Something New, Completely Stolen

I think I’m going to implement a “weekly feature” to this amazing blog.  Too many times do I, your humble author, ramble about nothing or just tell you what’s on my itunes (right now is “A Cautionary Song” by The Decemberists, a right jaunty tune).  Instead of just doing tomfoolery as such (which, I will continue), I think I’m going to try to anchor this juggernaut of a blog with something concrete.  And I totally stole the idea from a book I just read.

Recently, I finished “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs” by Chuck Klosterman.  It looks like this:

Good book.  Funny, interesting, and well written.  (By the way, itunes update… ever wonder what Crosby, Stills, and Nash would sound like if they drank too many Pina Coladas and listened to the Beach Boys’ “Kokomo” all night?  Well, check out the song 50/50.  What shit from such a great group.  Back to your original prose.)  Well, ol’ Chuck has a great idea and really makes sense to this guy.  Why can something by Jane Austen be studied as art, but something like Saved By The Bell cannot?  This is now my new premise.  One of my many (read: 2) bachelor’s degrees is in English, and I’ve done my fair share of reading and analyzing.  Why is this just limited to the canon of old farty works?  Now, I dig that shit for sure, but you know what?  I can use the same skills to really dig deep into today’s world.  Who doesn’t want to know what kind of symbolism to pay attention to in Freddy Got Fingered?  Why can’t there be an annotated bibliography for the psyche of Chuck Palahaniuk as he pertains to incredible perversions?  Can’t someone review “No More Games: The Remix Album” by New Kids on the Block in a way that relates it to postmodernism?  And do it in a humorous, amazingly witty way?  Sure they can. And “they” is “me” in this scenario, if you aren’t following along.  Seriously, have you ever read “Pilgrim’s Progress” from way back in the day?  Thing’s a piece of shit.  I can learn more about the written word breaking down Snoop’s verse in “Dre Day.”  Bow wow wow, yippie yo, yippie ay.  Top that, John Bunyan.

itunes update – “If I Had Changed My Mind” by Tom Vek.  Just heard this guy for the first time.  Odd, layered sound with a slightly “f-you for listening to me” vocal.  So obviously, it’s great.

Now, this may be a great idea.  This might allow me to get all of the creative juices I have in me to ejaculate onto this blog.  Lack of a better term?  Hell no!  To quote Brokeback Mountain (not the movie, the book.  It was a book, you know…)… “Gun’s…. goin….. off….”  That’s right.  I’ve turned the hue of the blog a little more blue.  I’m at my best when I can slightly (or obviously) offend.  But don’t worry, dear reader.  This is merely an academic exercise.

If you have any suggestions, let me have it.  Don’t worry though.  I’ll still regale you with random bitching, embarrassing stories about friends, and more music than you can shake a stick at.  So, one last itunes update, complete with visual accompaniment.  You said it’s not so bad, they’re only vegetables, that’s what you said…

The new era is upon us, Sweatervests Are Cool readers. Let’s brace all tens of us for a minor, if insignificant revolution!