It’s the start of fall and my semester is packed. On the road to fulfillment, I’m sure. Optimistic bullshit aside, I’m fucking busy. Combine that with free refills at the cafe downstairs and you get this: short & choppy, black & white, and loud — very loud. This is where the Descendents’ Milo Goes to [...]
Wire – Chairs Missing
21 March 2011 by Leave a Comment
Strangely odd. Weirdly uncommon. Abnormally alien. There are a million ways to say it: this album is bizarre. Not bizarre in a ‘Weird Al’ kind of way, though. Nor is it strange in the way Captain Beefheart is. No, this kind of strange that embodies Wire’s Chairs Missing is something like a hybrid between claustrophobia [...]
Iggy Pop – The Idiot
12 November 2010 by 6 Comments
The modern city is a cold and desolate place when Daylight Savings Time ends. 3PM signals monochrome twilight and 5PM means the stuffy orange glow of city streetlights. Fall is here, Winter is nigh. God save your soul. Iggy Pop’s album The Idiot is an exercise in this urban ultramodern dread. It takes the glamor [...]
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