I've been thinking about the relation between art, the artist's personality and his or her audience lately. Here are the examples that have gotten me thinking ( Read more... )

No baseball here. Nope. Not tracking 4 consecutive games. You won't hear me blithering on about the Mets losing 7-0 and it's still the first inning. or Rollins stealing 2nd in the bottom of the first in the Phillies game. ...I won't even bring up the 2 important AL games. It's just...it's just too emotional ( Read more... )

Not for anything but listening to Joy Division doesn't make me depressed. It makes me happy. Not quite giddy like The Cure, but happy nonetheless. I don't know where all this business about Gloomy Goths came from. Is it a chicken-egg thing? Are you goth if that's the kind of music that makes you happy? 'Cause I'm not goth. I'm wearing an ( Read more... )

I am currently listening to The Cure covering "Love Will Tear Us Apart."

And before you ask Jon, it sounds like it's from the Kiss Me era, very synthy, and it's a very poor recording-probably lifted off a sound check or something. Unless you've heard it before? The site doesn't site where it comes from, so they must have just lifted off the web