 90s pop-punk with modern pop at times. But they were all good and its refreshing to see so many kids so stoked on music as they were at this show. It didnt change the world but it made for a nice little time out of my normal space and an affirmation that the kids are alright.
My roommate commented when I recounted my night to her the next morning:
"So ska is back?"
My response:
"It never really went away..."
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Playlist for December 2016
This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, and singles I listened to in their entirety during the month of December 2017, along with lists of things I watched and read during the same time period. Notes regarding all follow.
MUSIC
12/1/16
Oak Ridge Boys - "Celebrate Christmas"
12/2/16
Barenaked Ladies - "Stunt"
The Faraday Trippers - "The Legend of Martense's Lane"
The Smashing Pumpkins - "Drown"
12/19/16
Sugar - "Besides"
Creatures - Demo
Gang Green - "Another Wasted Night"
Poison Mantis - "Existential Crisis"/"The Loop" EP
Mozart - "Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550"
The Chiefs - "Holly-West Crisis"
Falcon Punch - "Surface PPL (Josh Cole remix)" digital single
Ill Tempered - "Off The Streets" EP
Spectre - S/T EP
12/20/16
V/A - "Worldeater Vs. Not Common" split sampler CD
Buddy Guy - "More Rubbish"
The Coltranes - "Christmas Classics With Uncle Spenny" EP
Zao - "Liberate te ex Inferis"
Magpie/Interracial Bookclub - "All Bacon, No Beans" split EP
Collective Soul - S/T
Ripcord - "The Damage is Done" EP
12/21/16
No Red Alice - "Ebony & Ivory" EP
No Red Alice - "Well-thy" EP
Between The Buried And Me - "The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues"
Car Seat Headrest - "Teens of Denial"
The Dogs - "Camping"
Ghost Noise - "Our Heaven Of Darkness"
Derelict - "Of Course It's Cashmere"
Radiohead - "Kid A"
12/22/16
Fugazi - "In On The Kill Taker"
Carl Freidrich Abel - "Suite en Re Manor"
David Benoit - "Urban Daydreams"
The Funky "Jah" Punkys - "Live at the Roadhouse"
Silo The Avatar - 8-song CD
12/23/16
Anthrax - "Return of the Killer A's" greatest hits CD
Enigma - :"MCMXC a.d."
El-P & Blue Series Continuum - "High Water"
Kid At Heart - 4-song promo CD
Short Dawg Tha Native - "The Black Sheep" EP
Welcome To Limerick - "Departure Plans"
The Life We Live - demo
Sinatra - "Lost in Hyrule" EP
12/24/16
aureate: insects: - "A Finishing Touch"
Battalion Of Saints - "Death 'R Us"
Pyogenesis - "Sweet X-Rated Nothings"
The New Varsity - 4-song promo CD
Thee-O - "Seriously" EP
Toys That Kill - "Sentimental Ward"
Shataan - "Weight of the Wolf"
V/A - "DR Records Three-Dee" compilation CD
12/25/16
Creepers - "Lost" digital single
Runaround - "Fill My Head" EP
Lower Depths - "Demonstration" demo
Built To Spill - "You In Reverse"
Warrant - "Cherry Pie"
Adele - "25"
Stevie Nicks - "Bella Donna"
Firebeatz & Schalla - "Dat Disco Swindle" digital single
V/A - "Amalgamorous Confections" Pink House Records sampler CD
Oak Ridge Boys - "Live" 1977 LP
Exiled Force - "The Dirty Dog" demo
Bob Dylan - "The Essential" Disc 1
12/26/16
Zao - "The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here"
Anthrax - "The Perseverance of Time"
Mozart - "Requiem Mass in D Minor"
Scared Of Chaka - "Tired of You"
Leonard Cohen - "You Want It Darker"
David Bowie - "Blackstar"
Incantation - "Mortal Throne of Nazarene"
Dredg - "Leitmotif"
George Michael - "Older"
12/27/16
Wu-Tang Clan - "Freestyle 1997"
Styx - "Paradise Theater"
V/A - FMLY 15-song CD
Marty Friedman - "Inferno"
