Tonight while playing the Sims obsessively I have been on an AFI binge. It is strange, after AFI stop touring and take a long break I tend to not listen to them much or if at all but when the buzz about a new record starts happening I get right back into their catalog in anticipation. I have listened to most of their records tonight except for the first few because they are very different and not very good.
The reason they continue to be my favorite band, since I was in middle school, is because they embrace change and apply that to their music. Every single record is a progression, they really do not stay with the same sound very long. If you listen to the records in order you can very much see that. They started to take shape to what they are now in "Black Sails in the Sunset", still my favorite record because it was the first one I ever heard. Davey Havok is also an amazing lyricist and I love his style and often dark tone. All in all, good stuff. I would supply downloads but I am much too lazy. Enjoy some lyrics to one of their best songs...
Let's admire the pattern forming. Murderous filigree.
I'm caught in the twisting of the vine. Go ascend with ivy, climbing.
Ignore and leave for me the headstone crumbling behind.
I can't help my laughter as she cries.
My soul brings tears to angelic eyes.
Let's amend the classic story, close it so beautifully, I'll let animosity unwind.
Steal away the darkened pages, hidden so shamefully.
I'll still feel the violence of the lines.
I can't stand my laughter as they cry.
My soul brings tears to angelic eyes.
And miles away my mother cries.
Omnipotence, nurturing malevolence.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Why?
I really don't know why I don't update this thingy more. I do have a lot on my mind, and much to say but the times when I feel like typing are often not the times I am thinking so much. I can only do one at a time really.
Also my sleeplessness has made my brain a bit fuzzy. I tend to not go to sleep until there is already daylight and I only wake up an hour before I have to be at work, or when someone interrupts my sleep. It is a grueling cycle I cannot seem to break. Like today, I woke up at 7:30am because I passed out the night before due to not sleeping the night before that. You would think I would be tired now, but alas I am still awake at nearly 4am. Considering I have to work at 6am it doesn't give me much time to sleep.
Also I recently bought the Sims again because when you don't have your own exciting life you might as well live vicariously through a two dimensional computer being. My first Sim got married and then his pregnant wife died due to exhaustion. The second was a couple except their children were taken away by the social services. Dreary really. Such is life I suppose. A good essay about the Sims and its relation to actual life can be found in Chuck Klosterman's "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs", quite possibly one of my favorite books. Go buy it and read it, especially the Sims essay.
I have been kind of lazy lately, I have not read many books or listened to much new music. I really have to get back on that, I buy so many books online and then they just sit in my room, many are currently under my bed waiting to be read. I bought a collection of essays and articles from a music writer, I forget his name right now, as well as many books of varied themes, mostly nonfiction because I like the truth more. I also prefer memiors to almost anything. But even having said that Kurt Vonnegut remains to be my favorite writer ever, even if his books are crazy and fictional.
I should probably sleep.
Also my sleeplessness has made my brain a bit fuzzy. I tend to not go to sleep until there is already daylight and I only wake up an hour before I have to be at work, or when someone interrupts my sleep. It is a grueling cycle I cannot seem to break. Like today, I woke up at 7:30am because I passed out the night before due to not sleeping the night before that. You would think I would be tired now, but alas I am still awake at nearly 4am. Considering I have to work at 6am it doesn't give me much time to sleep.
Also I recently bought the Sims again because when you don't have your own exciting life you might as well live vicariously through a two dimensional computer being. My first Sim got married and then his pregnant wife died due to exhaustion. The second was a couple except their children were taken away by the social services. Dreary really. Such is life I suppose. A good essay about the Sims and its relation to actual life can be found in Chuck Klosterman's "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs", quite possibly one of my favorite books. Go buy it and read it, especially the Sims essay.
I have been kind of lazy lately, I have not read many books or listened to much new music. I really have to get back on that, I buy so many books online and then they just sit in my room, many are currently under my bed waiting to be read. I bought a collection of essays and articles from a music writer, I forget his name right now, as well as many books of varied themes, mostly nonfiction because I like the truth more. I also prefer memiors to almost anything. But even having said that Kurt Vonnegut remains to be my favorite writer ever, even if his books are crazy and fictional.
I should probably sleep.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Another day, another dollar
Yo.
Not much is new. I quit my second job because I am done with making ingrateful people's coffee and having them talk to me like I am a little kid. I do like The Limited now, it is kind of a challenge, how many people can I pursuade into opening a high interest credit card? I don't really like when people ask my opinion about how something looks on them, it is very awkward when they look like a hot mess and I have to try and be honest while being nice. Tricky.
I continue to be nocturnal. I can honestly sleep better during the day, I always fall asleep fast in the middle of the day but then I sit here for hours trying to fall asleep at night. It is 3 am right now and I am wide awake, hm.
In music related happenings I have been listening to a lot of Death from above 1979 this week. They only had one full legnth release and a handful of EPs before they disbanded so I have been getting quite familiar with You're a Woman, I'm a Machine. I would post mp3s but they are on my ipod and not my itunes. I am getting an external harddrive for christmas to store my music on so I will have many many more downloads in the future. But anyway, listen to "Blood on our hands" and "Black history month", righteous.
Not much is new. I quit my second job because I am done with making ingrateful people's coffee and having them talk to me like I am a little kid. I do like The Limited now, it is kind of a challenge, how many people can I pursuade into opening a high interest credit card? I don't really like when people ask my opinion about how something looks on them, it is very awkward when they look like a hot mess and I have to try and be honest while being nice. Tricky.
I continue to be nocturnal. I can honestly sleep better during the day, I always fall asleep fast in the middle of the day but then I sit here for hours trying to fall asleep at night. It is 3 am right now and I am wide awake, hm.
In music related happenings I have been listening to a lot of Death from above 1979 this week. They only had one full legnth release and a handful of EPs before they disbanded so I have been getting quite familiar with You're a Woman, I'm a Machine. I would post mp3s but they are on my ipod and not my itunes. I am getting an external harddrive for christmas to store my music on so I will have many many more downloads in the future. But anyway, listen to "Blood on our hands" and "Black history month", righteous.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
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