get back at the bastards who kept you silent…
“2X2″ by get him eat him is a terrifically feverish two minutes of guitar pop…the words are strung together quite well…and i’m always a sucker for good pop songs that use words like “bastard” in the them…it’s the album’s opener…i haven’t enjoyed the rest of the album as much…but this song’s a definite keeper…mix-tape worthy…
i spent a good portion of my time between the age of 16 and 20 making mix-tapes for people…i miss it quite a bit…at first, i exclusively made cassette tapes for friends…many of them found this annoying, but also convenient when they found themselves in cars without CD players…i liked tapes over CDs only because you couldn’t really skip a track you didn’t like after listening to the first twenty seconds or so…eventually i caved in and made CDs instead for people…but now that even CDs are obsolete i’m not sure where to go from here…a mix podcast?…anyone have suggestions?…
i woke up early and went to our new school site…it’s coming along slowly…i spent the morning putting together the pieces of our schedule…making a school schedule is painfully long and annoying…luckily it’s a highly mathematical process so i’ve had some fun working on it…i also found out that we’ll only have 17 kids in a class for next year which is phenomenal…anyone who talks to me about education knows how strongly i feel about small class size…especially at highly volatile time periods like middle school…i can’t wait to see what i can do with such a small class size…
among the wreckage at our current school site, we found eight midi keyboads with accompanying g4 laptops…i’ve already reserved a fairly sizable room for the guitars i’m getting at the end of august as a music center for the kids…excitement…everywhere…
i’ve always wanted to play guitar and sing/scream in a really loud, in-your-face kind of band like at the drive-in or certain parts of fugazi and q and not u…this might be a perfect thing to pursue whenever i hit my mid-life crisis…probably when i round the thirty-five years of age…i reason that it’s a pretty good idea to have a mid-life crisis planned out ahead of time…
i’m preparing to spend the rest of the week with my parents at their new house in massachusetts…i’m trying to figure out if i can bring one of my guitars with me to leave up there…every time i leave the city to visit, i’m left with any music making tools for about a week…i’m fairly addicted to music-making at this point, so it feels a little like a drug withdrawal…i think it’ll keep my irritation level low as well…i’m also going to try and convince mom and pop to purchase a nice piano to put in one of the rooms in the house…it would be swell and i’d probably sit behind the whole time i’m there…
still on the look-out for a fender rhodes…let me know if you know someone who’s looking to get rid of one…
ooxx aa
“years from now they will make water from the resevoirs of our idiot tempers.” – constantines