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Man the jib, hold the course, and port the starboard (?), motor-boatin’ sunsabitchin’ Danielson just sailed into town. Br. Danielson and co., all (sea) decked out in their sailor uniforms, found themselves ship-wrecked in the intense desert heat of Phoenix. This crew’s mission: to put on a production of the excellent new album Ships.
Apologies for the scarcity of posts lately, Drewl and I were attending our sister's wedding and you know how emotional and inebriated family weddings can get. That said, one of the things that has been slowly easing me back to…
A recent post over on Adfreak combined with the revelation that companies with DoD contracts are now basically exempt from standard SEC filings got me to thinking about all of the crappy corporate anthems I have heard over the years.
You know what I’m talking about. You work as some cubicle drone for mega global corporation and in order to further implant the idea in your head that the global mega corporation world is a better world and you are a worthless piece of shit they come up with a song to remind you each and every moment of the day. A song that they play in the elevators, on the phone, in the shitter. A song that those who have drank the Kool-Aid like to lip-sync or, even worse, sing, at every corporate outing, or when before you start you company-sponsored calisthenics routine in the morning.
A song that you hum to yourself as you look down forty floors to the traffic clogged streets below, pondering if it was all worth it.
Take heart, my friend. You are not alone.
[youtube]w1UpHUN2PEM[/youtube] The 2001 short film Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers by the Swedish duo Johannes Stjärne Nilsson and Ola Simonsson of Kostr Films. Kind of reminds me of this iconic scene from Jeunet and Caro's Delicatessen. [youtube]Ocf0R4gMJ4I[/youtube] You…
Dodge over at My Old Kentucky Blog has uncovered the secret to getting your band on the map. Cover Joy Division. Love Will Tear Us Apart - it's the new Freebird. Although apparently Where Is My Mind by the Pixies…