August 2011
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July 2011
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May 2011
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Anonymous asked: Go on anon and send this to 5 people you feel are wonderful and lovely to other tumblr users for whatever reason.
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I Am What I Play: The Modernist Message of David...
I started listening to David Bowie sometime between the ages of twelve and fourteen. Prior to this, my understanding of music largely consisted of the typical mainstays of so-called classic rock, such as Led Zeppelin and Cream, who I came to find increasingly tiring over time. Contributing factors to my disenchantment with traditional classic rock included what I perceived to be an overreliance on...
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“The most sensitive among them tried to understand me, and that effort led them...”
– Albert Camus, The Fall
“Tattooed men who are not in prison are either latent criminals or degenerate...”
– Adolf Loos
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Stop Believin': A Brief Overview of Rock Music...
[Last assignment ever for college, a take-home exam. Like a lot of my cultural studies papers, perhaps vaguely interesting outside of the academic circle, so I thought I’d post it.]
A great amount of ink has been devoted to telling the “rock story,” most notably, in the mainstream imagination, through publications such as Rolling Stone, and, also, perhaps more fruitfully,...
April 2011
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WatchMy band, the Exclusive Document, performing “Song for a Dead President” at our last show ever at SOMA/VASA Arts Crawl 2011. ExDoc is was: Devin William Daniels/me (guitar, vocals); Zach Bachtell (bass); Mike MacDonald (drums). Video by Nathan Larimer of The Ghost Appeal.
March 2011
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“But how can you really care if anybody gets it, or gets what it means, or if it...”
– Frank O’Hara, Personism: A Manifesto
John Is Sleeping John
is honest. an activist. an honest activist. mind blown by the lovenotes inside yr graygun. oy vey. inveigle someone else’s children so they might one day shoot mine from four-walled towers. he’s honest. an activitist. an HONEST ACTIVIST. desecrate the release show with cries of ‘Judas, where’s yr blood? I need to see yr blood!’ I cut off the grandmaster’s hand...
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The Function of Authenticity in Music Discourse
[Wrote this for a cultural studies class, so it’s not really written in the sort of style that I’d normally be sharing, but thought a person or two might find it interesting.]
Music discourse, due to the perhaps undeniably subjective nature of its topic, must often resort to characteristics of a distinctly non-aural nature when it assigns a score, ranks the greatest rock albums of the...
“Rock and roll practice is a form of resistance for generations with no faith in...”
– Lawrence Grossberg, “Another boring day in paradise: rock and roll and the empowerment of everyday life”
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On a day in the spring I saw a ring in the snow,...
[Old lyrics I wrote for my friend Chris Morrison to one of his songs. It’s a good song that I was reminded of today for some reason. If I can figure out the chords maybe I’ll record a version of it.]
Every once In a while The weatherman Tells a lie. He’s gotta go - Can’t trust him; He’s a renegade With a smile. He woke up, Out his window It was white He had to go To the...
February 2011
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Untitled Account of the Death of a Phonograph
Dead ringers’ knuckles dance the dead door dance In numbered footprints, like the pitter patter death cry Of hail on yellow windshields in the summertime airport traffic jams When I reassured children the world won’t end And distributed green plastic bowls to comfort the crash Victims of the break-in included, but were not limited to, A coonskin cap, a baby blue nightgown, A...
“Lady Gaga taught me its ok to be different. Kesha taught me to live life to the...”
– comment on this Bruno Mars youtube video [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR6iYWJxHqs ] holy fucking godhead.
January 2011
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July
I got your Roman; It’s better than you think. It’s taller than a penthouse. I played New Model Army With foil swords and sticks. You know that shit was heavy, A loaded die. The sparks are shooting upwards; I think we better climb – ‘Cause I don’t want no flak For dying on the outside. The president was a poor boy, Who read by candle light, But now he’s dead by empire In a firefight, ...
December 2010
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November 2010
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“Montezuma Castle is a Sinagua cliff dwelling that is not a castle and has...”
October 2010
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THE TOWER HAS ACTIVATED.
After weeks of computer labs, borrowed netbooks, and flash drives, I finally have my PC back. I missed you all.
- DWD
September 2010
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Capa
I want quiet on the set and you are not dead. No photographs allowed. What’s on my headstone? You’ll never know The thousand frozen blackshirts grasping wine glass; They thirst for trains and bread, And you are not dead… [I want to fuck your body. And break you.] Marcus Garvey in the rain is such a sad sight. No photographs allowed. Where are you going? The minstrel shows A...
“Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies...”
– Alan Moore
thoughts on interpol s/t, the pitchfork review...
pitchfork gives Interpol a 4.6, proving my theory of my inverse relationship with the rest of the world in regards to Interpol and The Suburbs. that said, the article gets it right that the second half is certainly much weaker than the first, and does well in pointing out how disappointing (or rather, underachieving) a song “All of the Ways” is. it had the potential to be the...
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The Man Made Things Right
If you put a gun against my head, I’d always react with a smirk. Thousands of diamonds are crashing in, Thousands of children are lying Cold across the hollow bed Where the man made things right, Where the man made things right. If you want to cut me into a thousand pieces At least make them varied in size. Thousands of diamonds are crashing in, Thousands of women are dying In the kaleidoscope of...
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August 2010
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Beck to the Future
Everyone rags on Glenn Beck, and there certainly is much reason to, but I think we need to spend more time looking hard at ourselves and how our society has come to a point where his style of discourse is the preferred method. Even though many of us might disagree with Beck factually, are we really doing a good job of upholding a higher, more logical, form of discourse? Don’t we seem...
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Watch
loveorfabrication:
“A camera and two tape recorders can cut the lines laid down by a fully equipped film studio”
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William S. Burroughs (via theminstrel)
Christ. I love him.
Me too, one of my favorite authors. Just finished The Ticket That Exploded recently. I am planning on writing my senior thesis on literary reactions to the atomic bomb, and he, along with Vonnegut and Pynchon, is going...
“A camera and two tape recorders can cut the lines laid down by a fully equipped...”
– William S. Burroughs
