Hello everyone, I mean if there is anyone reading this. I mean, hopefully there is so, hello! how are you doing today? If you were to ask me what I did today i'd have to tell you honestly. I went and saw Miranda July's new movie The Future which she even did a Q and A afterwards which was quite amazing to witness. After all of these events, I came home and now am sitting next to my wonderful girlfriend in Greenpoint.
It's strange to begin this post like that but it's what's honest and I feel that's what we need for what I want to discuss. Which is a wonderful band named Beau Navire. Beau Navire recently put out an LP called "Hours." In case you didn't know Beau Navire contains members of bands who all have impressive backgrounds, but the most impress bands of the four are definately two from California. These bands are Loma Prieta and I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Yearbook which contained Sean ( the great elder oak tree) and Trei.
The two of these amazing guitarists have combined both of their creative efforts to write a very beautiful and amazing screamo LP. Everytime I listen to it, I find myself having a completely different more mature listening experience. As most people that keep up to date on screamo ( or dare I say Skramz, just kidding) would know. Screamo has become a completely dead genre, void of all sorts of originality that it once gave birth too. Bands like Maths, and what not plague the genre with repetitive-ness. Thankfully, Hours breaks that mold and brings something to the table.
Hours, is the sound of youth and the sound age combined into one amazing effort. The album is pure art, in the most honest sense of the word. It is still a chaotic screamo work but the instrumentation truly defines it. The band takes the term screamo and pushes it to it's full potential, with every band member truly giving one hundred and ten percent. To be honest I can even compare it to "Jokes" by "Kidcrash" It's just that amazing honestly.
I can only hope that sometime there will be enough time for the four of them to do a full national tour. I'll be asking Sean when I see them in two weeks about the verdict. Who knows, all I have to say is please my lovely readers if you do happen to come across this record. BUY IT, like it's hotstock or something. Well, whatever good night :]
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
HIS HERO IS GONE FIFTEEN COUNTS OF ARSON
Right now i'm listening to His Hero Is Gone. I haven't really listened to them in YEARS but as i'm listening to 15counts of arson and i'm remembering why this shit was awesome back then. See, it was a different scene when I first heard this record. I was going to grindcore ( think: whitebelt) shows and bands like ME AND HIM CALL IT US were rocking Tragedy tattoos and shit. This was like 2005- 2006? Also another band that would name drop them was NIGHTS LIKE THESE but let's forget about them for now. I just heard from these bands about HHIG and went home and found this and listened to it. My mind was blown hearing Rain dance and ...and we burn on a shitty myspace player. I might seem nerdy for saying these things but whatever it really changed my life for the better.
Back to the real subject of this. His Hero Is Gone are awesome. The short songs are awesome and the long songs don't feel long. Why don't more bands follow this formula of playing songs that are full of pretty cool material instead of trying to make their songs hit the three to four minute mark? I don't know but I blame deathwish! The drumming is what I really love about this band. Though the guitars are almost always not too complicated, the simple drumming really ties it all into dirty good ness. God this album feels DIRTY and not in a sexual way lol. The beginning of raindance is so simple and tough sounding. No band right now really pulls off that dirty simple- ness anymore without sounding contrived or at least like they're trying to. HHIG especially on 15 counts of arson come across as honest, honestly dirty, and honestly a crusty bunch of dudes playing fast hard punk.
What blows my mind though is all the losers that I know who love music and want to be in a band that have never heard His Hero Is Gone. What the fuck! What craziness, some bands you just have to like cause they rule HHIG is one of those.
I'm glad I liked this band when I was fifteen cause otherwise i'd be a total loser like everyone else that finds beach punk respectable.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
PARROT FLIES- ALGERNON CADWALLADER (2011)
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
5.19
Hello all, it's been a little while since my last update. I've been enjoying the daily show for the last few days. Jon stewart is the host, and he does a good job of it. Who else covers current political events in a way that, us the middle class can understand? Cnn? Don't make me laugh, actually just cause it's the internet i'll say LOL.
What i'm trying to say is Jon presents things in the most honest way possible. By telling the complete truth, and usually making the republican party look completely stupid while he's doing it. Alright, maybe i'm being biased, Jon Stewart makes every party look stupid while doing his job. How does he do this? By basically telling us, these guys may be politicians and rich but they're playing us like goddamn hustlers.
I also love the rest of the cast of the show. Whoever is writing these goddamn one liners deserves an award for sure. Heh, I just love that clueless American face that Jon and everyone else gives the camera at least once a show.
Monday, May 2, 2011
5.2
Today this blog will come to a close. I might end up updating it here or there but I have to admit it was fun. I learned a little bit about blogging and realized this was a really good assignment.
