https://www.mixcloud.com/brendan-wells2/unemployed-ep-48-and-dont-call-me-shirley/ A link to a new episode of my radio show and if you’re someone who creates things then stop trying to do the same shit everyone else is doing right now. The world doesn’t need more of the same thing. It only makes sense people start off imitating others and that’s a great way to learn and if your band sounds like Parquet Courts or you’re making art that looks like whatever net art has evolved into today then 9/10 times it’s going to be a faded photocopy because it lacks anything that shows a sense of personal view. It will be something people see and maybe even something celebrated right now but shortly it is going to be dated by a shift in trend that is likely going to leave it looking like what it is, which is lacking definition in a way that is not worth revisiting. Many people can agree with the problems of a disposable consumer structure when it comes down to something as seemingly inoffensive as plastic straws so why not figure out how that can be applied to a creative culture where content evaporates when you give it any kind of critical inspection and you’re left with a dollar bin of music from 2007 with triangles and irregular shaped “crystals” drawn on the cover. The least I think people can do is seek multiple and varied influences while learning so that a culture we involve ourselves in by choice can help encourage us to think for ourselves because an audience and community deserves to experience something during their day worth remembering instead of another week where everyone will say “Nothing, just working a lot” when asked what has made their time special.
