Hench!

Lord, I hate Tuesday. Today is lousy as usual. Really busy at work, really busy at home, and I’m still trying to kill that fucking mouse in my kitchen. I’ve been cleaning like a madman so I don’t know what it’s been eating, but it must take thirteen shits a day. I’ll be happy when its dead.

The only interesting news is that I’m nearly done with my review for the new John Doe album, which sounds pretty 90s; e.g. dull and old sounding. AOR alt country, which is a kind of music that I tend to shy away from. I guess some of it’s all right, but it’s mostly emo dressed up with cowboy hats and trembling chins. Someday they’re going to find out that being mornful causes blood parasites and all of these guys will die together in a hospice, strumming their guitars and watching Northern Exposure on the tiny day room television. The monument built over their mass grave will be a giant granite mitten with the words “Here Lie the Sad Eyed Troubadours,” and weepy men in denim shirts will leave gardenias and cantelopes for them. (The John Doe album actually pretty good, by the way, it was mostly the production that sucked. But that’s another story entirely.)

In other news, still fighting my way through Oswald Spengler’s Decline of the West. So far, so good, and really interesting in the way that things I don’t agree with are interesting. Listening to a lot of free/improvised/noise things. Peter Brotzmann and the like. I wonder if people would make music with so little structure if it hadn’t been for the advent of modern recording/playback devices. I think that part of the reason why I’m listening to this stuff is that, after over a decade of dedicated music consumption, I’m just getting fucking bored with structured things. Oh, dischord. Oh, satisfaction.

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