Melvins - "Stoner Witch"
Snoop Dogg - "Tha Last Meal"
Limerent Dance Machine - "Dream A Reason Why"
Primus - "Frizzle Fry"
Dead Farm Animals x Youthonix ft. R Kelly - "Wanna Know" digital single
Thy Art Is Murder/The Acacia Strain/Fit For An Autopsy - "The Depression Sessions" 3-way split
DevilDriver - "The Fury of Our Maker's Hand"
Mustard Plug - "Can't Contain It"
Entombed A.D. - "Dead Dawn"
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - "Mongrel"
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - "Living With The Living"
Panoramic - "Not Exactly"
I'm Glad It's You - "The Things I Say"
Iggy Pop - "Post Pop Depression"
V/A - "PooPoo Platter" Laramie compilation CD
Proletariat Youth - "Chin Check" EP
Leer - "Spring Break No Parents"
12/28/16
NOFX - "First Ditch Effort"
Holy Shit! - "Had A Couple Good Songs" discography CD
The Box Elders - "Alice & Friends"
Stag Hare - "Black Medicine Music"
Thrice - "The Alchemy Index Vol. 3 & 4"
Band Aparte - 4-song demo CD
C.D. Truth - "1990-2005" Disc 2
Street Rats - "Suboredom"
12/29/16
Sigur Ros - "Oveour" digital single
Naughty By Nature - "Poverty's Paradise"
Mudhoney - "Superfuzz Bigmuff + Early Singles" CD
Murder City Devils - S/T
Darkest Hour - "The Mark of Judas"
DVT - Sampler #2
Run The Jewels - "RTJ3"
Bedbugs - "Alone" EP
Railcars - "Cathedral With No Eyes"
The Gods Hate Kansas - S/T EP
Depeche Mode - "Violator"
12/30/16
Nine Inch Nails - "Not The Actual Events" EP
Dash Jacket - "Romance"
Veil Of Maya - "All Things Set Aside"
The Jonbenet - "Ugly/Heartless"
Wire - "Pink Flag"
Tim Schweiger & The Middle-Men - 4-song sampler CD
Recluse - "Wilted" digital single
Ernest Tubb - "My Pick Of The Hits"
Majid Jordan - S/T
Crisis Arm - "Thread of Pisces"
Misery Ritual x Wreckage - "Glow" digital single
William Croft - "The Burial Service"
Weed Diamond - "Seasonal" EP
Allan Vache meets Jim Galloway - "Raisin' The Roof"
The Horse I Rode - "Black Mirage"
V/A - "When Punkers Were Punk And Parents Were Scared"
Mahjongg - "The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger"
Farabee - "Welcome to the Underleagues"
12/31/16
Stevie Wonder - "Love Songs: 20 Classic Hits"
The Quireboys - "Black Eyed Sons"
Prince - "3121"
Cootie Wootie - "Mannequin Music Vol. 1" EP
Hoobastank - "The Reason"
The Fall Of Troy - "Doppelganger"
The Fall Of Troy - "Ghostship" EP
Protest The Hero - "A Calculated Use Of Sound" EP
Emarosa - "Relativity"
Force Of Nature/Tsutchie - "Samurai Champloo Music Record Mash" split
Freeman - "J'Palais de Justice"
MUSIC NOTES
- Barenaked Ladies are way better than I realized, there are 2 songs on that album that got heavy, heavy rotation this month: "Light Up My Room" and "I'll Be That Girl". Really really good songs.
- Its extremely uncharacteristic for me to have not listened to any albums for 17 full days but I was in a really, really bad place this month
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Sugar, Ill Tempered, Blue Series Continuum, Toys That Kill, Runaround, Lower Depths, Panoramic
- Zach Navis once told me that my band sounds more like Sugar, Bob Mould's band after Husker Du, than we do Husker Du, whom we had been compared to before. I had never listened to them before the 19th and I have to agree with Navis, except I can't wail like Bob.
- Spenny's Christmas album is so fucking ridiculous but I think the world needed it
- New releases from Toys That Kill, I'm Glad It's You, Run The Jewels, Nine Inch Nails are all on point
- "Children, they walk away. I think about it every day."
