Mournful Congregation - The Monad of Creation

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We tend to speak of things that are melodramatic as though they must thereby be insincere, overwrought, or cheap.  However, I am careful in condemning something that is perhaps merely upfront about the emotions to which it hopes to appeal.  I don't think it's a crime, especially in music, for an artist ( Read more... )

 Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm

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While the title track from A Sun that Never Sets is probably my favorite Neurosis song of the decade, The Eye of Every Storm has an astounding flow as an overall album, rather than just a collection of songs.  Although, here's "A Sun that Never Sets" just for good measure:

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Neurosis were the 2nd band I ever ( Read more... )

At 4:15pm today, it happened but no one noticed.  Outside there was only black and white.  Trees and buildings were rorschach-blobbed in two dimensions against the sky.  The color prism was eradicated; there was nothing in the middle.  All the reds and blues and greens inside seemed hyperreal, high-definition and vulgar.  The lights turned off on ( Read more... )

 Do you think that getting a tattoo on your penis requires having a biggest boner the whole time?

 Have you ever really been into that band Weezer?  They used to be such a rad band.  My favorite Weezer song is called "Mykel & Carli."  It is a tribute they wrote to their two biggest early fans, like from before they got famous.  Mykel & Carli started the Weezer fan club.  On their way to a Weezer concert in Oregon in 1997, Mykel & Carli died in ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, Sega Dreamcast!

Fuck an LJ Cut:


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 Just These Dudes reminded me of how much more invested I felt in Livejournal than I ever have in Facebook.  When someone added me as a Livejournal friend in 2004, that really seemed to mean something solid.  Perhaps this is all sentimental malarky.  I appreciate that my web browser accepted this spelling of "malarky ( Read more... )

Of those of you who regularly get where you're going by bicycle, how frequently have you experienced ( Read more... )

Chocolate ice cream cures zombies.

Outer Space is too high for kitties.

I can say with some certainty that when I learned, at the age of 4, what dying was, I realized what it meant to care about something.  I think that might have been the most significant day in my life thus far in shaping who I am.