December 2009
6 posts
If This is the Decade of Glorious Musical... →
An excellent look at just how terrible one song can be.
“Several things about this song make me angry. Musically, it has always reminded me more of the soundtrack to all the underwater levels in Super Mario World than any Postal Service song. Lyrically, it’s insufferable—dim-witted and vague and blandly cute. But the fiery, molten-lava core of my fury rages and boils when Young comes...
November 2009
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Field studies.
Just an update: I’m working on some exciting new projects with a few different people. David, of Son of Adam fame, and I have been noodling around a bit, there are rumblings from the Cities Over Seas gang of some sort of Internet collaboration and my good friend Hunter is coming to visit around Christmastime.
In the meantime, this video is beautiful. Check it out.
Megafaun -...
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Election day.
It was 1994, and I was running for class president.
There are two major parties in third grade politics: boys and girls. In this case, the boys were the Republicans, and Ian Burris was the Ross Perot to my George H.W. Bush. Only one girl was running against us, but there were more boys than girls overall. Who would win?
Votes were cast, and I voted for Ian instead of myself because I...
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