super records repost: April 2010

I'm still not sure who or if anyone is reading this or who will be reading this so excuse the tangent. I recently decided to rid myself of all drug use, alcohol, smoking, everything.well caffeine but im working on it. Now I remember why I drank in the first place, to shut up my thoughts. I can't stop thinking its too much. I don't beat myself up or think anything particularly negative but i just won't shut the hell up. Anyhow my one remedy has been to just download an assload of records. More records than I used to desire. It really helps control the thoughts.

music is really powerful like that, you know that cheesy as fuck movie "hi fidelity"? there was that one part where cusak looks at the camera and says something like "record companies put out and millions and millions of songs all about being completely in love or down and out heart broken, think they have any idea what that can do to a person?" im sure he wasnt the first to say that. And I wonder how related all that is to any of our lifestyle choices. whether or not you were gonna smoke weed in middle school or high school all came down to whether or not you listened to a sublime album or something. I find myself pitted somewhere in the middle as far as the classic trials on obscene music. On the one hand I DON'T think they should keep certain music away from kids but I DO agree that the music can plant ideas in your head, really efficiently actual, cause you're not thinking you're feeling. I really do think its possible some shitty music could have contributed to depression or murder or suicide and stuff like that, though there's no way to prove or study it. I think anyone should realize that music is affecting their mental/emotional state and take control of it.

then theres this other thing frederico felini pointed out, is that theres music playing in public places that should be regarded as dangerous. think about it, the radio is mainly leaving it up to hopeless romantics and drug addicts to supply the feelings for the public places you visit. not that i don't sympathize for hopeless romantics or drug addicts but how about we all dedicate some time to sit down and listen to some music of our own choice?

here's a list I got going for garage stuff:
messthetics compilations (so many volumes, so many hits, so much trash)
slampt records (so far I totally love the band golden starlet)
uncle arthur's pop parlor 1987<---- i relaly liked some of the songs on this one. get it fun while it lasted vol 1 and 2 brazilian guitar fuzz bananas and then I always meant to check out these people that died sparklehorse guru of gangstarr alex chilton joe reatard but mainly Ive been listening to Flying Lotus. but I really am trying to stop listening to things that the music media covers. As for the new ariel pink record: awesome, well you know, its about as good as any other ariel pink record: some gems, some headaches, utter boredom, another gem and then its over and you feel pretty good about listening to the radio. and then didn't anthologyrecordings.com used to have a whole bunch more records??? I checked the website a few days ago and there was only a couple dozen records available I remember it used to be a lot more than that. I wonder what happened. Shoulda grabbed em when I had the chance. I really want that Andy Goldner "infinity" record but it hasnt leaked anywhere. acting>feeling>talking>thinking.