Try as I might I can't seem to wrap my head around the supposed brilliance of three time Grammy-winner Kanye West. I was leafing through the musings of the hipper-than-thou music critics of The Village Voice as they slammed the all the Grammy nominees as disposible fluff "with the possible exception of Kanye". I don't see anything remarkable about ( Read more... )

I just wanted to share some recent reflections, revelations and ruminations of mine on pop music, in mean that in the broad sense of the word, which is to say: rock, country, hip-hop, and what is generally recognized as "pop" (Ashley Simpson, etc ( Read more... )

There is a scene in Return of the Jedi (no, I haven't seen Episode 3 yet and I'm not even a big Star Wars fan! This is simply a random thought) when Luke confronts the Emperor and says ( Read more... )

I usually don't make sentimental entries like this, but listening to Pantera right now the full impact suddenly hit me. Dime is gone... I posted about this before but for some reason the full impact didn't hit me until now. I was just crying in the bathroom at work, which isn't the kind of macho remembrance the man probably would have wanted - but ( Read more... )

"Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, guitarist of Damage Plan and formerly Pantera was shot dead on stage at a show in Columbus, OH last night. I was never a huge Pantera fan (because of the vocals) but I've been a huge fan of Dime and his playing for a while now. His riffs had a machine-like brutality and precision while his solos were very organic: moving ( Read more... )

I think I might have to kill someone if Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince doesn't come out soon! I'm rereading Goblet of Fire right now, because I think there are some important details in it that I may have missed the first time. In the meantime I recently bought the soundtrack to Prisoner of Azkaban. It's the first new CD I've purchased in a ( Read more... )

Today is my birthday. I am 21 years of age. Happy birthday to me!

I haven't updated in a while but I thought I'd through out a couple phrases in the English language that appear to be quite useless. The two that spring to mind right now: "Be that as it may", "As you may or may not know", and "It is what it is". These phrases are meaningless wastes of words and breath.