MOVIES/SHOWS
12/13/16: FINISHED "The Colossus Of New York"
"Henry Rollins: Critical Conversations"
12/15/16: "Daniel Tosh: People Person"
12/18/16: FINISHED "The Chumscrubber"
12/19/16: FINISHED "Rumplestiltskin"
12/20/16: FINISHED "Hot Pursuit"
12/21/16: "Aries Spears: Comedy Blueprint"
12/25/16: "Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey"
"Paul Mooney: A Piece Of My Mind"
12/30/16: FINISHED "Love Streams"
MOVIE NOTES
- "Rumplestiltskin" is just as terrible as you would imagine
- I watched the "Hot Pursuit" from the 80s with John Cusack, not the more recent one with the mom from "Modern Family"
MAGAZINES
12/24/16: FINISHED "Rolling Stone" issue 1276/1277
12/26/16: FINISHED "The 420 Book" issue 10
MUSIC
12/1/16
Oak Ridge Boys - "Celebrate Christmas"
12/2/16
Barenaked Ladies - "Stunt"
The Faraday Trippers - "The Legend of Martense's Lane"
The Smashing Pumpkins - "Drown"
12/19/16
Sugar - "Besides"
Creatures - Demo
Gang Green - "Another Wasted Night"
Poison Mantis - "Existential Crisis"/"The Loop" EP
Mozart - "Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550"
The Chiefs - "Holly-West Crisis"
Falcon Punch - "Surface PPL (Josh Cole remix)" digital single
Ill Tempered - "Off The Streets" EP
Spectre - S/T EP
12/20/16
V/A - "Worldeater Vs. Not Common" split sampler CD
Buddy Guy - "More Rubbish"
The Coltranes - "Christmas Classics With Uncle Spenny" EP
Zao - "Liberate te ex Inferis"
Magpie/Interracial Bookclub - "All Bacon, No Beans" split EP
Collective Soul - S/T
Ripcord - "The Damage is Done" EP
12/21/16
No Red Alice - "Ebony & Ivory" EP
No Red Alice - "Well-thy" EP
Between The Buried And Me - "The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues"
Car Seat Headrest - "Teens of Denial"
The Dogs - "Camping"
Ghost Noise - "Our Heaven Of Darkness"
Derelict - "Of Course It's Cashmere"
Radiohead - "Kid A"
12/22/16
Fugazi - "In On The Kill Taker"
Carl Freidrich Abel - "Suite en Re Manor"
David Benoit - "Urban Daydreams"
The Funky "Jah" Punkys - "Live at the Roadhouse"
Silo The Avatar - 8-song CD
12/23/16
Anthrax - "Return of the Killer A's" greatest hits CD
Enigma - :"MCMXC a.d."
El-P & Blue Series Continuum - "High Water"
Kid At Heart - 4-song promo CD
Short Dawg Tha Native - "The Black Sheep" EP
Welcome To Limerick - "Departure Plans"
The Life We Live - demo
Sinatra - "Lost in Hyrule" EP
12/24/16
aureate: insects: - "A Finishing Touch"
Battalion Of Saints - "Death 'R Us"
Pyogenesis - "Sweet X-Rated Nothings"
The New Varsity - 4-song promo CD
Thee-O - "Seriously" EP
Toys That Kill - "Sentimental Ward"
Shataan - "Weight of the Wolf"
V/A - "DR Records Three-Dee" compilation CD
12/25/16
Creepers - "Lost" digital single
Runaround - "Fill My Head" EP
Lower Depths - "Demonstration" demo
Built To Spill - "You In Reverse"
Warrant - "Cherry Pie"
Adele - "25"
Stevie Nicks - "Bella Donna"
Firebeatz & Schalla - "Dat Disco Swindle" digital single
V/A - "Amalgamorous Confections" Pink House Records sampler CD
Oak Ridge Boys - "Live" 1977 LP
Exiled Force - "The Dirty Dog" demo
Bob Dylan - "The Essential" Disc 1
12/26/16
Zao - "The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here"
Anthrax - "The Perseverance of Time"
Mozart - "Requiem Mass in D Minor"
Scared Of Chaka - "Tired of You"
Leonard Cohen - "You Want It Darker"
David Bowie - "Blackstar"
Incantation - "Mortal Throne of Nazarene"
Dredg - "Leitmotif"
George Michael - "Older"
12/27/16
Wu-Tang Clan - "Freestyle 1997"
Styx - "Paradise Theater"
V/A - FMLY 15-song CD
Marty Friedman - "Inferno"
Melvins - "Stoner Witch"
Snoop Dogg - "Tha Last Meal"
Limerent Dance Machine - "Dream A Reason Why"
Primus - "Frizzle Fry"
Dead Farm Animals x Youthonix ft. R Kelly - "Wanna Know" digital single
Thy Art Is Murder/The Acacia Strain/Fit For An Autopsy - "The Depression Sessions" 3-way split
DevilDriver - "The Fury of Our Maker's Hand"
Mustard Plug - "Can't Contain It"
Entombed A.D. - "Dead Dawn"
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - "Mongrel"
