And we're back

I guess I should apologize for the lack of updates but I really doubt the three of us taking time off has affected you in any severe emotional way. As far as I know, Alice is in some other country at the moment and I have no idea where Kieran is. As for me, I've been struck with the same realization that a number of bloggers seem to have come to. It's summer! The weather is nice, no one's wearing much clothing and being outside is no longer a painful exercise in seeing how much of a very low temperature you can withstand. So few people have the desire to sit in their dark little rooms and type out their thoughts on the new Gomez album or whatever.

So with my general lack of use of the internet I haven't been digging through the usual sources for anything new. Mainly I've been revisiting a few records that A) I had a vague recollection of being great and B) I figured would suit the current mood. Mainly it came down to the one Brian Jonestown Massacre album I own and a bunch of old hip-hop records that I found in a box under my bed. Whilst my A Tribe Called Quest and The Roots records did serve me well, it was Brian Jonestown Massacre's "Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request" that ended up going on repeat through the better part of the last week. The formula behind the record is fairly simple. Take a bunch men who are fairly musically talented yet very prone to debauchery and casual violence. Put them in a recording studio. Tell them they can have whatever drugs they ask for and they have full use of every instrument they can think of. What do you get? Something that's one part a concept album with no real concept, one part drug induced delusions of divine realization and one part solid Spaceman 3 influenced slab of drone meets hippy rock 'n' roll.

Brian Jonestown Massacre - In India You
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Jesus

You can buy a solid copy of Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request from Amazon for a ridiculous sum of money or you can download it from Emusic for about $4.