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Krallice | NYC @ Union Pool | Friday 13th November 2009 from (((unartig))) on Vimeo.

Wow. Just wow sometimes. Mick Barr starts a normal black metal band. My favorite guitarist. The person who inspired you to start practicing guitar six hours a day. Listen guys I've relocated fron Connecticut, living Hell on earth; incarnate (and not far from Sodom and Gamora and New York) and I just want to go home. A place where a man can drive down a road, there is only two lines in two directions. It is the only way to get to and from my mothers home, which is inside a plastic housing community of elderly where she rots away in her own filth with speed bumps that go up to my knees, delt the shocks on my car. I'm in the east for Thanksgiving. The people here walk away midsentence, are ass clenching nervous wrecks, can't find work; brother can you spare a dime.
Irregardless is not a word; regardless, I'm here.

I've given up television, internet, sex(huh?), and everything I hold SO dear in order to restrain myself from madness in the sense of forcing myself to work. Its hard to explain. I use a typewriter to write actual fiction I very much enjoy reading, draw fantastic pictures, masturbate high while watching piles of borrowed DVDs no one ever sees again and such. I miss my friends; I am embarassingly homesick like my first summer at summer camp; I have my computers but no actual friends again. Distinctly; earl grey. For the first time in months, I threw out food. There are bigger things to talk about.

Krallice is fucking blowing me away like ten parts into this. I can't wait to hear the two records I was avoiding listening to for no good reason! "Please don't PAT-tronize me..I'm just a kindly midwesterner!"

I always thought this was an Elvis song.

This is Axel Rose.

Sweet sweet big tittied woman.

I also thought this was Rod Stewart.

This melody is pretty similar to "Hey Mary Ann".

This band noted above is failing very hard at being Steely Dan.























I always thought this was a Thin Lizzy song; even though they have a song called "Something in the Moonlight or whatever."



See. That was a good song. I didn't have to turn that off.



What the fuck. I always thought this was Roy Orbison.

This sounds exactly like Grizzly Bear to me.

the music video for "Push It" by Static X would go here if youtube would allow it. But they're awful. I am stealing your music while you sleep.

Classic Misdirection

White supremicist music video to the Hollies "Jesus was a Crossmaker".

Progressive Music

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Music is an external entity. We come to all schema with infinite pretenses (conscious, subconscious, jargonized-pre thought, etc.) and sound is no different. External forces of physics cause numerous types of cycles and when possible, it is processed as sound. Ostensibly the point of the matter is, what are we doing with sound? What are we doing with music?

The basic western notions of music (which underlies music the world round in its basic use of accessing time, space, and other basic tangible forms; with specific exceptions and etc.) has come into rejection in terms of the sheer number of people who don't find it useful (which I admit I don't find it), don't find it functional (which it is not until a lot of long studying), and use their invalidation of their own intellectualista-stylized notions of what musicality is. Artists like Aphex Twin and Square pusher acheived levels of technological musical techniques that a century of celloists wouldn't vaguely know how to comprehend, let alone create.

There is a primitive guitar notion. The music today is dying because of idoltry of the music tomorrow. There is NEW processes, there is NEW sounds, there are NEW exciting bands out there. There always is but this is more true than ever. Subscribing to style kit-hype package notions of music being some sort of ethereal third-entity with a post-modern detached sense of purpose and form. Bad music IS bad music. It is music that is MADE poorly. It is music that is PLAYED poorly. The fidelity of the recording isn't bad; the timbre isn't bad; the attitude isn't bad; the damn NOTE SET IS ROTTEN. Harmony is a real thing and if you're vamping on 2 chords then singing 2 notes over it, its limited. My own personal subjective restoration of my musical interests (highlighted in this blog) is a testament to my own thirst to discover what music is. This is music:

LISTEN MORE CLOSELY THAN EVER. LISTEN TO WHAT A MELODY IS. THERE IS NO HIDING A BAD MELODY ANYMORE THAN THERE IS A WAY TO KEEP A GOOD MELODY DOWN.

The definition of the word musicality is tastefulness and accomplishment in music. Does the music you listen to have this quality? Ask yourself, what music is musical? What music is not musical? What individualized components of music do I personally enjoy? Do I enjoy the centric movements of a Jamerson bassline? Do I like a guitar strumming fast? Do I like to focus on the lowest range of the low until I can feel it synchronize with my systole?

The other fun reality is ART WAS ENTERTAINMENT, ENTERTAINMENT WAS ART; but now the two are complete conflict do to censorship. If you're suppressing unacceptable pieces of an art form (or even worse, creating under the premises of RAW TABOO) you're killing art. Art is expression, and self evidently, stifling a thought or feeling is impure in the classic notions of beauty. You're pissing in the stream, regardless of how far up it you are.

It is difficult to perform progressive music. Exceptionally so. Progress itself is not something I associate with "fun" directly. Their is usually a lot more notes; or perhaps a lot fewer. The fact of the matter is, some one HAS to do it and to those people I give kudos. Sometimes folks are not made for their time period. Social acceptance is a huge function of reality and expression about cognitive dissonance formed by logically unacceptable behaviors and what not is endless. We must strive to find the music to change people. Its there. Its been there before and you can still buy all the Beatles CDs at Walmart but my mom owns them all too. Challenging people is never easy. People want to accept change less than ever, perpetually.