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - "Living With The Living"
Panoramic - "Not Exactly"
I'm Glad It's You - "The Things I Say"
Iggy Pop - "Post Pop Depression"
V/A - "PooPoo Platter" Laramie compilation CD
Proletariat Youth - "Chin Check" EP
Leer - "Spring Break No Parents"
12/28/16
NOFX - "First Ditch Effort"
Holy Shit! - "Had A Couple Good Songs" discography CD
The Box Elders - "Alice & Friends"
Stag Hare - "Black Medicine Music"
Thrice - "The Alchemy Index Vol. 3 & 4"
Band Aparte - 4-song demo CD
C.D. Truth - "1990-2005" Disc 2
Street Rats - "Suboredom"
12/29/16
Sigur Ros - "Oveour" digital single
Naughty By Nature - "Poverty's Paradise"
Mudhoney - "Superfuzz Bigmuff + Early Singles" CD
Murder City Devils - S/T
Darkest Hour - "The Mark of Judas"
DVT - Sampler #2
Run The Jewels - "RTJ3"
Bedbugs - "Alone" EP
Railcars - "Cathedral With No Eyes"
The Gods Hate Kansas - S/T EP
Depeche Mode - "Violator"
12/30/16
Nine Inch Nails - "Not The Actual Events" EP
Dash Jacket - "Romance"
Veil Of Maya - "All Things Set Aside"
The Jonbenet - "Ugly/Heartless"
Wire - "Pink Flag"
Tim Schweiger & The Middle-Men - 4-song sampler CD
Recluse - "Wilted" digital single
Ernest Tubb - "My Pick Of The Hits"
Majid Jordan - S/T
Crisis Arm - "Thread of Pisces"
Misery Ritual x Wreckage - "Glow" digital single
William Croft - "The Burial Service"
Weed Diamond - "Seasonal" EP
Allan Vache meets Jim Galloway - "Raisin' The Roof"
The Horse I Rode - "Black Mirage"
V/A - "When Punkers Were Punk And Parents Were Scared"
Mahjongg - "The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger"
Farabee - "Welcome to the Underleagues"
12/31/16
Stevie Wonder - "Love Songs: 20 Classic Hits"
The Quireboys - "Black Eyed Sons"
Prince - "3121"
Cootie Wootie - "Mannequin Music Vol. 1" EP
Hoobastank - "The Reason"
The Fall Of Troy - "Doppelganger"
The Fall Of Troy - "Ghostship" EP
Protest The Hero - "A Calculated Use Of Sound" EP
Emarosa - "Relativity"
Force Of Nature/Tsutchie - "Samurai Champloo Music Record Mash" split
Freeman - "J'Palais de Justice"
MUSIC NOTES
- Barenaked Ladies are way better than I realized, there are 2 songs on that album that got heavy, heavy rotation this month: "Light Up My Room" and "I'll Be That Girl". Really really good songs.
- Its extremely uncharacteristic for me to have not listened to any albums for 17 full days but I was in a really, really bad place this month
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Sugar, Ill Tempered, Blue Series Continuum, Toys That Kill, Runaround, Lower Depths, Panoramic
- Zach Navis once told me that my band sounds more like Sugar, Bob Mould's band after Husker Du, than we do Husker Du, whom we had been compared to before. I had never listened to them before the 19th and I have to agree with Navis, except I can't wail like Bob.
- Spenny's Christmas album is so fucking ridiculous but I think the world needed it
- New releases from Toys That Kill, I'm Glad It's You, Run The Jewels, Nine Inch Nails are all on point
- "Children, they walk away. I think about it every day."
MOVIES/SHOWS
12/13/16: FINISHED "The Colossus Of New York"
"Henry Rollins: Critical Conversations"
12/15/16: "Daniel Tosh: People Person"
12/18/16: FINISHED "The Chumscrubber"
12/19/16: FINISHED "Rumplestiltskin"
12/20/16: FINISHED "Hot Pursuit"
12/21/16: "Aries Spears: Comedy Blueprint"
12/25/16: "Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey"
"Paul Mooney: A Piece Of My Mind"
12/30/16: FINISHED "Love Streams"
MOVIE NOTES
- "Rumplestiltskin" is just as terrible as you would imagine
- I watched the "Hot Pursuit" from the 80s with John Cusack, not the more recent one with the mom from "Modern Family"
MAGAZINES
12/24/16: FINISHED "Rolling Stone" issue 1276/1277
12/26/16: FINISHED "The 420 Book" issue 10
Monday, January 2, 2017
Playlist for November 2016
This is a list of all the albums/EPs/demos/splits/singles that I listened to in their entirety during the month of November 2016, along with lists of things I watched, read, or saw live; notes regarding all follow. Enjoy!
