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Street Jazz

I was walking down the street and stumbled on this jazz group playing on the sidewalk.

Inspiration comes from everywhere

As a songwriter, I constantly find myself questioning whether or not what I’ve created is original. Then I remember what one of my favorite film directors, Jim Jarmusch said…

Jarmusch is ascribed as having instigated the American independent film movement with Stranger Than Paradise.^[30] Critic Lynn Hirschberg declared Stranger than Paradise in a 2005 profile of the director for The New York Times to have “permanently upended the idea of independent film as an intrinsically inaccessible avant-garde form”.^[5] The success of the film accorded the director a certain iconic status within arthouse cinema, as an idiosyncratic and uncompromising auteur exuding the aura of urban cool embodied by downtown Manhattan.^[48]^[49] Such perceptions were compounded with the release of his subsequent features in the late 1980s, establishing him as one of the generation’s most prominent and influential independent filmmakers.^[50]^[51] In a 1989 review of his work, Vincent Canby of The New York Times called Jarmusch “the most adventurous and arresting film maker to surface in the American cinema in this decade”.^[32]

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My music is coming with me

when i die
my poems, words
they will come with me

when i cry
my mother, god
they come and lift me

when i sigh
my girl, world
have come and kissed me

my music’s coming with me

i can write it into existence
i can make it vanish in a snap
i can twist it, bend it, lift, suspend it
mend it, send it back

when i long
then my stars
make it so

when ‘im wrong
then it’s ours
this ancient poem

if i’m strong
in the hour
of the great unknown

then my music will come with me

i can write it into existence
i can make it vanish in a snap
i can twist it, bend it, lift, suspend it
mend it, send it back

© Brenton Sinay 2008

Well, while the band is away on a massive two day slumber party if you will, at the rehearsal studio in Shoaks, I thought it might be best to engage you, the fans on a pressing topic in my mind. I speak of the sad fact that gone are the days of the few and the talented band. In the days of old where music was in another prime. A time that musicians brought forth upon the alter of music, a driving force called rock and roll. from this “genre” birthed hundreds upon hundreds of “genres” that have since been corrupted by “the man” if you will. By “the man” i speak of the record labels and their various controlling companies. But the blame does not purely land on such companies, it of course belongs to anyone who has ever at one point enjoyed a piece of music weather it be Mozart or Megadeth. you see thatwastheninites! people today seem to have no time for music anymore, and if they do they for the most part seem to only enjoy the music they are told to love by radio stations and television. It seems no one has time to just sit back and enjoy all music, in all it’s various forms. Granted many people do not have such time in their day to allow so much enlightenment to pass their ears. I see today that all it really takes to get your music recorded and loved by so many is to learn to play instruments in the most basic sense, write some shitty lyrics and… BOOM!!!! there you have it, rich, spoiled and overpaid “musicians” if that’s what you could call them.

Currently this country seems to be in some massive obsession with the world of rap culture. Now I love some dr. dre and N.W.A. as much as the next guy, but it seems a bit ridiculous how so many rappers are able to make so much more money than actual musicians. You know the ones who dedicate their lives to the study of music, their instrument and all the theory behind their passion. Whereas hip-hop artists now a days seem to get paid to drive expensive cars, talk up murder, rape, drugs and diss Taylor swift at the VMA’s. I cannot remember the last time i turned on Vh1 or mtv and saw some actual music playing. This my friends is a problem, if the fans of music and the soon to be fans of music are forced into having their minds corrupted by what is “popular” which actually means what is most marketable and profitable, they will never be able to escape their close minded view on music as a whole. “Pop”, Another problem in itself. Pop, in the day was the beatles, the kinks, the who which of course represented rock and roll. their was the Jackson 5, the bee gee’s and earth wind and fire representing R&B and Funk. So many talented musicians and singers gracing us with their music in their various styles and genres, but now it seems as long as you can hold a tune a computer can enhance and improve your not so special voice and make it into a computerized beautiful one, capable of taking all the crackle and strain in your voice out as you struggle to hit that high note, or to be able to write songs with only three chords in 4:4 that whine about the depression of the artist who is making fat bank from a record company to record the pile of crap that will be the next album and the album after that.

I guess what i have truly discovered is that some people today have attention spans that only allow them to listen to “simple music”, bands that cannot say they can truly play their instruments or sing for heavens sake. I guess all i really want is to meet a teenage miley cyrus/hannah montana or jonas brothers fan who can tell me their favorite Queen, Beatles or even Muse song. I want to meet a lily allen fan who can tell me if they prefer the voice of Stevie Nicks, Joan jett or Leta ford. I want to meet you!!! and I wish to know what your favorite thatwasthen song is!!!

Please, I do not mean to offend. I only wish people to see how much more the world of music has to offer.

With Love

R.Mitch

P.S. I wish to hear what you the fans think. So please please please comment.

trent reznor is changing music

few could have predicted the impact that Nine inch nails and frontman, trent reznor would have on the music industry.

I am a huge fan of everything trent reznor produces as a musician. i have always loved nine inch nails and feel compelled to spread the news about exactly how this veteran band is redefining how we buy and sell music. A few years ago, the band started tinkering with the idea of releasing their studio tracks to the public. Trent began leaving usb drives chock full of raw, unmixed tracks in public bathrooms all over the world. These tracks began to surface on the various torrent networks and before nin knew it, they had a seemingly endless stream of fan-created, user submitted remixes, tributes and covers pouring into their inboxes. This caught their attention as it highlighted one detail about the music industry that most record companies forget: without the fans, there is no industry.

This did not sit well with the suits. Royalties had not been paid and pockets had not been lined. if this wasn’t enough, nine inch nails started producing uber-rare, tier based releases of their material and giving their music away for free. on their website you can order several different packages depending on how much you want to support the band!

“Now that we’re no longer constrained by a record label, we’ve decided to personally upload Ghosts I, the first of the four volumes, to various torrent sites, because we believe BitTorrent is a revolutionary digital distribution method, and we believe in finding ways to utilize new technologies instead of fighting them.”

- trent

if music be the food of love

play on, play on…

it seems at least one artist out there still understands the healing power of music.

How strange that the simple combination of pitch, pattern, and duration can soothe even the most troubled of souls…or even thrust them into a frothy rage! Such power.