What I could do without it – buy a car, shower myself in hundred dollar bills, have a life. Oh wow. But..

There are some things that feel out of society, little secrets, places that can only be found through sound. These places I visit each day and feel the warmth of heaven upon me. As much as I would love to stop collecting, listening, writing, I feel that these past discoveries, selfish they are, are immensely important. Writing a song like Darkened House, hearing Hurt by Nine Inch Nails for the first time, writing a song like Shattered or its emotional counterpart – Lost to the Good, or hearing something fantastic in a Steve Kilbey song that I feel nobody else may feel. I do not know who I would have become if I had not heard these songs.. these obsessions.

Have a listen to some of these and you may hae an idea where my music is heading. These are songs which allowed me to see something new in music.

A Perfect Circle – Magdelena
A Storm of Light – Vast and Endless
Adrian Belew – Ampersand
Aereogramme – In Gratitude
Agalloch – She Painted Fire Across the Skyline
Amon Amarth – The Hero
Anael – Devil’s Tongues
Aphex Twin – Come To Daddy
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #2
Atavist II Ruined – II
Audioslave – Cochise
Barenaked Ladies – The Old Apartment
Big Wreck – Overemphasizing
Bjork – Unravel
Blind Melon – Paper Scratcher
Bloc Party – Plans
Blood of the Black Owl – Crippling of Age
Bloodbath – Hades Rising
Bloodhound Gang – Mope
Blur – Ambulance
Brian Welch – Home
Broken Social Scene – Cause=Time
Buddy Guy – Baby Please Don’t Leave Me
Burst – We Watched the Silver Rain
The Chemical Brothers – Setting Sun
The Church – Two Places at Once
Collective Soul – Crown
Dave Matthews – So Damn Lucky
The Dears – Lost in the Plot
Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism
The Decemberists – The Tain
Deftones – Digital Bath
Derek ad the Dominos – Little Wing
Destroyer – Destroyer’s Rubies
DJ Shadow – Napalm Brain – Scatter Brain
The Doors – People are Strange
Dozer – From Fire Fell
Econoline Crush – Sparkle and Shine
Editors – All Sparks
Edwin – Hang Ten
Envy – The Unknown Glow
The Eyes of a Traitor – With Different Eyes
Filter – Hey Man Nice Shot
Final Fantasy – That’s When the Audience Died
Finger Eleven – Above
Foo Fighters – Everlong
Frog Eyes – Silence but for the Gentle Tinkling of the Flowing Creek
Genesis – The Musical Box
Genghis Tron – Board up the House
Gojira – The Way of All Flesh
Grizzly Bear – Lullabye
Handsome Furs – Snakes on the Ladder
Hawksley Workman – Anger as Beauty
Hednoize – Drain
Hypocrisy – Roswell 47
I Mother Earth – Earth, Sky, & C
Isidore – Sanskrit
Islands – Ones
Jack Frost – Providence
Johnny Clegg – Work For All
Kasabian – Shoot the Runner
Khanate – Pieces of Quiet
King Crimson – Coda Marine 475
Korn – My Gift To You
Kula Shaker – SOS
Liars – Drum and the Uncomfortable Can
Live – Selling the Drama
Lunatic Soul – The Final Truth
Marilyn Manson – The Reflecting God
Marty Willson-Piper – How Come They Don’t Touch The Ground
Mastodon – Hearts Alive
Matthew Good – Primetime Deliverance
The Melvins – Civilized Worm
Meshuggah – Bleed
Metallica – One
Midge Ure – The Gift
Moist – Resurrection
My Dying Bride – The Dreadful Hours
Neurosis – Times of Grace
Neverending White Lights – I Hope Your Heart Runs Empty
Nine Inch Nails – Burn
No-Man – Truenorth
Opeth – The Lotus Eater
Our Lady Peace – Naveed
Paradise Lost – Gothic
Peter Gabriel – Intruder
Phil Collins – Survivors
The Philosopher Kings – Can’t Get My Mind Around You
Pink Floyd – Echoes
Placebo – Without You I’m Nothing
Primordial – The Coffin Ships
Psykosonik – I am God
Queensryche – Anybody Listening
Radiohead – Let Down
The Refo-mation – Traitor
Reverend Bizarre – Cirith Ungol
Roger Waters – It’s A Miracle
Rosetta – Red in Tooth and Claw
Rush – Freeze
Ryan Adams – Hotel Chelsea Nights
Satyricon – Black Lava
Sigur Ros – Untitled 4
Skepticism – Nothing
Soundgarden – The Day I Tried To Live
The Smashing Pumpkins – Mayonaise
Spirit of the West – Just Another Day
Steve Kilbey – Space
Strapping Young Lad – Devour
Sunset Rubdown – Snakes Got a Leg
Swan Lake – City Calls
System of a Down – Chop Suey
The Tea Party – A Certain Slant of Light
Tool – Third Eye
The Tragically Hip – Stay
Treble Charger – Red
Unearthly Trance – Permanent Ice
Unkle – Rabbit in Your Headlights
The Verve – A New Decade
Wilco – Misunderstood
Wolf Parade – I’ll Believe in Anything

That is what they will read once they find this site. Yes, Google just got the recon and now we (as in eye and I) will rough up the neighborhoods. Feel free to read old posts and comment.

ps. Every grammer the error brought attention to mine gets ONE INTERNET.

