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On Letting Go: Part II – Music

Paul Atkinson IV — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:05:03 +0000

Part II – Music:
“Respect your elders.”
This is a notion far too often misinterpreted. Respect for your elders does not simple mean respect the past, respect what is old, and what has simply existed before you. What was supposed to be said here was: “Respect the wise.”

A lot of old people are wise.

But, a lot of old people are batshit insane, bigoted, deranged, mentally ill, and completely fucking worthless.

Both these statements are true of old bands.

Respect the founders who shaped the music you listen to today. Respect Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Buddy Rich, Robert Johnson ect… but even the greats can’t be accepted fully. Don’t just eat what they feed you. Only respect what is actually good.

For example: Only respect The Who’s material before Keith Moon died. Only respect The Rolling Stones before they dabbled in disco and Alt-country. Simply do not listen to the songs Rush wrote during their synth period. Do not under any circumstances try to appreciate anything the Sex Pistols did besides “Never Mind The Bollocks” because everything else is a cash grab shitstorm.

Now, once you’ve got that down, once you’ve thrown out The Doors albums without Jim Morrison and said, “Fuck Wings, that shit is not the Beatles!” now it’s time to reject the albums of your youth.

Chances are that only a few albums that came out during your lifetime are worth keeping. Keep in kind the following:
-“original” doesn’t necessarily mean “memorable”
-“progressive” does not mean “influential”
-in no way at all does “I loved that as a kid” mean “This album will never get old, boring, or leave its place in my heart.”

Issues at hand:
“Original” – Some say Nirvanna is an over-rated band. Well, guess what? They are. Still, it’s worth keeping their albums, they’re influential and listenable. This is different from bands like Fugazi, who, though very influential, are not listenable at all. In fact, they serve no purpose anymore but that of historical reference. You are allowed to name drop them, but never love them.

“Progressive” – Every album that you own, that when you turn on and crank up the volume elicits this conversation…
Best friend: “Dude, what the fuck are we listening too!?!?”
Your response: “Just listen to how complex this is man! They’re crazy musicians!!!”
…should simply be thrown out.

A band is never automatically good just because it is comprised of good musicians. There is simply no correlation. This is why The Ramones are good and Dream Theater sucks. This is why The Clash is great on “London Calling” but sucks on “Sandinista!” This why bands like The #12 Looks Like You and Genghis Tron are only loved by people who hate pop music, but can’t write anything listenable themselves. This is the reason people like Steve Vai, Terry Bozio, Joe Satrianni, Mike Portnoy, Les Claypool, and all the like are fucking worthless.

“I loved that as a kid” – I had an attractive girl over my house the other day. She has a great taste in music and she thought the same of me until something disastrous happened… She found my childhood record collection – which was unhidden, simply because I had learned to ignore its existence.

She found records from bands such as LFO, Backstreet Boys, N’Sync, and 98 Degrees…
It is not my fault I grew up in an age where boy bands raped the youth of the land. It is not my fault that those bands were popular before I bought my own albums and people like my grandma were the source of my CD collection. What is completely and unforgivably my fault is the fact that I did not huck every one of those albums out my window, into a fire, or into the fucking ocean.

Bad music simply needs to be eradicated from this earth. It is as simple as that.

Now you might ask, “But, how do I define what music is good?” Well, good fellow, you are lucky enough to being living in an age where it is easier than ever to find the answer to this age old question.

One option is to simply read anything by Chuck Klosterman. Just make sure you ignore anything he says about KISS, that’s the only band he has misjudged. Sadly here Chuck made a huge fucking mistake, because in actuality KISS sucks, not just a little, but really hard. Aside from that though, he’s a great source to steal your musical knowledge from.

Another option is to use teh internets. The thing is that this can be quite tricky because the internet has let little niche groups of people with horrible musical taste to band together and look like they have some kind of widespread, intelligent, majority opinion. I would say just stick to AMG reviews, they get it right most of the time… just watch out, sometimes they fuck up big time.

Your best option is the one that takes the least effort:
Just read my column, be my friend.
I know my shit.

