Thursday, October 23, 2008

The Birth of 'Rather Be Pogging'

Let's get things straight right from the start:
  1. I know little-to-nothing about blogging
  2. I find the subculture behind blogging/ blog-readers to be a tidbit bizarre and a whole-lotta nerdy
  3. I don't have any real intentions or goals for this blog
  4. I like turtles
  5. I'm not as much of a bad-ass and carefree teenager as numbers 1-3 make me sound
That being said...I am a college student interested in pursuing a career in Journalism - and more specifically Music Journalism. I decided to start blogging mainly as a means of gaining some much needed writing experience. And since I really enjoy talking about and sharing music with family, friends, acquaintances, hipsters, hippies, hippopotamuses, homeless people, and babies, I figured why not share it with the rest of the world? So that is pretty much the whole story behind 'Rather Be Pogging.' It's just my little place on this big, scary Internet where I can talk about new albums I've been listening to, concerts that I've seen, or just crunchy tracks worth checking out. As for the name (created by Mr. Thomas 'No-Shame' Byers), it is meant to depict my feelings that "instead of blogging, I would much rather be pogging." But since I can't spend the rest of my life throwing my Macho Man Randy Savage slammer at stacks of cardboard circles with Animaniacs printed on them, I've decided to start this blog.

Most likely I will be posting a few times a month - pretty much whenever something worth writing about occurs (ex: I get my hands on some good new music).

So...what do you say I take this baby for a little spin.



I never really quite understood all of the hype (or the title) behind TV On The Radio's 2006 release, Return To Cookie Mountain. Don't get me wrong - the album is legit. Tracks like "I Was A Lover" and "Wolf Like Me" are gold (and not the unwanted kind that you mail to Cash4Gold in exchange for some cold hard cash). Yet, I always found myself "Returning to Cookie Mountain" (get used to my bad jokes) looking to love it as much as everyone else, but only being able to attach myself to certain parts of the album. So, why I am a telling you this? Well......TVOTR recently dropped a new album called Dear Science, and it is definitely worth a listen.

Dear Science,
I really like to listen to your songs. Some of my favorites include: "Halfway Home" "Stork and Owl" and "Family Tree." I just love how you are a punkishy-electronic album in a kind of funkishly-soulful way. You don't overdo things, you're honest, and you are just so good at expressing your emotions. I especially love how easy you are to listen to - you have string arrangements, a horn section, gentle verses, and catchy refrains to keep a guy like me listening to you all day long. I'm not gonna rate you in stars or thumbs pointing up or down. It's only appropriate for me to rate you in fist-pumps, cause that's what you make me want to do. And...I'm gonna give you 9 out of 10 fist-pumps. I know that you're an inanimate object (as well as a really bad and drawnout pun), but please write back whenever you get this. Thanks! OMG! TTYL! BRB! LOLZ!
Love,
Rather Be Pogging

Megaupload that shit right here.

Oh, and while I'm getting my blog-game on, here are some tunes (old and new) that have been tearing up my ipod. Whatever that means.

Spoon - I Summon You
You got the weight of the world coming down like a mother's eye
Wu-Tang Clan - Campfire

I'm trying to bring the "Sexy Back" like Timbaland and Timberlake
Blitzen Trapper - Furr
I'm a rattlesnake, babe, I'm like fuel on the fire.
Why? - The Hollows
This goes out to all my underdone, other-tongued, lung-long frontmen
El Guincho - Palmitos Park
La, la, la, la, laaaaa (all the lyrics are in spanish, so this is the best I got)
The Sounds - Hurt You (I heard this in a Geico commercial)
Try not to fuck with your feelings