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mumbling into the void stories ideas flotsam and jetsam skip to the content skip to the main menu menu mumbling into the void stories ideas flotsam and jetsam album corner nine inch nails year zero nine inch nails year zero youtube link spotify link wiki link part two in my dystopian future album series don t worry i don t have plans for a third part at least not yet year zero by nine inch nails was released in 2007 during the bush ii era of us presidency i was 26 going on 27 at the time bemoaning how stupid we were in the western world to be following such an absolute idiot as the leader of the free world for a second term oh how dumb and naive i was the more things change here we are not even two decades later and those times seem oh so rosy now a bygone era where politicians mostly did things above board okay maybe not the corruption was less blatant and in your face and the 24 hour news cycle seemed to pause and let us all collectively take a breather occasionally you know instead of pummelling us non stop with the next imminent crises or global meltdown george w bush now seems like a scholarly elder statesman looking back with his fool me once isms and inventive pronunciation of nu cu lor that i still not cannot stop saying myself and that awe shucks goofy smile but he didn t have it easy no sir he was just a salt of the earth guy from texas that inherited everything from his daddy including his post secondary schooling political party and presidential seat oh and his favourite nation to have a war with if only all of us were so lucky to fail upwards in such a stratospheric manner year zero was very obviously trent reznor s look at the bush ii era we were living through and taking it all to an even more outrageous level the entire album is an ode to a world gone even madder there are songs that show the blurring of lines between religious zeal and nationalistic jingoism lyrics envision a dystopian hellscape where misplaced rage and deeply flawed masculinity find each other and fall in love the rabid worship of power for power s sake is given musical form well thank goodness none of that nonsensical doomsaying will ever happen more april 30 2026 album corner front line assembly millennium front line assembly millennium youtube link spotify link bandcamp link front line assembly s most popular album came out back in 1994 the same year nine inch nails the downward spiral was released more than 30 years ago both still sound and feel ahead of their time front line assembly is an industrial band that resides in vancouver originally founded in 1986 after bill leeb left fellow canadian industrial band skinny puppy the band has rotated and included different members over the years the two main constants are bill leeb and rhys fulber it is a soundtrack for this world we live in one of front line assembly s members is rhys fulber their music is on millennium and elsewhere is synth driven dark and dystopian there are notes of nine inch nail s industrial style on the album there are also notes of rage against the machine s eponymous album which came out in 1991 but rage against the machine was burning with justified anger at the inequality and racism all around us and the downward spiral points out the unbalance and self loathing that festers within millennium is more a warning or portent to unregulated warmongering and fear and aggression more april 25 2026 album corner groove armada goodbye country hello nightclub groove armada goodbye country hello nightclub youtube link spotify link wikipedia link groove armada s album goodbye country hello nightclub came out in 2001 it is chronologically sandwiched between two other fantastic albums that were released by the band dj duo within about 5 years vertigo came out in 1999 it is the album that originally got me into groove armada i can still remember purchasing the cd at the a b sound that resided near sunridge mall back in the day when music stores that actually sold music not just anime toys and t shirts were a thing i think i purchased goodbye country hello nightclub from the same store when it was released in 2001 lovebox the third in this unofficial to anybody but me trilogy of great albums was released shortly thereafter in 2002 that cd i purchased at the late great megatunes on 17th i purchased many an album there including dj champion s chill em all which i wrote about in the past that spot now houses vine arts 17th ave location don t tell andrew i said it but i hear it is a pretty good liquor store ahh nostalgia how is it that i have reached a point where i can mention things i did as an adult a quarter century ago yet i still don t feel like an adult now more april 23 2026 album corner soulwax all systems are lying soulwax all systems are lying youtube link spotify link this is the second time i have talked about a soulwax album in this space the first was about their 2005 remix album called night versions night versions was the album that got me into soulwax when i first picked it up nearly 20 years ago now for those new to the belgian band soulwax the group is built around the core djs and multi instrumentalist dewaele brothers stephan and david plus a rotating mix of members soulwax creates music that falls into an array of different genres including disco alternative is that still a thing indie punk electronic new wave and more soulwax s music comes off as a celebration of all of these different styles yet also seems to push forward and innovate being inventive while paying homage to what came before may sound like a hard combination to pull off but the dewaele brothers and soulwax make it look easy more october 26 2025 album corner pulp fiction soundtrack music from the motion picture pulp fiction soundtrack music from the motion picture youtube link spotify link i love you pumpkin i love you honey bunny an iconic movie quote in an alternate universe those lines would have come from some children s animated film something like winnie the pooh or even toy story perhaps in our universe one which includes writer director quentin tarantino these famous lines are said in a film that includes a washed up boxer wielding a samurai sword an old testament quoting hitman and a coffee appreciating cleaner and so very very much more most people likely have a few movie soundtracks that they consider iconic pulp fiction is one for me and i am sure i am not alone i