What's a hiatus between friends?

I apologize for the ridiculously long hiatus, but I swear I've been working on new material. Oh, and I swear I'm going to start updating this thing weekly, if not daily. (Reminder to self: Must get WordPress!) It is my duty to bring you good music, god damnit!

I decided to get my creative juices flowing by writing this squib, of sorts. Read it and weep.



Something extremely disheartening has been taking place in the world in the past two decades or so. In fact, it appears to be a disease that has been running rampant with no sign of any real vector and its point of entrance is somewhat blurred. Somehow, in some way, 99% of the population has been enculturated to embrace music borne from absolute ineptitude. What is it about people falling for unoriginal music?

I tend to liken this phenomena to an obviously plastic-surgery altered woman in a short, slutty dress. Someone is going to go for her because she's right there, she's cheap and she's available. I lend no credence to the thought of human beings having an open mind anymore. It's not that hard to go on and look for something better. It's really not. But people are going to fall for the most acquirable simply because it's easy. And you'll fall for it, all right.

Since the advent of Fruity Loops, YouTube - hell, since the advent of Color-By-Numbers, the humanities bar has been lowered to near ground level. If you create a "track" using Fruity Loops and upload it to Myspace or Virb, you're suddenly playing The Knitting Factory at ten bucks a pop. There's no real talent being exuded in toggling with music software that you have ripped off the internet, or was given to you by your best friend on a CD-RW covered with illegible phrases squiggled on with a compact disc-safe magic marker.

Speaking of magic, there isn't any in mainstream music. My notion that people will fall for anything has been proven true over and over again. So, these so called artists keep doing what they're doing. Honestly, did you know that there are other female artists out there besides Natasha Bedingfield? Well, did ya? And why are Nickelback (Picklesmack) songs still being played on the radio?

Why do chart-toppers lack panache?

Perhaps the really good, intelligent, ingenious and substantial stuff is best left for those who know what to do with it. In Bjork's "Alarm Call," she says: "I want to go on a mountain-top with a radio and good batteries and play a joyous tune and free the human race from suffering."

Now ask yourself. Which tune would you play and would others probably choose to play the same?





(Oh, and caveat lector: This little squib is really not applicable to more than most of the people who will read this. And believe me, I'm really not judgmental. Just really serious about the music I listen to).