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Complex Distractions
Heavy-hearted in the Midwest Since 1973
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Friday Words Of Wisdom(Or Wisdom According To Me)
I’m coming to the conclusion that you should not ask the universe the question “Can it get any worse?”. Nine times out of ten the reply from the universe is “Hold my beer.”
Just when you get a day or two reprieve from it all, something else is lurking just around the corner waiting to pants you in front of the world. And of course you wore that one pair of novelty boxers because you were out of…
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forestlike : forestlike
forestlike is the music duo of Jared Myers and Joshua Wayne Hensley. Meeting in the Michiana music scene of the late 90s, the two built a musical rapport playing on porches, dive bars, and DIY shows in various projects. While still remaining friends, Hensley went off to form The Rutabega, while Myers did his own thing. In 2019 the friends started sharing music files, and over the course of four…
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John Runs The Voodoo Down : Me, Miles, and The Portal That Is 'Bitches Brew'
Even before I found myself going down the jazz rabbit hole(a hole I’m still dizzily finding myself descending into 15 years later) I knew of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew. As a teen seeing that album cover by French painter Malti Klarwein perusing Musicland or Super Sounds, it would always make me stop and gawk. The foreign and obscure nature of it made me think that I had so much more to learn in…
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50, or: 10 Years Since A Lost Time Accident
Why hello. How are you? How’s it going?
It’s been a minute since I checked in here. A couple weeks, to be exact. It’s been a busy couple of weeks, what with Thanksgiving, a family-wide illness, and the big 5-0 which I turned on December 2nd. Maybe not action packed, but it’s been packed. Where to start?
I had my first big, week-long vacation the week of Thanksgiving. To say I was looking…
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DJ Shadow : Action Adventure
DJ Shadow(aka Joshua Paul Davis) released his debut album Endtroducing… back in 1996 to critical acclaim. That album was a revelation in sample-based electronic music(even making it into the Guinness Book of World Records in 2001 as being the only all sample-based album.) It blended the world of DJing, hip hop production, and the ethereal psychedelia of trip hop. It was groundbreaking, to say the…
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Aesop Rock : Integrated Tech Solutions
I’m probably the last guy to be talking about hip hop and rap music. I feel gravely underqualified to discuss beat making, rap producers, rap styles, and flow. In high school I was intimidated by rap music. I felt like you had to possess a certain amount of confidence and bravado to be able to “get” hip hop and rap, two things I lacked in spades. So I listened to rap-adjacent rock; bands like Red…
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Let's Talk About That Rolling Stone 'Greatest Guitarists Of All Time' List, Shall We?
Listen, I haven’t been an avid reader of Rolling Stone magazine in 30 years. It was my go-to music rag in high school when I wanted to read interviews with my favorite artists. I also was an avid reader of the album reviews and current events stuff. But they changed. They became more of a pop culture magazine, cutting reviews and album deep dives down in favor of getting into more politics and…
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Miss Celeste
Life can be pretty relentless. You hear about stories where someone just continues to have the best of luck in life, love, success, and all the above and wonder “Wow. How?” I’ve seen the opposite with my 20-year old daughter over the last year. From health issues to relationship issues to job issues, one after another there seemed to be one of them that would just go to Hell. It was kind of…
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Edena Gardens Returns With 'Dens', out December 1st; Listen To First Single "Dusted"
Trilogies are the perfect means of storytelling. Three films that tell an expanded tale and take us on a journey. It’s the perfect collection of artistry, storytelling, and concept. Movies, books, and even music can tell a tale over the course of three albums. Denmark’s musical trio Edena Gardens has taken the musical trilogy to a whole new level.
In case you’ve just stumbled across Edena…
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Video Age : Away From The Castle
New Orleans’ Video Age began in 2016 with their debut Living Alone. The band’s core of Ray Micarelli and Ross Farbe locked into a certain soft rock aesthetic over their previous releases, which besides Living Alone includes 2018s Pop Therapy and 2020’s Pleasure Line. Their songs lock into sweet harmonies, 80s-tinged synths, and an endearingly cheesiness that you either fall for or repel…
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Cemetery Walk, Olivia Rodrigo, and Feeling The Feels
I was still feeling sore today. Not enough to stop me from being active, but enough for my brain to talk me out of being active(damn you, brain.) Still, common sense and the need for some quality sunshine prevailed over ‘Lazy John’ and his whispers of “nah, just go home”. I headed to the Beyer Trail just about five minutes from work. It’s a trail that goes through wetlands near the hospital. It…
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November Walk
Not much to report. After work yesterday I got a 3 mile walk in. I hit up the Chinworth Bridge Trail, which is just a couple minutes from work, and took a very windy walk. The temps are bouncing up and down here, so the wind is to be expected I suppose. It was in the low 50s over the weekend, then by yesterday afternoon it was the mid-60s. I’m ready for the temps to stay cool now, thank you very…
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Weekend Update : Indy, Books, Walks, Yard Work, Oh My!
It was a pretty decent weekend.
Thursday night the wife and I drove our 20-year old to the Indianapolis airport. She had a 9pm flight from Indy to Newark, NJ. From Newark she took a cab to Manhattan where she spent the weekend with her best friend. A trip long overdue and one very sorely needed for both of them.
After the airport we stopped at a store called Market District in Carmel. It was a…
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Wild Nothing : Hold
Jack Tatum arrived with his project Wild Nothing in the late 2000s/early 2010’s on Brooklyn’s Captured Tracks label. Wild Nothing’s debut Gemini was lo fi dream pop; intimate songs, hushed bedroom production, and pop music that feels both familiar and singular at the same time.
With each release to follow Tatum opened the sound and production of Wild Nothing into lusher music avenues; guitars,…
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Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea Return With "Cadere"; New Album Out Spring 2024
There’s a special kind of magic that happens with Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea. A musical alchemy occurs within the lush sound layers, processed noise, and ethereal melodies that emanate from their songs. My first experience with this ambient music project was their 2020 release Liberamente, which came to us via Azure Vista Records. The music created on that album by composers Zach…
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#alpha#ambient#cadere#dawn chorus and the infallible sea#james bernard#Kévin Séry#marc ertl#new age#zach frizzell
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Halloween 2023
Depending on how tight of a grip religion has on you – or maybe you’re just a curmudgeon who hates fun – today is everyone’s favorite non-holiday holiday, Halloween. The day the kiddos(and some adults) dress up as their favorite monster and ghouls and go door to door in search of Fun Size chocolates. Of course you also fill their heads with scary movies to add to the psychic trauma pounds of…
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A Weekend In Photos
It was the perfect fall weekend. Despite Friday getting near 80 degrees and me turning the A/C on after work because the house was near 75 degrees inside(neighbors were burning so I had to close all the windows), by Saturday morning the cold air moved in. It was blue skies, chilled air, and a sense of calm that I haven’t felt in quite a long time. With the calamity of my daughter’s dog saga…
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