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fuck me. it's been a while. a year, one might say. so in the next paragraph i'll update on my busy life since last october.
the end.
i didn't do anything, don't worry. HOWEVER, i have listening to deerhoof's new album. i liked their last one more than anything else of theirs i'd ever heard. and this one is quite the same. go here to stream the whole thing. and yeah if you've got firefox, forget it. because firefox decided activeX is bad so they don't support it. it's only essential to most audio-centric sites, not to mention a lot banking websites and such. good fucking idea. but anyway, it's like the last one, aka more coherent than their older stuff, but shorter. so you get just as much goodness in half the songs. because let's be honest: the last album is a little tedious and you just end up skipping to the really good shit like "twin killers", "spirit ditties" and "siriustar". obviously there's more than that but i'm lazy and don't want to end up writing the whole tracklist.
in the last six months i've managed to squeeze out one good picture of me. that's my life. it's a lot of pain, looking through hideous pictures, but eventually you come across one that is less ugly than the rest, and then you put it everywhere so it leaves a false impression of you. the thing is the pictures are still ugly, but i got so little to work with here.
james brown died and i called it. on here actually.
andrew bird was a pretty sweet show. luckily i was trying to save money so i helped this along by leaving my ticket at home, requiring me to spend ANOTHER $20. fucking awesome.
i've been rocking that family video store. something like 16 movies for something like $7. i've also been rocking that bittorrent software. something like 40 albums for something like $0. fucking riaa. i've spent, literally, somewhere in the range of $7000 on cds. what did that get me? a bunch of cd's. prices, as promised oh so many times, did not fucking drop. remember back when universal said they were going to drop their prices down to $10 or lower on all cds? haaaaaaaaaaaa. that date came and went with not so much as a two dollar drop. i'll say this, if cd's were $7 or so, i'd buy them ALL the fucking time. so maybe in my heyday i was buying two cd's a week, i would have bought 5 or 6. because it isn't so much the final cost that gets me, it's the unit cost. how can i justify paying $18.99 (plus tax!) for an album i've barely heard (if at all). herein lies the conundrum. music i buy ain't on the radio, certainly not around this shithole town i live in. that leaves downloading. to the riaa that's evil. but how the fuck else am i supposed to hear the music from this artist? up until the last maybe two years, it was QUITE hard to find anything legal up for download. now even with myspace and mp3 blogs and all that, you're lucky to get a song or two. i can't justify spending three hours wage on two songs. but $7? yeah i'll blow that on something i've never even heard before. because if i hate it, i'm only out a few bucks. and music store employees could attest that i am way more apt to take risks on something i ain't heard, if they a.) read this, b.) were super attentive, and c.) talked to me about the reason i was purchasing the album.
in final newz, i HATE zanesville. every single day i think about how much i hate my existence because i'm in zanesville. so that needs to change. after i sell a kidney or something. that's it.
the end.
i didn't do anything, don't worry. HOWEVER, i have listening to deerhoof's new album. i liked their last one more than anything else of theirs i'd ever heard. and this one is quite the same. go here to stream the whole thing. and yeah if you've got firefox, forget it. because firefox decided activeX is bad so they don't support it. it's only essential to most audio-centric sites, not to mention a lot banking websites and such. good fucking idea. but anyway, it's like the last one, aka more coherent than their older stuff, but shorter. so you get just as much goodness in half the songs. because let's be honest: the last album is a little tedious and you just end up skipping to the really good shit like "twin killers", "spirit ditties" and "siriustar". obviously there's more than that but i'm lazy and don't want to end up writing the whole tracklist.
in the last six months i've managed to squeeze out one good picture of me. that's my life. it's a lot of pain, looking through hideous pictures, but eventually you come across one that is less ugly than the rest, and then you put it everywhere so it leaves a false impression of you. the thing is the pictures are still ugly, but i got so little to work with here.
james brown died and i called it. on here actually.
andrew bird was a pretty sweet show. luckily i was trying to save money so i helped this along by leaving my ticket at home, requiring me to spend ANOTHER $20. fucking awesome.
i've been rocking that family video store. something like 16 movies for something like $7. i've also been rocking that bittorrent software. something like 40 albums for something like $0. fucking riaa. i've spent, literally, somewhere in the range of $7000 on cds. what did that get me? a bunch of cd's. prices, as promised oh so many times, did not fucking drop. remember back when universal said they were going to drop their prices down to $10 or lower on all cds? haaaaaaaaaaaa. that date came and went with not so much as a two dollar drop. i'll say this, if cd's were $7 or so, i'd buy them ALL the fucking time. so maybe in my heyday i was buying two cd's a week, i would have bought 5 or 6. because it isn't so much the final cost that gets me, it's the unit cost. how can i justify paying $18.99 (plus tax!) for an album i've barely heard (if at all). herein lies the conundrum. music i buy ain't on the radio, certainly not around this shithole town i live in. that leaves downloading. to the riaa that's evil. but how the fuck else am i supposed to hear the music from this artist? up until the last maybe two years, it was QUITE hard to find anything legal up for download. now even with myspace and mp3 blogs and all that, you're lucky to get a song or two. i can't justify spending three hours wage on two songs. but $7? yeah i'll blow that on something i've never even heard before. because if i hate it, i'm only out a few bucks. and music store employees could attest that i am way more apt to take risks on something i ain't heard, if they a.) read this, b.) were super attentive, and c.) talked to me about the reason i was purchasing the album.
in final newz, i HATE zanesville. every single day i think about how much i hate my existence because i'm in zanesville. so that needs to change. after i sell a kidney or something. that's it.