As you might of guessed, this is my favorite time of year. I usually watch a load of horror movies but might give that a miss seeing as that all I’ve done for the last month.
You should listen to this new Danny Brown track though and then give me zero credit when you claim to have heard of him before he was famous. He is fucking amazing, has an incredible range, is goon as fuck and should be a lot bigger than whatever stupid bullshit you think is worth listening to at the moment. Might post more Halloween raps in the morning, also might just fall over though.
This depends on what path you want to take. It depends on what kind of superiority you want to attain. You can become a True Fan of an established act. This is cool as a lot people will have heard of this band so will be able to be appropriately mad shook when you roll up and Get Them harder than they ever could. Like you if you spoke to people about the difference between liking Devo and Understanding Devo.
Alternatively, pick a relatively obscure act and champion them. When it comes to being superior about music, this choice pretty much constitutes bush league sucka shit but I guess you have to start somewhere. Loving Life Without Buildings help you learn how to belittle Wilco fans (although you shouldn’t need much help with that, Wilco are an irredeemable bitchmade crapfest).
If you want to hit top difficulty hell-mode with this shit though, then you’re going to want to pick a band that had a one hit wonder and champion them. This shows you’re able to transcend the consensus. For instance, thinking Kick Out The Jams is “one of MC5′s weaker tunes actually” means you’ve won. (Back In The USA is a shit album MC5 fans, eat a dick straight up).
Shirts:
At gigs it goes without saying that you shouldn’t wear the t-shirt of the band. No matter how cold you are or how damp your Daniel Johnston t-shirt is (always a safe gig shirt, awards mid-level cred and is impossible to be interrogated over as no one actually fucking listens to Daniel Johnston): do not wear the shirt you got from the merch table.
Wearing a side project shirt is acceptable. The level of acceptability grows the more divorced the side project is musically from the kind of stuff the main band plays. So wearing a Foxboro Hot Tubs shirt at Greenday is okay (aside from the fact you’re at Greenday so should be stabbing yourself in the neck with your own shinbone). But wearing a Relaxed Muscle shirt at a Jarvis Cocker gig is better (relatively, people at Jarvis Cocker gigs should only be smothering themselves to death with a pillow….a pillow made of shit).
Gigs
If people start shouting the names of popular songs, shout the most obscure one you can think of. Then go “aweee” sadly when the musician pulls their fake-surprise-at-deep-cut-request face (they all have this face, it is part of the business). If the musician makes a joke, laugh at it out loud. This might be difficult as, apart from a man named Jon, all musicians fall in line with the “Musician Humor Paradox”. This being that Dave Ghrol is the funniest musician, but Dave Grohl is also not funny.
Fans
If you meet another fan, imply the closer their opinion of the band is to the general consensus the less they have really thought about the band. Complain about people who came to the band after they released their good album that made their name. The other fan is likely to be one of these people, revel in their attempts to pretend otherwise.
Sadly, the internet has made it easier for everyone to hear a band’s whole discography. Don’t worry however, you will have a secret weapon. Talk about the band as if they’re an annoying friend of yours. For instance, be irritated “Noah’s” new album cover is ‘heavy pedo’. Talking about a musicians as if you’re friends shows you’re a true fan. And a dick. Same thing really.
Every day this week I’m going to be reposting the column I started a little over a year ago for my college paper. I already think most of the writing is embarrassing and bad but since you are not me, it should be indistinguishable. So if you like the sporadic new shit, here is a week of the old gold.
Oh and it’s also important to note that a couple of people have labeled this The Best Thing McTiernan Has Ever Written. I don’t think the word “best” should be applied to my writing, that implies consistency or something. I like it though, it’s probably the most sincere thing I’ve written. I’m basically a sad awkward dude. Tell no one though.
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Every day this week I’m going to be reposting the column I started a little over a year ago for my college paper. I already think most of the writing is embarrassing and bad but since you are not me, it should be indistinguishable. So if you like the sporadic new shit, here is a week of the old gold.
As you and I know, an important anniversary has just passed. Six months ago, Sean Mc Tiernan went to a nude beach for the first time and only. That’s right friend, next Miller time, raise a glass and celebrate this special day.
