Who brought the fog machine?
The smoke is already too thick
no one is really sure whats happening here
or are they?
Beats me. I'm good though
having reached the realization that I don't need anything
food? Sleep? Affection?
I'll pass.
It's not that I don't care (or maybe it is)
appleseeds were cast, but there was no apple tree
only knowledge of good evil
an ambivalence unmatched
but I'm not hungry
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Also sometime in June
New days smell reminiscent of before
times of dismay drenched in smiles of mimes
scarlet tastes of faulty faces wither given the necessary time
fragile mainframe just past the door
balancing everything sometimes will break a string
numbers don't count they just come back for more
faces adored don't cease to get bored
but the thing that still rings always sings sometimes rhymes
its wings are invisible most of the time
the core chimes and forms lines
of fine ore times four
times of dismay drenched in smiles of mimes
scarlet tastes of faulty faces wither given the necessary time
fragile mainframe just past the door
balancing everything sometimes will break a string
numbers don't count they just come back for more
faces adored don't cease to get bored
but the thing that still rings always sings sometimes rhymes
its wings are invisible most of the time
the core chimes and forms lines
of fine ore times four
Sometime in June
Sleep paralysis
freezes analysis
internal organs tied in knots
wishful drinking
to stop from thinking
about why I'm here and you're not
gravity stalls
at the top of waterfalls
I think I heard a shot
it didn't go in
I'll never win
until new iron is wrought
ridin' high on the 605
feelings never caught
or even contained within the brain
despite the amount of thought
all the gray matter on the same platter
gets madder when rain splatters
provokes clatter and chokes laughter
hereafter
freezes analysis
internal organs tied in knots
wishful drinking
to stop from thinking
about why I'm here and you're not
gravity stalls
at the top of waterfalls
I think I heard a shot
it didn't go in
I'll never win
until new iron is wrought
ridin' high on the 605
feelings never caught
or even contained within the brain
despite the amount of thought
all the gray matter on the same platter
gets madder when rain splatters
provokes clatter and chokes laughter
hereafter
7/5 I think
Ain't got no bushes to beat
my cold drinks cushion the feet
stretchin time just passing the heat
gotta lotta nada nice fresh nothing
just keep on with whatever you started
senseless though it seems
vitamin deficient and broken hearted
or something in your dreams
lucid themes suspended indefinitely
montreal's well that ends eventually
it's hard to predict the next move
fueled by entropy
my cold drinks cushion the feet
stretchin time just passing the heat
gotta lotta nada nice fresh nothing
just keep on with whatever you started
senseless though it seems
vitamin deficient and broken hearted
or something in your dreams
lucid themes suspended indefinitely
montreal's well that ends eventually
it's hard to predict the next move
fueled by entropy
7/4 or 5
Don't apologize for anything
Life is a quest through a strange land where you have 8000 maps but only one of them is accurate and you don't know which one so you don't use any of them
the journey overwhelms
when the clock runs out of batteries
time melts into a pool of mercury
I apologize for everything
Life is a quest through a strange land where you have 8000 maps but only one of them is accurate and you don't know which one so you don't use any of them
the journey overwhelms
when the clock runs out of batteries
time melts into a pool of mercury
I apologize for everything
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
The decade in review
Well, it's the end of the decade. Ten years ago people were worried about Y2K bringing about the end of the world, and now people are worried about the Mayan prophesy of the world ending in 2012. So I guess some things never change. Music has changed a lot though. My taste has changed quite a lot since 2000. Back then I was eleven years old and listening to Smash Mouth. Right now I am 21 and listening to Animal Collective (I use them as an example because I am actually listening to them right at this second).
