Rise Above

Jul 21, 2009 08:20

I suppose I cannot understand why at the bottom of this text box it says, "Autosaved draft at 10:43:39 AM" IF the fact is, when I try to make an n with a tilde and the screen changes, I cannot come back to that draft.

When I was writing initially, I was listening to the song "Where Love Goes" by The Robot Ate Me. I cannot decide whether or not I like them.

Indie Kitsch.

Dirty Projectors, on the other hand, have become one of my favorite bands to ever exist. David Longstreth is an untouchable genius of musicality. Somehow it It seems as though every time I begin to think that the evolution of music has taken a lackadaisical mozy down the river of monotony, I run across this band again. I have always said that artistry is in the transformation (of a material into a new object). I cannot deny that by that definition David Longstreth is an artist of the most profound craftsmanship when I listen to the album Rise Above
In 1981, Black Flag released the album Damaged, this, followed by their album Family Man in 1984 made them the quintessential LA hard core punk band. Mr. Longstreth had the great notion to re-invent Damaged. 11 songs totally rearranged to make up the Dirty Projectors' Rise Above.
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