Cultural Production Report: They Call It Music (But It Isn't)

Two more winners in the non-stop attempt to draw the audience's somewhat limited attention span to the negative, awful & just plain horrid; both in the same spot, reducing links & carbon emissions.

Considering how few real choices we have throughout our pathetic existences it's unlikely we'd get a choice, but we'd as soon drown in our own vomit as attend something featuring:

storytelling with tales of pure emotion during life's pivotal moments.

How often must we remind humans that their emotions are indistinguishable from the next loser's (Also the next animal's. Aren't humanoids always saying they're better than animals?); every one of you feels the same exact & useless thing everyone else (rats, for example) feels in the same way & about the same soap opera drivel; why wallow in it?* If you're truly human cognition & whatnot should be of greater interest than pathetic pre-rational emanations from your lizard brain. (A big "if.")

Uh-oh. After typing & then polishing the crap out of (or off) the above paragraph, we returned for further evidence of awfulness & noticed it's NPR. (And,

compelling personal stories, mixing tall tales with killer tunes. It’s storytelling — with a beat.

Fish in a barrel.

Bravely continuing the suckfest despite the setback, individual/small group blame may be assigned here. Mystery Skulls, a generic bandname today ('though, in a Cramps-stylee, it would've been semi-original 35+ yrs. ago) is still far from the worst band name ever to affront our refined & heightened sensibilities, so we pretended we aren't musically stuck maybe thirty yrs. ago & before (around the time we hit 30 & music & virtually everything else became solid crap 24/7) & gave it a listen. Oh, lookie: You may listen too, also. (Not necessarily a recommendation.)Three words: GET A FUCKING GUITAR!! (Oops, four. Three w/o the meaningless fucking intensifier.)

Bonus typical SoCal hippie-dippie idiocy:

PSYCHIC BARBERSTonight (6-10 pm) also as part of ArtNight Pasadena, the artist collective Finishing School presents a new art installation by Jean Robison and Yucef Merhi: Psychic Barber. The “social sculpture” opens at Side Street Projects in Pasadena, and all visitors to the site will receive “psychic readings and haircuts by real hairstylists who also have psychic abilities.” Be prepared to get the “haircut you need.” Free.

Hippie-dippie indeed, but if we weren't going to be watching baseball we could use a (free) trim. By a real hairstylist.

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*Higher spiritual plane & all. Y'all.