Music, fashion, play
Oh, Deftones. The last band from a dying genre whom I can still listen to. My last tenuous flirtation with metal. I've waited four years for a follow up to Saturday Night Wrist, but your new single is foreboding and not in a good way. I know that your bassist has been in a coma for a while now following a terrible car accident and maybe your hearts aren't into your music, because this offering, "Rocket Skates," is terrible. Perhaps you should give another listen to your best effort White Pony, and try to get into that mindset again. You made a song about electrocuting a loved one in a bathtub into one of the most achingly beautiful songs recorded in the last 20 years.
No, seriously. Go listen to "Digital Bath."
Switching gears; I'm trying to develop a nouveau Fifties style that somehow does not incorporate ties. I love men's hats, dressing nicely and pocket watches. I have a nice fedora and recently obtained a beautiful pocket watch as a valentine's present. Maybe I'm watching too much Mad Men, I dunno. I think that was the last time people knew how to dress. Fashion from then on went straight into the toilet. From what I can tell, fashion from the Eighties is coming back because God hates us and is punishing us for something. That dog won't hunt.
Two video games that everyone should play even if they hate video games:
1. Portal. If you're an actual gamer, it'll take you 4 hours to beat the game. If not an avid gamer, maybe double that. This is a game that elevates the medium. If Mark Twain were born a hundred and forty years later than he did, he would have wrote Portal. It's the funniest, sharpest, darkest writing I have ever encountered across any medium of art and literature in the modern era. Gameplay is physics based puzzle solving involving portals. Deceptively easy, maddeningly difficult at times.
2. Bioshock. A mediocre first person shooter that is completely carried by story and art. George Orwell meets Ayn Rand set in a beautiful underwater Art Deco metropolis. The game spawned the first, and in my mind only iconic villain in modern gamimg; The Big Daddy. While most games have a twist to them, this is the first game... probably ever, that you don't see the twist coming a mile away. While exploring the ruins of the city of Rapture you pick up audio diaries of the inhabitants that help you piece together what was going on and how everything went tits up. I probably had more fun finding all of the audio diaries than I did the boss fights. The characters were beautifully developed, most notably Andrew Ryan, Sander Cohen and Dr. Steinman, the latter whom genuinely creeped me the fuck out. Remember people: A man chooses; a slave obeys.
No, seriously. Go listen to "Digital Bath."
Switching gears; I'm trying to develop a nouveau Fifties style that somehow does not incorporate ties. I love men's hats, dressing nicely and pocket watches. I have a nice fedora and recently obtained a beautiful pocket watch as a valentine's present. Maybe I'm watching too much Mad Men, I dunno. I think that was the last time people knew how to dress. Fashion from then on went straight into the toilet. From what I can tell, fashion from the Eighties is coming back because God hates us and is punishing us for something. That dog won't hunt.
Two video games that everyone should play even if they hate video games:
1. Portal. If you're an actual gamer, it'll take you 4 hours to beat the game. If not an avid gamer, maybe double that. This is a game that elevates the medium. If Mark Twain were born a hundred and forty years later than he did, he would have wrote Portal. It's the funniest, sharpest, darkest writing I have ever encountered across any medium of art and literature in the modern era. Gameplay is physics based puzzle solving involving portals. Deceptively easy, maddeningly difficult at times.
2. Bioshock. A mediocre first person shooter that is completely carried by story and art. George Orwell meets Ayn Rand set in a beautiful underwater Art Deco metropolis. The game spawned the first, and in my mind only iconic villain in modern gamimg; The Big Daddy. While most games have a twist to them, this is the first game... probably ever, that you don't see the twist coming a mile away. While exploring the ruins of the city of Rapture you pick up audio diaries of the inhabitants that help you piece together what was going on and how everything went tits up. I probably had more fun finding all of the audio diaries than I did the boss fights. The characters were beautifully developed, most notably Andrew Ryan, Sander Cohen and Dr. Steinman, the latter whom genuinely creeped me the fuck out. Remember people: A man chooses; a slave obeys.
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