More On Music, Part II

My complete thoughts on the RIAA situation have been posted on Allzah; you can find them here.

More on Music

My BMG order has arrived, and my letter of account closure will go out with my payment (for shipping and handling). In the meantime, spot reviews will be posted here just as soon as I can collect the focus. I'm digging it all, though.

It's official...

My last order from BMG has been shipped. I mean that. Now I can close my membership and be free of all taints of association with RIAA. This may seem melodramatic, but I think that one should order one's life according to the principles one espouses. Any hipster twerp can whine about the music industry's suckage, but those who would have things change cannot persist in being part of the problem. And I plan to communicate to this company, which has served me well in introducing me to some fine music I would not have otherwise stumbled upon, exactly why I am ending our relationship. Maybe they'll take notice, maybe not. But it's good to make things clear.

Behind the Music

I like to keep an eye on RIAA and their lame attempts to shut down file-swapping, but today I actually got mad. One of the creators of Allzah had the following rant on the subject. Apparently the suits are going after individual file-swappers now, since KaZaa has managed to block their attempts to force it out of business. My own dissertation should be up there soon, but for the time being, I'll provide a few new links:



Boycott RIAA

Contact your Senator

Contact Your Senator


I plan on letting both Senators and my congressman know how I feel about these guys and their perversions of the law. They're a scummy organization that's grown fat and twisted, while providing little value to our culture. Their time has come.

Here are the Sonics!

And were they worth the wait?


The CD came with a novel's worth of praise for these scruffy Pacific Northwest wailers, and all the mad crazy noise they made. I was expecting something loony, a banjo-less Monks. In this I was disappointed, at least at first. After the stormy "Cinderella," the next several tracks were soul covers. Good Soul covers, but not that wild, not that punky. I was beginning to feel like the downer was approaching.

And then they played "Jenny, Jenny" and tore the roof off. I was punchin' the air. I was rockin' AND rollin'. It was all right.

Worth the wait? What wait?