if you'd been a dog, they would have drowned you at birth

As I was moving, I located my copy of Radiohead's Amnesiac in a box with a bunch of my books. I hadn't listened to it since (probably) 2002, so this weekend I listened to it again. Holy shit, what a great album. I really didn't 'get' this and Kid A when they were first released. I was really getting too ahead of myself, since just a mere year before these albums were released, I was an unabashed metalhead. Now though, I'm really getting it.

It sounds like the era in which it was released- before 9/11; just shortly after GWB took office and hadn't had time to completely destroy the world as we knew it; and more than a little ambivalent. It was an album for the sake of art, going beyond a usual five-piece band, adding electronic somethings-or-others and Thom Yorke using his voice as another instrument. An interesting experiment that I doubt anybody but Radiohead could have pulled off.

It's not as satisfying as OK Computer or In Rainbows, but could ANYTHING be comparable to those? I remain doubtful.

got some

Wow, long time no post. Anyway, this happened a week ago, and it's Pearl Jam related, so I'm shocked it's taken me this long to post this...



It's a new song 'Got Some' from the new album due in September, titled Backspacer.

it's like this

In order to get you so fuckin' pumped for the comic, I'm going to show you what really inspired me to go with it in the first place- a band called Sons of Butcher.

"We Fuckin Rule (All Your Asses)"


"Fuck The Shit"


Best not to watch these at work, around children, or big babies. You know who you are.

international radio sensation

Work continues to proceed on the heavy metal comic. Still working/fucking with the copyright stuff, but I want to have a backlog before I start since I work remorselessly slow on stuff like this. That and I'm a Luddite and haven't figured out my scanner yet.

I've been thinking that I'll need a pen name for this comic. Sure, I'm a hound for the glory and would love to have everyone know that it was me that created this little absurd comic, but some of the things/song titles in these comics MIGHT come back to bite me in the ass in five or ten years. I was thinking Joseph Gravelshitter. Yay? Nay? God help me if I ever have to name a kid, amirite?

Oh yeah, I recently dug out some stuff I haven't listened to in a while. You should dig on Black Mountain. I've written about them before, but you should do yourself a great favor and get a copy of their album 'In The Future' or at least just listen to 'Tyrants.' It's kind of like if Rush, Jefferson Airplane and Uriah Heep did acid together, got all freaked out, read the Lord of the Rings, and wrote a really bitchin' song.

moving. blah.

I really don't like moving. Sure, I like being in a new and better place, but getting there is such a bitch. It doesn't help when you have as much shit as I do, and it all has to be boxed. As far as all my music is concerned, I am really considering leaving most of it in the boxes I've put them in for long-term storage. I won't sell them, since I won't get much for them and nobody buys CDs anymore anyway. But with as many as I have, they are difficult to keep around sometimes. To say nothing of the LPs.

Anyway, this was just an outlet to complain about the packing-up thing. Ha, made you read.

buried you alive in a fireworks display

Damn. Not a lot happening here, huh? I really haven't bought much lately, or listened to much new stuff. I did finish U2's discography, so that was keen. I suppose there won't be much here until Wilco's new album comes out.

I'm also thinking this is where the heavy metal comic will be seen. As soon as I get everything copyrighted, that is. I've been up til 4 AM for a while now working on it, so I'd really like to let this project be seen by folks. So let's see- copyrighting, and then figuring out how to use the scanner on my printer, and not have to clean them up digitally since I don't have the technology to do so.

proof that your parents were hip at one time

I was helping my dad figure his new USB turntable last weekend. One of the albums wanted to rip was this masterpiece by Uriah Heep, called Demons and Wizards. I asked to take it home so I could dig it on my own turntable.

Holy shit, is this some great music. The kind of stuff that you never knew you wanted to hear until you actually heard it, as if it fills a previously-unknown area in your soul, as all good music should.

It sounds like a Dungeons & Dragons game if all the players were minstrels, to put it in a too-distilled way. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but I bet I'd have a lot more fun playing that game had my DM not been so focused on combat and dungeon crawling, but that is another story.

I've been on the search for the CD since I spun my dad's LP. Surprise, it's obscure as far as big box retailers are concerned. (Oh, how I miss the local FYE.) I guess it'll be like everything else- I search for weeks, until I finally break down and order it from Amazon. Le sigh.