so just in case you were wondering (which you, no doubt weren't) EMO FUCKING BLOWS!!!! hey if that's your thing, rock it, enjoy, I won't stop you, and I won't even judge you or prevent you from being my friend or anything, I could care less, honestly about you and your emo fetish.
I live in a row house in DC. Much like the row houses you'll find in Brooklyn, or Chicago, or some of Detroit, Atlanta, lots in Philly, Boston... for 9 months I've lived here and have spent a good portion of it travelling, doing my thing as sound person for Trail, RFTC, Trans Am...just so you know, that's my job... and in the 9 months I've lived here I've never had to revisit the time I spent at my last, awful group house situation in (puke!) Silver Spring, where Canyon practiced on the regular. Granted, I could listen to some Canyon to a certain extent. I could deal with the shaking floor, the uselessness of trying to listen to music in my room, whatever. Been there, I'm sure you have, too.
So I've been home, the dudes next door are swell, one of them is in Black Eyes, who up to the last time I saw them were one of the more intersting current bands in our little DC scene here. They're all settled in now and have jammed out a few times, which has been fine. It's been more exploratory weird PiL-style meandering jams.
So yeah, Emo...there was a band called Slint back in the 80's. No one heard them until the 90's. There was another band called Hoover, who were fucking god-aweful but nice dudes...they were also an early 90's band...at the risk of being the Abe Simpson geezer dude ranting on SG about shitty music that most of the people here like... WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THIS BULLSHIT IN 2003 CLANGING THROUGH MY WALL? I really don't give that much of a fuck if a band is playing next door. Man, do it, I'd never discourage anyone from playing music. Do it. But fuck...how unpunk is this half-tempo-barely competent math rock whiney shit? Ever hear of Black Flag? Bad Brains? SLAYER??!?!?!? I can't deal. I can't deal with bands trying to be Hoover and making Hoover sound like the fucking Modern Lovers or whatever. Believe me, there are somedays I wish I could dose whatever water they put in the pitchers at Emo shows at the black cat (cause you know those shitz don't like punk and they don't drink anything at shows, nothing wrong with that...) and play them Flipper and see what happens.
Do what you want, but bring your emocore fuckass garbage near me and it will get ugly.
oh wait, now they're doing space jams...I think I hear delay and some behind the bridge guitar weirdness...maybe they were just joking. SSShhhwheeeeewwww.....
ok.
go back to what you were doing....
so the atmosphere was perfect earlier today. riding through Rock Creek today was like being in New Zealand: dark and wet, mist rising from the ground, barely any hint of heat. So beautiful. I wanted to just pull over and chill but had things to do. Then it got gnarly and hot and muggy and gross like a normal DC day. then the sky unleashed a torrent of explosive shit and piss and we had an amazing storm. yes I'm talking about the weather and yes it was fucking cool.
just got home from talking to the college youngin' at the coffee shop. somehow we end up talking nerdspeak about audio and audiology and...it's funny I had a crush on her, but now that I know her I really don't. When I found out she was a nerd I was psyched. When I found out she was 100% full of herself I wasn't. But then I should remember at 22 I was totally full of myself. so we chatted. I asked her to help me with this story I started sitting there and she wanted me to help with some audiology pointers. Glad to help. Can't believe I'm going back there shortly to see some hiphop. Long live the hood!!!
thanks for reading. (/rantbullsshhhhh)
