tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151260455377991259.post2620032231239588691..comments2022-03-23T18:21:10.948-07:00Comments on Hipness as a Second Language: Temporal Shift: The Kill- Soundtrack to Your ViolenceDesiccatedVeinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16783531567772825094noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151260455377991259.post-20813196726350234612010-10-16T18:56:05.184-07:002010-10-16T18:56:05.184-07:00I've been meaning to make a GoodReads account;...I've been meaning to make a GoodReads account; I think I'll buckle down and make one tonight before my radio show.DesiccatedVeinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16783531567772825094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151260455377991259.post-5544345400073022802010-10-15T10:19:47.823-07:002010-10-15T10:19:47.823-07:00I just don't appreciate Lolita thematically, a...I just don't appreciate Lolita thematically, and I didn't particularly care (that is, didn't care as much as I expected to) for the (in fact, technically absolutely excellent) writing. I have also read The Enchanter (the presumed groundwork for Lolita), a thoroughly "Russian" novella (in its prose, as opposed to the "American" Lolita) and completely different kind of work, with similar results. Thus I declare that I don't enjoy Nabokov too much (on a purely subjective basis, as it should go without saying)!<br /><br />Get on goodreads.com, man. It's the last.fm of literature! ;DZmajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17093889738405243944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151260455377991259.post-974897937018608262010-10-15T09:29:10.605-07:002010-10-15T09:29:10.605-07:00Haha, yeah, Insect Warfare were funny like that. R...Haha, yeah, Insect Warfare were funny like that. Really the only thing that mattered to Beau was writing riffs; he didn't even care if there were lyrics, and half the time the vocalist didn't even bother to write them. That might be what made them so great, though: that single-minded dedication to grind and grind alone, even foregoing lyrics if they'd get in the way.<br /><br />As for Nabokov, I'll save that conversation for another day; it does depend on what Nabokov you've read, though. The reason something like <i>Lolita</i> is so great is that Nabokov gives you so much faith in the narrator that you almost ignore the fact that he's a complete creep and a pedophile and just focus on the writing. I imagine that if you read <i>Lolita</i> and did focus on the pedophilia, it would be completely awful.DesiccatedVeinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16783531567772825094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151260455377991259.post-89028064185314122402010-10-15T06:25:10.388-07:002010-10-15T06:25:10.388-07:00The Soundtrack to Your Violence really is incredib...The Soundtrack to Your Violence really is incredibly good, and I, controversially, don't like Nabokov too much.<br /><br />You know what other downright incredible grind band had some incredibly shit lyrics? Well, America's own Insect Warfare. I mean, it's not supposed to be funny, it's just that it feels like I'm supposed to be listening to a gangsta rap album, sometimes.<br /><br />Direct transcript of the gem titled "Paranoia":<br />"you know where to find me, are you too scared? i've got guns and their aiming for you. i came to fight, but you dont got no balls. i know what you did and i want your blood."<br /><br />In the end, it does crack me up.Zmajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17093889738405243944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151260455377991259.post-64726823593672779922010-10-11T15:52:45.169-07:002010-10-11T15:52:45.169-07:00perhaps graf orlock should run lyrics seminars for...perhaps graf orlock should run lyrics seminars for the lazy/untalented.Andrew Childershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09817760227836086070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151260455377991259.post-10558654560320978982010-10-11T13:15:03.968-07:002010-10-11T13:15:03.968-07:00Haha, if that were an actual thing, I would DEFINI...Haha, if that were an actual thing, I would DEFINITELY listen to it.<br /><br />Stupid bands should just steal all their lyrics from awesome novels. In a perfect world, Anal Cunt would have an album filled with songs called "Pale Fire" and "Ubik" and "Journey to the End of the Night" and "Gravity's Rainbow."DesiccatedVeinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16783531567772825094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151260455377991259.post-75640447481549654162010-10-11T05:49:29.004-07:002010-10-11T05:49:29.004-07:00now excuse me while i write a conceptual grindcore...now excuse me while i write a conceptual grindcore symphony about lolita.<br /><br />i suffer from the same problem. i've got a pair of eps i'm trying to write up now that are, lyrically, retarded when they're not outright vile. but the music has occasional flashes of inspiration. why oh why can't bands contract out their lyrics to someone with some literary flair?Andrew Childershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09817760227836086070noreply@blogger.com