Friday, September 2, 2016
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
R & T
Hacked into the Net back in ‘83
Now government suits are after me
I’m Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Typing and Running
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
Running and Typing
--Steve Kilian
Saturday, June 4, 2016
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Monday, May 30, 2016
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Friday, May 13, 2016
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Thursday, March 24, 2016
I'm So Sick of Those Same Old Songs: Six-Song Review
The drums are tinny and hissy and the vocals are compressed and verbed into a shoebox with a canyon inside it, but the song is rifftastic and Christina Halladay's growl comes through strong. She may lament her shabby treatment by someone who won't dance with the one they brought, but something in that strength suggests independence over loneliness.
Selena Gomez "Same Old Love"
Her beauty is all youth and makeup, a pretty doll without distinction. Her singing is much the same. Good song choice though, from Charli XCX and Stargate: the spooky lines of this slinker weave through fingersnaps and breezy synths, suggesting it's all late-night and grown-up. What a sentiment! She's so sick of that same old love. I like this song, but I wish it weren't so heartbroken, that she was expressing boredom in a relationship, and the desire to sleep with someone new. That's something people feel but rarely sing about, not in the way this song should. Instead it's that same old relationship angst.
PJ Harvey "The Community of Hope"
PJ, PJ, PJ...you're interesting, but to be interesting you have to sometimes be tedious, to take the risks that fail. Case in point. I actually liked her last album, a bunch of dirges about the death sprawl of World War I. This one is from The Hope Six Demolition Project, which seems to be an album about about city planning gone awry. It's dancing about architecture! The chorus to this song is "The Community of Hope," which flows lyrically about as well as you'd expect. Interesting!
Parquet Courts "Outside"
Holy Husker Du, Batman! Maybe Andrew Savage isn't emulating Bob Mould, maybe he's just another nasal singer, but like the Du, we have choice melody over a (more sedate) form of punk rock with production that feels very 1984 DIY. Catchy, but check back in a week to see whether I'm actually caught.
Lake Street Dive "Side Pony"
Destined for a public radio feature story. Jazzbo's playing light funk. She can sing like a teetotal-ling Amy Winehouse, and scat too! Unbearable.
Katy B. Craig David, Major Lazer "Who Am I?"
Who ARE you? Another whiner who has no identity without a lover. Some more of those same old drum patterns with that easy epic sound. Listen to some Sheer Mag.
--Dan Kilian
Undeniable Better Crackerjack: Five-Song Review
Friday, February 12, 2016
The First Vegetarian
Mmm! Good monkey!
Chew! Chew! Gnash! Chomp!
Is very good monkey!
Brothers! Why eat monkey?
Is food!
Is good!
Chew!
No! Monkey is friend! Monkey have feelings! Wrong to eat!
We eat monkey!
Chew!
No! No eat monkey!
What eat? Pigs?
No! No eat animals! Eat…berries! Grass!
Ha! Pussy!
Chomp!
You go eat monkey. One day all eat berries and grass.
Eat the monkey!
NO!
Eat the monkey! Chomp! Chew!
CHOMP! CHEW! EAT THE MONKEY!!
NO!
Then…we eat YOU!
NO!!!
YES! CHOMP!
CHOMP! CHOMP!
NO!!! YOU KILLING ME!!
EAT! EAT! CHOMP! CHOMP!
CHOMP! CHOMP!
AGHH!
Chew. Chew.
Berry eater taste good!
Good! Chew!
Better than monkey. Why?
Maybe berries make taste good.
Maybe berries good.
Maybe.
Chew. Chew.
--Dan Kilian
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Bright Light/Deep Shade: Can Someone Please Give The Man Some Reggae?
JoFi plays Jacko! Casting the white actor Joseph Feinnes to play the King of Pop is sparking outrage among those who are unfamiliar with Michael Jackson's plastic surgery and pigment shifts. I guess they want a black actor to undergo bleaching and melting.
Tyga has been seen with a DoppleJenner! Tyga Tyga burning bright, with a Kylie Jenner lookalike!
First Abe Vigoda and now this. According to Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow on the hit HBO series Game Of Thrones, Jon Snow is definitely still dead.
Zayn Malik never wanted to be in One Direction. Neither did I!
Steven Tyler's claim to have inspired the Guns 'N Roses reunion is not the Axl truth! According to the reunited band's twitter feed, there have been a lot of GN'R Lies. Axl Rose does admit to wanting some Reggae.
That's all that matters!
--Dan Kilian
First Abe Vigoda and now this. According to Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow on the hit HBO series Game Of Thrones, Jon Snow is definitely still dead.
Zayn Malik never wanted to be in One Direction. Neither did I!
Steven Tyler's claim to have inspired the Guns 'N Roses reunion is not the Axl truth! According to the reunited band's twitter feed, there have been a lot of GN'R Lies. Axl Rose does admit to wanting some Reggae.
That's all that matters!
--Dan Kilian
The Swarm
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
My Dungeons Are Science
I’d
like to point out that my dungeons are Science.
Small animals as prey
for the large ones are accounted for. Science: Ecology.
Types of
tunnels and rock are appropriate
for location and depth. Science: Geology.
Multilevel shafts are
represented on all levels through which they pass, even if they do not
open upon those levels. Science: Geometry.
Undead creatures are
located near evil spellcasters or rifts to the negative
material plane. Science: Necromancy.
--Steve Kilian
Regarding the Events off of Mayburn Key, July 23rd, 1964
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
January
The rattling windows of winter
The scraping wind the groaning sky
The leaking cracks
And amateur tap-dancing radiators
Baths and blankets and soup
Sweating in our layers
Fending off the cold
Wide awake
Asleep for days
Hybernational malaise
A clearer daylight
And a clearer longer night
Closing in
On a hostile planet
Its atmosphere whipping around
The stars as ever far away
But the blackness in between
Seeping in
--Dan Kilian
The scraping wind the groaning sky
The leaking cracks
And amateur tap-dancing radiators
Baths and blankets and soup
Sweating in our layers
Fending off the cold
Wide awake
Asleep for days
Hybernational malaise
A clearer daylight
And a clearer longer night
Closing in
On a hostile planet
Its atmosphere whipping around
The stars as ever far away
But the blackness in between
Seeping in
--Dan Kilian
Barnacles
The Swarm
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Friday, January 15, 2016
Monday, January 11, 2016
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