Smog, a massive amount of dust and grime in the air and atmosphere. Such an inappropriate thing to name your band if you make such a sonically blissful album like Red Apple Falls.

That’s where I started my newfound addiction with the band Smog and their lead singer/creator/musical mind, Bill Callahan. Its weird how this seems to happen to me often. Music transfixes me in different ways and its happened again.

First sadly to say in middle school, it happened, with Dave Matthews Band. But that will be ignored due to my youthful stupidity. And therefore is thrown out.

From there it became an obsession with Phish. I was a neo-hippie, so what. With that being said, they did do one significant thing. They introduced me to the Velvet Underground’s Loaded. Loaded brought me to White Light/White Heat, and with that an obsession with 60′s lo-fi music. At the time White Light/White Heat with sonic with pristine dirtiness and great amplitude. And without that album you wouldn’t see Sonic Youth doing what they do best. Anyways, the Velvet Underground led me to Television->Wire->And So on->And So On…

One after another changed my life, for the better of course. But it would always go in waves. In college, I became obsessed with Wilco. Thought Jeff Tweedy was a God. Some sort of legend, sent to wander the world in a jean jacket with headache inducing vomiting. It was an unhealthy obsession, but I had one. I listened to Being There (both discs), Summerteeth, and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot over and over. Then it stopped. Just like that. No more Wilco. Occasionally I’ll pop in Being There (for some reason it’s the only one I can go back on and enjoy).

Anyways, enough about that. Back to business at hand. Smog has become my new thing. I have no idea why or how long it is going to last. I do know I’m only two albums into a discography that is well over twenty years long. So enjoy some Smog. It’s worth it, for now.

I usually have nothing.

So I’m starting this thing. I don’t know what it’s going to become, or if it’s going to be something that I try to keep up with all the time. I don’t care. I haven’t done something like this for years, but it’s something I need to do, cause I need to get back to some sort of writing, some sort of creative aspect.

This could be something where I just ramble on about music, sports, television shows that are worth it, or even caring for my child. It also could be something about how my upstairs neighbors are as loud as shit and I want to kill them with a rusty screwdriver. I have no idear.

So, to start off, I’m going to tell you, I still have nothing, there’s no point to any of this, and there isn’t going to be. It shouldn’t be about something, nothing on the internet is. Hell, the most trusted site on the web (wiki) is made up of user entries.

I’ll just tell you how my life is going. It’s surprisingly going well. I’m married, I have a daughter that’s twenty months old and I’m happy. Each day is different than the next, but it’s an exciting different.

I recently started watching the Wire.  It’s probably going to be my favourite show of all time.  Six Feet Under, prepare to be overtaken.  The character development throughout the thing is just amazing.  Every character has a purpose, every storyline interacts with each other.  The show is just well written and well thought out.  More Wire updates to ensue, as I get further on in the thing.

Anyways, if you like nothing then you’ll like me, I’m out for now.