HERE ARE THE ALBUMS I LISTENED TO THIS WEEK (10/27/18)

Bill Frisell – The Best Of Bill Frisell Vol. 1: Folk Songs (2009)

You get up at dawn every morning to watch the oldest horse in the pasture run in his sleep.

 

 

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Genesis – Foxtrot (1972)

After you end up in the hospital from a bookshelf full of old diaries falling over on you, you end up really struggling with the idea of how to journal fewer than 30,000 words every time you build a ship in a bottle.

 

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Brainoil – Singularity to Extinction (2018)

Bongwaterboarding.

 

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Portishead – Third (2008)

A detective having a flashback to a life they never lived while also having a flash forward to a life they’ll never live.

 

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Sonny Sharrock – Ask The Ages (1991)

A taxonomy of fire.

 

 

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Touché Amore – Is Survived By

You yell into your older brother’s bomber jacket after the gym teacher tries to make you do three pushups.

 

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Polvo – Celebrate the New Dark Age (1994)

Your dog eats your homework and then writes it out better for you in a different language.

 

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Hella – Bitches Ain’t Shit But Good People (2003)

You set off a pipe bomb in a Build-A-Bear because you thought it was the place that wouldn’t fill your counterfeit prescription for your Antisocial Personality Disorder meds.

 

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Medications – Medications (2004)

A bunch of triangles trying to escape from a box held shut by a stack of comic books about existential philosophy.

 

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Rozwell Kid – Precious Art (2017)

You’re just going to eat those Aldi-brand individually-boxed apple pies and watch The Officeuntil your buddy TJ gets back to you about that internship at VH1, aren’t you?

 

 

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Agitator – Walls Closing In (2013)

Camouflage Cargo Shorts: The Musical

 

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Fates Warning – No Exit (1988)

Exhibit A in the lawsuit against Music for the anguish caused by paying epic-leaning melodic thrash bands by the hour instead of putting them on salary.

 

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Slayer – Haunting the Chapel (1984)

Your direct superior at the Alcatraz gift shop says you can’t wear your studded bracelet to work anymore so you spend the rest of your shift drawing pictures of Satan fucking him up.