:: Saturday, July 12, 2003 ::

Sometimes I feel the need to blog simply to profess my love for something. Music. Kick ass, quality music. Contrary to what image the world presents of music these days, there are some bands that keep the proverbial flame of music alive. Band like Coldplay, Audioslave, and hot off the presses with a spectacular album named Hail to the Thief, Radiohead. I have this horrible habit with good bands. I'll hear of them, or hear one or two of their songs, and become intrigued. However, I'm always "into" a band at any given point, so I sort of put the new stuff I hear on the backburner until its time comes and I can wholly appreciate that bands music, and most of the time it ends up sticking with me. Its not like I obsess over a band for a few weeks than forget about it, don't get that idea. I guess the point I'm trying to make here is that I'm in love with Radiohead. Sure I had heard a few songs of theirs over the years like "In Limbo", "Creep", and "Idioteque", but I had never really taken the time to delve into the depts of the brilliant minds of these artists through their music. Good music does indeed exist these days, people; Radiohead is a fucking pillar holding up much of my hopes of modern music. They started out around 1993 with a pretty generic english rock sound, and it evolved in the late 90s into some very intriguing experimentation with instruments and percussion and synthesizers and all sorts of things. Kid A(2000) and Amnesiac(2001) are their two other recent albums, and both have a unique flavor of instrumental experimentation mixed with great melodies and some "regular" things such as guitar to produce some really cool stuff. These guys are right up there with Pink Floyd as far as bands you need to just sit down and listen to their whole album at one time. I'm still sort of "new" to the band, but it sounds like with Hail to the Thief they have captured their uniqueness and more traditional elements to make something wholly better than either end of the spectrum. Did I mention the lyrics and art these guys do? It looks and feels and sounds like abstract yet on the dot things I would say or draw... very nicely done. So there you have it, go out and buy their new CD that came out June 10th or I shall cry.

Is there anything else I want to talk about while I'm at it? hmmm... Well yes my birthday is in, oh, roughly 1wk 3days 6hrs 56min 17secs. Something like that. I'll be sending out some sort of invitation e-mail and then if I don't get confirmation from people that way I'll call you personally. It looks like 13 to 16 people will form a mass fun orgy on the 23rd of this month. ROCK. Oh that reminds me, I need somebody to go out with me around the neighborhood so I can get a picture of me knocking over trashcans \m/ Don't ask, just nod and agree to my insane pleas. Also, almost everything I do has Megan as an undertone. And last night my last words I typed were waterfall full of falling water waiter another please another waterfall of water full...

:: Floydthebarber 7/12/2003 05:11:00 PM [+] ::
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