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Slouching Towards A Critique of Violence

BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 3

SLOUCHING TOWARDS A CRITIQUE OF VIOLENCE

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Getting roasted by your kid in esoteric ways unfamiliar to you must be a rite of passage in parenthood.

Getting a letter back written in crayon that says “homie washed”

YouTube video by Townes Van Zandt - Topic Silver Ships Of Andilar

Bonus Townes pick because it’s arguably one of his best produced songs youtu.be/xFWs3pm5pBE?...

YouTube video by Townes Van Zandt - Topic Mr. Mudd And Mr. Gold

It was hard to narrow down a pick for Townes Van Zandt (arguably one of my favourite songwriters ever), but the musicianship on Mr Gold and Mr Mudd wins out. A song that I’ve spent over a decade trying to master and still haven’t

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YouTube video by levi1955 Bonnie Raitt-Angel from Montgomery

Now onto the country music:

The studio version of Angel From Montgomery is great but this live version is absolutely sublime

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YouTube video by QueenRocker89 Iggy Pop & The Stooges - Gimme Danger

Literally the first thing I play any time I pick up a guitar youtu.be/P9_hegaKOaY?...

YouTube video by Grateful Dead - Topic Scarlet Begonias (Live at Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 5/8/77)

The only way I can really describe the way this version of Scarlett Begonias makes me feel is it’s seeing people swimming laps in a pool with a sort of odd independent synchronicity

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YouTube video by Mastodon - Topic March of the Fire Ants

Another example of incredible clarity in mixing grit with legibility. The bridge arpeggios are burned into mind after spending days learning them as a teenager.

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YouTube video by Converge - Topic When Forever Comes Crashing

I could have picked 50 different Converge songs as examples of how to mix really heavy and busy guitar work in a song but When Forever Comes Crashing Down is my favourite so here you go

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YouTube video by Pulp - Topic Disco 2000

The intro riff on Disco 2000 is the platonic ideal of mixing a distorted guitar into a pop song

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YouTube video by Johnny Outa ZZ Top Fool for your stockings

Thread of my favourite guitar tones:

Billy Gibbons is the god of simplicity and dynamics but this whole performance is a masterpiece

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I’m very sick and on the underground sweating bullets while listening to Gilla Band. This is what it must feel like to exist in a Yorgos Lanthomos movie

An Introduction to Blood Work

Have listened through ep. 3 of @bloodwork.show and @gotitatguineys.bsky.social has once again worked his wizardry and made me sound witty, intellectual, perhaps even charming, and most importantly coherent.

If you haven't already had a listen, get involved, because this next one's a banger.

love the pic in the tattoo article on spanish wikipedia

Do you want to do a Guinness guys episode? There’s so much there

Couples who despise each other used to have a have a kid to try and save the relationship, now they both just get on ozempic and start a joint tiktok.

Sad news everyone, I’m officially pulling the plug on Brightsiders, my super fan podcast for the 2017 movie Bright. I still feel like there were many interesting topics left to discuss but after 7 years of weekly episodes I’ve learned that no one has ever listened to the show.

There’s a lot of people who put careerist ladder climbing ahead of speaking out for what’s right until the scales tipped, or even worse said nothing at all.

The war being over is undoubtedly good and the end of the death and destruction in Gaza has stopped (hopefully permanently), but at its core, Israel has committed widespread acts of genocide and war crimes and will pretty much walk away consequence free.

At the end of the day the Guinness’s are the only remaining sort of dynastic aristocracy Ireland has to offer and even they don’t own their beer anymore.

The Netflix show is just as much an SEO smashing exercise to stop would be Hibernophiles finding out anything true about the family or the brand, as it is an attempt at Irish Bridgerton

Guinness, more so than Disney, or Apple, or any other brand, is such a fascinating house of self regulating and active historiography.

The self mythologising and erasure of any real past in favour of a cohesive history that is as marketable as the product itself is one of the greatest tricks ever.

Stage divers jumping off the roof is peak

Good moshing is just using your body like a beyblade

This is the coolest a hardcore band has been in 10 years

It was a great time for early 20s white guys when Jimothy Lacoste popped off in 2018

I’m fascinated with how One Piece shows up everywhere regardless of context, someone was flying a OP Jolly Roger at the Tommy Robinson march a few weeks ago

Every time I see a video of Haywire playing live it reaffirms them as the coolest band around

AI C.E.O. Dale Gribble