Commentary and criticism.

You can catch me mumbling live criticism under my breath live at the Empty Bottle tonight at about 9p.
ndb
I "typed" this with my thumbs.

Perhaps I'll turn to criticism

It has caught my attention lately that there seems to be a movement of irritatingly poppy sounding music, film, and art as of late. It seems to have started with the Postal Service, Garden State, and continues today in the form of vinyl toys that pollute our worlds landfills a few years after people tire of being a kid again.

But the movement actually begs the question of whether we ever will tire of child like music, films and art. I feel as if we are experiencing a backlash to the horrible events that we see in the media. The mere fact that we can watch war live via web cams and satellite feeds is enough to make anyone want to turn away, reject violence an harken a time of child like innocence. There is but one problem, if we remain ignorant, it stands to reason that we are not child like, rather we are guilty of the same horrible transgressions of the actionless peoples that allowed the genocides of the Belgian Congo, Armenia at the hands of Turkey and Jews at the hands of Germany. These things happened and are happening in the world, whether or not we want to acknowledge them.

So I chastise artists, musicians, creative types, of which I count myself one, for not speaking out directly, for the lack of zeal or purpose in our works. We create intentionally playful items to give us respite from the world, and while this is valid, it will not help stop the violence ands death of war.

Seemingly gone are the days of such artists as Rage Against The Machine and other such revolutionaries.
ndb
I "typed" this with my thumbs.

sickness and health

Ok so I got back to Chicago in one piece only to get sick as soon as hit the ground. I mean damn it is COLD here I don't know what else I could have expected. Anyway, I've been feeling more creative lately but I can't tell if the work crap or not.

aaaahhhh

Before:

She's better than sex and twice as nice. She's Claudette, my savior and my damnation.














After:

I've learned something

Silence is sometimes more painful than the painful truth.

LowLight Mixes

I don't usually do music here but I just found this mix called Sequential Circuits again after it's been floating around my hard drive for a while. It's from Low Light Mixes and it just seems to be perfect as the sun goes down on Chicago tonight.

The nature of..

Mixtapes are cool but really they're very selfish. I mean really, what's more self centered than gifting music to someone so that every time they hear that piece of music in the future, they think of you.

Oh, I miss tapes, there was something way more tactile about the whole selection/mix process. CD's just don't have it.