In a week in which the Republican National Convention has topped the headlines, we’ve witnessed blatant hypocrisies and multiple rounds of non-Simpsons referencing “U.S.A.!” chants. For me, it’s also been a wonderful week of Internetting. Hopefully after this heated election is over, America can reunite by getting together to watch funny videos and laugh at juggaloes on the Internets. We’ll embrace each other as brothers and sisses once more, just like the brother bears in this beautiful picture.
So if you’ve noticed in the last couple days, the site has been down sporadically throughout the day. I’m pretty sure we’ve ruled out hackers, so I think the problem is probably something to do with GoDaddy and traffic volume, and for now I’m just hoping they will iron out these troubles soon. Unfortunately, due to the sporadic shutdowns, I lost a post I had just about completed. My only backup is on a .doc file I saved at work, and I won’t be back there until Monday, so I guess you’ll just have to wait until then to see my awesome post about animals fighting each other. Toodles.
Some people have said that this site makes me look like a “pretentious, wanky, soggy-headed cock who wants desperately to impress what few readers he has with his so-so knowledge of relatively obscure music.” Well, to that I say, “F*** you, Jim DeRogatis!” Perhaps this Top 5 will illuminate everyone on my humble musical beginnings.
I went to middle school (6th grade to 8th grade) from 1994 to 1997, which us white people from the suburbs remember as the height of the post-grunge era. Kurt Cobain was dead, and–hey–good riddance! More room for the new class, for bands as wildly diverse as Collective Soul, Candlebox, Sponge and Everclear. Bands that took the heavy, basic guitar sound of grunge and polished it until it twinkled like a shiny shirt (with mysterious Chinese symbols).
Got some great stuff for you on this third installment of my Odd Pop Mixes. Remember, I have TWO separate 8tracks.com accounts for weeks (like this one) when I feel like extending my mix. This one contains the “A-side” tracks and this one contains the “B-side” tracks. So without further adoo-doo, I give you the mix …
I wanted to congratulate my brother Jack, who runs the Killer Pop website. He and a group of friends recently entered the 48 Hour Film Project competition when the festival came to Orlando. Their team, Team Emis Bas, took away the Best Graphics prize. Their entry, a ghost story entitled 86, is posted above.
In other nooz, I had a great time this Labor Day weekend back in Chicagoland. Thanx to all my friends who came out and partied, and I extend an open invitation to all of you to come down and stay in Tucson as soon as the mercury starts dropping up in Cook County. Later this evening I should have a new mixtape posted, so keep on a-refreshin’ those browsers!
Persona Don Dada isn’t a website that is wont to slap its endorsement on just any old crap. If I say I love something, hey buddy–I mean it from the bottom of my heart. I’m going to try to make Big Ups a regular feature on the site just endorsing a website that I dig.
So today I thought I’d clue the Persona Don Dada Nation (12 men strong and counting!) in to the site that is host to my favorite podcast. Film Junk is run by a group of Canadian dudes who are totally unpretentious and relaxed (chillaxed?) with their approach to film reviewing and blogging. This means their writing is neither completely intolerable and obsessed with up to the minute leaks like Ain’t It Cool News nor is it Cahiers du Cinema. In fact, Film Junk seems to have adopted a personal credo of sticking it to fan boys and stuffy film critics.
Hey folks. It’s been a slow week here at Persona Don Dada as I was getting ready for my trip tomorrow to Chicago. I didn’t have much time to think about a mix, but since my country mix was cut short the other week because of the abrupt shutdown of muxtape.com, I upped a revamped country music mix to 8tracks.com. That’s about all the news I’ve got; don’t expect anything else from me until after the Labor Day weekend. I’ll probably see most of my readers this weekend anyways. Peace!
The Tucson Weekly interviewed famous soprano saxophonist and noted mousse enthusiast Kenny “G” Gorelick in its August 7-13 issue for their “Nine Questions” feature. The interview tied in to Mr. G’s upcoming appearance at the Desert Diamond Casino (”Where Music Goes to Die from Autoerotic Asphyxiation”). It’s worth a read just for the sheer douchebaggery that is displayed so prominently by the G-Man. You can read the full interview here, but just check out his answers to some of the questions:
Drugs and music go together like puppy dogs and newborns, so what better a subject to kick off my (hooooopefully regular) top five lists. I assert off the bat that I truly have never done any sort of psychedelic drug, and that if I did, given my inherent psychological disposition, I would probably react very badly. I imagine it would be like something out of the Altered State of Druggachusettes sketch from Mr. Show, where I would be the Professor (”I’m having a bad time here, man!”) but all the other characters would be played by giant melting skulls.
So let’s have a stab at this thing, shall we? Up first is …
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