Interesting things from the week:
George Orwell on being shot in the throat by a sniper. Completely fascinating.
This song by Liars is awesome. Liars have been a band that has always been on the original and worthwhile side of the art rock divide, but have previously been so deliberately obtuse and simply difficult to listen to that I've never really been able to get into them as band I actually listen to in real life. Hearing this makes me think that after training for years in the realms of pure abstraction, they are ready to produce original and dynamic rock music, which is way harder than art rock. It is apparently one of the hardest things to do on the planet, or we'd have more than 4 bands at any one moment doing it.
This is Dan Deacon at the Pitchfork festival. He's not making rock music but he is still amazing. He really nails the addition by subtraction and then addition again idea.
I've also been working on my song all week, and I think I might finally be close to finishing it. It's the same one I've been working on for roughly 8 months now, and this will be about the seventh version of it, but I'm hoping it turns out ok. Everyone has always said to me that I should just write some dumb song to start, just to get one finished, and I see there point, because I've been working on this band thing for almost 3 years now, and I've yet to have anything at all to show for it. Greg is writing his own music now, and I work on mine alone, and that seems to be working well, except I can't seem to move on until I get this one out of my system. anyway, it's a pretty direct rip off of a that dog song, a bedhead song, and a built to spill song that are all pretty direct rip offs of each other. once I get it finished I will post it, and then start writing more faster. then an e.p. , then some shows and an album. Then I can sleep.
On being shot in the throat.
