1. ‘Burn, Piano Island, Burn,’ by the Blood Brothers (2003): The first few times I listened to this, I thought it was the worst thing I’d ever heard. Once I gave it a few more chances, it slowly started to occur to me that this music wasn’t horrible – I simply wasn’t ready for something so different and so ahead of anything I’d ever heard before. It sounds like ‘just noise’ at first, but close attention unveils the tremendous choreography of these dense songs – the chaos seems intimidating, but with time, the intensity of the album becomes euphoric. It’s unlike anything released in this or any decade. The closest comparison I can think of is Captain Beefheart’s ‘Trout Mask Replix00x00x00’x00x10’Jx00x00x00’x00x00x00x00x00x00x1cxb8
April Fools
I do, I don’t, I really don’t: The Marriage Pact story
Once again, if there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s that this school is goddamn tiny, and do you really want to marry anyone you took Calculus with?
April Fool's
Climate, don’t change
How would you feel if every day, people told you that they can’t appreciate you for who you are? You’d want to change too!
beauty standards
Dedicated to everyone in the movie theater who laughed at “The Substance”
“The Substance”, though quite effectively campy and satirical at times, is not a comedy.