MOVIES
11/3/16: FINISHED "I Shot Andy Warhol"
11/13/16: "The Lion In The Living Room"
"A Dog's Life"
"David Cross: Making America Great Again"
11/19/16: FINISHED "Rebecca"
11/23/16: FINISHED "Margot at the Wedding"
11/24/16: "Before The Flood"
"Paul Mooney: A Piece of My Mind"
11/27/16: FINISHED "The Devil & Miss Jones"
MUSIC
11/3/16
Benny Goodman & His Sextet - "On Stage"
Kronos Quartet - "Mugam Sayagi: Music of Franghiz Ali-Zadeh"
Looking Up - S/T
Graves At Sea/Asunder - split
Pearl Jam - "Vs."
Deaf Ears - 3-song demo
11/4/16
Death By Stereo - "Into the Valley of Death"
11/5/16
Boyz II Men - "II"
11/6/16
Mike & The Melvins - "Three Men & A Baby"
Moon Bandits/Pat The Bunny - split EP
Cthtr - S/T EP
Smogtown - "Fuhrers of the New Wave"
Elvis Costello - "My Aim Is True" deluxe edition
11/7/16
Maricon - "L.O.V.E." EP
Water Parks - "Double Dare"
Slingshot Dakota - "Break"
Econochrist/Detonators - split EP
Propagandhi - "Todays Empires, Tomorrows Ashes"
Blind Guardian - "A Night At The Opera"
11/8/16
Matchbook Romance - "Voices"
Kyoko - "Isn't That A Girl's Name?"
1/9/16
Matt Pless - "Tumbleweed"
Street Rats - "Suboredom"
Leon Bridges - "Coming Home"
Reig - "Disarm" 7"
Health Problems - "Ugly Man"
11/10/16
Parquet Courts - "Human Performance"
Chain Reaction - "Gabbie" EP
Shotgun Solution - "Shotgun" EP
Sugarhill Gang - "The Best Of"
11/11/16
Flying Lotus - "Until the Quiet Comes"
Leonard Cohen - "Songs Of Leonard Cohen"
Alexander Borodin - "Prince Igor"
Brian Eno & Jah Wobble - "Spinner"
11/12/16
Moon Pearl - "Pearl Jams" EP
Take This Hand - "We Fight To Survive" EP
11/14/16
Sights Sounds - "Mammoth" EP
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen - "paavojoivie"
11/15/16
V/A - "Hopelessly Devoted To You Too"
11/16/16
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet - "Logo Brazil"
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories - "Tails"
Fleetwood Mac - "Tusk" 2XLP
11/17/16
Fleetwood Mac - S/T
Los Lobos - "Colossal Head"
D.A.D. - "No Fuel Left For The Pilgrims"
Zoccola - "Mean Girls Club"
ruiner. & aureate: insects: - "Live at The Mine"
STAB - "Timeholders"
V/A - "Boomerang" OST
Dream Theater - "Awake"
The Sundays - "The Static & The Silence"
Grand Tapestry - S/T
The Strumbellas - "Hope"
MC Hammer - "Please Hammer Don't Hurt'em"
11/19/16
Nick Murphy - "Fear Less" digital single
Calyx - "Make A Freak Feel Clean" EP
Cetas Aspire - "We're All Suspects" EP
Amygdala - "Semillas" digital single
inc. - "No World"
Jonathan Morning - "Gravity Matters" digital single
Grim Reaper - "Walking in the Shadows"
Still Alive - 2-song promi CD
New Ruin - S/T EP
Sara Brightman - "Diva: The Singles Collection"
11/20/16
Braineater - "Weak, Frail, and Powerless" EP
Animals As Leaders - "The Madness of Many"
Botched Facelift - "The Living Wasteland" EP
Gossimer - "Brioche Rib"
Joyce Manor - "Cody"
Ash Borer - S/T
Alcest - "Kodama"
Heywood Banks - "Pretending I'm Not Home"
Trash Bag Villains - "Hateful Miser" EP
Bruise - "Wrongful Death" EP
Fuzzy Knuckles - 4-song demo CD
Snakeway - "Beyond the Realm" EP
11/21/16
Tangerine Dream - "Melrose"
Sting - "57th & 9th"
Seance - "Introspection" EP
Jane Monheit - "Come Dream With Me"
11/22/16
Taylor Swift - "1989"
Pearl Jam - "Vs."