I was listening to music on random while reading a book and something very strange came on. This song had smothered vocals, trumpets, strange percussion, experimental song structure, and a poppy but distant emotion. I thought to myself ‘Oh no, I have one of those retarded new indie songs’. Now let me explain – I listen to the radio quite often and usually not by choice, and I find there are quite a few artists out there who have this strange new style. When I finally find out who wrote the music, they were either influenced by some major indie band or they are an up and coming band on an independent label. Experimenting with music styles is usually not a bad thing but can bring some horrible results. Take any pop structure and toss in a strange against the grain harmony or forgotten instrument, but make sure it sounds more puzzling than musical. What you get is.. #@*$)&@) which is perfect for indie music. Next, you need some strange emotion. When you are ready, run to your nearest recording spot (basement?) and just go nuts! Nothing like ruining a comfortable pop song with a badly recorded distorted trumpet and squeaky dog toy.

I loathe a lot of indie bands today, but back in the last century, bands were working hard and creating imaginative and emotional drifting music (Broken Social Scene, Dears, Death Cab for Cutie.. etc) the music was good and somewhat different but vaguely familiar. Nothing seemed to be written to be the next big single or made to break charts, the music was raw, emotional, and to the point – flawed but incredibly pure and honest. Some of these indie bands created the most beautiful music I have ever heard, and they made it big their own way.

Now time-warping to 2009, some bands seem to feel that they can break into the indie market by throwing in shitty and annoying samples. Bleeps and droning hums, and other things that do not belong in pop structure, like the strangeness of the music is what made them popular. When I hear these songs on the radio I usually focus on the pop parts as I enjoy a good pop song, but the extreme weirdness beats the piss out of the whole thing.

So after thinking about this and getting mad I reach for my mouse and opened my music player. The song was Summer of ’68 by Pink Floyd.

So life goes on and here it is, a.. blog. Have I accepted the word? No. It still sounds stupid to me. Since I will be writing about many things including my music (which I am very serious about), and since I will have guest writers, I need to accept that it is a ‘blog’.

See? Blog is in the title. I have come a long way.

Bring a shovel.

Bring a shower curtain.

Bring a hole.

Bring some dynamite.

Take cover.

Soon I will be adding Featured Artist threads and so forth. If you have any requests, please comment. *snort*

I am having a knee slapping good time!

Advice for the day: The Top 10 Things You Should Never Eat Of All Time

1. A Nuclear Warhead

2. Poison

3. Family members

4. 3 Cellphones

5. A Fan Blade

6. An Airplane

7. Cartman’s Chili

8. An oxygen tank

9. Any of my stuff

10. and a partridge in a pear tree!!

So how goes it there, spammers and other? Registrations got yer tongue? Haha! Yes, I said to comment yet you are unable to do so. I find this very entertaining. You see, the last time I allowed anybody to register and comment, I was overwhelmed by spammers. My current plan is to let things build for a bit then allow you to comment. What would you comment about? The weather? Yeah, I know what you would comment about. It would be something like ‘Need a larger Vagina? Take these pills! Instant mutant!’. I have seen them all.

I will open the comment section to users shortly, that is, shortly in my universe of inconsistent time.

Update on current projects: The Tower’s Heartbeat was born a few weeks back out of a nightmare.  The Avate (or Avation Projects) albums are going to require a lot of strings.

Today’s advice: Do not mix medications.

http://themoderatevoice.com/28089/why-america-must-address-gun-control-guest-voice/

Here is an article about avoiding the scapegoat blame of video games Causes Violence and blames another scapegoat – guns. Apparently, if we were to increase gun control then we would have a better society.

Face it, people hurt and kill people because people WANT to hurt and kill people! This has always been the case and it will always be. If we did not have any guns we would find other instruments of pain.

Video games are easy to blame because they are a source of entertainment that few people properly understand. Many people who are ignorant about games think they use mind control through repetition to force people to commit violence. If this sounds ridiculous, go and ask some people, and wear an anti-games shirt to push them to be honest about their feelings.

Guns are instruments of war and since that is a part of human nature and since conflict is a part of any living thing, guns or the common weapon will be here to stay. People will never be able to prevent guns from being brought into their country, or prevent somebody from using one.

Violence is something we cannot prevent if we continue to finger point like this. We need to educate, take responsibility, and remove the ‘good decent soul’ portion of our societies teachings because deep down, you and I, we are all able to do horrible things and we know it. You are not a sinner, you are a living person and you will defend what you believe in, if it is your belief in god or belief that you should protect the ones you love. The truth is, if somebody were about to hurt somebody you loved, you could do horrible things to protect them.

This is not to say that I am pro gun, I am from Canada and we do not see very many guns. I believe in the gun registry and think owning a gun for personal protection is a way to only look for trouble.

Feel free to comment.

Sarcasm is the most important thing in the universe, forever.

It makes conversation difficult to understand, and important pieces of sarcastic conversation can become important literature – although when written it loses its sarcasm and becomes fact.

This is a difficult introduction to this blog and I hope you enjoy it’s birth as much as its middle-aged and overweight future self. There is a chance that those reading this blog have ventured to its beginning to search for an opening statement or perhaps something to show it has evolved from happy and young to its hidious or frightfully mutated peresent self. This is true, I have ventured into the future and see what lies there and it is not pretty – I must juggle my beliefs and opinions as well as those important topics which get me into trouble more carefully. Remember the one last week?? Wow, how did I get myself into that topic?

I will now watch this post disappear as time passes and imagine those who search for it commenting about it, go ahead. Was what I saw in the looking-glass true or was I looking into my beer glass instead? I always mix those two up.

Stay tuned for much controversial..