Fuck this and fuck your perverse bullshit logic.

And, watch a video.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Ben Barnett - "Our First Brains" from HUSH Records on Vimeo.

Seriously, you can yell into the void all you want, but some people just don't want to hear anything. Let me just say that I consider each and every person responsible for the mediation of their own happiness. It's not anyone else's responsibility to call the shots on what is good or bad for you.

(You can blog into the void though, and thank fuck ( Read more... )

...overhyped trendy bands turn out to be pretty good?

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This Paul Baribeau record channels all the positivity I wish I could find it in myself to trust, and the raw acerbic truth I feel embarrassed to try and write down. It's really cool when music gets to you like that ( Read more... )

...it has two meanings. I crave more of the other.


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Holy fuck.

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Why do people sometimes just die with 3 weeks notice? Anyone, let alone that guy? And 10 years before I'd ever wise on, either. So it goes I guess.

Alright fine, 18 weeks, I don't even care. So I got a job and some people left my life, some people came in too. I joined a band as a lark, that band started huge and stayed that way. The music I make that I really care about continues to hover pointlessly like a bad smell. 3 more join the bad smell party for album rehearsals starting tomorrow. I ( Read more... )

They remastered the Bon Iver album for commercial release. I'm listening to it on Lucy's laptop, she has the real label version. I must've played that album at least 200 times since I got it. And now it sounds different and my autism is responding poorly.

Some dudes embark on real deal, booking agent, big crowd kinda tours. They go and they rock the fuck out ( Read more... )

You know, the past couple of days has been a real highlight, life-wise. Road-tripped down to Byron/Bangalow with Julian, Lucy, Maddy and Gel. Half the people i'd consider friends were down there too. We all saw Joanna Newsom and Andrew Bird and Jens Lekman in that tiny hall. So did Billy Bragg. He just came to hang out. I met him and it was ( Read more... )