I am no longer bound to six, and as a consequence, I can just keep shoving music, old and new, into the visor and playing it whenever it pleases me. This tends to reflect mood rather than intent, because why would it not? The Datsuns – s/t Got this for $5 used at my local… Read More What’s in the CD Visor This Week — Overload the System Edition
So back in April my car got totalled. It was an old car, so it didn’t take much for the Insurance company to say “sorry, we’re just gonna cut you a check for the market value.” But that meant a new car, and a new stereo, and the market has moved passed what I am… Read More This Week in the CD Visor — Guitar experiments Edition
One of the first things I ever wrote, when I was a wet-behind-the-ears college freshman, was a one-act describing the wild nights I had observed more than taken part in. This was called Send in the Clowns, and because sophomore year we were trying to do a one-act festival, it got put on. I had… Read More The Return of The Collegiate Plays
Calling anything in my CD collection a “forgotten treasure” is a bit of a stretch. I have things in my collection I haven’t listened to in years (why are they still there? I haven’t decided that they’re in the way yet), and things I find myself constantly loading in. This week, however, I made a… Read More This Week in the CD Changer: Forgotten Treasures
Recently, Saturday Night Live said the quiet part out loud, trying to make fun of white Souncloud rappers as being Inauthentic: Now, I don’t have a dog in the hunt of what is and is not Hip-Hop. I don’t care that much about it. But the skit proves the opposite of the intended joke. Queen… Read More The Yeet Skirt Song is completely Valid as Hip-Hop: Why Imperial Gatekeeping Fails
It’s the first edition, but whatever. Because I am old, because I came up in a time when CD’s were the newest, hippest form of musical consumption, I have hundreds of them. True, the format has become the cultural equivalent of the 8-track, having neither the aesthetic cachet of vinyl nor the supreme convenience of… Read More This Week in the CD Changer: Interesting Failures Edition
The beast is hungry. Luke Combs took to social media Wednesday morning to say that he was “sick to my stomach” after waking up to learn that he had won a $250,000 judgment against a Florida woman who’d earned $380 selling 18 handmade drink tumblers with his likeness on them. The country superstar said he was… Read More Luke Combs Wins a Lawsuit He didn’t Know He was In, Ends up giving money to the Defendant
Jazz is, or is supposed to be, a wild idiom, invented on the fly by trained professionals, a masterpiece by midnight. Certain ontological limits exist: Jazz is a form of music, made with instruments, by people. You can have any number of people, and any instrument you want, and still call it jazz. The aesthetic… Read More Screeching Jazz, Punk Provocateurism, and Flaunting Whiteness – A Pondering of James Chance
I wish today, for no good reason, to write about Captain Beefheart. I am not, or at least not yet, an affirmed fan of Captain Beefheart, and given my stands on the concept of fandom in general, I am unlikely to become one (especially if there’s a tribal name attached to it, like “Beefheads”… the… Read More Radar Station Blues – Let us now Praise Captain Beefheart By Slapping His Fat Face
Meant to have this up sooner, but once I sat down to put it together it flowed nicely, and in fact I was able to create some good thoughts on the fly, which is always gratifying. One of the things on my mind a lot of late is the extent to which fandoms and other… Read More Content Blues, the Podcast: Episode 5 – What is Indy Can Never Di
Content Blues 