So I tried to make a top 50 list for the decade, but I couldn't get it down to less than 60. There's a lot of great music that isn't on this list, and the list could certainly be more diverse as well. I'm not even saying these albums are the best, I'm just saying they're my favorites. These are all albums that I can listen to all the way through over and over. These are albums that I have yet to get bored with. Most of the stuff from 2000 through 2002 wasn't stuff that I listened to at the time but stuff that I discovered later. The music I listened to back then isn't very good. But anyway, here's my list, in no order of preference:
2000
1. At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command
2. Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R
3. The Anniversary – Designing a Nervous Breakdown
4. Cursive – Domestica
5. Deftones – White Pony
6. Jurassic 5 – Quality Control
7. A Perfect Circle – Mer de Noms
2001
1. Aesop Rock – Labor Days
2. Hot Water Music – A Flight and a Crash
3. Incubus – Morning View
4. Tenacious D – Tenacious D
2002
1. Thrice – The Illusion of Safety
2. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
3. Trail of Dead – Source Tags & Codes
4. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People
5. Coheed and Cambria – The Second Stage Turbine Blade
6. dredg – El Cielo
7. Glassjaw – Worship and Tribute
8. Jets to Brazil – Perfecting Loneliness
9. Minus the Bear – Highly Refined Pirates
10. Sneaker Pimps – Bloodsport
11. Talib Kweli – Quality
12. Thievery Corporation – The Richest Man in Babylon
2003
1. Coheed and Cambria – In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
2. Immortal Technique – Revolutionary Vol. 2
3. The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium
4. A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step
5. Rx Bandits – The Resignation
6. Streetlight Manifesto – Everything Goes Numb
7. The Weakerthans – Reconstruction Site
2004
1. Clutch – Blast Tyrant
2. Handsome Boy Modeling School – White People
3. Head Automatica – Decadence
4. Incubus – A Crow Left of the Murder
5. Modest Mouse – Good News for People Who Love Bad News
2005
1. Gatsbys American Dream – Volcano
2. HORSE the band – The Mechanical Hand
3. Minus the Bear – Menos el Oso
4. The Notorious B.I.G. - Duets: The Final Chapter
2006
1. Annuals – Be He Me
2. Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor
3. Peeping Tom – Peeping Tom
4. Pearl Jam – Pearl Jam
2007
1. Aesop Rock – None Shall Pass
2. Iron & Wine – The Shepherd's Dog
3. Minus the Bear – Planet of Ice
4. Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
5. State Radio – Year of the Crow
2008
1. Girl Talk – Feed the Animals
2. The Mars Volta – The Bedlam in Goliath
3. The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely
4. Ratatat – LP3
5. The Sound of Animals Fighting – The Ocean and the Sun
6. Styrofoam – A Thousand Words
2009
1. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
2. HORSE the band – Desperate Living
3. MuteMath – Armistice
4. P.O.S. - Never Better
5. Pretty Lights – Passing By Behind Your Eyes
6. Rx Bandits - Mandala
So I tried to make a top 50 list for the decade, but I couldn't get it down to less than 60. There's a lot of great music that isn't on this list, and the list could certainly be more diverse as well. I'm not even saying these albums are the best, I'm just saying they're my favorites. These are all albums that I can listen to all the way through over and over. These are albums that I have yet to get bored with. Most of the stuff from 2000 through 2002 wasn't stuff that I listened to at the time but stuff that I discovered later. The music I listened to back then isn't very good. But anyway, here's my list, in no order of preference:
2000
1. At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command
2. Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R
3. The Anniversary – Designing a Nervous Breakdown
4. Cursive – Domestica
5. Deftones – White Pony
6. Jurassic 5 – Quality Control
7. A Perfect Circle – Mer de Noms
2001
1. Aesop Rock – Labor Days
2. Hot Water Music – A Flight and a Crash
3. Incubus – Morning View
4. Tenacious D – Tenacious D
2002
1. Thrice – The Illusion of Safety
2. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
3. Trail of Dead – Source Tags & Codes
4. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People
5. Coheed and Cambria – The Second Stage Turbine Blade
6. dredg – El Cielo
7. Glassjaw – Worship and Tribute
8. Jets to Brazil – Perfecting Loneliness
9. Minus the Bear – Highly Refined Pirates
10. Sneaker Pimps – Bloodsport
11. Talib Kweli – Quality
12. Thievery Corporation – The Richest Man in Babylon
2003
1. Coheed and Cambria – In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
2. Immortal Technique – Revolutionary Vol. 2
3. The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium
4. A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step
