Matt: August 2004 Archives

This entry was originally posted at Homogenized and later merged into Neckbeard. Images and links may be broken. Sorry.

This is what I have been enjoying lately:

The Constantines - Shine a Light

The Constantines play rock music, and they play it without irony and without pretense. Shine a Light is a breath of fresh air in the current overly-posturing indie rock crowd.

The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?

Deliciously strange and experimental, yet the Unicorns manage to still write some of the stickiest pop hooks around. A melange of dancepunk, indie rock, electronica and folk makes this one of the most compelling records I’ve recently listented to.

The Black Keys - The Big Come Up

I loved Thickfreakness, but until now never sought out this wonderful debut by garage-blues kids The Black Keys. If you ever have the chance to see them live make sure you do, they were one of the highlights of the Coachella festival.

Mount Eerie - Seven New Songs of Mount Eerie

Phil Elvrum/Elverum is finally back with a proper studio album. It sounds like vintage Microphones material, and I couldn’t be happier.

This entry was originally posted at Homogenized and later merged into Neckbeard. Images and links may be broken. Sorry.

I don’t post nearly enough. I’m not sure why, though I’m sure part of it has to do with the fact that I administer web sites as a day job and usually am in no mood for it when I get home. I'm not enjoying my job too much at the moment. I find it insufferably boring. I’m told that in ancient times students were students only. Alas, I have 30-minute one-way commute gas bills to pay for in order to be a student and that just isn’t an option.

I want to go back to Europe.

Let us see, what else. My birthday was last Saturday, the big two-oh. I received an iPod, 40GB, from my parents. I think it may be the best birthday gift ever. I went out and bought an iTrip FM transmitter for my baby so she can play over my car stereo, though I am less than impressed with the results. It’s damn near impossible to find a suitable station where I am, sandwiched between the 500 hillion jillion megawatt LA stations and the weaker San Bernadino and Riverside stations that sit between the strong signals, garbling them up. It will have to do though, I am not prepared to invest $150+ in yet another head unit for my car that has an AUX input on it, though that would be ideal.

But I’m not complaining.

There are literally hundreds of photos for me to sort through yet, I’m sure at least a couple will make their way on to the site one day.