The American president Americans have been waiting for.
Sentridoh: Forever Instant
Juvenilia, or:
Fun With the Wayback Machine
(Part Two of A Potentially Recurring Series for When I'm Too Busy/Sleepy/Boring/Lazy/Vain for to Write Much)
Weezer is the only band I loved in 7th and 8th grade that I still love today. They're amazing, absolutely amazing. Half of the songs are the story of my life, the other half are the story of my dreams (whatever the hell that means). Basically, these guys rock. For those of you who don't own their second album, Pinkerton, c'mon, buy it, it's awesome (just like the first one, shown below)!
(me, 1997 or 1998)
Embracing the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past.
Blur: All Your Life
The reason for this recent stroll down memory lane, aside from the fact that I drive myself crazy enough writing paid assignments these days (so the prospect of a multi-hour, thoughtful blog project is less practical/appealing than it once was), is a note from a polite person yesterday who says he remembered a cheesy, godawful recording I put on MP3.com in 1999 or 2000. It was a six-minute dirge called "Don't Fade Away," which I wrote about college graduation and performed outdoors at my high school with my friend Phill Daniel (for some kind of battle of the bands, but we weren't actually competing because Phill organized the thing). Anyway, as a music critic I was way too embarrassed, self-conscious, and paranoid to send even a friendly-seeming correspondent such a totally crappy track (off-key vocals, wanky guitar solo, ridiculous emoting, goofy beat programming, sampled strings!, conga drums!), but somehow I found myself on the archive site at archive.org, looking at my old MP3.com page.
When I did this, I noticed something totally random. I had only two links to "Other MP3.com Artists". One was to my friend Matt's Klunko IDM project. The other was to a lo-fi project called Lackthereof, by a guy named Danny Seim. Lackthereof. Danny Seim. These things seemed familiar to me. So I did some Googling.
mp3 (zshare)
We don't never say shit, we the Blue Man Group.
Jazz Butcher: Susie
Forkcast, Oct. 3, 2007
At a Menomena live show, it becomes head-slappingly apparent how vital Danny Seim's drumming is to the Portland band's fractured, loop-based pop songs. Starting even before Menomena made their startlingly good 2003 debut, I Am the Fun Blame Monster, Seim has released seven solo albums under the moniker Lackthereof. 2004's Christian the Christian was the first to receive proper distribution, and now a follow-up, My Haunted, is on the way via Portland label FILMguerrero.
Full circle, like Cheerios.
Quiet Village: Victoria's Secret & other songs (something of a Silent Movie preview, I guess) [possibly NSFW at the VERY end!]
