Pretty much the last thing I remember was turning that last curve. I guess it was Avenue A at Esplanade. That’s what the papers said, anyway. Vince was driving his Pantera. I was pretty far gone, I know that much. Not only that, Vince, who still managed convincing me he was good to drive (not only [...]
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Electra got her first radio today. The significance of this is timely. In this household, and in countless households throughout the world, our children are growing up immersed in the visual. TV, movies, DVDs, YouTube, Facebook, etc . . . it all adds up to a virtually visual bombardment that is is almost impossible to ignore. Today, a [...] Thinking about verbalizing music on a weekly basis is something I find incredibly challenging. It goes a long way towards explaining how I found my way out of the NAP on my first go-round. Yes, I also have a propensity for shitting on the parade, as it goes, and I don’t disregard the effect my approach [...] For all the music that’s firmly kicked my ass over the last five or so years, I think I would have to give the title of most pleasurable to San Francisco’s Neurosis. Suffice to say that Neurosis has taken metal right in the direction I had always hoped it could go for a very long time. Thanks [...] Went to the Hard Rock Cafe here in Houston tonight. Family stuff. I think I’ve been to one before, but I’m fairly certain it was not in Houston. It’s pretty much what you would expect. Loud, garish, overdone, and very self-important. In fact, when I called beforehand to ask a couple questions, the poor girl on the [...] Growing up in Abilene does not afford one the chance to reflect on their past as one that might be described as “Culturally diverse.” We were pretty much in the middle of no-fucking-place and absolutely-no-fucking-where. And when you live in spots like Abilene, you know it. And we didn’t really get the internet until I was [...] My right ear drum is a god damn wasteland. I blame a lot of it on Killdozer. I blame it on Killdozer, but that comes with a caveat. Basically, the caveat centers around my being a total and unrelenting asshole idiot. When I was standing in Emo’s Houston watching Killdozer play so fucking loud I though [...] Last night I caught a BBC4 documentary about Krautrock. The entire shebang started off with the stark, entrancing 1st track off of Popol Vuh’s soundtrack for Werner Herzog’s Aguirre: The Wrath of God. (It’s called Aguirre I, in case you want to hunt it down.) Centuries back in my very first post for the NAP, I [...] Back in 1993, for my 25th birthday, the girl I was living with gave me a jam box. It had a CD player built in to it, which at the time was a major breakthrough in my extremely-poor-man’s audio playback system. It, in fact, marked my first foray into the world of digital music. As it turns [...] This chair I’m sitting in, it’s pretty comfortable. My jaw is numb from like the upper right-hand side through my cheek to the surface, across the right side of my lip, and most of the way down just about to my bottom jawline. I’m at the dentist, and I wouldn’t be here on this day were [...] |
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