Well, it's been one of those death metal kinda days. You know, where you wake up, fight with your wife a little, go over to a friend's house, watch Re-Animator, listen to Dying Fetus and Immolation, borrow an extreme metal sampler, come back home, watch a Stephen King movie (Cat's Eye), fuck, and then listen to Origin. The only thing that could've rounded it out more was if I ate a raw steak with my bare hands and then set fire to something. And maybe participated in an ancient battle.

Yes, I have been to…

Last.fm-Mainstream-O-Meter result
paultagonist's top artists:

• 1 - Mogwai: 34% mainstream
• 2 - Venetian Snares: 8% mainstream
• 3 - Air: 59% mainstream
• 4 - Soulwax: 10% mainstream
• 5 - 2 Many DJ's: 4% mainstream
• 6 - Bloc Party: 62% mainstream
• 7 - Joy Division: 36% mainstream
• 8 - Jedi Mind Tricks: 0% mainstream
• 9 - Gang of Four: 14% mainstream
• 10 - Peaches: 18% mainstream
• 11 - The Velvet Underground: 42% mainstream
• 12 - Richard Hell and the Voidoids: 3% mainstream
• 13 - Deerhoof: 17% mainstream
• 14 - Tiga: 11% mainstream
• 15 - RJD2: 19% mainstream
• 16 - Andrew Bird: 14%…

I love to fall asleep listening to music. After listening to the same album for 10 nights (or whatever time of day I happen to fall asleep) in a row, those first two or three songs become very familiar and comfortable to you. It's like your ears have arrived home, and home is warm and easy. Of course, anything beyond the third song or so is a little less familiar because you're on your way to sleep by then. When I get done reading my book or whatever and finally settle in for sleep, it's probably my most content time…

Well I was going to post the lyrics to Mac Lethal's "Walkin on Nails" song, but I couldn't find the lyrics anywhere. So I typed them up myself and posted them to lyricwiki.org. Take that, interweb! Incidentally, you should really probably download this song from his MySpace. Then you can listen to the song and read along!
This is why I love Mac so much. He raps about shit I can relate to. I mean, I, too, have read Hunter S. Thompson's suicide letter; and I, too, love cold beer, all those movies, masturbating in the shower,…

As much as I'd love to convert the following entry to Last.FM's own little encoding language, I just won't. So you, and I, are stuck with this. Cuz I'm not deleting the thing.

<div style="" id="instructions"> <a href="http://keef.co.nr/?page=lastfm_test1" title="">The script lists the users top 20overall artists and lists the 8 most similar artists to each one, thendelete's any repeated artists.</a><br><br>The idea is to see how varied your taste is, a score of 9 is extremelyunvaried while 160 represents an extremely varied one.<br><br> </div> <br><br> <div id="data">1: <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Hidden+Cameras">The Hidden Cameras</a><br>2: <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Jens+Lekman">Jens Lekman</a><br>3: <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Suburban+Kids+With+Biblical+Names">Suburban Kids With Biblical Names</a><br>4: <a…

I've listened to Mr. Beast by Mogwai about 20 times in the last 7 days. And that's no exaggeration. When I read, I play my Mr. Beast CD (which also has five out of six songs from Explosions in the Sky's All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone), and I've been reading a lot. I just wish they'd enlongate their songs to 10 minutes or so, instead of three and-a-half to five. I don't think it's just because I don't want the song to end, but I think it could actually have more of an emotional impact upon…

Go here and download a full Venetian Snares track.

Can't go wrong with the Vsnare

Been getting a lot of new music..

Myth Takes,
A Weekend in the City,
Feels Closer,
Any Minute Now,
Pieces of the People We Love,
Mashed III,
Pocket Symphony,
The Third Hand,
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank,
The Looks,
Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child,
O' God, the Aftermath, and
Redeemer;
Mr. Beast,
Himawari,
Through Silver In Blood,
Sexor, and
VA - Definitive Swim, an album of Def Jux rappers that was I suppose "comissioned" by Adult Swim. It's…

I found this rather neat Wikipedia entry on "taper-friendly musical groups." If you're like me, and aren't entirely sure what that means, it means groups that allow and even encourage their fans to "tape" their live performances. Of course there's a bunch of jam and post-rock bands in there, but also a suprising amount of indie-alternative rock (…...and you will know us by the trail of dead? The Samples? Friggin Local H??). I was suprised to find The Blood Brothers. Anyway, this means, potentially, a shitload of live MP3s are available on the internet just…