The Mars Volta
The Bedlam In Goliath

2/23/2008 3:41:22 AM

my music collecton is full of thousands and thousands of all kinds of music, and growing still.... but unfortunately it is growing sideways. more and more live/old/rare recordings of the same bands. i dont think i've listened to more than a few new artrists in years

i hope thats just old man syndrome, i'd hate to think i lost my love for good music. hopefully just lost the time to seek out new music

2/23/2008 4:15:51 AM

^ Ditto.

2/23/2008 4:18:52 AM

little story, kinda sad. but in the end turns into my theory about new music

a strange thing happened about 2 weekends ago. i got a call one sunday morning saying that my old neighbor (from my neighborhood growing up/in hs) got in an accident and died a few hours prior. he was only 18, and actually was born the year my family moved into that house. so when they moved in next door, he was just a few months old. i was friends with the dad, and knew the guy for for the first 11 years of his life. him and his brother were like little brothers to me, i always played with them after school and stuff. (yeah yeah, i must admit that im not the monster i make myself out to be on here). very sad stuff, but thats not the point, just the background

anyways back in like 01 or 02, i moved officially to raleigh and didnt see the family that much for a while. then got that call. freaked me out. so i drove to fuquay when i heard, and spent the evening with his family cause i felt really bad for his dad and especially his brother (who has downs syndrome). i had to get back for monday morning, so i couldnt stay too late.

but when i did get back, i checked out his mysace page to leave a little comment. spent some time reading the page and was amazed how much of 'my music' that he liked. it was a very musically oriented page. tons of playlists and stuff. but many new bands (2000+) on there at all - maybe a lot of the newer stuff does suck afteralll. long story short, after spendin a good amount of time listening to the favorite music of typical popular 18 y/o kid, i think theres just not much good music out lately. cause if dude thought it was worth a fuck, it would have been on that page.

2/23/2008 4:50:11 AM

^^^I was going that route last summer, but after downloading the 14gb "The Doors" bootleg anthology, I realized I had to stop. My life was going nowhere while on that mindset.

2/23/2008 4:56:19 AM

haha. im pretty sure this is the shit Old School was made for

2/23/2008 9:00:05 AM