Back again in mostly better spirits than last time which is really kind of strange since I only got about three hours (if that) of sleep last night and had to open the store this morning.. Ive been doing that a lot as of late. I blame it on insomnia but the truth is that late at night is often the only time I have to myself and after working all day I feel like I need "me time" even if I will pay for it the next day. So Im sort of living a reclusive vampire lifestyle these days.
Soits kind of strange writing this. Because Im pretty damn sure no ones reading it. So it kind of feels like Im talking to myself. But as I said in my last entry, Ive never kept a journal and actually it seems like its helping me to deal with some of the bored, lonely, restless feelings Ive been having of late. Im still starving for things to do. Id go out now but I dont have any money and everything downtown is probably closing soon.
Looking forward to the Waterfront Blues Festival this weekend. Its been a long time since Ive heard live music and a REALLY long time since Ive heard live blues. I probably wont meet too many peers or potential friends at it, but oh well. Me time. And Etta Fucking James is gonna perform. Maybe Ill go spend some time at 2nd Avenue Records this weekend tooand Reading Frenzy.
So, I picked up Alkaline Trios "Good Mourning" CD and Im not sure what I think about it. It was a gamble because Ive never really been into Alk.3. But I never gave them much of a chance either. Anyway, I picked up this CD because of the song "Weve Had Enough". You see, at Corporate Whore Records (otherwise known as FYE which SHOULD stand for Fucking Yuppie Entertainment) we have these in-store-play CDs which the corporation provides for us with the latest sampling of "hot new tracks"bleh. So Im listening to this drivel all day long trying to figure out which song: Jewels newest teenie-trash or Lynyrd Skynyrds latest contribution to inbreeding and ignorance is most likely to make me insert a shot-gun into my mouth like a big black cock of death and pull the trigger. And Im choking back the bile as I have to listen to track after track of Corporate Americas Disneyland and Big Mac version of "punk"(read: The Ataris, Mest, All-American Rejects, and AFIs latest "fuck you" to hardcore). Anyhow, suddenly "Weve Had Enough" comes through the speakers and lo-and-beholdit actually rocks! Whats more the lyrics ("weve had enough, please turn that fucking radio off, aint nothing on the air waving the despair we feel") perfectly sum up my feelings about this place anyway. And, no, the irony of a song about crass commercialism and soul-sucking banality in American pop-music being played on a corporate in-store-play CD did not escape me. But I didnt care. It rocked, it spoke to me, and heyat least they stayed on an indy label. Granted its Vagrant, home to those pantheons of punk rock like Dashboard Confessional and The Get-Up Kidsbut oh well. The problem is, when I got home and peeled off the wrapper and popped the disc in I was suddenly overcome witha whole lotta nothing. I mean there are some good songs on there. Theres also a fair share of whiny "alternative rock" which these days is being called "Adult Alternative". I HATE "Adult Alternative". Its light rock for aging Gen-Xers. Its the hip younger brother of Phil Collins and Rod Stewart. Safe, radio-friendly, blandlike non-salted crackers.
So anyhow, I dont know what to think. They obviously have talent. As I said, theres some good stuff on there. Even Keith Fuckin "I Just Want Some Skank" Morris is on there. And Matt Skiba certainly has an admirable dark side. But then theres this other crap. I think Ill have to listen to this a little more.
Anyway, till next time
Soits kind of strange writing this. Because Im pretty damn sure no ones reading it. So it kind of feels like Im talking to myself. But as I said in my last entry, Ive never kept a journal and actually it seems like its helping me to deal with some of the bored, lonely, restless feelings Ive been having of late. Im still starving for things to do. Id go out now but I dont have any money and everything downtown is probably closing soon.
Looking forward to the Waterfront Blues Festival this weekend. Its been a long time since Ive heard live music and a REALLY long time since Ive heard live blues. I probably wont meet too many peers or potential friends at it, but oh well. Me time. And Etta Fucking James is gonna perform. Maybe Ill go spend some time at 2nd Avenue Records this weekend tooand Reading Frenzy.
So, I picked up Alkaline Trios "Good Mourning" CD and Im not sure what I think about it. It was a gamble because Ive never really been into Alk.3. But I never gave them much of a chance either. Anyway, I picked up this CD because of the song "Weve Had Enough". You see, at Corporate Whore Records (otherwise known as FYE which SHOULD stand for Fucking Yuppie Entertainment) we have these in-store-play CDs which the corporation provides for us with the latest sampling of "hot new tracks"bleh. So Im listening to this drivel all day long trying to figure out which song: Jewels newest teenie-trash or Lynyrd Skynyrds latest contribution to inbreeding and ignorance is most likely to make me insert a shot-gun into my mouth like a big black cock of death and pull the trigger. And Im choking back the bile as I have to listen to track after track of Corporate Americas Disneyland and Big Mac version of "punk"(read: The Ataris, Mest, All-American Rejects, and AFIs latest "fuck you" to hardcore). Anyhow, suddenly "Weve Had Enough" comes through the speakers and lo-and-beholdit actually rocks! Whats more the lyrics ("weve had enough, please turn that fucking radio off, aint nothing on the air waving the despair we feel") perfectly sum up my feelings about this place anyway. And, no, the irony of a song about crass commercialism and soul-sucking banality in American pop-music being played on a corporate in-store-play CD did not escape me. But I didnt care. It rocked, it spoke to me, and heyat least they stayed on an indy label. Granted its Vagrant, home to those pantheons of punk rock like Dashboard Confessional and The Get-Up Kidsbut oh well. The problem is, when I got home and peeled off the wrapper and popped the disc in I was suddenly overcome witha whole lotta nothing. I mean there are some good songs on there. Theres also a fair share of whiny "alternative rock" which these days is being called "Adult Alternative". I HATE "Adult Alternative". Its light rock for aging Gen-Xers. Its the hip younger brother of Phil Collins and Rod Stewart. Safe, radio-friendly, blandlike non-salted crackers.
So anyhow, I dont know what to think. They obviously have talent. As I said, theres some good stuff on there. Even Keith Fuckin "I Just Want Some Skank" Morris is on there. And Matt Skiba certainly has an admirable dark side. But then theres this other crap. I think Ill have to listen to this a little more.
Anyway, till next time
[Edited on Jun 30, 2003]