Edit: He has a placeholder blog for now.

I was thinking to myself (in rhyme of course, the way I usually talk to myself) yesterday, and devised a simple plan to serve as something to expand my musical horizons and serve the Blogosphere (in which Richard M. Stallman hovers above the earth) some proper record reviews.

I’m sitting here in the lounge, trying to write a blog post. People come, see me listening to something and “concentrated” on doing something with my laptop and decide to just turn back and leave. By saying that I just unconsciously denied the possibility that they just don’t like me, which could very well be it.

All of a sudden I realize me mom seemed to have added me on Facebook. I’m not kidding, she actually opened a Facebook account.

It’s funny, she asked me during dinner two days ago what Facebook is exactly, to which I replied “a networking site.” Explaining what a networking site actually is is no easy task for someone above the Internet “proficiency” of a guru. “What’s the point?” - I really couldn’t answer, I just didn’t know how to tell her that it sort of… doesn’t have on one many levels, and still probably has one.

Maybe I’m underestimating her will to get into this whole thing. Who knows, maybe the next step would be to start posting things on del.icio.us or declaring war on my guild in World of Warcraft.

… Like I was starting to say before my mom jumped in. I’ll exchange a record with Moruku (who is currently blogless due to some issues) every two weeks, I’ll give him one, he’ll give me one, at which point we’ll have to write a review and give it a certain score based on a set of criteria.

It’s being developed as we speak, in my mind for the most part. It’s all coming together now, and I expect to exchange the first record between Friday and Sunday.

I’ve been turning this in my mind for quite a while. It would be great if I could start an avant-garde act (you could say a band, but that’s kinda broad). I don’t care if it sells, I don’t care if I spend more money on it that I will ever get out of it, I just want to be in an avant-garde act. Avant-garde blues, avant-garde punk, avant-garde potato salad, I don’t care. We’ll put up awesome creative shows, visually anyway, and do awesome avant-garde stuff - such as being avant-garde and thinking avant-garde and meet other avant-garde people and say avant-garde things to them, in an avant-garde accent. Actually, maybe I should work on assembling something like that. I might as well. One of these days.

I just wanted to tell everyone how much I like this new Tom Waits release. As usual, it’s good, but this one is specifically interesting.

Basically, it’s a three CD collection, Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards. Brawlers contains mainly more hardcore stuff (think about Going Out West), Bawlers is a little more soft, and Bastards is just, well, hard to explain.

If you’re expecting the young Tom Waits, kinda like what he used to sound like back in Closing Time or even Blue Valentine, I’m afraid you’re wrong. King Kong for instance sounds a lot like it was meant to be on Real Gone (released almost three years ago). Actually, I really like where Waits went with Real Gone, I think he should go on like that and keep releasing psychedelic human beat box tunes. You could also compare it to Mule Variations, but either way, it’s just not quite the same thing.
So if you liked Real Gone, I’d say this release is definitely for you, but otherwise, save your money for something else.