yay for things
i finally left my house in order to go shopping in burlington, which was fun despite my sister waking me up obnoxiously early (10:30, shut up) and putting me in a pissy mood. my dad made us wait for over an hour at borders, which was great in the end because he felt guilty and decided to buy us off with cds. i got saves the day's through being cool and used the money i saved to get a book of charles bukowski's poetry, leaving me thoroughly broke but awash in hipster cred and scene points. i also got two pairs of shorts, thus effectively tripling the total number that i own.
as for through being cool, chris conley's voice is very adolescent and vaguely annoying, but overall it's a pretty solid album. i like the guitar parts quite a lot. you can really hear how a lot of bands (*cough* fall out boy *cough*) completely ripped them off. now i just have to get some lifetime so i can laugh at how much saves the day ripped them off.
i know i should listen to music because i like it and not because it's trendy, but i like owning those classic albums that everyone agrees to be incredibly important and amazing. it makes me feel educated. it's not just that i want a solid foundation upon which to build my music snobbery, though; i also like understanding music history. a lot people listen to bands like the clash or jawbreaker and are inspired to go form bands that sound like those bands. a few of the upstart bands will eventually do something innovative and become one of those bands that everyone copies, and it's a really fascinating progression. in order to completely grasp it, though, you have to listen to the seminal bands who managed to do something different with their music. plus, those bands are often better than their imitators.
i'm not trying to be pretentious or sound smart. i just want to know everything about music and understand how it works. a life mission, i guess you could say.
as for through being cool, chris conley's voice is very adolescent and vaguely annoying, but overall it's a pretty solid album. i like the guitar parts quite a lot. you can really hear how a lot of bands (*cough* fall out boy *cough*) completely ripped them off. now i just have to get some lifetime so i can laugh at how much saves the day ripped them off.
i know i should listen to music because i like it and not because it's trendy, but i like owning those classic albums that everyone agrees to be incredibly important and amazing. it makes me feel educated. it's not just that i want a solid foundation upon which to build my music snobbery, though; i also like understanding music history. a lot people listen to bands like the clash or jawbreaker and are inspired to go form bands that sound like those bands. a few of the upstart bands will eventually do something innovative and become one of those bands that everyone copies, and it's a really fascinating progression. in order to completely grasp it, though, you have to listen to the seminal bands who managed to do something different with their music. plus, those bands are often better than their imitators.
i'm not trying to be pretentious or sound smart. i just want to know everything about music and understand how it works. a life mission, i guess you could say.