Lou Pearlman sent to prison for fraud www.privateofficer.com

privateofficernews — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:29:47 +0000

Lou Pearlman sent to prison for fraud www.privateofficer.com

ORLANDO Fla. May 22 2008
Lou Pearlman, the man made famous for creating the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in federal prison for engineering a decades-long scam that bilked thousands of investors out of their life savings.
It was the maximum penalty he could have received for the $300 million the music mogul allegedly swindled out of banks and individual investors since the early 1980s. Pearlman pleaded guilty in March to two counts of conspiracy and single counts of money laundering and presenting a false claim in bankruptcy court.
Senior U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp noted that many victims were Pearlman's own relatives, friends and retirees in their 70s or 80s who lost everything.
''The sympathy factor just doesn't run very high with the court,'' Sharp said.
However, he said he would reduce Pearlman's sentence by one month for every $1 million returned to the investors. It's not clear how, or if, the investors would ever be compensated.
''I want to say clearly that there's no pot of gold out there,'' defense attorney Fletcher Peacock said.
The courtroom was packed with victims, some of whom gave emotional testimony of how Pearlman ruined their lives. Another two dozen or so waited outside the courtroom.
Waneta Reynolds of St. Petersburg Beach limped to the lectern and erupted in tears. She said her husband Roger invested millions in Pearlman's Transcontinental companies' ''savings accounts.'' Pearlman promised they were insured, in some cases three times over. They weren't insured, or even invested, prosecutors say.
'[My husband] said, `I lost all my self confidence' '' after they learned they had been scammed, Reynolds said. ``Roger died seven months later feeling he failed to provide for me. My nerves are gone. My husband's dead and I'm alone.''
Others spoke of taking second jobs, working 14-hour days to pay their bills while coping with deep clinical depression.
Pearlman was most famous for creating ''boy bands'' that sold millions of records. But prosecutors allege he scammed individuals out of an estimated $200 million and banks out of another $100 million. Prosecutors are still trying to determine more accurate figures for a later restitution hearing.
Pearlman apologized in a short courtroom statement.
''Over the past nine months since my arrest, I've come to realize the harm that's been done,'' he said. ``I'm truly sorry and I apologize for what's happened.''
Peacock said Pearlman sincerely meant to pay back all the investors, and noted that he did return approximately $103 million over the length of the scam. He said Pearlman got caught up in lawsuits -- also alleged fraudulent business practices -- over his otherwise successful entertainment ventures in the 1990s that prevented him from returning the money.

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Back street boys

veiseh — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:19:04 +0000

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DNA Replication Video

robertshepherd — Sun, 04 May 2008 09:52:42 +0000

How could I go past this. Bad music, bad humour, and science. Just like me!

Back street is back

mozey — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:34:31 +0000

Today's letter - Tom Ford is having kids

signab43 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:19:59 +0000

Dear Governor Schwarzenegger -

Fashion designer Tom Ford announced that he would be joining the growing ranks of lesbian and gay parents by having a kid in 2008. He told a magazine that "I've always wanted kids. I don't want to get to be 75 years old and just have made a lot of dresses, done some houses."

Tom Ford has been with his partner, photographer Richard Buckley, for more than 20 years, and this is clearly not a decision that has been made lightly. But since gender is no longer an impediment to having children, why is it still an impediment to marriage?

It is wonderful that we live in a country where people like Brad Pitt, Heath Ledger and Tom Ford can intentionally have their kids out of wedlock, but I believe it would be a better world if people who want to make the commitment of marriage had the freedom to do that.

Yours,

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Avian Backstreet Boy!

Ms. Core — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:01:17 +0000

It's nice to know that other species also have members with incredibly poor taste in music ;). Watch here. Is it me or does it appear the bird is actually dancing with the beat? I think he dances better than Mr. Rind. HAHA!

Thanks to Aunty C for sending it along.

Shake Your Tail feathers!

thecanvasgrey — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:00:37 +0000

Can you believe this?

Shake your tail feathers!

La cacatúa que baila y canta una canción de los Back Street Boys

Fran — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:54:37 +0000

Se llama Snowball y al parecer le gustan los Back Street Boys, en este vídeo se le ve que disfruta con Everybody. Cuando la dejaron en un refugio de animales hace unos pocos meses, también les dejo un CD con varias canciones para que vieran la reacción del pájaro, supongo que irá saliendo como baila las demás canciones en el blog del refugio Bird Lovers Only Rescue o en la web.

Vía AP

Y si no os gusta la cacatúa siempre os quedarán los Multimierdas, se sale el nombre, hacen bien en taparse la cara y los de detrás ahí mirando:

Loving Life. Loving You.

mudpuppy — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:05:25 +0000

Another repost from over a year ago, but I was browsing through Mud Puppy v.1 looking for a picture and ran across this classic.

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