Sloth

Wow, so I haven’t posted since August, huh? Nutty.

So recently a few people have come told me that I should post on my blog more. To them I say: How much does it cost to read this? What’s that? Zero point zero dollars? THAT’S WHAT I THOUGHT.

But seriously: I blame a few things for my lack of blogitude. The first: games. You non-geeks don’t know this, but we’re in the midst of awesome game season. I can barely keep up with the crazy awesomeness spewing out of my Xbox. I mean, the only reason I’m not playing Borderlands RIGHT NOW is because… actually, I’m not entirely sure why I’m not playing Borderlands. I wonder if I can slip Shorty a mickey and get in a few hours…

The second: Twitter and, to a lesser extent, Facebook and Google Reader. A lot of the impetus to share things that I find on the internet, or that seemingly unstoppable desire I have to spew out weird, pointless things to an invisible readership, is pretty nicely served by Tweets and the like. (You can get me at themadkevin@twitter.com, or under my real name on Facebook.) So that leaves the blog for longer-form writing which, ever since the quiet demise of the GenXine, I’ve found harder to make time for.*

But my former GenXine editor A. might be starting up another movie-related blog soon, so perhaps it’s time to dust off the writing chops. God knows I’ve watched enough Dude Movies in the past few months. (Oh, Wolverine: Origins. Why do you make it so hard for me to love you?) So, no promises, but perhaps I’ll try to crank out some more reviews on a more regular basis.

The third: NEW MUSIC TOYS. I recently bought myself a really nice Vox practice amp and a goofy multi-effects unit, which does a whole lot of crazy stuff without doing anything really well. Except MAKE A SHIT-TON OF NOISE. Which, really, is all I care about.

So, as a little Hallowe’en treat for all y’all, here’s a little something I’ve been working on. It occurred to me that my music sounds like it should be a movie soundtrack, so this one was a conscious effort to make something that would fit into a John Carpenter movie. Please to enjoy, and I’ll talk to you kids soon:

WIZARD PLOW!

* I have a weird thing where I find it easier to write if I know it’s going to show up in print somewhere. Writing solely for the web seems ephemeral and weightless, but even if it’s just for a zine that’s destined to end up in local hipsters bathrooms, I find it’s more of a reward knowing my writing eventually will show up on a bunch of dead trees stapled together.