February 2012
1 post
kat like meow: First Impressions →
katstories:
Last night was my first night at the club out here where I happen to be located. It’s an adorable little bar with many qualities that I like, including the fact that dancers can dance to, in the words of Bubbles, “anything, and I do mean anything.” I haven’t had that kind of freedom to express…
January 2012
4 posts
complaints.
There’s a woman who lives in the extremely rich neighborhood in which I occasionally drive (where you can buy a house like this, in case you care or were curious) with whom I have enough of a rapport to have conversations of a relatively personal nature. Lately, a common thread of our interactions involves her making some complaint about how she can’t do whatever it is she likes to do when she’s...
My couch.
I slept on my living room couch last night, unusual for me when my roommate is actually in town. The convenience of owning a sectional makes improvised bedding very simple: drag the portions into shape and slip into unconsciousness. It’s a testament to my warm-bloodedness that all I needed was a tiny throw blanket (and the clothes I was wearing); the heat shut off sometime around 2am (which I...
“As long as nobody’s trying to do lines off my ass, I’m happy. I wish...”
– Miss Lavinia Heart
December 2011
8 posts
top albums of 2011
Darryl Zero’s Top Albums Of 2011
This year evaporated. For real. It seems like yesterday I was freaking out over the Yuck album—which is good, I suppose, in that it actually did have some sticking power.
I also suppose this is one year in which there isn’t really much of a surprise at what’s on the list. It’s completely fair if you dismiss this as the rantings of a complete homer—wrong, but...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
The Vandals (29)
The Jackson 5 (17)
Flying Lotus (15)
Ramones (11)
Nirvana (10)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
Oddisee (8)
My Bloody Valentine (6)
Goo Goo Dolls (6)
The Rentals (6)
Mariah Carey (6)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
Vernon Reid (77)
Sepultura (47)
Slayer (3)
Trash Talk (3)
Handsome Boy Modeling School (2)
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“I have to be very careful here not to cast everyone who uses 15+ mics on a kit...”
– John Vanderslice.
“Darryl, ‘innocence’ isn’t one of your defining...”
– Steven Dowd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
Dead Kennedys (11)
Dizzee Rascal (7)
Arctic Monkeys (4)
Terence Trent D’Arby (4)
John Vanderslice (3)
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Why am I grown so cold?: TROLLIN' TEACHER. →
THIS MUST BE READ BY EVERY LIVING SOUL. *LOVE*
freak-of-literature:
For orchestra, we have to play a segment of Tchaikovsky’s 4th symphony where everyone is playing pizzicato, which in the music world is (in)famously known as Scherzo: Pizzicato Ostinato, Allegro (Fast-moving song: Brisk, Repetitive Plucking).
So I’m in my groove and getting every single note (in…
November 2011
7 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →
Arctic Monkeys (27)
Be Your Own Pet (19)
Hard Corps (15)
MRC Riddims (featuring Oddateee) (14)
Elzhi (14)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
True Widow (297)
Helms Alee (79)
Flying Lotus (51)
Clams Casino (51)
Maserati (45)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13) →
Digital Underground (18)
Queen Adreena (10)
Bloc Party (6)
Be Your Own Pet (6)
Tanlines (5)
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Birthed in fire.
My age shows every time I go out after sundown, feeling increasingly out-of-place in places where young people throw themselves into paroxysm, finding zero appeal in the thirty-second bits of song that wind and shift their way through the DJ’s sets. I’ll be the first to admit some of it is cultural; this is a distilled, refined, and wholly uninteristing iteration of something evolved...
Because I do, every now-and-then, write poetry...
(This is tentatively called “Why I Fuck Around.” It’s written somewhat in-character, so I feel compelled to tell you this, lest someone misinterpret it and make my life needlessly more complicated. Except a particular individual whose misinterpretatitons make my life entertaining, albeit at the expense of my peace-of-mind. Hi, person-who-shall-remain-nameless. This is not for you, but I’m sure...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6) →
Paul Tortelier (170)
Misfits (138)
Maserati (39)
The Mercury Program (37)
Battles (19)
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October 2011
5 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
EC8OR (32)
Be Your Own Pet (13)
Battles (12)
Catherine Wheel (11)
Earth (10)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-16) →
Queen Adreena (27)
Bow Wow Wow (21)
Dennis Miller (21)
The Bangles (20)
The Clash (17)
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names.
My name, for those of you that don’t know it, is Alfred Darryl Moton, Jr. I’m named for my father (that’s him on the left) who was, in turn, named for his uncle Alfred, and the legendary film producer Darryl Zanuck. Family tradition on his side stipulates that the eldest son is named for the father; my paternal grandfather (he’s the guy standing next to my dad)’s...
old blogs.
