Watching some Forensic Detective show. God I love this trash.

Splinternets! Who put you on this website?

For the next few weeks, I will be posting entries from my new blog as I get ready to actually CLOSE this forever. I will be linking to my new blog page and calling out all those bands you like that are actually a bunch of dicks (go team!). 

I used to super dig Tumblr, then all these people followed me, so I followed them back like a good interneter. Turns out that these people are borderline fucktarded and most of them re-blogged garbage that made me want to kill the Internet (also, my career). 

So, for the few stragglers that remain hung on my words, as I gear up to close down, please enjoy my writings and stuff.

More to follow …

Alex

REALLY like the aesthetic changes made to Path. This should be the next big thing.

I’m having lunch. Yup. That’s all I’ve gotta say right now.

I dislike Lady GaGa. So … no. :)

Ask me anything

Since the fall of 2010 (sounds more epic than saying ‘since October’), I have been writing and recording music under the umbrella of the band; My First Stereo. It has been a pretty fun time, thus far. Working with my friend and now house mate Mitchell Ray, we have developed and created a really nice working environment inside a renovated summer house in his garden. We call it; The Shedio. Whenever I try and describe it, it comes out like this;

‘The Shedio is a time capsule, aside form our computer set-up for recording, all sources of entertainment are retro. Nintendo, VHS, Game Boys and YoYos’ - Me, Everyday.

Mitch and I are ‘American Pie’ generation kids. We both have siblings 7 years our senior that influenced a lot of our tastes in media. Culminating in two very similar thought processes and a very solid goal; Make Pop-Punk Music, Man. We are inspired by likes of Blink82, Sum41, Student Rick, Dynamite Boy, SR71 and American Hi-Fi.

Follow this link to hear our first single ‘From Here It’s Goodbye’ which is still available for purchase with proceeds going to charity.

Wurd,

Alex

I love music, we all know this.

Never have I made it a secret that I walk aimlessly round towns with my headphones on at strange hours of the night in an attempt to re-kindle and re-imagine the avenues of youth, down which I once walked. It was a cocktail of pop-rock and their ballads that soundtracked my excursions. 

With new albums coming out and me no longer living in the town that I once did, I find myself detached from the moment and starting to pine for it more than I do for Pepsi Max. 

California rioters Hollywood Undead, known for their hard hitting and bass laden anthems of the glorification in sex, drugs & rock’n’roll have released a new record. It’s note for note pretty much their previous effort but with less cussing. That said, 2 tracks that jump at you and stand out as comprehensive tracks are softer and more bittersweet tracks.

‘Pour Me’ is soft and melodramatic self loathing track that just works. As a 20something with no teenage years left to live, I am still able to see how this would hit an adolescent kid with no future. This is the kind of song that is perfect for twilight walking round a sleepy town and feeling pretty sure you are the only person awake at that time. A fantastic blend of harmony, piano, soft rapping and angelic harmony. 

The other stand out track is called ‘Bullet’ and is a conflicting track and a stroke of craftsmanship excellence. The song itself as lyrics is a suicidal song. Boasting a stomach full of pills and sitting on the edge of a 20 story building, you would assume this could not be going well. What you are met with as a tune is a juxtaposed melody. Best described as a Jason Mraz and Eminem duet, Bullet is a catchy, bouncy and foot tapping anthem of disillusion. It just so happens to have Beach Boys harmony and suicidal lyrics. Nailing the controversy coffin shut is finishing the track with a child singing ‘I wish that I could fly way up in the sky, oh i might just try’.

Hollywood Undead’s new record ‘AMERICAN TRAGEDY’ is out now.