Daydreaming Disaster
Ten years ago, things were different. I could spend this paragraph listing the ways in which things have changed, but I think it’s more useful to talk about the things that haven’t. We’re still mad, still beaten down, still losing, and still lacking the capabilities to change any of this. On its face, this is […]
In the year 2011, emo was in the midst of an unlikely comeback. The genre that originated in the early 90s as “emotional hardcore” and then began to fade in the late 2000s found itself rejuvinated after seminal releases from bands like Algernon Cadwallader and Snowing. This revival was founded on the idea of returning […]
If you know me, we’ve been down this road before. I’ve been screaming about Jeff Rosenstock’s now defunct musical project Bomb The Music Industry! and what it means to me for years now to anyone who will listen. Somehow, after all this time, I’ve never written about any single one of their albums (although I’ve […]
Goodness by the Massachusetts-based band The Hotelier is an album about nature. It’s about nature in the way that every album, every film, every piece of literature is about nature. It is in part about our relationship to the physical world around us, but even more so its about our relationship to each other, the way […]
My name is Clayton. This is going to be a blog where I post the writing that I normally post on other websites, and hopefully the writing of other people as well. Whatever happens, happens. The main content is going to be about media of various kinds, mostly music but I like to mix it […]
Daydreaming Disaster 