I was in a theatre watching a movie that was a bit of a mash-up of Inception and Fitzcarraldo (in my dream, it was cool, but looking at it now…yeesh). At one point, one of the characters (a young actress currently popular whom I sorta respect, not remembering who now) tells someone “Don’t swim in the current. Stand, standing is […]
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Song of the day “I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me through the fear”
Peter Gabriel “San Jacinto” now listening: Peter Gabriel “San Jacinto”
The power of a word
As soon as I said “interim”, the pieces fell into place. I swear, I nearly heard the clicking. I’ve said it before, and it never felt more true: nothing about me is ever true until I actually say it.
Fripp/Sylvian, Dougans/Cobain, Ball/Norris
Very rarely do I drop a music sharing post where I upload something by one artist. When I do, it’s pretty worthwhile. This is the 1993 single for David Sylvian and Robert Fripp’s “Darshan”, a track off The First Day, their album from the same year. As you can see, it’s an attractive cover, thanks to the talents of Vaughn […]
Coming to (new mix)
I hadn’t done a mix in a long while, and after that awful Red Wings loss Saturday, I needed to turn up some loud music and feel a little better. I ended up throwing a mix together that’s a little springly. Saturday was a warm, sunny spring day; Sunday was a cooler, rainy spring day. It’s a little sloppy at the beginning, but there are […]
Getting older isn’t as confusing as getting older
[disjointed entry alert: sort of writing this one on assignment, as it may be] People have accused me of living in the past. This is simply not true — I just don’t appreciate the present until it’s become the past. I think it started when I was around 15. I have (had?) very few memories of childhood, so it makes sense that […]
The Sorrows of Young Whatever
Everything ever said about the relativity of time — be it serious or jokey or wrong — is right. Short expanses of time can be unendurably long, long stretches of time can pass by without notice, and now lasts forever while the past and the future never existed and never could or will. I whiled away last Saturday by sleeping […]
best of 2009 music
March first is a good day to post this, right? I mean, the rush to get these out is gone, so now mine will appear more important for lack of competition. So, remember how I did it last year? The tiering system, as opposed to rankings? Yeah, that’s how I’ve been rating everything since then. Hard and fast […]
song of the day “bird, chrome”
underworld “beautiful burnout” blood on the tissue on the floor of the train sun goes down temperature drops beautiful burnout, beautiful burnout bird chrome that’s it. simplicity always creates a stronger image.
2009 was a pretty straightforward year
…according to last.fm, anyway. my top 20 artists for the year: depeche mode pet shop boys brian eno coil the cure new order peter gabriel einstürzende neubauten the orb b! machine muslimgauze the church current 93 and one front 242 de/vision the the project pitchfork david sylvian covenant part of me is a little let down that it isn’t […]