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Every day this week I’m going to be reposting the column I started a little over a year ago for my college paper. I already think most of the writing is embarrassing and bad but since you are not me, it should be indistinguishable. So if you like the sporadic new shit, here is a week of the old gold
Someone said to me recently that when describing people I meet I almost never start with what I think of them but what I think they think of me. And by someone I mean my mate Matt, not some fictional person I made up just to construct an intro for this. You don’t know Matt though, so putting his name as the very first word of this article would be weird. So I didn’t. You can thank me for that later.
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Every day this week I’m going to be reposting the column I started a little over a year ago for my college paper. I already think most of the writing is embarrassing and bad but since you are not me, it should be indistinguishable. So if you like the sporadic new shit, here is a week of the old gold
So there’s a piece of advice my father gave me recently. I know, whenever anyone writes about their father’s advice it is almost always wince-inducing. It’s always something heartwarmingly useless like “try your best” or some other non-statement that just makes mini golf, or whatever it is normal people do with their dads, even more awkward. This is because, and I have met a lot of fathers in my time, most are crap bastards. But, for too many reasons to list, mine definitely isn’t. He told me to tell you your’s is though, sorry about that. Anyway this was his advice: “In the end everyone you know will somehow fuck you over. Everyone.”
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Every day this week I’m going to be reposting the column I started a little over a year ago for my college paper. I already think most of the writing is embarrassing and bad but since you are not me, it should be indistinguishable. So if you like the sporadic new shit, here is a week of the old gold
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A lot of things make me uncomfortable. The existence of Pat Kenny, the times when thin people see me buying food, Yaphet Kotto (the band not the person), Heidegger’s concept of guilt, Yaphet Kotto (the person not the band), people on coke and a great many other things. In the last while something else has been added to this list. And when I tell you what it is, you are going to think I’m pretentious. You will make fun of my haircut and plaid shirt. But I am going to tell you anyway. Cause even though you never text back, I fucking love you right?
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Every day this week I’m going to be reposting the column I started a little over a year ago for my college paper. I already think most of the writing is embarrassing and bad but since you are not me, it should be indistinguishable. So if you like the sporadic new shit, here is a week of the old gold.
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So I have gallstones right? Big angry things that lurk in my gallbladder and cause me great physical pain whenever someone mentions fatty food and raises their eyebrows suggestively. The thing about getting gallstones is that no one lets you know. It’s not turning a hundred and having the queen send you a note asking you to help cover up the alleged Diana assassination. Instead you have to discover it on your own. How do you find out? You get a Biliary Colic.
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Holy Mountain
The President’s Analyst
Naked
Trust
A Serious Man
Repo Man
Henry Fool
Punch Drunk Love
Brick
Wet Hot American Summer
Monster Camp
Battle Royal
SLC Punk
Glengarry Glen Ross
Zoo
Dead-End Drive In
Murder Party
Windy City Heat
We Jam Econo
Deadbeat At Dawn
And Ten Horror Films (Because if I put them in the main list it’d be mad lopsided, the way I enjoy horror films is different to the way I enjoy the above and basically I’m hoping no one reads down this far)
Braindead
Dawn of the Dead
Brain Damage
Street Trash
Re-Animator (Counting the trilogy as one movie. It’s my list right?)
Evil Dead 2
Pontypool
Session 9
Silent Night Deadly Night 2
Blood Diner
Hailing from LA and headed up by Tyler The Creator, Odd Future are a completely individual, consistently hilarious and really really fucking evil. They’re also really young, Tyler, as well as being the driving creative force and the eldest, is 19. But that doesn’t matter. What does matter is these guys are going hard and evil on unconventional beats and doing everything themselves. That extends to making their own promos. Here’s one for Earl Sweatshirt’s song Earl.
I know right? Christ Alive. It’s a whole different aesthetic that most people would associate with current popular rap music. The videos look great, they’re hilarious in a disconcertingly offkilter way and they do not give a fuck on earth if you get them a lot. And that’s key to Odd Future. They want to be successful and have scary drive for it. But, like Lil B and all great artists really, your job is to catch your shit up, they’re not going to pander to you.
As good as Hodgy Beats,Left Brain/Hodgy Beats collaboration MellowHype and Earl Sweatshirt are (and they are really really good, make no mistake and sleep at your peril) if you investigate Odd Future: Tyler, the Creator is going to stand out. I could tell you about how he’s the lightening rod for the group’s insanity, how his amazing take-no-prisoners sense of satire and humor informs everything the crew does, how he has already carved out his own unique sound or even talk about how his rapping is sinister and incredible in equal measure. But I don’t need to because I can just show you this.
