I wanted there to be some kind of soundtrack to this blog, probably a nine minute instrumental of epic nature to swoon you through the grandeur of this post. At this point, I’m not sure how long this will be, so you will have to choose your own to listen to while you read.
Entries from September 2008
September 26, 2008
Five *s I’m loving right now
Because nobody requested it, and because I feel like fellating my ego once again today, here is stuff I like this week. Things for you to think about, and appreciate as I do. You aren’t allowed to disagree.
1. Bruce Springsteen: Well I admit, I don’t know if I ‘get’ his later work, but Born to [...]
September 26, 2008
Kings Of Leon, Only By The Night
This album may as well have been released as a double, with the second part called ‘If Not by the Day’. Its probably the most awkward or perhaps irritating album title I have encountered so far this year. The cover imagery suggests with its owl motif that this will be a dark, brooding, if not [...]
September 8, 2008
The Pretentious Cobra Companion Piece: FINAL.PROPER.HDTV
I just had an interesting thought pop into my head. Given that probably 73% of my readership had no idea what any of the music I was referring to with such love last week, would it be worth it to perhaps share various samples of said music with the audience?
September 1, 2008
Being really pretentious/Shan-de-la; the cobra’s gyrations.
Since a previous entry contained various levels of sharing, I have been thinking a lot lately about music. Lots of shit to do with music. Like for instance, how my musical tastes evolved from essentially nothing, to me having a few thousand dollars worth of records sitting in a cupboard several years later. Or how [...]
September 1, 2008
Fog.
[Edit- Picasa web albums are a piece of shit. Visit the album to see the photos that should have stayed fucking integrated into my post. FFS]
There wasn’t any.
Welcome to another late entry. About a fortnight or so. Luckily for you, I already have another planned in my brain, hopefully you will be able to read [...]