Starting late this week/early next week I will be starting a new project here on the blog that will entail a weekly post (minimum) in essay form. Once I figure it out, I will explain it to you. What does this mean? That if you visit this barren wasteland of crap I'll actually be providing you something to read.
Point is, I forgot how to write because of the amount of time I've been working. So I'm forcing myself to write with this new project. More to come.
Secondly, I have to explain to you why I like Stephen Malkmus. It's simple, really. While it's true that his solo music doesn't rise to the heights of what he produced with Pavement, Malkmus' solo music has something that Pavement never had:
Unabashed, gleeful, masturbatory guitar.
Each album is dripping with guitar. It's everywhere. So much so that each album contains one 10 minute opus that is 90% guitar noodling. "No More Shoes", "1% of One", "Real Emotional Trash". It's fantastic. But it's never self-indulgent, Eddie Van Halen bullshit. It's fun, humorous, melodic and brash.
Ground breaking art? Maybe not. But damn if it's not fun to roll down the windows and turn it up and listen to him wail on the guitar.
What the world needs now is another feedback-filled guitar solo.
Do not feed the oyster, Elmo Delmo.
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