Monthly Archives: July 2013
Dear bands everywhere,
If you have to introduce a cover song by name and artist because people aren’t going to recognize it, just don’t do that cover song. Don’t waste a “what’s this” moment with your audience on someone else’s obscure crap. Do an original instead.
If the audience isn’t going to recognize it, they’re not going to be impressed, and you’re basically doing someone else’s promotion for them. Promote your own band’s sound by doing your own songs and your own takes on well-known songs.
An interesting thing happened on the way to the long-anticipated Funeral of the Codex…
It has often been noted that big summer movies come in thematic twos, the classic example being 1998’s Deep Impact and Armageddon asteroid catastrophe duo.
Beyond the simple coincidence of themes, however, I started to notice that these twin flicks often have a strange, yin-yang duality, with one film being more realistic (or attempting to be) and one being more iconic or even cartoonish. The question it raised in my head was this:
Why was this odd cinematic dualism happening?