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Home Alone, Day 7
May. 3rd, 2006 04:58 pmI finally broke down and washed the dog, which is usually the wife's job. You can tell it's time to bathe Jericho when he develops stink lines. You know, stink lines. If you were to draw a cartoon picture of a stinky dog, you'd draw those wavy lines to depict the foul odor wafting off it.
Anyway, I can see Jericho's stink lines. I swear, sometimes I can grab a hold of those stink lines and lift the poodle clear off the ground and watch his legs scrabble in the air. Usually, by this time, the wife has bathed him. But she isn't here, so I let it go. Bad idea. While Jericho sat on the couch in the living room yesterday afternoon, one of his stink lines reached out and around the corner into my office to tap me on the shoulder. As if that wasn't enough, I left Jericho yesterday to go buy some new music and when I came back, he was weaving a web with his stink lines and capturing more flies than a spider. He was probably hoping a Virginia ham would wander into the clutches of his web, but I put him in the bath tub before it got any worse.
As for that new music.
She Wants Revenge: Great, dark pop music with killer vocal hooks from a guy who can barely sing. All of my darkest adolescent frustrations and fantasies rolled up in music. Yeah, it sounds a lot like Joy Division, but I like it.
Tom Waits "Alice": Pleasantly accessible for songs written during the Bone Machine era, reminiscent of his older works while retaining the contemporary junk yard band sound. He gives voice to a collection of kooky characters, some hilariously funny and some utterly tragic, in songs loosely based on Alice in Wonderland. If you could pick up a rock and find something beautiful under there among the ooze and insects, it would sound like this.
Tool "10,000 Days": I put this one in the stereo and it blew the hair off my head. It's going to take awhile to let this one sink in. There's very little that resembles any kind of traditional song structure, but I love listening to it. Lots of long trance-inducing juggernauts bumping and rolling over strange tribal-like rhythms. I can definitely hear Meshuggah's influence on them (Meshuggah opened for them during a leg of the Lateralus tour).
My hair grows fast.
Anyway, I can see Jericho's stink lines. I swear, sometimes I can grab a hold of those stink lines and lift the poodle clear off the ground and watch his legs scrabble in the air. Usually, by this time, the wife has bathed him. But she isn't here, so I let it go. Bad idea. While Jericho sat on the couch in the living room yesterday afternoon, one of his stink lines reached out and around the corner into my office to tap me on the shoulder. As if that wasn't enough, I left Jericho yesterday to go buy some new music and when I came back, he was weaving a web with his stink lines and capturing more flies than a spider. He was probably hoping a Virginia ham would wander into the clutches of his web, but I put him in the bath tub before it got any worse.
As for that new music.
She Wants Revenge: Great, dark pop music with killer vocal hooks from a guy who can barely sing. All of my darkest adolescent frustrations and fantasies rolled up in music. Yeah, it sounds a lot like Joy Division, but I like it.
Tom Waits "Alice": Pleasantly accessible for songs written during the Bone Machine era, reminiscent of his older works while retaining the contemporary junk yard band sound. He gives voice to a collection of kooky characters, some hilariously funny and some utterly tragic, in songs loosely based on Alice in Wonderland. If you could pick up a rock and find something beautiful under there among the ooze and insects, it would sound like this.
Tool "10,000 Days": I put this one in the stereo and it blew the hair off my head. It's going to take awhile to let this one sink in. There's very little that resembles any kind of traditional song structure, but I love listening to it. Lots of long trance-inducing juggernauts bumping and rolling over strange tribal-like rhythms. I can definitely hear Meshuggah's influence on them (Meshuggah opened for them during a leg of the Lateralus tour).
My hair grows fast.
