Hello there

If you're reading this, chances are you're a friend of mine, and you may have read my inspired albeit short-lived blog from 2008, which was discontinued mostly because of unfortunate timing; school got real fuckin' hard as I was hitting my stride. Not to say things haven't changed, but I feel more equipped to handle both workloads now so I'm starting with a literal blank slate. In this blog I will review new (and perhaps as yet unreleased?) albums that I have been waiting eagerly to hear. Thus my reviews might be biased towards my expectations, so if that happens sorry. I will also post concert reviews and random musings that I feel are interesting enough to write about. I hope you all enjoy, and if you don't, you have my permission to stop reading and/or slap me in the face either verbally or physically (I prefer verbally) and I may or may not take your opinions into consideration.

As luck would have it, I have something to talk about already! I have found that one of the nice things about attending a large (read: HUGE) university is that there's a nice student activity budget that the good people at the activities board use mostly wisely to bring in all sorts of notable performance artists, including musicians, and sometimes for free! Iron & Wine came to the school last night, and Mr. Beam put on a great show; I've never seen a single performer have so much control over an audience. But his performance is not what I came to write about, it was the performance (or lack thereof) of the audience during the opening act, a soft-spoken man named Daniel Martin Moore who performed some equally soft songs on acoustic guitar.

Now, I understand that people came to see Iron & Wine, and thus they may have gotten a tad impatient during the opening performance, but the level of respect being shown to this poor guy was just dismal. I'm not speaking from experience, but I'd imagine being an opening act is pretty tough as it is, and when nearly the entire crowd is talking over your music, you're making the guy feel completely un-cared about, and is that a good thing to do? Obviously not. If you think your little conversations are more important than giving someone who is trying his best to entertain you half an hour of your time, you should probably just stop coming to concerts and ruining the experience for the people who actually want to listen. They even gave you guys wristbands so you could re-enter the room, if you need to carry on a conversation with your friends that badly, just walk outside and do it, don't fucking ruin it for everyone who wants to listen to the music.

I hope I can give you something interesting to read at least weekly, for now here's a song I've been listening to a lot lately, off the new Deerhunter album Halcyon Digest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mBSOtdOjoc