A Quick One...

So a quick little post here but I MUST share this song. Because I am in love. In love. Or perhaps, more accurately, in love again. Eddie Argos, lead singer of Art Brut, mastermind of my year-end topping Bang Bang Rock and Roll, the songsmith who won me over completely with Good Weekend (with possibly the best line/delivery in a song ever...."I've seen her naked....twice.....I'VE SEEN HER NAKED......TWWWWICEEEE!"), and the artist who disappointed me with the rifftacularly disappointing A Little Bit Complicated (okay fine, Nag Nag Nag Nag rocked) is back in full form with the band Glam Chops and I am, once again, in love.

So in love I'm resorting to horrific run-on sentences. Yes yes indeed.

But first, back history (if this post were a movie, this would be a cool flash back, possibly in black and white and absolutely in slow motion). Summer of '04. I, but a wee youth in the summer post freshman year of college, had for the first time a job and thusly, for the first time, money. And like any 18 year old college student with money for the first time, I spent it. All of it. You do not care to know how many CD's I bought that summer but I did receive a personal letter from the RIAA thanking me for my efforts to help negate the effects of piracy. Most likely my best purchase that summer was Rhino's No Thanks! punk rock boxset. A four disc education into the miracle of d.i.y., lo-fi, and three chords played quickly. It, if I may refrain from hyperbole, changed my life. I like lots of types of music. Heck, I like most types of music. But I love punk. I love the ideas behind it, I love the loud guitars, I love that you don't actually need to know what you're doing to be able to make some incredibly powerful and long lasting statements. Looking back now, four years later, I can see a large part of the personal philosophy that I follow today was derived from the No Thanks! box set, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Please Kill Me; all things I experienced that summer.

So how does this relate to Glam Chops? First off (and most importantly, I feel), Glam Chops is the best name for a band that ever has been and likely ever will be. Honestly, all bands from now on should be given a numeric name, preferable in chronological order. No more will we have to deal with Clap Your Parade of Arcade Stars. No, they'll simply by known as Band #217. It is now useless to go on naming our bands with words because there will never be a more perfect name that Glam Chops.

Now that we've established that fact....

I love their song (and it's the only song of theirs that I've heard) "Are You Ready Eddie, Eddie Are You Ready?" because it sounds JUST like it came from the No Thanks! box set. It is absolutely perfect three minutes and thirty two seconds of of mid-1970's punk rock. Think (appropriately enough) of Eddie and the Hot Rods. It's glam-y, yes (it does have horns and a hit of Bowie after all) but it's also punk but more pub band punk. This song could be slipped onto No Thanks! and given to a 18 year old me and I wouldn't be able to tell it didn't belong. I'd probably actually guess it was just a Modern Lovers track.

Oh and did I mention that the last minute of the song is Eddie Argos singing/speaking/rapping over a bit that is highly (and by "highly" I mean they flat our stole but it's punk, it's okay) reminiscent of The Ramones, specifically Pinhead? I didn't? Well, I just did. It's amazing. Probably the pinnacle of my life, really.

But I don't wanna hype up this song too much. Here is the link. Click. Listen. Love. And, um, give me a job. Seriously.

Glam Chops - Are You Ready Eddie, Eddie Are You Ready?

To Potential Employers -

I am now at that point where I am (very) actively looking for a job, ideally jobs that are new media/social media related. I'd love to work in the music industry since that's what I'm truly passionate about. Again, those of you who actually know me are already sick about my rants and ravings about the music industry and it's future. Get me started and I will talk about how things are and how things should be and how the industry as a whole can get there for hours. I've posted some of these thoughts on other blogs I write and on my facebook. Although I'd love to be in the music industry, I am almost equally fascinated by media in general, especially how technology applies to it. The changes wrought by the Web 2.0 blow my mind and I want to be a part of them and the changes that will are on their way with the coming of Web 3.0/the Semantics Web.

But I'm getting a bit off topic. This post is mainly meant as a greeting to people who are reading this blog after reviewing my resume. First off, thanks. Really, thank you for taking the time to check this out. I do appreciate it, even if you come here and think I'm nuts or have terrible grammar or whatever. Which brings me to my second point. I was a bit conflicted about whether or not to include this blog on my resume. It was not and is not written for a professional audience. I write it for people who are passionate about music, especially undiscovered music and who want to read about band who deserve more attention then they are getting. As such, this is not the ideal endorsement of myself as an employee. I talk about stuff such as music downloading and the writing style is not polished but is rather an explosion of ideas and thoughts jotted down as quickly as possible. Yes, there are misspellings and yes my grammar is not always perfect. I could go back and edit everything and clean it up but I fear that would take the spirit out of my Lester Bangs-like ramblings (okay, comparing myself to Lester Bangs is a bit much, I know) and as I said, this is not written for a professional audience. I'm aware that they will read it but it's not for them.

The reason I included this blog on my resume is because I felt it was an easy way to show knowledge of and experience in new media, in social media, and passion for music/media. It was much easier (and space saving) to just include a link to this blog than it was to list out all the other blogs and tumblrs that I have, the flickr and photobucket accounts, the memberships on multiple social networking sites, the accounts on multiple video sites, the memberships to so many message boards dating back as far as 2000 (and the untold number of posts....I would guess more than 10,000), and so on. So yes, posting this blog was a lot easier than listing all that out on my resume. So I hope you read it for what it is and judge it based on that. Thanks