Well, it’s that day again, the day to gather around with family and rub a long fork like utensil and a knife over a very dead piece of poultry. Pass the cranberry sauce ’cause Grandpa is going to tell you about the weather and the news. It might be time to start bracing yourself for an extended amount of time with your nuclear family. Time to find your zen, get in your happy place and endure the hot coals of superficial niceties.If you find all this togetherness a little awkward (Like Me), it’s also the day to trace your hand and turn it into a poorly rendered turkey! Check out this tom to the left! Pretty handsome eh? Anyway, I’ve composed a mix of entertaining Turkey-Day tunes. Enjoy!
November 27, 2008
Have a Very AZLTRON Thanksgiving!
September 1, 2007
Back to School
This is going to be a bit of a random update, I started school this week at yet another fine institution and things are going pretty well thus far. Classes are going to be actual classes now, like “Hey, read the book, write a paper, take a test, get a grade!” kind of classes versus connecting sticks together in a meaningful pattern or taking bad photographs of dogs or fat girls stripping. I’ll actually be taking real classes and learning things that I did not know previously, like Renaissance Europe, Modern Japan, Historiography, Western Theater, so I’m pretty psyched to be relevant again and not an impotent hippie. It’s going to be a bright future, with regards to expanding my resume. Although being the new guy again is kind of rough, but I’ll manage.
Anyway, back to music, I received 4 albums in the mail the other day and none of them are duds, which is rare and makes me happy. So in the meantime I’ll put up a couple songs having to do with school. Oh yeah, and I’ll have a radio show again. So I’ll try and capture that and post it as a podcast. I declare good times are in the pipeline.
MP3 – Boy From School – Hot Chip
MP3 – Metal School – Spoon
MP3 – Night at the Knight School – Thee More Shallows
MP3 – Me and Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard (A True Story) – !!!
MP3 – Nothing Precious at All – Stereophonics (There’s a cute girl on campus with Lime Green Shoes)
MP3 – School Books – Fields (They cost waaay too much.)
MP3 – The Cradle, The Brother and the Bible School – The Flesh
April 14, 2007
Shallow Water and a Bad Book
There’s a combination of noise and quirky songwriting that’s as strange as it is endearing in Thee More Shallows’ latest, “Book of Bad Breaks”. As much as they are experimental in their sound, underneath all the static and distortion the songs have simple piercing melodies and poignant lyrics. The tracks continuously flow into each other, sometimes coming from a gentle string interlude directly into a scathing punk scorcher which, strangely, at the same time as it’s blasting forth with raw energy, is still sweet. It’s a trick of misdirection, because as soon as we’re used to the guitar sound, it fades out and we are left with violins again. I imagine this is what it would sound like if Nine Inch Nails and the Postal Service were somehow mangled together due to a nuclear explosion in a post apocalyptic world.
