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Anybody have any recommendations on how to deal with a complete lack of creative energy? It's been marginally better lately, I guess... at least I'm aware of it, rather than just kind of accepting it. I think this means I'm at the point that, if I start moving again, things will go. But... it's just the whole inertia thing. I've been not-writing for so long that it's hard for me to get started again. What do I do? (Honestly, I've had my writing notebook with me at work for the last few days, and most of what I've written in it, other than lists and calculations of how I'm going to survive the next few months, is "what should I be writing?")
So, Beirut released another album this year. What? How did I miss this? Especially when there are things around it that make me so very happy. (Omg that is what I would want from living bohemian in a city. Yes, it's done for the look there. But goshdarnit, I want to walk down the stairs and have a band form around me and sing and... yes. That is how things should work. It makes me ache for an art that's more accessible or portable or something; something that I could take outside and share, rather than sitting around hoping someone takes the time to slow down and read. Sigh.)
Actually, I'm pretty much just sitting here going through lists on eMusic. Why did everyone like Of Montreal's new album so much? It's so obnoxious it put me off of pretty much everything else I had by them (and the lyrics were painful. She's a Rejector? Argh. It's kind of like the way TMBG went, going from songs like Where Your Eyes Don't Go to Some Bastard Wants to Hit Me.)
And I'll have to admit that I don't 'get' Panda Bear (I like Animal Collective every once in a while, but from what I've heard of Person Pitch. Eh. It's kind of... boring?) Why is the new indie redoing like, the Beach Boys or 70s disco cheesy stuff (Jens Leckman, I'm looking at you). I know being an indie brat is all about irony but, um... there's stuff that wasn't good the first time around. I mean, there's using the stuff that was good... like the trippy 60s sort of stuff. That was cool. Which is, I think, why Caribou is working for me right now. And now I'm torn between downloading this and... darnit. I'm down to 14 downloads and have too much to choose from.
(...But perhaps I'm just frustrated because on the whole a lot of bands tend to trend away from what I like. I just finished listening to Black Box Recorder's albums in chronological order, and it makes me sad that they didn't stick with the England Made Me sound because ahhhh why would you go from sparse and acoustical to dance pop, whyyyy? Even if you're in Europe and that's what people do there, please, why?) I can excuse The National for being something I don't like, because that's clearly what they are, and have been. (Perhaps I am against band evolution, unless it's toward pretty and more witty.)
Before I get off the subject of not getting it completely--Spoon. Yes, they're fun to listen to. But brilliant? I... er, am I the only one that kind of thinks a lot of their stuff sounds the same? I'll admit that right now I'm in a period where most of the stuff I listened to a lot over the last year is getting shuffled out of my playlist rotation because I'm tired of it, but... okay, Spoon. Kill the Moonlight was good. Gimme Fiction, I think, was better. Aaaaand they kind of sound the same. Then there's Girls can Tell. Which is good, but... sounds the same. Do you notice a pattern here? The bonus to Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, though (which I'll admit I just downloaded) is that it's got Don't You Evah, and I can picture Keepon dancing and it'll make me happy. And, okay... so I like Minus the Bear. A lot. (They are my Chicago, When I'm Not Hating Chicago music.) And they sound the same pretty often. But it doesn't feel quite so much like redoing the same thing. Which isn't to say I'm not enjoying Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga now that I have it. But best? Was it that slow a year?
So, basically out of most of the "Best of '07" albums I've listened to bits of, I'm leaning towards downloading Okkervil River's The Stage Names. Anyone want to second that motion? I'm somewhat torn, but I suspect it could grow a lot more on me. That, or Caribou's Andorra. Which has already grown on me... I'm just not sure how long it'll hold up.
And crap, there was a new Sunset Rubdown album I didn't know existed either. Is it bad that "[it] revolves around huge echo swells, clanging crash cymbals, jangly glockenspiels and strange folk tales" is enough to make me download it without even listening to it first? My taste in things is so screwed up...
Actually, each and every one of these videos makes me insanely happy. ♥, Beirut. So much ♥
So, Beirut released another album this year. What? How did I miss this? Especially when there are things around it that make me so very happy. (Omg that is what I would want from living bohemian in a city. Yes, it's done for the look there. But goshdarnit, I want to walk down the stairs and have a band form around me and sing and... yes. That is how things should work. It makes me ache for an art that's more accessible or portable or something; something that I could take outside and share, rather than sitting around hoping someone takes the time to slow down and read. Sigh.)
Actually, I'm pretty much just sitting here going through lists on eMusic. Why did everyone like Of Montreal's new album so much? It's so obnoxious it put me off of pretty much everything else I had by them (and the lyrics were painful. She's a Rejector? Argh. It's kind of like the way TMBG went, going from songs like Where Your Eyes Don't Go to Some Bastard Wants to Hit Me.)
And I'll have to admit that I don't 'get' Panda Bear (I like Animal Collective every once in a while, but from what I've heard of Person Pitch. Eh. It's kind of... boring?) Why is the new indie redoing like, the Beach Boys or 70s disco cheesy stuff (Jens Leckman, I'm looking at you). I know being an indie brat is all about irony but, um... there's stuff that wasn't good the first time around. I mean, there's using the stuff that was good... like the trippy 60s sort of stuff. That was cool. Which is, I think, why Caribou is working for me right now. And now I'm torn between downloading this and... darnit. I'm down to 14 downloads and have too much to choose from.
(...But perhaps I'm just frustrated because on the whole a lot of bands tend to trend away from what I like. I just finished listening to Black Box Recorder's albums in chronological order, and it makes me sad that they didn't stick with the England Made Me sound because ahhhh why would you go from sparse and acoustical to dance pop, whyyyy? Even if you're in Europe and that's what people do there, please, why?) I can excuse The National for being something I don't like, because that's clearly what they are, and have been. (Perhaps I am against band evolution, unless it's toward pretty and more witty.)
Before I get off the subject of not getting it completely--Spoon. Yes, they're fun to listen to. But brilliant? I... er, am I the only one that kind of thinks a lot of their stuff sounds the same? I'll admit that right now I'm in a period where most of the stuff I listened to a lot over the last year is getting shuffled out of my playlist rotation because I'm tired of it, but... okay, Spoon. Kill the Moonlight was good. Gimme Fiction, I think, was better. Aaaaand they kind of sound the same. Then there's Girls can Tell. Which is good, but... sounds the same. Do you notice a pattern here? The bonus to Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, though (which I'll admit I just downloaded) is that it's got Don't You Evah, and I can picture Keepon dancing and it'll make me happy. And, okay... so I like Minus the Bear. A lot. (They are my Chicago, When I'm Not Hating Chicago music.) And they sound the same pretty often. But it doesn't feel quite so much like redoing the same thing. Which isn't to say I'm not enjoying Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga now that I have it. But best? Was it that slow a year?
So, basically out of most of the "Best of '07" albums I've listened to bits of, I'm leaning towards downloading Okkervil River's The Stage Names. Anyone want to second that motion? I'm somewhat torn, but I suspect it could grow a lot more on me. That, or Caribou's Andorra. Which has already grown on me... I'm just not sure how long it'll hold up.
And crap, there was a new Sunset Rubdown album I didn't know existed either. Is it bad that "[it] revolves around huge echo swells, clanging crash cymbals, jangly glockenspiels and strange folk tales" is enough to make me download it without even listening to it first? My taste in things is so screwed up...
Actually, each and every one of these videos makes me insanely happy. ♥, Beirut. So much ♥
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