Monthly Archives: January 2008

James Jamerson Tattoo, Session One

I have been feel­ing like my life has been with­out mean­ing. I have been see­ing a ther­a­pist. I have been grow­ing a beard on the inter­net. I have been strug­gling to make music a pri­or­ity in my life. Mak­ing music a pri­or­ity is hard when your life has been com­pletely trans­formed by bur­den. I went to

Practice, Part II

I was read­ing some old posts and I came across this one ambi­tious arti­cle about prac­tic­ing. While read­ing it I found myself say­ing things about my own work like it was writ­ten by some­one else: “This is great advice!” and “This is bull­shit!” and “I wrote this??” and “Could I ever prac­tice this much again?” My

Mike Muir, 1985

I just found an old Sui­ci­dal Ten­den­cies inter­view con­ducted in 1985 for a zine. While it was mostly spas­tic and impos­si­ble to fol­low (not his fault, Mike gets excited when he talks, but it’s eas­ier to lis­ten to than it is to read ver­ba­tim, how­ever) I thought this lit­tle blurb about the “hard­core scene” was

Machine Girl

Thanks, Os. I can’t f**king wait.