Dissed Jockey
2016-10-20
The five-hour rave has wound down, the drugs have well worn off and the realization of your surroundings finally settled in. You’re in a moldy warehouse cellar with paint chips hanging off the walls. The best house DJ you’ve ever heard is finally revealed for what he really is, a soulless drum machine. The jig is most certainly up, your denial notwithstanding. You feel duped, raped, connived into a dark alley and mugged, but you’re not sure why. It eventually hits you that the music’s impressiveness was based largely on the quality of the ecstasy you popped around 1 am. The headliner, incapable of even a modicum of originality, played off your high, with smoke and mirror mixing gimmicks. andRead more.
Wal-Art – Current Counter-Culture
2016-10-20
Opinions are like assholes, everyone’s got one. The question is, what will you do to propagate and express yours? Sure, write a letter, a book, a song: Is what you have to say, sing or preach important enough for you to toss into the collective debate bonfire? The entertainment industry is rotted clean through with half-baked, ill-conceived, bubble gum poppycock which forces little, if any, self-provoked thought leaving the “underground” art and music movement to lead the charge towards innovative means of expressionism. It would seem that a counter-culture U-turn is afoot disguising alternative art as the new “flavor-of-the-month” Misses generally outnumber hits when artists misstep, creating art for art’s sake, neglecting to leave any discernable message behind. Art thatRead more.