remember my dad purchasing it on compact disc after he had seen the movie in theatre he brought the soundtrack home and immediately popped it in the ghetto blaster that resided in our kitchen i was 14 or 15 at the time and i was transfixed from those first spoken lines and then the frenetic pace of the opening song misirilou i listened to the soundtrack front to back numerous times before i ever watched the movie more october 17 2025 lcd soundsystem 45 33 lcd soundsystem 45 33 youtube link spotify link what a week it is the beginning of september which means it is back to school our youngest is now in grade one meaning all three of our kids are in school full time for the first time he loves it so far our middle son is starting grade four and now gets to be the responsible elder brother making sure they both get to school and back home each day mom or dad aren t there to pick them up our eldest is now in sixth grade and going to a new school for the first time since she was in kindergarten she is taking a school bus regularly for the first time frustratingly her bus stop is two or three neighbourhoods away and across deerfoot trail meaning we have to drive dropping her off and picking her up from the stop each time it almost makes the concept of bussing to school pointless except she seems to enjoy the independence it gives her compounding this wild logistical nightmare is the start of hockey and ringette tryouts that means mom and dad are chauffeuring the kids and equipment to the rinks often two or more rinks at the same time in one day between the three of them during this we are also attempting to get those all important volunteer hours done for the leagues and teams occasionally the stars align and we get to sit and watch one of our kids as they skate and stick handle through required drills for a few minutes here and there but not often and definitely not together as a family don t let me leave you with the impression that i am staying atop of all of this chaos of crashing waves and deep churning ocean like a nimble and competent surfer i would be washed up by the tide and all covered in seaweed and sand if it wasn t for my wife thanks to her our family manages to mostly stay afloat we aren t the only family in the midst of this madness inducing schedule the other parents we see at the bus dropoff and the rinks can attest to that maybe the teachers will strike or be locked out sometime soon and then we could just jog through our lives at a steady pace for a while right to mix metaphors and to clumsily stumble into a segue it is difficult to tell if life is a sprint or a marathon sometimes but enough ranting how about some music more september 25 2025 album corner purple rain by prince and the revolution i originally posted this in a wine newsletter in april of 2024 prince and the revolution purple rain sound track youtube link spotify lin k geoff likes to use the movie la dolce vita when writing about italian wine which makes sense for me though the term reminds me of my father my dad wrote a newspaper column titled la dolce vita for more than a decade for the creston valley advance black press the subject of the column was most often wine here is a link to one of his columns from nearly twelve years ago as you can see the grape doesn t fall far from the vine i come by my love for wine and whisky naturally and possibly genetically through my parents especially my dad another thing i stole from my father is some of his taste in music that is why i have chosen to highlight prince and the revolution s album purple rain the album is a soundtrack for a movie of the same name which itself is an emotional and quirky showcase for the talent and egotism of the late great prince himself i remember listening to this album on tape as a kid riding in the back seat of our car on our regular family trips from creston to calgary and other parts of alberta where our relatives resided this album along with a few others i never got tired of hearing we were probably listening to it on a road trip back in december of 2012 when my dad was thinking about writing his column on how misunderstood and misrepresented chardonnay can be more august 23 2024 man piano solo music to read words by nine inch nails just like you imagined live henry fonda theater la 9 08 09 the bench scraped the tile as he adjusted it pulling it in under him stationing his body closer to the keys his station he and the piano were relegated to the lobby now no longer lounging about long ago he was ambiance sometimes even forefront he staged things from on high sometimes with other fellow musicians now he was background noise at best the hustle of people around him keeping the sound he made out of mind out of time from another era the lounge for more than a decade up until the renovation that was his home i d it was still there it would have been full of his patrons sitting down and listening as he played the lounge was no more though the dim lighting and cocktails tables taken away to make room on the floor for vlts it was a form of entertainment he could not understand but it made the hotel a lot of money or so he heard the doors held tinted glass that kept out the outside world but when the doors were opened the electronic inorganic buzz and jingle of the machines could be heard the noises from the casino were the worst kind of cacophony to his own ears but the siren sound seemed to entice people to enter and seemingly never leave at least not during the piano man s shift more may 16 2023 older music to read words by big sugar joe louis judgement day live the door shut behind his son quietly leaving him alone once more 10 years ago no 5 years ago even his son would have punctuated his leaving by slamming the door with so much force that it would have rattled the frame that held it and reverberated through the walls meeting with his son used to result in the boy having so much anger so much potential energy that it absolutely had to be expended on a non living object or else the anger had dissipated though and all that was left was a grudging resignation and a door quietly softly shut to end the everlasting argument between father and son the door was now treated with reverence respect even at least compared to how father and son treated each other more may 11 2023 why a blog music to read words by devin townsend genesis live more april 28 2021 older posts 2026 mumbling into the void theme by anders norén