Diary of an up and coming sociopath

For some reason, I find myself bizarrely enjoying “Starz in their eyes” by Just Jack. Not for the musical ability, but more because it sounds like the song parodies Adam and Joe used to do, from the barely-believable affected singing voice, to the sparse and twangy guitar-synth simlicity, to the oddly comic lyrical choices. It’s aimed at the whole reality-TV popstar phenomenon and it’s afforded me a few minutes of chuckling, which is better than the screaming torment most radio drives me to.

Intervention by the Arcade Fire gets better every time I hear it. I have tickets for gigs in February and March (there’s a mildly uninteresting story there to tell, actually) and I Cannot. Fucking. Wait. As a live experience, they’re the only band who come even remotely close to equalling the Pixies in terms of how deeply they reach in and pull out my insides.

Weapons of Mass Media is the song I was always hoping the Basskniv3s would write. The other three tracks on their EP are all incredibly heavy and good for that, but even in 3CR, Vuckovic’s true strengths have been in making politics and rock fuse like a punch in the head. Seems like we’ve got a worthy successor to 3CR in these guys.

On another note, I have to tell you all about this really excellent sandwich experience I had recently, but I’ll save that for a particularly bored moment at work tomorrow before typing the whole thing up.