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I just listened to one of their "rap" songs, and it sounds like something the dude who buys $250 noise-cancelling headphones to listen to the Sea and Cake would describe as "fun". It's music that says, "I work hard, man, but when I get home, I leave the fuckin' monkey suit at the door, spark a bowl of choice nugs, braise some leeks, grate some Taleggio, erase my cache of ironic porn and wait like a puppy for my girlfriend to come home."
weeping caffeinated tears of recognition, mirth
Quote from: Jackie O link=topic=35736.msg679886#msg679886 date=I cried for her.
I laugh at you.
The White House has released a statement in support of Pussy Riot.
"Brilliant Disguise."
Pink Reason - "Motherfucker"
Hype creates a healthy reactionary cynicism, which to me is a protective gesture, it's intended to preserve your taste in music. There are also two distinct kinds of hype: 1) the genuine ritalin-like enthusiasm of someone in their 20s, totally immersed in a 24-7 social/music scene, who just thinks everything is gosh, so fucking awesome, right!?!?, be they blogger, small label owner or multi-band fixture and 2) the purely profiteering, cold-eyed, mechanistic hype generated by management-type professionals looking to capitalize on something they understand in purely fiscal terms.
Hype #1 doesn't bother me too much, in the end. It's laughable but it's totally human to lose your perspective and gush over everything that sounds close to your current sound crush, even if it kinda sucks. Hype #2 is the more insidious type, because it literally feeds off Hype #1, and it also tends to reward the parasitic copyists, but that's always how the music game has worked. The originators get the cred, the copyists get paid. You would think the internet, which is slowly cutting out the opinion middleman, would obviate this but it still holds true.
This just in, the following random records have held up: Final Solutions, The Sneeze, SYZ and Catatonic Youth EPs on Hozac, Birds of the Maya, Sightings catalog. No Balls LP still sounds exciting.
You should not be afraid of guns, but the people that own them. I fired my first gun when I was about six years old. I think gun safety should be taught in school. If you are concerned about the high rate of gun ownership in your neck of the woods, and the people carrying them, well, I can't think of many more important reasons to own one yourself than that right there.
Right away, Europeans get between six and eight weeks' vacation time each year. As one American money manager said, Europeans "work for 10 months of the year and get paid for 14." On top of that, Europeans pull six-, seven-hour days. And even then, you wouldn't believe the lengths Europeans go to get out having to do any actual work while they're AT work.
Hold your horses. Exactly wich European countries offer their worker your above described dream scenario? If you arent working from day to day or week to week basis, wich gets more and more common in these days, the standard is 8 hour work per day, often more. No way you get 8 weeks paid vacation anywhere if you hold a normal job. 4 - 5 weeks is standard. The conditions is still way better than in the states but you are exaggerating
for real. I wish there was still some socialist paradise I could dream about.....
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