Pacificapocalypse

Doing a little tweaking of the site settings, theme and CSS.
You may feel slight pressure on the roof of your mouth until the final tuning is complete.

Please stand by.

Wordpress 2.6 is out but unfortunately not all my plugins are compatible. So the upgrade turned into a downgrade.
Need to get with Julien De Luca
the creator of the theme I use and the very practical plugin that makes customizing the theme a trivial exercise.
Until then we stay with 2.5.

…despite the peer pressure.

Damn, I wish I’d written this - it exactly sums up why I still use Windows and will for the foreseeable future.

But really, when it comes down to it, the main reason I still use Windows is this: I’m stubborn and lazy.

And why I don’t use a Mac and probably never will:

Oh, look at me! I do graphic design! I wear woman’s jeans and hang out in coffee shops! I’m a DJ! Well good for you. My computer is not a fashion statement. It’s a computer

Which is incredibly timely as I was just talking with Mike and he could hardly contain his Prius driver like smugness as he related to me how he gave up on Windows and now is working on two Macs. Meh. Kool-Aid drinker.

via Gizmodo

An ex-co-worker and aspiring writer friend of mine, Chelsea Lin, stated this morning on her Facebook status that:

Liz Phair will make your eardrums bleed. Is ‘eardrums’ one word or two?

Which of course provoked me into the following exchange:

Me: Liz Phair topped out with “Exile in Guyville”… but what do I know? I was only there when the album (black, vinyl, lots of little lines - hole in the middle) was released.
You should listen to a little Polly Jane Harvey or Cat Power.
And get off my lawn you damn kids!

Chelsea: so she was performing only “exile in guyville” last night at the fillmore (i was covering it for spin.com) and i was not impressed… sacrilege, i know.

Me: “Not impressed”
Bah. Your prematurely jaded opinion is tiresome.
Next thing you’ll deny that the 80’s were, without a doubt, the crowning decade of human existence and the pinnacle of cultural and societal achievement.

And so Court and I got to talking; what exactly DID happen to Liz Phair?
“Guyville” was brilliant. Where did that brilliance go and why?
Court opines:

I don’t think (Chris) is talking about “exile in guyville” as being her best material, it’s more along the line of, Liz Phair was at her best at the time she wrote the album and her overall presences at that time. When that album debuted in 93′ she was willing to fully embrace her sound. I would say her second album, Whip-smart she maintained a similar sound but the influence from her Matador label-mates was far to obvious. With the move to Capital Records and her decent into commercial music success, the new glamorized shiny Liz’s sound comes off as vapid and indistinct. Now while she may, as you say make your eardrums bleed, it’s not because of raw passion or even a desire to perform… more likely its a production assistant turning a mic on to an obligatory 11. In short Liz Phair is dead. Lets hope for a resurgence of music not first filtered the digitized, then synthesized into catchy tunes for automobile, energy drink or tampon advertisements.

Brutal. I love it.

Nice post about deconstructing the original cover photo for Grace Jones album Island Life - one of my favorite seminal New Wave album covers. Linky.