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Hey, are any of you on Ello?

I was offered a confirmation code and figured fuck it, lets just check it out, even though Ello will inevitably crash and burn. So, now that I activated this shit...any of you on there? 

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So, kids these days don't mosh or stage dive at shows? What, you just gently sway back and forth while looking at your shoes? No joke, I read a post about how moshing was a form of bullying... One of my favorite show memories was in the circle pit at a Crucial Unit show; people spontaneously began jumping onto other people's backs & sitting on their shoulders and we had a two-tier pit going. It was fucking ridiculous.  Times, they are a changin...

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Huh, so it's been nearly a month since I've posted anything. I guess there really hasn't been much going on as of late, except for this one thing... I was in a 99 Cents Only store the other day and guess what, there was a lot of stuff priced over 99 cents. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. That weird energy drink with the label in Danish that was intended for the Greenland marketplace, but bombed? Fuck yea I want to try it, but not for $1.79. There is one premise behind your store; all that terrible, fantastic shit you sell is only 99 cents.  As you can tell, I'm really getting into some meaningful things in my free time... 

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At two thirty on a Tuesday afternoon I find myself sipping on a beer and shooting off my resume to a job I'm woefully overqualified for, but which would actually allow me to use my Cultural Anthropology degree...

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Rain Drinkers - Wood Violet c40 Honestly, it's a little intimidating listening to "Wood Violet". The nuanced combination of orchestral neoclassical, ambient, European folk, and psych drone is stunning; one gets the feeling that the duo behind Rain Drinkers is just a little past your level of comprehension. It's not the thing for everyone, but I think this little cassette is fucking amazing. 

Tranquility Tapes

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Summer, in review...

So, I'd written this long post about how awful this summer was; the job bullshit, suffering from depression, drinking cheap beer, my creative malaise, etc., but after reading, I decided fuck that nonsense. Yea, it was pretty fucking lame, but the important thing is I've pulled myself out of it and am moving on. Fuck, since when did I become a glass-half-full type?

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Top two are from yesterday, the bottom two are today. The goatee and shaggy hair was giving off a Charlie Manson vibe, so I figured time for a change.  Also, check out that rad Trepanation shirt...

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The Grasshopper Lies Heavy - All Sadness, Grinning Into Flow lp So, All Sadness, Grinning Into Flow has been on my phonograph for a few weeks now and each time I listen to it I'm faced with the same dilemma...What am I going to write that will do this album justice? Lets just keep things simple; it's fuckin' awesome. The Grasshopper Lies Heavy is an amorphous beast that mixes sludge, post-rock, psychedelic, and krautrock to create music that fluctuates from pulverizing heaviness to ethereal serenity. Normally when bands try and pull off something like this, it ends up as shitty, jangley post-metal, but these dudes do it right. Not only is this one of the most progressive sludge albums I've heard, but just as heavy tunes, it's rad. 

Go get it...

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It's the weirdest feeling when high school age teens call you "sir" and "mister". Like, I know you're being polite with a stranger, but am I that old and square that you're afraid a "dude", "bro", or "chief" will upset me? 

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Astraes Pestis - Flagellum Haereticorum c33 I'm not a huge death metal aficionado or anything, but Flagellum Haereticorum is right up my alley. Astraes Pestis has a solid old school sound with some technical underpinnings and interesting lyrical content. Well, interesting for death metal, at least. For being just a four song demo, it's pretty fucking rad. I think you can only score a physical copy if you catch these guys on tour, but the demo is also up on their bandcamp page, so you got no excuse not to check out Astraes Pestis.

Go get it...

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Well, it finally happened...

...Someone got angry at me for wearing a Burzum shirt. It was the clerk ringing me up at Trader Joe's. She had flagged me over to her register and when she saw my "Filosofem" shirt, gave me the wickedest death stare and got super curt with me. I was polite back and I guess curiosity got the better of her, because she then did the coy "so, is that a band shirt?" routine to see what I'd say. After explaining it was a controversial, but talented musical group she realized I probably wasn't an obersturmführer in the 4th Reich. I guess I'll be wearing my Geto Boys shirt the next time I'm there...lulz

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Holly Hunt - Prometheus (INC ed.) 12'' ep What you're looking at above is the INC variant of Holly Hunt's Prometheus ep, which is only available from the band while they're touring. There's a difference of one song between the two, but I'll get into that later. Regardless of what version of this ep you can get, you need to fucking snag a copy of Prometheus. This is completely monstrous instrumental drone metal that will pummel you into oblivion. With just drums and a guitar, Holly Hunt has created a heaving, seething ocean of heavy tunes. And, guess what, you're gonna get sucked down and drown in that ocean, dude. So, like I said, snag a copy. Now, the difference between the versions is that the standard has a track titled "Meano", while the INC variant replaces that with another song, "INC". I've heard both and I prefer "INC", but I'd still be cranking this ep if I had ended up with the standard version. Fucking rad. Go get it...

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Hive Bent - Dyatlov c20 Another waaay overdue review, partially because it go mailed to me a month late and partially because I'm a slacker asshole who procrastinated posting this. Anyhow, Hive Bent resides somewhere in-between noise rock and post-hardcore, but the only specifics you really need to know is that Dyatlov is going to fucking crush you. It's 5 tracks of fuzzy, grimy vocals, rumbling guitbass, and thunderous percussion, how the fuck could you not dig it? The cassette is limited to 50 copies, so you better snag one quick.  

Go get it...

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I've been a little penned up this summer and I guess it got me thinking about that old Simpson's episode Bart of Darkness where Bart breaks his leg and becomes isolated from everyone; particularly this part:

Bart: All right, you're right, you're right, let's, let's just forgetabout that. Here: let me read to you from my play. Ahem. [cockney] "`Kippers for breakfast, Aunt Helga? Is it St. Swithin's Day already?' `'Tis,' replied Aunt Helga" -- Lisa: I'm going, I'm going!

I'd always figured the writers just made up St. Swithin, but I googled it and it turns out that's a real Catholic saint and today is actually his feast day. Also, folklore holds that if it rains on St. Swithin's Day (which it did here), it will rain for 40 more days. tl;dr Simpson's related synchronicity from an episode 20 years ago...

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Holly Hunt is also playing tonight. Gonna get crushed by this sludge.

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Ready for some heavy tunes? Shitstorm is playing tonight @ Walters.