March Madness Time! Let’s go Dawgs. Go, go, champions. Be, be champions.
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Whiskey Galöre - Duffy
Written by Eric Glad during my time with Whiskey Galöre, I always felt that this song does pretty much everything your modern Pogues-esque band ought to do. Happy Saint Paddy’s and Slaínte, folks.
A list of bands and artists that I think would appeal to robots:
Animal Collective, Daft Punk, Battles, Merzbow, Meshuggah, Born of Osiris, Brian Eno, Mozart
Yesterday morning I was awoken at 6:00 in the morning by a sound that I was pretty sure was either an air raid or an alien invasion. But I was tired so I ignored it and went back to sleep. Then an hour later, the noise was back, as well as a few messages on my phone about avoiding the beach today, and hey, there’s a tsunami coming to Hawai’i by the way.
The fact that this tsunami turned out to be something of a dud didn’t keep the entire morning from being bizarre in a way similar to so many days in the aftermath or foreboding of some horrible thing. Watching the same simple images, being given the same limited facts, for hours on end; waiting for something more informative, more interesting to happen; eventually giving up and putting on the Olympics.
It’s slightly disturbing that I, that we are so easily distracted from situations that could potentially become serious disasters. It’s very disturbing that this is obviously the doing of the inane and sensationalist news media. And also I will have the image of shifting waters in Hilo Bay burned into my eyes for a long time.
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Tosin Abasi and his 8-string Guitar
Animals as Leaders is one of my new favorite bands in the world. Very cool, ethereal shred rock. Pretty much what Steve Vai wishes he could be. One of the really cool things is it’s the first time I’ve heard something really worthwhile being done with the eighth string on a guitar.
Meshuggah play 8-strings, but they really only do that for the sake of having a really low string. They’d do better to just play sevens tuned down a fifth. Ihsahn has started playing an 8 recently, and his new album is totally fantastic. Abasi, on the other hand, is a serious guitar player using every single one of those strings.
I demoed an 8-string once myself. Really, good on anyone who can comfortably play one at all, says I.
