Let Love In
Mar. 2nd, 2007 08:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancerjodiThis weather makes it a very Nick Cave kind of day. Come on Nick, get me through the work day! What are folks up to tonight?
I spent some time last night drafting and cutting out the pieces for my Leia collar and hood. The new hood is trapezoidal (I'm as smart as a 5th grader - four sides!) so that it falls correctly. The fabric is so perfect; I could just sit around and rub it all day. I'm debating if I want to try smocking with the waistline versus an elastic - either prospect is kind of scaring me at the moment. I want this to be the last version and I want it to be right so I'm taking my time. I made some progress with the knitted newsboy cap too. I'm almost ready to close it up and then will need to knit and attach the brim. Next up for knitting will be continuing on the baby blanket I started. A friend announced yesterday that his wife has a bun in the oven.
We finally watched the American Hardcore Documentary http://www.sonyclassics.com/americanhardcore/ . I really enjoyed it, much more so than the book it was based on and I'll probably pick it up at some point for posterity's sake. I like how they touched on the birth and movement of the scene, the elements of the culture without beating on any individual element too much, and the interviews with hardcore gods that now just look so old were really interesting.
It leaves me wondering if every generation or scene criticizes the ones that came after. Musician after musician commented how music scenes now are dead and don't have the same kind of spirit that theirs or ones before did. Does music today (as a whole) make a statement anymore? It doesn't seem like it, but is that just the bias of old folks talking?
Either way, Henry Rollins is still the man. :)
I spent some time last night drafting and cutting out the pieces for my Leia collar and hood. The new hood is trapezoidal (I'm as smart as a 5th grader - four sides!) so that it falls correctly. The fabric is so perfect; I could just sit around and rub it all day. I'm debating if I want to try smocking with the waistline versus an elastic - either prospect is kind of scaring me at the moment. I want this to be the last version and I want it to be right so I'm taking my time. I made some progress with the knitted newsboy cap too. I'm almost ready to close it up and then will need to knit and attach the brim. Next up for knitting will be continuing on the baby blanket I started. A friend announced yesterday that his wife has a bun in the oven.
We finally watched the American Hardcore Documentary http://www.sonyclassics.com/americanhardcore/ . I really enjoyed it, much more so than the book it was based on and I'll probably pick it up at some point for posterity's sake. I like how they touched on the birth and movement of the scene, the elements of the culture without beating on any individual element too much, and the interviews with hardcore gods that now just look so old were really interesting.
It leaves me wondering if every generation or scene criticizes the ones that came after. Musician after musician commented how music scenes now are dead and don't have the same kind of spirit that theirs or ones before did. Does music today (as a whole) make a statement anymore? It doesn't seem like it, but is that just the bias of old folks talking?
Either way, Henry Rollins is still the man. :)
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Date: 2007-03-02 02:59 pm (UTC)Absolutely true. Every generation will have a complaint about that which follows, because the spirit and vibe changes. I wouldn't have been able to join a metal band in the late '90s/early '00s because I didn't get the hip-hop groove that had infused metal, and even today, I can't stand the screaming.
I suppose that rockers from the '70s were wondering what the draw to this "metal" thing was. And I sure know what happened to rock/metal bands in the early/mid-'90s. Not a single local group I wanted to jam with, because I'm not a fan of college/modern/alt rock.
So of course, I and my long hair and distressed-in-the-genuine-way Metallica "Master of Puppets" t-shirt was sitting off to the side pouting because my flannel wasn't ripped enough and I didn't want to play another Stone Temple Pilots or Counting Crows cover. :)
When I last jammed with a bunch of guys, we were playing classic rock from the '60s & '70s, and I felt comfortable. That was a telling sign right there. Of course, with my drummer and guitar player being in their 40s..... **shrugs**