this, that, and the other...
JFC, yesterday, or should I say Saturday, was pure hell at work. Had a customer who was such an asshole that he completely ruined the rest of my day, and the next day too.
If it wasn't for all the good discounts on clothes, the job would be complete shit. There aren't even many people for me to socialize with outside of work. But for now it will do.
Who is my next "it" band? I was just thinking that there isn't anyone new out there(band or solo) who has released their first album in the past four or five years that I'm really interested in right now. In fact, I don't think I've been really into a new artist since the mid-nineties. Since then it's just been listening to older albums and bands.
I mean, I hear about all sorts of new bands, and listen to their songs from various blogs, but none of them have captured my interest in the way that others like the Police, R.E.M., Husker Du(during my junior/senior high school years), Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Oasis, PJ Harvey, Heather Nova, and the Pixies(during my college, grad school, working/not working years in the '90s and post-millenium to present) did. At different points in time and even now, those were bands and musicians whose music was always in heavy rotation. I would always want to listen to their stuff and learn as much as I could about them--but I don't feel that way about any new acts now. I know about the Arcade Fire, and Death Cab For Cutie, and the New Pornographers(not sure exactly how new they are though), but none of them have that spark for me, that obsessive need to always listen to their music, repeatedly for months and years. And it never takes many listens for a band to light that spark in me, so I know that none of the new ones I've heard have it.
I don't know why that is, except maybe I need to look around more and broaden my horizons. But I don't feel like combing through MySpace.
If it wasn't for all the good discounts on clothes, the job would be complete shit. There aren't even many people for me to socialize with outside of work. But for now it will do.
Who is my next "it" band? I was just thinking that there isn't anyone new out there(band or solo) who has released their first album in the past four or five years that I'm really interested in right now. In fact, I don't think I've been really into a new artist since the mid-nineties. Since then it's just been listening to older albums and bands.
I mean, I hear about all sorts of new bands, and listen to their songs from various blogs, but none of them have captured my interest in the way that others like the Police, R.E.M., Husker Du(during my junior/senior high school years), Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Oasis, PJ Harvey, Heather Nova, and the Pixies(during my college, grad school, working/not working years in the '90s and post-millenium to present) did. At different points in time and even now, those were bands and musicians whose music was always in heavy rotation. I would always want to listen to their stuff and learn as much as I could about them--but I don't feel that way about any new acts now. I know about the Arcade Fire, and Death Cab For Cutie, and the New Pornographers(not sure exactly how new they are though), but none of them have that spark for me, that obsessive need to always listen to their music, repeatedly for months and years. And it never takes many listens for a band to light that spark in me, so I know that none of the new ones I've heard have it.
I don't know why that is, except maybe I need to look around more and broaden my horizons. But I don't feel like combing through MySpace.
posted by michael at 1:15 AM
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