You got the money, I got the soul
Some stuff I rambled on last night as I was trawling the net, and then just typed shit into Notepad for future upload :
hmmm, I was wondering....just trawling the net this afternoon randomly....clicking on links and the like, looking up random peoples' webpages....and it occured to me. Stonepost ( http://groups.msn.com/Room307Stonepost ) is bollocks!! I mean, people are attracted to layout in a webpage! I know I'M attracted to layouts. I mean, sure, it's nice if you have something to say. Nothing like good content to back up your imagery. But Stonepost is not all that great. Then again, I could put a lot more time into it. I've been feeding off the intensity of Primal Scream ( www.primalscream.org/ ) recently. They've got this rock/punk swagger which I really admire, especially with songs like "Rocks". You know when you're at a pub, and it's really seedy, there's smoke everywhere [not that I like smoke, but hear me out], and there's dodgy people all over the shop drinking even dodgier beer, and the pool tables are full, only the serious players playing, no posers. But the main thing which adds into the atosphere : British low-fi music. I speak for the Iggy Pops, the Blurs, the Massive Attacks. Those sorts of people. The low-down working-class bands who sweated their arses off and looked like ponces for a few years, and then made it big. Unlike US superstars who just had it all handed to them on a platter. But then, the British bands are not keen to just revel in their success. They've got something to say. They've got agendas. And there's often problems in their own countries which causes them to be proactive in their own music, or just SOMETHING which makes you believe that the ideas behind their music, the emotion, is REAL. Take the Manic Street Preachers, for example. They could be making half their shit up for all we know. But it's delivered with such a seriousness that you just notice it from all the other fake crap out there.
Right - now the modern minute. Feeling decidedly seedy. Er - perhaps it's because it's 11:30 and I haven't showered yet - or got the clothes off the clothesline - maybe I should shave too - I'm looking decidedly like a dirty old man, and it's ok - there's no-one else around to notice, and there's no-one I have to impress, but man, I'm starting to feel the effects. I'm really on the Primal Scream kick at the moment....damn, they could teach a couple of bands how to write "riot music" - I mean there's nothing technically brilliant about the Screams' sound....it's truly excellent, and it really turns me on....but I guess it's the simplistic nature of it....a tribal erm...primitive-ism. Sometimes I like to make up my own words - they may not be 100% gramatically correct, or completely understandable, but for me, they serve their purpose at the time that I wanted them to serve it.
I'm out today to the Kelly Country - a clothing warehouse in St. Peters - you'd think it was a freakin' ranch somewhere in Country US - it's a joint where they customize suits for you...measure you out, that sort of stuff. Y'see, I got this med ball I've been invited to by my girlfriend on May 14 - and I need to get my shite together. SO I'm gonna go to Kelly Country and do it - have a sniff about, then head out to a shoe place and check out some of their wares. Fucking scary. I'm not the kind of guy to go shopping at the best of times, and recently I've been spending a lot of unhealthy time at General Pants - the place where the "cool kids" [whatever that means] buy their clothes. I must admit though, there were a few things I had my eye on...and one thing remains unchanged....[to my detriment] I STILL have expensive taste....
hmmm, I was wondering....just trawling the net this afternoon randomly....clicking on links and the like, looking up random peoples' webpages....and it occured to me. Stonepost ( http://groups.msn.com/Room307Stonepost ) is bollocks!! I mean, people are attracted to layout in a webpage! I know I'M attracted to layouts. I mean, sure, it's nice if you have something to say. Nothing like good content to back up your imagery. But Stonepost is not all that great. Then again, I could put a lot more time into it. I've been feeding off the intensity of Primal Scream ( www.primalscream.org/ ) recently. They've got this rock/punk swagger which I really admire, especially with songs like "Rocks". You know when you're at a pub, and it's really seedy, there's smoke everywhere [not that I like smoke, but hear me out], and there's dodgy people all over the shop drinking even dodgier beer, and the pool tables are full, only the serious players playing, no posers. But the main thing which adds into the atosphere : British low-fi music. I speak for the Iggy Pops, the Blurs, the Massive Attacks. Those sorts of people. The low-down working-class bands who sweated their arses off and looked like ponces for a few years, and then made it big. Unlike US superstars who just had it all handed to them on a platter. But then, the British bands are not keen to just revel in their success. They've got something to say. They've got agendas. And there's often problems in their own countries which causes them to be proactive in their own music, or just SOMETHING which makes you believe that the ideas behind their music, the emotion, is REAL. Take the Manic Street Preachers, for example. They could be making half their shit up for all we know. But it's delivered with such a seriousness that you just notice it from all the other fake crap out there.
Right - now the modern minute. Feeling decidedly seedy. Er - perhaps it's because it's 11:30 and I haven't showered yet - or got the clothes off the clothesline - maybe I should shave too - I'm looking decidedly like a dirty old man, and it's ok - there's no-one else around to notice, and there's no-one I have to impress, but man, I'm starting to feel the effects. I'm really on the Primal Scream kick at the moment....damn, they could teach a couple of bands how to write "riot music" - I mean there's nothing technically brilliant about the Screams' sound....it's truly excellent, and it really turns me on....but I guess it's the simplistic nature of it....a tribal erm...primitive-ism. Sometimes I like to make up my own words - they may not be 100% gramatically correct, or completely understandable, but for me, they serve their purpose at the time that I wanted them to serve it.
I'm out today to the Kelly Country - a clothing warehouse in St. Peters - you'd think it was a freakin' ranch somewhere in Country US - it's a joint where they customize suits for you...measure you out, that sort of stuff. Y'see, I got this med ball I've been invited to by my girlfriend on May 14 - and I need to get my shite together. SO I'm gonna go to Kelly Country and do it - have a sniff about, then head out to a shoe place and check out some of their wares. Fucking scary. I'm not the kind of guy to go shopping at the best of times, and recently I've been spending a lot of unhealthy time at General Pants - the place where the "cool kids" [whatever that means] buy their clothes. I must admit though, there were a few things I had my eye on...and one thing remains unchanged....[to my detriment] I STILL have expensive taste....