Jan 25, 2009 18:38
i know it's a little late for 2008 music reviews, but such is my nature, lateness. all i wanted to say is that Calexico's Carried To Dust is by far the best album i've heard from 2008. it is GLORIOUS and immaculate and all that is warm and fuzzy in this world, and there are not many albums for which i can say that.
so, who's going to see Ryan Adams at the Saenger in March? how about Ani?
i'm really tired of this whole college charade already. college campuses seem to pulse with affected personalities. there, everyone's just a simulation of a real human being. it's pretty fucking demoralizing. pretentious people can bite it. the act of being in college doesn't elevate your intellectual status. an overwhelming majority of the people in college are, in fact, nincompoops. i don't care if you're an art major. that does not make you a good artist. i don't care if you have a large vocabulary, that does not make you a good writer. doing revisions for the fine arts publication this afternoon has brought to my attention that people do not realize this. i read so much garbage chock full of ten dollar words that MADE NO SENSE AT ALL. metaphors are nice and all, just so long as they aren't merely floating in the air in relation to absolutely nothing you've thus written. i guess people are easily duped.
jay-sus.
maybe i only feel this way because i'm an English major. i like what Mung said about people who major in English--they're either baby rapists or intellectual charlatans. i take no offense because that's generally true.
anyway, go get Carried To Dust! download it to your ipod, burn it, lift it, whatever. it's just brilliant. i can't stress this enough.