If you're happy with mediocre, I can't change you. If you're happy listening to subtle guitar rock made by boring guys in flannel, I can't change you. If you're happy taking musical queues from the bleak parts of the internet, I can't change you. You can change you.

In conclusion, sing more, sing loud. Sing out loud; sing with your friends, sing in small groups. Play instruments, even if you don't know how, but also learn how. Discover your own inter-personalized structure to music. In the same way all entities can be interred into symbiological forms, music should be a game where you are validating your surroundings and sounds and with that, hopefully a whole lot of other things. Play in bands. Just try to make music. Its not difficult. Try recorders if you think you're honestly too stupid to play linear patterns on a guitar. Do it. Music is a quantification of our surroundings. Do you go to shows? Do you go to loud shows? Do you go to shows in different shaped rooms? Do you go to shows with different types of instrumentation? Have you ever seen a marching band for a half hour straight? Have you ever watched a classical performance willingly? Will you watch jazz?

Garage Rock: How to Know If You're Listening to Garage Rock

1. Is there a bunch of dudes?

2. Are they making low-fi guitar rock with a lot of 16th note bass lines and upstroke guitars to represent their free weilding ways?

3. Did you hear about them over the internet?

4. Is their message (or what you can discern of what might be considered a message) something along the lines of "we're gonna rise up outta this mess and move out of my mom's house" or "life is just fucked so lets get fucked" or some otherwise banal passe nonsense lacking any cohesive logic or tangible doing?

5. Does it show any musical intuition, forward thinking, progressive?

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.

These Things I Know, or Nothing Sounds Lamer or more Passe than The Truth

Americans live in a proto-totalitarian facist state. Their is next to no governance by the individual. The interests of the individual has been distorted or destroyed by special interests who yield more power through financial corporation, nepotism, or any number of wholly immoral means. I know this because cigarettes (an item made of paper and a fairly inexpensive cash crop) costs $5-8 and I can't smoke them within any feet of a building.

The uncertainty of the federal government of these >>>>UNITED<<< >>>STATES<<<< class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">definition of republic: a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch (definition of monarch: a sovereign (definition of sovereign: a supreme ruler, esp. a monarch.) head of state, esp. a king, queen, or emperor.)

As a financial institution, we've been totally compromised on all levels. Bureaucrat by definition is an administrator concerned with procedural correctness at the expense of people's needs. 

WE ARE IN COLD WAR TIME, WE ARE IN REAL WAR TIME.

The war is real but the feelings are fake. We are treating U.S. soldiers like criminals and if this is the case it is BECAUSE WE ARE ENLISTING CRIMINALS! 

Authority demands obedience. The gestapo ruthlessly oppresses opposition to the totalitarian fascist state. If you don't think cops shutting down your parties violates freedom of assembly you're an idiot. 

We need a new constitution before a class war. 

Regarding Regards: I'm MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!

Firstly, lets get over all the music from the last century. It was over almost a decade ago and there's this innate hysteria over NOSTALGIA MUSIC. Lets get this into people's heads. Every time I spend 2 months listening to Blood on the Tracks because I'm depressed over the games I play with myself over girls, I am listening to nostalgia music. It is old, the themes are old. The themes, attitudes, and viewpoints provided in the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Doors, and a handful of others I love and so on are antiquated notions from antiquated ideals. At this point in my life, I own a DVD player that I listen to about ten different cd-rs on at any given time and a car radio. I imagine I am in a time before at my finger tips is endless voidless data that has taken the place of music in my mind. Listening to Dark Side of the Moon through a good stereo will beat the experience of seeing the majority of bands around live today. To think that when you hold a guitar and whatever else your band uses to make music can't even compete with a thirty year old recording is implausibly defeating. The reality is, the American culture as a whole needs to drop the false idols of bygone "rock" G-ds. My generation and the one beneath and surely most of the ones above live in this wake of a supposed sexual revolution and music that surely celebrates those themes and astetics of a counter culture still whole incarnation on this planet. Regardless of the labeling, the youth generation needs to push for a higher standard of music. Not a higher standard of self conscious integrity masking a lack of talent and a derivative sense of style. People that make music need to push to be musicians; push to perform and create as often as possible; to study the forms and the structures and not just the genres and their collective cliches. They need to find the integral forms that are relevant to them personally and socially and politically and every other ceptive of their lives.

Secondly, jazz. Always jazz.

Thirdly, passive interest in mediocre music should not suffice.

Forthly, bands should be socially and economically aware. The "independent music industry" is as singular a frivilous, self congradulating hypocracy as their major label "competition". Harken to a day where bands like Grand Funk Railroad from the midwest could become the most popular band in the country due to social relevance, hard work, talent, and know-how. Their is this massive subscription to this style packet for all these different identities. I seem them everywhere I go. It is not as if there is just one store or it is not as if you can't own several items from one store or this appearance or that, but when you subscribe to a cynical counter culture ideology instead of getting involved with a counter culture you're doing two separate things. If people want what they want, its generally right in front of them or never was at all. The counter culture alliance relliance is a universal notion. When you're some small deficit of weirdo and you go somewhere new, there is always a sentiment that you can find the people dressed like you and try to become friends. There is this fringing mindless world I see of this materialist-notioned
counter culture of cynicism and poor ideals and inactivity and morallessness.

Post music soon.

ANYONE WANT TO GIVE ME ANY REAL WRITING JOBS!
BEGGIN' FOR IT!

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