5. Rx Bandits – The Resignation
6. Streetlight Manifesto – Everything Goes Numb
7. The Weakerthans – Reconstruction Site
2004
1. Clutch – Blast Tyrant
2. Handsome Boy Modeling School – White People
3. Head Automatica – Decadence
4. Incubus – A Crow Left of the Murder
5. Modest Mouse – Good News for People Who Love Bad News
2005
1. Gatsbys American Dream – Volcano
2. HORSE the band – The Mechanical Hand
3. Minus the Bear – Menos el Oso
4. The Notorious B.I.G. - Duets: The Final Chapter
2006
1. Annuals – Be He Me
2. Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor
3. Peeping Tom – Peeping Tom
4. Pearl Jam – Pearl Jam
2007
1. Aesop Rock – None Shall Pass
2. Iron & Wine – The Shepherd's Dog
3. Minus the Bear – Planet of Ice
4. Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
5. State Radio – Year of the Crow
2008
1. Girl Talk – Feed the Animals
2. The Mars Volta – The Bedlam in Goliath
3. The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely
4. Ratatat – LP3
5. The Sound of Animals Fighting – The Ocean and the Sun
6. Styrofoam – A Thousand Words
2009
1. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
2. HORSE the band – Desperate Living
3. MuteMath – Armistice
4. P.O.S. - Never Better
5. Pretty Lights – Passing By Behind Your Eyes
6. Rx Bandits - Mandala
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Why I don't write here more often
I like the idea of writing in a blog. More than that, I like that I have a reason to do so. Unfortunately I have not had the time to do any leisure writing. I'm barely keeping up with all the reading and writing that I have to do to pass four classes. When I'm not at school or working on school assignments, I'm working at my job. My job is pretty mindless and dumb, but I really need the money.
With the little bit of time I have between making money and pursuing education, I've been writing and practicing with my band. We still haven't played any shows, and we don't have a bassist or a lead singer, but we do have nine groovy-ass jams and handfuls of other ideas that will soon be developed into groovy-ass jams. We've recently come across an excellent opportunity to record a couple songs at Omega Studios. That'll be going down this Friday. As of now, pretty much all we've done is sit around in my basement and rock out on acoustic guitars. Most of our equipment sucks, because good equipment is really expensive and none of us have the money to invest. The only recordings of our songs are poor-quality videos that I recorded on my phone. So now we have the chance to actually bring our music to life. According to the Omega Studios web site, well-known acts ranging from Jimi Hendrix to Radiohead to Tori Amos to Chuck Berry to Third Eye Blind to Bad Brains have recorded there. So I'm pretty excited about this.
But anyway, that's why I haven't really been writing in my blog. I can't fit all that into a day or week or month without cutting something out. I've been constantly short on sleep and often blowing off assignments in favor of catching up on said lack of sleep. But it's worth it. If we (my two best friends and myself) don't put time and effort into our music right now it'll probably never happen. I really like the way our songs have been shaping up and I want to share them with people. Pretty soon I'll actually be able to do that.
With the little bit of time I have between making money and pursuing education, I've been writing and practicing with my band. We still haven't played any shows, and we don't have a bassist or a lead singer, but we do have nine groovy-ass jams and handfuls of other ideas that will soon be developed into groovy-ass jams. We've recently come across an excellent opportunity to record a couple songs at Omega Studios. That'll be going down this Friday. As of now, pretty much all we've done is sit around in my basement and rock out on acoustic guitars. Most of our equipment sucks, because good equipment is really expensive and none of us have the money to invest. The only recordings of our songs are poor-quality videos that I recorded on my phone. So now we have the chance to actually bring our music to life. According to the Omega Studios web site, well-known acts ranging from Jimi Hendrix to Radiohead to Tori Amos to Chuck Berry to Third Eye Blind to Bad Brains have recorded there. So I'm pretty excited about this.
But anyway, that's why I haven't really been writing in my blog. I can't fit all that into a day or week or month without cutting something out. I've been constantly short on sleep and often blowing off assignments in favor of catching up on said lack of sleep. But it's worth it. If we (my two best friends and myself) don't put time and effort into our music right now it'll probably never happen. I really like the way our songs have been shaping up and I want to share them with people. Pretty soon I'll actually be able to do that.
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