In the news today though something very, very important happened. Osama Bin Laden was captured. Being a bit of a skeptic, I just wanna see the body but still it's an exciting day. Our president Barack Obama told viewers all over the world last night not to celebrate. Celebration over a corpse would make us no better than the people who celebrated the deaths of the twin towers and it made sense.
Now, a lot of people didn't listen. There were people shooting off fire works. Partying in the streets of New York City and Philadelphia. I don't blame them but seriously it looks kind of stupid. Oh well, i'm glad we got the man who was behind all of those deaths.
The government has also announced that he will be buried at sea. From what many people are saying on the internet, that is a very disrespectful way to be buried in Muslim culture. I just hope that doesn't start any problems at all but really there is a way bigger question
Why did this take ten years? Why did it take Obama finally telling the special forces to go in and make it a number one priority? Did Bush know about all this and not care?
These are the questions I want to see answered and honestly answered. No, talking around it and not fessing up the truth. i want to know, did Bush not care about his capture? Did the government know anything more if they knew where Osama was? I'm not entirely sure that i'll ever get these answers but as a citizen I believe we all do.
Once more, i'd like to say good bye to you Raw Signal. It's been fun.
5.1
Let's take a break from all this political nonsense. In all honest who even wants to hear about it. Heh, just kidding, I hope! This blog post will be one about a failed video game system. A system that held so much potential and who's failure in a way revolutionized and inspired the gaming industry.
In 1995 Nintendo announced at a gaming show (which in later years would become their infamous and annual Spaceworld) that they were developing an add-on for the Nintendo 64. The add-on was to be called the 64-DD and would use discs along with Nintendo 64 cartridges to create unique and more advanced games.
The add-on wasn't only to advance graphics but would also be able to use with a mouse, a real life clock which would coincide alongside games and an online program called "Randnet." The strangest thing about all of this , is that this system was announced before the release of the Nintendo 64.
As Nintendo planned out many exclusive games and sequels such as Ura Zelda (a sequel to the legendary Ocarina Of Time), Super Mario 64 2 and the highly sought after Mother 3 (which would go on to be remade in 2d on the Game Boy Advance) they failed to come to a timely release. For four more years after the Nintendo 64 was released, the team working on the 64DD add-on would be plagued with difficulties in developing in the system. Finally, four years later it was released but not at all how they wanted it to be.
The 64DD came out with low expectations from Nintendo. The company felt that they had missed their time to release the system where it would really do good when it came to sales. In a last moment of desperation, they only released the system in Japan and only to people who subscribed for the Randnet internet subscription first. This would guarantee customers to have games delivered to them as they came out, sadly barely more than nine games ever did come out. Also, most of the systems exclusive titles had such a hard time in development that they were completely cancelled. This even included Ura Zelda, Mario 64 2 and Mother 3, the main three games that made the system appealing for most fans.
Now, you're probably thinking what was even the point of all this and why should I even care about this forgotten failure of a system. Well, all I have to say to that is raise your head and look at the good things that came from this failure. First off, Nintendo introduced the idea of online console gaming. Though, they'd touched upon that base in the SNES (Super Nintendo) days but 64DD took it to the next level by being fully functional for it's customers. Nintendo also introduced the idea of video games that would work alongside real life time. This has gone on to be emulated in many genres of games such as The Sims, Rollercoaster Tycoon and Animal Crossing. Nintendo also released Doshin The Giant for the 64DD which has gone down in history as one of the greatest obscure god-based video games of all time. Doshin also influenced Pikmin a gamecube game in a number of ways.
These days the 64DD is worth over 500 dollars. It has a long legacy of good and bad. I'm not exactly sure how to end this but hopefully you'll do some of your own
4.30
Barack Obama spoke at the White House Correspondents dinner today. Our president had just revealed his long form birth certificate and was definately in a cheerful mood. Obama made jokes and took note of Donald Trump being a member of the audience.
Our president made jokes about his birthing video ( the lion king opening scene.) Right after coming out to a montage video of his birth certificate over an american flag blowing in the wind. Barack went on to makes jokes at Matt Damon and even judge Donald Trump himself.
The question that Obama posed sarcastically was "how he would lose sleep over the celebrity apprentice." In the context of how the statement was made though, it basically called Trump out on knowing how to control things that are of importance to a mass amount of people.
It made me proud of my president for the first time in a long time. To see the man running our country personally outing the people who make a joke of our country and patriotism. Below i'll link the video that is the subject of this blog post. I hope you enjoy it, it's hilarious.
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