Due to popular demand, the two person review is gonna become a semi regular event - the people have spoken! Guest reviewer this week is good friend Ethan E. from Oregon)*rating* 7.6*amount of hipster genre namedropping in this review* 9.1ST: Alright, this week we've got Untrue, by Burial - the enigmatic London MC making waves with his homespun dubstep masterpieces.EE: Ooh yeah, i've heard o...
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What it brings to mind is that movie Dark City - rainy, cold, and wet, but cool (if you thought Dark City was cool). Like Dark City, it works consistently within its own existence, which is impressive in that Burial has developed his/her (I think his?) own grungy warm club sound. There's not a ton of variation, but the songs do something so particular and evoke such a strong, dark, sound it beg...
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So it's a new year, right? And words/phrases like "beginning" and "starting over" and "change" and "growth" and "a better you," are brandished all over the place. They're all nice and encouraging, fine, but a new year is really just a grander (three hundred and sixty five times grander, to be exact) case of S.S.D.D.All's not lost though: A new old year may be redundant (i.e., another new year) ...
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Halloween is cool because it brings out a dark, creative side of kids who are usually caught up in stupid shit like "toys" and "school". And for adults it's a once a year chance to put a mask on and murder people with a much, much greater chance of getting away with it. That's a win-win.It's crazy, because this blog is now a little over a year old and one of my first memories is the Halloween m...
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