agwprn I decided to change things up this year and try actually focus my writing. Hence the name change. I want this to be a space where I can ...
A while ago a friend gave me a book called Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad. It tells the story of several punk bands from the 80s that influenced the punk/hardcore/noise rock scenes. I have slowly been making my through it as well as listening to the bands in the process. Bands like Minor Threat and Black Flag aren't new to me but there was one band that I wanted to know more about.…
A couple weeks ago I had a craving for some philosophy. I don't know what brought this on but at the risk of sounding melodramatic here, it feels like a major life choice. I have yet to pull the trigger on doing any significant reading into any specific strand of philosophy as I have no idea where to start. I have The Metamorphosis by Kafka staring me down on a daily basis just waiting for me to…
In less than 2 weeks I will officially be done with University. There is nothing special about that at all. I'm 36 and finishing my first degree, the word first kinda implies there might be a second or further study. There won't be based on my current feelings of higher education. As much as I've enjoyed my degree I have also been looking forward to this day for some time now. At first it was…
I have been busy these past few weeks. Seriously my uni work has just been like an avalanche on my ability to construct a coherent thought with regards to things I want to write about. I spoke about this in my last post and nothing has changed since then. I am in fact using this time to take a 20min break from academic work because something did stir some thoughts in my head. Yesterday I google…
There is a rhythm to things in the world and you sometimes have to just go with the flow or with what feels right. I say this because I haven't posted anything on either of my blogs for a while now. Not that anyone is waiting to read my meandering thoughts. It's also not like I haven't had a lack of things I could write about but I think with work and the stresses of life I just haven't had the…
I'm a bit late to the party but I suppose better late than never. I finally got around to checking out Angine de Poitrine on KEXP live. It is really good. No I mean it, it is really bloody good. Also the costumes are silly in the best kind of way. I have seen some weird stuff in my time and this fits the bill for weird. Is it the weirdest? Maybe, it is up there. Angine de Poitrine are a two piece…
A few months ago I started listening to reggae and dancehall. I like to explore different genres and because NTS radio has a decent selection so when I am at work I can listen to music without scaring my co-workers. Another reason is because Chip from the band The Body wore a Cutty Ranks shirt during their Audiotree live set with Dis Fig. I have mentioned a lot of bands in that paragraph but the…
I wake up suddenly to my alarm. It’s 7:25am and my room is still dark and I am at that level of comfort you are at when you know you have to get out of bed. That supreme comfort. Sitting up on my bed while the fog clears in my head. I say fog clears but it’s more a case of the world comes flooding back into my head. It’s Wednesday and that means it’s coffee outside day. Coffee outside is a small…
During the month of January as a way to not immediately go to my phone in the morning I decided to read a graphic novel. So upon waking up I would brew myself a coffee and sit down and read whatever I had found in the second hand book shop. It started off with Saga which is very good but, the problem with Saga is that it isn’t finished and I don’t have the funds to start up a graphic novel habit.…
I was first introduced to the films of Lucio Fulci way back in the winter of ‘23. December 2023 I started watching old godzilla films and a little known genre called Giallo. Fulci has a few contributions to that whacky genre but thats a discussion for another day. I want to focus on his more gory zombie contributions to the silver screen. I recently dipped back into his works by watching a couple…