A Boring Story (Part One)

It has been an extremely long time since I've written a blog entry. Mostly due to the fact that my MP3 hosting solutions are frustrating and inefficient. For a while I was resorting to a free service which evidently allowed me to upload and share MP3s, but it made it almost impossible to figure out how to actually share them without launching their stupid little player. So for now, I give up with that shit.

What's good with music these days according to Rudy Shattuck (that's me, folks)?

A long time ago, after yet another emotional failure, I looked towards emo (the real deal, not that alternative pop-punk-eyeliner-tripe these kids listen to today) as a way of feeling a little better about myself, unfortunately it seemed to only make things worse. Nevertheless, here are some standout tracks to mope about to:

Playlist: Emo Doesn't Sound Like This Anymore

Sunny Day Real Estate - In Circles
Sunny Day Real Estate - Song About An Angel
Mineral - GJs
Mineral - Palisade
The Gloria Record - Grain Towers, Telephone Poles
The Gloria Record - Ozona & Sonora



These all basically sound like the same band.

Something a little different:

Alkaline Trio - 97'
Jimmy Eat World - What I Would Say To You Now
The Promise Ring - Why Did We Ever Meet



So, basically, when everything seemed to be falling apart, I would put these on and try to go on about my daily work, while in fact having all my problems and thoughts just hanging around in the background ready for me to go right back to them.

At one point I realized everything wasn't really falling apart, and it had all in fact been over and done with far longer than I thought.

Somehow, I began spinning some of the old bands I used to listen to when I was in high school, you know, because in high school I wasn't so much a mopey dork, just a normal dork, but I actually liked myself some punk rock.