Category Archives: music

Megasus, or why aren't you listening to this yet?

Lit­tle known fact: I love metal. Maybe not the metal that the crazy kids in black on black attire with stringy hair lis­ten to, but metal none the less. Which is why it behoves me to point you to Mega­sus. (Pic­ture bla­tantly stolen from The Prov­i­dence Daily Dose. Credit where credit is due.)

November 12, 2009 – 3:12 am | By Ryan | Posted in music | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

A word about ska bands

In the last month I've been to two ska-punk shows with all-or-almost-all-cracker ska bands open­ing up, and one thing is abun­dantly clear to me: There is a rea­son peo­ple say that white folks have no soul. I've real­ized that gen­er­ally these cracker bands play ska too fast, too clean, and too mechan­i­cally. They're almost always lack­ing any sort …

January 2, 2009 – 1:31 am | By Ryan | Posted in music, shit stirring | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Yule time soundtrack

My favorite thing about Christ­mas is that it's per­fectly (un)acceptable to crank The Van­dals record "Oi to The World" all day at work. When you want to mix it up a lit­tle, the No Doubt cover of "Oi to The World" will also suf­fice for a quick interlude.

December 23, 2008 – 2:23 pm | By Ryan | Posted in music, work | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Spring Cleaning

I've been busy not being busy. In the interim I decided to hack apart a wildly sim­ple theme to redo this non­sense of van­ity post­ing yet again. Wit­ti­cisms? Noth­ing lined up this month. The fun­ni­est thing that comes to mind right now (which is about as funny as Dane Cook when he's not allowed to move like a retard) …

April 23, 2008 – 10:42 pm | By Ryan | Posted in general, music, site meta | Tagged , , , | Comments Off