The JOICam
OnThis article contains Spoilers for Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. So, if you’re reading it, or planning on reading it, you may wish to steer clear. (And if you haven’t read it already, you really should.)
Category: Essays
Longer form pieces.
Jeff Bridges… I Don’t Need No Jeff Bridges To Put Music To My Poem!
OnImage via Wikipedia Here’s another hypothetical mix CD, this one called “Jeff Bridges… I Don’t Need No Jeff Bridges To Put Music To My Poem!” The title’s taken from one of my favorite Tom Goes To The Mayor episodes (though, really, they’re…
Music Video Treatments: Scars
OnFor a band with many members — between the band performing on a sound-stage, cut between very close shot stills of the various scars on the band-members’ bodies.
The Top 10 Songs Ever Recorded
OnImage via Wikipedia These are the top ten songs — in no particular order save for number one — ever recorded by anyone. If a song is not on the list, it undoubtedly was a good try, however, I feel your pain….
Music Video Treatments: Living Room Annoyance
OnFor a song about two characters. We see the band set up, rocking behind two characters, a boy and a girl on the couch (for example; these would be the characters sung about in the song) watching television. During the first half…
Music Video Treatments: Chores
OnA band goes around helping out people by doing their chores with the Power Of Rock. For example, the band comes upon a guy trying to get a bucket of bricks or something to the second floor of his house, through a…
Music Video Treatments: Board Room
OnThe video opens with one of those cheap plastic placards reading: “[BAND NAME] DISTRIBUTOR’S MEETING” (perhaps letters would be missing; maybe band name misspelled, depending on the name)
Free Advice To The Republican Party
OnLet’s get this out of the way first. I’m a left-wing nutjob, and as such, probably the least likely person to not only be giving advice to the Republican Party, let alone have them take me up on it. I know that,…
Radio & Royalties: An Edgy Argument For The Status Quo
OnImage via Wikipedia There’s been a lot of talk lately about performance royalties in terms of radio. The current set up is that webradio has to pay both songwriter and performance royalties, where terrestrial radio only has to pay songwriter royalties via…
The Kittysneezes Holiday Special (In Color)
OnCover of Happy Holidays Since it?s Christmas, it might be a good time to do another one of these hypothetical mixes! Granted, to rustle up all these songs might take a while, but at least you?ll be ready for next year! So,…