evangelism, turning on, and compression

onefinemess | February 19, 2010

Go go oxford comma!
Ahem.  Anyway.  So!  I’ve always been somewhat of an evangelist — but not in the religious sense (although I did go through a phase that could be said to approximate that O.o).  I’ve always been maybe a little too motivated (at least internally) about sharing the music & books that I enjoy [...]

Starflyer and me

onefinemess | June 23, 2009

Starflyer and me.
[This an update of something I posted to my website a few years back]
Starflyer is one of the few bands whose albums actually have character to me.   There are very few bands I have this connection with, probably because one of the prerequisites is that you have to be in on the ground [...]

songs that “mean something” to me, part 2

onefinemess | June 16, 2009

Part 2:

I Can’t Be With You – Cranberries – This one should be in the last list, as it reminds me of my whole Cuesta period, what I can remember of it anyway.   I was still struggling, trying to stick with the religion thing, I was depressed because I had put off “real” college to [...]

songs that “mean something” to me

onefinemess | May 5, 2009

I’m sure this is probably a meme…how can it not be right? But it came to me on my way to lunch today, so I’m going to roll with it and pretend I made it up.
So, the task:
Songs that trigger an emotional resonance, or strong memory,  when you hear them. THEY DO NOT HAVE [...]

things I’ve listened to lately

onefinemess | February 26, 2009

WTF is up with the new Common album? I tried to listen to it again, skipped the first three songs, then went to something else entirely different. The beats really annoy me, and the songs seem especially trivial.  There are some good rhymes in there but..ugg.  “Sex 4 Suga”.  Really?  Is he becoming more like [...]