Archive for January, 2012
equalszee finally drops a full-length album
my buddy zach, aka equalszee, just dropped his first full-length album. you can download it for free on his blog.
so, full disclosure: i helped on the mixing of some of this album, mostly technical issues. i also made the cover art. and i yelled at zach for most of the two years he was working on the album to keep working on the album. so i am pretty close to the creative process here, but to counter my disclosure, those of you who know me know that i pretty much have no problem telling people if something they did, are doing, or will do sucks.
all that being said, this album is pretty awesome. it’s quick, it doesn’t take a track off (except for K over L, suck it zach), and it definitely brings something to the rock-pop conversation. it’s too bad, because zach isn’t going to put that much effort into getting it out there so it might toil in obscurity, but you can easily help change that. go download a couple tracks, share with your friends if you like it, and force zach to do something more than just passively put out music every 2 years.
one very good way to show people that the RIAA and its bully tactics have no place in the 21st century is to take advantage of good, free, home-made music and listen to it and share it and find it and promote it. it’s also a great way to listen to modern rock-pop albums that are soaking in ’90s nostalgia (for example).
later this week i’ll recap sundance 2012, where i am now and where things are AWESOME.
sopa / pipa
it’s january 18th, and a bunch of sites are blacked out because of sopa and pipa. and they are right. go read about it on google or wikipedia and come back.
the thing is the us government already signed a much worse law in to effect earlier this year. the ndaa made it possible for the us government to arrest and indefinitely imprison american citizens without a trial.
how, how, how, how is this ok? how did this not get giant, massive protests on the internet?
and how is gitmo still open?
and how are we, as in america, still torturing people?
sopa and pipa are bad, but holy shit there are all these things right now that are terrifyingly bad. where are the adults? the legacy of 9/11 is looking more and more like the cowardly response americans had to terrorism. grow the fuck up and be adults.
anyway, sopa and pipa are terrible laws by terrible children who don’t understand what the fuck they are doing other than accepting checks from hollywood. contact these children and tell them to grow up. this is at least a start.
new year’s resolutions
Posted by niv in Uncategorized on January 5, 2012
- take more pictures (OF COURSE, OF COURSE)
- keep up with threecoasts (OF COURSE)
- get my photos up in a coffee house or cafe around here
- don’t die.