I emailed Tyler a few quick questions and he got back to me. Here’s how that went:
Every time I remember you’re 2 years younger than me, I get mad depressed at my talentlessness. Tell the people how old you are, where you’re based and when you started on this rap shit.
Hello, I’m 40 Years Younger Than A 59 Year Old. I Live In Ladera. Which Is LA, But I Don’t Want To Automatically Be Put Into The LA Rap Scene By The Nigga Reading This. And I Started Rapping When I Was 7, Started Making Instrumentals At Age 12, And Taught Myself Piano At age 14. Started Chronic Masturbating At Age 15. Late Bloomer.
Not going to ask you who your influences are but I do wonder, when you are putting a track together are you consciously trying to sound different to most other stuff out there or are you just getting the contents of head out?
I Never Thought About It. I Basically Do The First Thing That Comes To My Head. Seriously.
You and the rest of Odd Future are seem scarily focused on success but also completely committed to being individual. This seems fucking difficult man,why don’t you just start jerkin’? Seems like it’d be easier.
Jerking Is Faggotory At The Highest Level. And, I Just Be Myself And Do What The Fuck Like.
Your videos are properly scary, halfway between the Fuck Compton video and Man Bites Dog, why do you think violence and freaky shit plays such a large role in your art?
im into that shit. i seriously do the first shit that comes to my head. me and taco were playing mario kart when we randomly came up with the idea to use a fucking blow up doll instead of a real bitch.
And just on the videos again, what is your inspiration for them aside from making people scared?
I Really Don’t Fucking Know. I Like The Way Shit Looks. I think Every Song Should Have A Visual Aspect To It. That Fits It, And Seriously, if I had The Time And Money, I Would Do That With Every Song In my Music Library. Wait, I Seriously Did Not Just Answer The Question. I Get My Inspiration From…I Think Porn And Horror Movies. And Mind Fuck Movies. And Just making Shit That Parents Wouldn’t Want Their Kid To Look At. Yeah, That Shit. Swag.
What blogs and rappers do you hate? There’s a lot of direct hostility towards Nah Right in your music, you feel you’ve been underrated?
Fuck 2dope Boys. And Them Too. I’m Not Going To Say What Rappers I Hate, Even Tho It’s One That I Would Physically Abuse If I Seen Him. And Underrated, Eh, It’s Whatever. I Think I’m Better At Everything Than Most People Who Get A Post Or Whatever. But, Fuck Them, I Don’t Need A Blog Or The Coolest Hip Hop Site To Post My Shit, Or OF Shit At That Matter, I Did This Shit Without Them, Got Magazines Hitting Me Up, Got Kids Emulating Me…And I Did This Shit By Myself, They Could Suck My Dick……And Bill Cosbys’.
Who do you think your competition is?
The People In my Camp. And We Feed Of Each Other, So It’s A Win Win Situation. Wolf Gang.
Lil B has been getting a lot of attention from Indie Rock press for being “Avant Garde”(from Wire magazine ect) are you hoping for a similar cross over?
I Think i Do. I’m A Reallly Really Big LIl B Fan. Been Fucking With Him For A Minute, He Does What He Wants, And Can Give Fuck Less What Anyone Thinks, Same With Me. So Yeah, I Think That’ll be Swaggedd The Fuck Out If They Consider Me “Avent Garde”‘
If you didn’t make music what would you be doing?
That’s An Oxy Moron, So I Can’t Humanly Answer That Question, Are You An Alien? How The Fuck Did You Even Come Up With A Left Field Question Like That?
When’s the Odd Future full length documentary coming out?
Was Talking About This The Other Day. Prolly When One of Us Die. Or In A Couple Years To Come, Like 15. VH1 Behind The Music. Show Us At Now, Skating, Just Being Teenagers, Then How We Has Super Successful. then how one of us died, or did drugs or just fucked up.
Jason Dill is one of the people like” These Kids Came Out Of No Where, I Remember Those Little Fucks Skating At Fax, had No Idea They Did Anything”
Then Some Fucking Parent Talking About How One Of Us Made There Kid Go Beat Some Old Bitch Up Or How Domo made Their kid Smoke Weed Or Some Cool Shit Like That.
]What did Steve Harvey ever do to you guys?
FUCK STEVE HARVEY. AND FREE EARL. OFWGKTA.
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This is poison milk…drink it.
All albums and tracks are gettable at Odd Future
Go forth and get them got.