11.02.2004 :: 01:29
monday.”if we are to go on co-existing,
there are things i would like to discuss
like why your favorite things make you so selfish,
and who these people are posin’ as us…”
“I think,” she said, “I’ve spent more time sitting in my car with you talking than I have with any other person,” and I was laughing inside, the...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-2) →
dälek (12)
Mono (3)
Radiohead (2)
Sparklehorse (2)
Living Colour (2)
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September 2011
8 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →
Sonna (113)
Onyx (84)
Be Your Own Pet (25)
Patton Oswalt (12)
Maserati (12)
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“I’m fairly certain my patronus takes the form of Jon Bon Jovi.”
– Lisa-Marie Ferla
it's all been said before.
I paused, mid-sentence in conversation with my roommate, having decided in that instant that I ought to—no, had to ignore the fact that my car had been hit while parked in the DMV parking lot not four hours previously or that the three-quarters tank of gas was almost a year old and just fucking leave. Eliza—after four years of intermittent driving, she finally had a name—needed to go for a run.
...
A moment of silence.
We are currently witnessing the inevitable result of people treating procreation as an entitlement, rather than a privilege.
My piece on Static and Miles Morales, which... →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-11) →
Battles (19)
Digital Underground (10)
The Hives (10)
Ponytail (10)
R.E.M. (7)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-4) →
Paul Tortelier (96)
Clams Casino (88)
Bad Brains (79)
Elzhi (52)
Jill Sobule (12)
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“Let’s just smear some Santorum on that riff, man.”
– Amanda Machina
August 2011
8 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-28) →
Hardware (36)
The Vandals (35)
True Widow (17)
Big Wreck (11)
Battles (10)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-21) →
True Widow (96)
Helms Alee (72)
The Mercury Program (62)
Dub Trio (42)
Chocolate Genius (24)
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“Your spleen is far more interesting than most people’s most exciting...”
– Autumn Gonzales
Public Service Announcement.
Just so you know, I’m not wholly dead yet.
In case you were curious, much of what I write can be found over at Komplicated.
More later. For now, I’ve got things to do.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-14) →
Helms Alee (397)
Ten Grand (91)
Clams Casino (59)
Bardo Pond (56)
The Mercury Program (41)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-7) →
True Widow (134)
Slave Master (19)
Be Your Own Pet (12)
P.M. Dawn (7)
Dead Kennedys (6)
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...In which I discuss Amy Winehouse, part one
I’m not the kind of person to get bent out-of-shape over a celebrity dying. People, despite their best efforts, inevitably die for one reason/cause or another, and rather than wax poetic about the void left by their absence, I generally tend to look at death in terms of what will or not be accomplished because a given person is not there to do or not do it. My indifferent attitude toward...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-31) →
Clams Casino (99)
Flying Lotus (74)
Vernon Reid (59)
Lichens (11)
Lagwagon (5)
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July 2011
6 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-24) →
Flying Lotus (80)
Clams Casino (69)
Lichens (40)
Suicidal Tendencies (36)
Stone Temple Pilots (32)
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“This is like, a family tree, if your family was made of whores. If they, like,...”
– Butt-Head, while watching Jersey Shore
“We make enough money. It’s $150 for a car service for the rest of the...”
– Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, on the subject of professional athletes driving while intoxicated.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-10) →
Massive Attack (56)
Helms Alee (53)
Maserati (34)
Atari Teenage Riot (26)
Mathematicians (22)
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“I don’t wanna bone any chick tonight. Don’t want a five-year-old in...”
– Jared Jackson
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-3) →
Helms Alee (28)
Tarentel (20)
Converge (12)
The Clash (9)
Follow for Now (8)
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June 2011
12 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-26) →
The Microphones (213)
Converge (69)
Tarentel (60)
Guillermo del Toro (13)
Helms Alee (11)
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this is all I will say about the new Helms Alee...
When I first got into Helms Alee three years ago, the serendipity of my finding them in the first place was enough to make me love them, even if I didn’t find their music to be a breath of fresh air amidst the endless stream of asterisked post-whatever bands informed by any one of a million bands I kind of liked. Indeed, I loved them because they were a fantastic accidental discovery, a...
Zeroifesto.
This is meant to be neither intelligent, reasoned, nor reasonable. It’s not lucid, it doesn’t reflect how I feel all of the time, and I know much of this sounds like me being a petulant asshole. None of this, in turn, reflects the opinions of the people that associate themselves with me for some silly reason.
I have a dream:
• that, unless there is a valid reason...