How you finding the new layout? This will surely piss off Squires who had bookmarked the blog page. Sucks to be you mate! Seriously comments welcome. I’m not sure about the ‘Recent comments’ section on the bottom right.
Ok i have another post written but i’m still deciding if i should post it, so in the interim here’s another old Xanga one.
I saw Johhny Cash this morning. He’d lost a bit of weight and turned German but he seemed well…
I Strongly suggest, given the opportunity, that everyone walk home drunk at least once in their life listening to my ipod. Admittedly this is a goal very few of you, if any, will ever achieve and i am sorry for this.
I suppose i have to give a bit of background information if this story has a chance of working.
So i have a new ipod now after my old one didn’t survive the journey home. A lot more memory to play with this time so i don’t have to be restrictive in what i throw on there. Anyways, i went through a phase once when i tried to ‘acquire’ as much of Mike Patton’s work as possible. Basically i would google and read as much as i could and try to find it. Similar to the endless search for the Nine Inch Nails Halo’s…i digress…So now i have several hours of Mike Patton’s finest and indeed worst creative moments scattered about my Ipod.
This is a good thing!
I think it is a sign of someone’s genius when their good stuff is sooo good it makes you overlook how bad their bad stuff really is. It’s the same with Trent Reznor, Maynard etc. They have all released some really really really bad stuff. Yet if you were to float an mp3 out there with a description “Rare recording, Trent Reznor, Mike Patton, Maynard James Keenan collaboration” it would move like hotcakes. Apparently hotcakes move really fast in America. Actually, probably add Bowie or Nick Cave in there as well for a bit of obscure credibility, Rick Rubin as producer and you have a hit on your hands. Pretty much they could fart in the general direction of a microphone and people would try to ‘acquire’ it…i digress a little further…
So during the day, my ipod is not that bad really. Bit all over the shop, but generally good enough that i don’t have to take it out of my pocket to skip through something. But at night, particularly when under the influence, it appears to take a life of it’s own. Do you remember the first time you saw the video to Aphex Twin’s Come to Daddy? Now i like my horror flicks, and possess a good consitution when it comes to gore and violence etc. I found Dr. Gunther’s Anatomy for Beginners quite amusing and interesting, not shocking. Remove the skin from a cadaver and hang it on a giant hook next to the exposed cadaver flesh…good idea! Have a naked live chick standing next to it so the geeky guy with better English than Gunther could point out what we were looking at…tops idea! Having a bloke with his bits out so the geeky guy could do the same…not so necessary.
How far can one digress and keep it within the realm of a digression as oppose to a loss in focus? Is there a difference?
oh yeah, come to daddy…this was truly shocking to me. The flashes of clips proving to be slightly more suggestive than subliminal…the little girls with his face. It’s truly chaotic and horrific…welcome to my ipod. One minute you have Foy Vance tip-toeing through a melody and then suddenly Mike is screaming in 7 different tongues at you, and then he’s gone… magical!
That was really a long explanation for such a small point…I think i have contracted Squires…is it treatable? :o)
Basically i have just tried to namedrop as many alt-rock (insert cool dark music alternative sub-genre here) people into this entry so when google sweeps over it i should get a few more hits from Internet Goth fiends…
Something..something..something..generic darkness…..
Something..something..something..bleeding…..
Tags: Aphex Twin, Come to Daddy, David Bowie, Drinking, Fallen Art, Goths, Halos, hotcakes, ipod, Johnny Cash, Maynard James Keenan, Mike Patton, Nick Cave, Nine Inch Nails, Squires, Trent Reznor, Xanga
jerk!!!