11/23/16
DJ Khaled - "Major Key"
Take Offense - "United State Of Mind"
Bitter End - "Guilty As Charged"
Dharma - "Sea Nothing" EP
The Garden - "Call This # Now" digital single
V/A - "Great American Songwriters: George & Ira Gershwin"
Colombian Necktie - " All Paths Lead To Nowhere"
11/24/16
Ice Cube - "Raw Footage"
A-Trak & Ookay - "Only One" digital single
Holy Shit! - "Had A Couple Good Songs" discography CD
Whelm/Not Down - split EP
Left Astray - Demo 2015
The Go -- "Fiesta"
Louis Armstrong - "The Definitive Collection"
Elevators - "Future" EP
Tanaka/Lindvall/Wallumrod - "3 Pianos"
11/25/16
Pure - "XXX" EP
Jesse Cook - "Free Fall"
Incantation - "Onwards to Golgotha"
Black Sabbath - "Heaven and Hell"
Bon Iver - "22 A Million"
Crisis Arm - "Caterwaul"
RSO Berlin & RIAS Kammercher, conducted by Gerd Albrecht - "Johann Friedrich Reichardt's Traurkantate den Ton Friedrich des Grosson"
Petr Hapka - "Milacek zen a Vetesniku"
Tim Schweiger - 4-song promo CD
Talk Is Poison - S/T
Dudman - "Fu Hatsu Dam Otoku"
Frustrated/Deep End - split EP
11/26/16
Centertown Insurgents - "Dumpster Dive" demo
The Art Of Noise - "The Best Of"
Ronald Jenkees - "Disorganized Fun"
Ordinary People - "Nothing New"
Blues Traveler - "Four"
Robert Levi - "Sings the Desert Cahuilla Birdsongs" Disc 1
Asking Alexandria - "The Black"
aureate: insects:/ruiner. - split
11/27/16
End Of Flesh - "Broken and Violent" digital single
Living Legends - "Legendary Music Vol. 1"
Mouthful Of Snow - "The Truth Hurts, But You Would Still Like To Hear It"
Bishop Briggs - S/T EP
Run The Jewels - S/T
P.E.A.R.L. - S/T EP
V/A - "Flashdance" OST
Ted Nugent - "Love Grenade"
Phoebe - S/T EP
11/28/16
Intervals - "A Voice Within"
Final Fight - "Half Head, Full Shred"
ruiner. - "Near the Ocean Breeze" digital single
AJJ - "The Bible 2"
Volahn - "Aq' Ab' Al"
The Body - "No One Deserves Happiness"
11/29/16
Joshua Bell with the Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas - "Peter Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 35"
Dead 77 - "No Hope For Me" digital single
Kharma - "Survival" EP
Lotus Roon - 3-song demo CD
Cvltvre - "Drown" digital single
The Rolling Stones - "Totally Stripped"
Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap - "The Silver Lining"
11/30/16
Dharma - "A Seed To Grow"
YG ft. Drake - "Why You Always Hating" digital single
Select Sex -S/T 7"
Britney Spears ft. G-Eazy - "Make Me" digital single
The Chainsmokers ft. Charlee - "Inside Out" digital single
H2O - "The Romance" digital single
Kid Armor - "The Outcome Replays"
Robert Levi - "Sings The Desert Cahuilla Birdsongs" Disc 2
MUSIC NOTES
- New releases by Maricon, Animals As Leaders, Joyce Manor, Ash Borer, Alcest, Bruise, P.E.A.R.L., Phoebe, Volahn, The Body, Kharma are all on point
- R.I.P. Leonard Cohen, "the songwriter's songwriter"
- If I've said it once I've said it a million times: Christine McVie is the true magic behind Fleetwood Mac
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: STAB, Grand Tapestry, inc., Bruise, Seance, P.E.A.R.L., Phoebe, Intervals, Volahn, Kharma, Kid Armor
- That Grand Tapestry album is one of the best hip hop albums ever made
- Crisis Arm was so fucking good
- "Children, they walk away...I think about it every day."
- Tenacious D is basically just Blues Traveler with a bunch of jokes and less harmonica
- Worst of the month: Bishop Briggs
(MAGA)ZINES/COMICS/BOOKS
11/16/16: "hoax" issue #1
11/18/16: "Team Seven" issue #1
"The Juniper" issue #4
11/19/16: FINISHED "Rolling Stone" issue #1273
11/21/16: FINISHED "KYEO Speaks" issue #4
FINISHED "Rolling Stone" issue #1274
11/23/16: "X-Men: Prelude to Schism"
11/22/16: The Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke
11/26/16: FINISHED "Shonen Jump: The Complete Edition" issue #1
11/29/16: FINSIHED "UCI Magazine" Spring 2016 issue
MOVIES
11/3/16: FINISHED "I Shot Andy Warhol"
11/13/16: "The Lion In The Living Room"
"A Dog's Life"
"David Cross: Making America Great Again"
11/19/16: FINISHED "Rebecca"
11/23/16: FINISHED "Margot at the Wedding"
11/24/16: "Before The Flood"
"Paul Mooney: A Piece of My Mind"
11/27/16: FINISHED "The Devil & Miss Jones"
MUSIC
11/3/16
Benny Goodman & His Sextet - "On Stage"
Kronos Quartet - "Mugam Sayagi: Music of Franghiz Ali-Zadeh"
Looking Up - S/T
Graves At Sea/Asunder - split
Pearl Jam - "Vs."
