Simple As 'do re mi'

I finally bought a strap for my bass, so I thought I'd upload a video.

You're probably asking yourself

"Why did you pick a strap that clashes with the colour of your guitar?"

The same reason I'm only wearing grey and black.

Colour Blindness.

I think I need to hire a personal colour consultant to make certain choices for me from now on.

Footnote: I liked Michael Jackson before he was dead.

Things I WIll Miss About Winter:

1. Cardigans

The thinning veil of self-destructive habits

It's all about the vinyl.

Heaps of used vinyl.

Some people are obsessed with money, or power.

Others are addicted to fast food, or cats.

While I enjoy 3 of those things, I'm a fanatic for vintage records.

The sad thing is, I don't even own a record player.

And I'm too broke to afford one, because I've been spending all my money on albums that I can't play.

There's just something about owning a piece of history.

Maybe my copy of Thriller was danced to at a high school prom back in 1983.

Maybe a kid spent all his allowance money to buy Uptight by Stevie Wonder in '66, and now it's mine.

With each record I'm given a glimpse into the past.

I respect the retrospective

It's a corrective perspective.

Badonkadonkey

My unbridled eclecticism has lead to the discovery of many-a-style of music.

One band that contrasts the Motown sound of The Temptations is Born Ruffians.

The word "Indie" gets thrown around a lot these days, but there's no mistaking Born Ruffians for anything else.

They go beyond the cliché* "a song is like a painting."

This band paints with colours that you've never even imagined.

*i realize that identifying clichés is itself, cliché. It's one of those unfair principles you just have to live with.

There are things that they do share with a bunch of my other music.

Solid drumming.

Bouncy basslines (and the fact that I play the same bass as Mitch Derosier doesn't hurt)

and melodies. Born Ruffians seem to have a limitless supply of melodies. And they do something that many bands struggle with; none of them sound the same.

Unfortunately for me, Born Ruffians is currently the most blogged-about band -according to The Hype Machine.

So the odds of anybody even reading this are low.

And the fact that they're such frequent blog-material makes me want to write about them less.

But I couldn't keep them from making an appearance here, especially since they're one of the first bands I recommend to people when I get the "what music do you like" stock-question.

From now on, I promise to keep my blog a lil' more original.

At least until Say It comes out.

Ain't Too Proud

I thought i'd start out the first of my legit blog posts with a throwback from 1966,

a time when Motown was first starting to make its mark in the world of music.

It's hard to write about Motown without being redundant, because the music speaks for itself.


Ain't Too Proud to Beg
artist: The Temptations
album: Gettin' Ready
label: Motown Records

Will I?

This blog begins with one small word - Will

and one medium-sized person - I.

I'm posing this question to myself. Will I blog?

It isn't a matter of 'Can I', 'Should I', or 'Must I'.

The only thing I'm not sure of is if I'll actually blog.

And if i do, Will I stay on course? The answer is 'Probably Not.'

I don't know what my raison de blog is. For now I'm calling it a music-related blog, but im expecting other topics to slide in there. People, style, politics, who knows.

It's worth a try.