Deaf Ears - 3-song demo
11/4/16
Death By Stereo - "Into the Valley of Death"
11/5/16
Boyz II Men - "II"
11/6/16
Mike & The Melvins - "Three Men & A Baby"
Moon Bandits/Pat The Bunny - split EP
Cthtr - S/T EP
Smogtown - "Fuhrers of the New Wave"
Elvis Costello - "My Aim Is True" deluxe edition
11/7/16
Maricon - "L.O.V.E." EP
Water Parks - "Double Dare"
Slingshot Dakota - "Break"
Econochrist/Detonators - split EP
Propagandhi - "Todays Empires, Tomorrows Ashes"
Blind Guardian - "A Night At The Opera"
11/8/16
Matchbook Romance - "Voices"
Kyoko - "Isn't That A Girl's Name?"
1/9/16
Matt Pless - "Tumbleweed"
Street Rats - "Suboredom"
Leon Bridges - "Coming Home"
Reig - "Disarm" 7"
Health Problems - "Ugly Man"
11/10/16
Parquet Courts - "Human Performance"
Chain Reaction - "Gabbie" EP
Shotgun Solution - "Shotgun" EP
Sugarhill Gang - "The Best Of"
11/11/16
Flying Lotus - "Until the Quiet Comes"
Leonard Cohen - "Songs Of Leonard Cohen"
Alexander Borodin - "Prince Igor"
Brian Eno & Jah Wobble - "Spinner"
11/12/16
Moon Pearl - "Pearl Jams" EP
Take This Hand - "We Fight To Survive" EP
11/14/16
Sights Sounds - "Mammoth" EP
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen - "paavojoivie"
11/15/16
V/A - "Hopelessly Devoted To You Too"
11/16/16
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet - "Logo Brazil"
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories - "Tails"
Fleetwood Mac - "Tusk" 2XLP
11/17/16
Fleetwood Mac - S/T
Los Lobos - "Colossal Head"
D.A.D. - "No Fuel Left For The Pilgrims"
Zoccola - "Mean Girls Club"
ruiner. & aureate: insects: - "Live at The Mine"
STAB - "Timeholders"
V/A - "Boomerang" OST
Dream Theater - "Awake"
The Sundays - "The Static & The Silence"
Grand Tapestry - S/T
The Strumbellas - "Hope"
MC Hammer - "Please Hammer Don't Hurt'em"
11/19/16
Nick Murphy - "Fear Less" digital single
Calyx - "Make A Freak Feel Clean" EP
Cetas Aspire - "We're All Suspects" EP
Amygdala - "Semillas" digital single
inc. - "No World"
Jonathan Morning - "Gravity Matters" digital single
Grim Reaper - "Walking in the Shadows"
Still Alive - 2-song promi CD
New Ruin - S/T EP
Sara Brightman - "Diva: The Singles Collection"
11/20/16
Braineater - "Weak, Frail, and Powerless" EP
Animals As Leaders - "The Madness of Many"
Botched Facelift - "The Living Wasteland" EP
Gossimer - "Brioche Rib"
Joyce Manor - "Cody"
Ash Borer - S/T
Alcest - "Kodama"
Heywood Banks - "Pretending I'm Not Home"
Trash Bag Villains - "Hateful Miser" EP
Bruise - "Wrongful Death" EP
Fuzzy Knuckles - 4-song demo CD
Snakeway - "Beyond the Realm" EP
11/21/16
Tangerine Dream - "Melrose"
Sting - "57th & 9th"
Seance - "Introspection" EP
Jane Monheit - "Come Dream With Me"
11/22/16
Taylor Swift - "1989"
Pearl Jam - "Vs."
11/23/16
DJ Khaled - "Major Key"
Take Offense - "United State Of Mind"
Bitter End - "Guilty As Charged"
Dharma - "Sea Nothing" EP
The Garden - "Call This # Now" digital single
V/A - "Great American Songwriters: George & Ira Gershwin"
Colombian Necktie - " All Paths Lead To Nowhere"
11/24/16
Ice Cube - "Raw Footage"
A-Trak & Ookay - "Only One" digital single
Holy Shit! - "Had A Couple Good Songs" discography CD
Whelm/Not Down - split EP
Left Astray - Demo 2015
The Go -- "Fiesta"
Louis Armstrong - "The Definitive Collection"
Elevators - "Future" EP
Tanaka/Lindvall/Wallumrod - "3 Pianos"
11/25/16
Pure - "XXX" EP
Jesse Cook - "Free Fall"
Incantation - "Onwards to Golgotha"
Black Sabbath - "Heaven and Hell"
Bon Iver - "22 A Million"
Crisis Arm - "Caterwaul"
RSO Berlin & RIAS Kammercher, conducted by Gerd Albrecht - "Johann Friedrich Reichardt's Traurkantate den Ton Friedrich des Grosson"
Petr Hapka - "Milacek zen a Vetesniku"
Tim Schweiger - 4-song promo CD
Talk Is Poison - S/T
Dudman - "Fu Hatsu Dam Otoku"
Frustrated/Deep End - split EP
11/26/16
Centertown Insurgents - "Dumpster Dive" demo
The Art Of Noise - "The Best Of"
Ronald Jenkees - "Disorganized Fun"
Ordinary People - "Nothing New"
Blues Traveler - "Four"
Robert Levi - "Sings the Desert Cahuilla Birdsongs" Disc 1
Asking Alexandria - "The Black"
aureate: insects:/ruiner. - split
11/27/16
End Of Flesh - "Broken and Violent" digital single
Living Legends - "Legendary Music Vol. 1"
Mouthful Of Snow - "The Truth Hurts, But You Would Still Like To Hear It"
Bishop Briggs - S/T EP
Run The Jewels - S/T
P.E.A.R.L. - S/T EP
V/A - "Flashdance" OST
Ted Nugent - "Love Grenade"
Phoebe - S/T EP
11/28/16
Intervals - "A Voice Within"
Final Fight - "Half Head, Full Shred"
ruiner. - "Near the Ocean Breeze" digital single
AJJ - "The Bible 2"
Volahn - "Aq' Ab' Al"
The Body - "No One Deserves Happiness"
11/29/16
Joshua Bell with the Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas - "Peter Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 35"
Dead 77 - "No Hope For Me" digital single
Kharma - "Survival" EP
Lotus Roon - 3-song demo CD
Cvltvre - "Drown" digital single
The Rolling Stones - "Totally Stripped"
Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap - "The Silver Lining"
11/30/16
Dharma - "A Seed To Grow"
YG ft. Drake - "Why You Always Hating" digital single
Select Sex -S/T 7"
Britney Spears ft. G-Eazy - "Make Me" digital single
The Chainsmokers ft. Charlee - "Inside Out" digital single
H2O - "The Romance" digital single
Kid Armor - "The Outcome Replays"
Robert Levi - "Sings The Desert Cahuilla Birdsongs" Disc 2
MUSIC NOTES
- New releases by Maricon, Animals As Leaders, Joyce Manor, Ash Borer, Alcest, Bruise, P.E.A.R.L., Phoebe, Volahn, The Body, Kharma are all on point
- R.I.P. Leonard Cohen, "the songwriter's songwriter"
- If I've said it once I've said it a million times: Christine McVie is the true magic behind Fleetwood Mac
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: STAB, Grand Tapestry, inc., Bruise, Seance, P.E.A.R.L., Phoebe, Intervals, Volahn, Kharma, Kid Armor
- That Grand Tapestry album is one of the best hip hop albums ever made
- Crisis Arm was so fucking good
- "Children, they walk away...I think about it every day."
- Tenacious D is basically just Blues Traveler with a bunch of jokes and less harmonica
- Worst of the month: Bishop Briggs
(MAGA)ZINES/COMICS/BOOKS
11/16/16: "hoax" issue #1
11/18/16: "Team Seven" issue #1
"The Juniper" issue #4
11/19/16: FINISHED "Rolling Stone" issue #1273
11/21/16: FINISHED "KYEO Speaks" issue #4
FINISHED "Rolling Stone" issue #1274
11/23/16: "X-Men: Prelude to Schism"
11/22/16: The Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke
11/26/16: FINISHED "Shonen Jump: The Complete Edition" issue #1
11/29/16: FINSIHED "UCI Magazine" Spring 2016 issue
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