The Wrath of Kon

Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Tag: music

  • The 89 Playlist

    Last week, in a fit of nostalgia/stupidity, I decided to make a playlist in iTunes consisting solely of music I would have listened to in the summer of 1989. I use iTunes for music while I’m sitting here at my desk working, and also use it for my iPod for in the car or when…

  • Everybody Wants Some

    I just finished reading Ian Christe’s book Everybody Wants Some, a history of Van Halen. I heard about this on the Talking Metal podcast, which is abuzz with news of this original-lineup reunion, minus Michael Anthony on bass, replaced by Eddie’s 16-year-old kid. Weird. Anyway, Christie wrote one of the 700 “history of metal” books…

  • Screams and whispers

    First of all, I’ll get all of the zine stuff out of the way: Press release is at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/09/prweb553756.htm The first trailer (yes, books have trailers now, I guess) is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w83ZgawVDF4. (This is the one I made, which is why it sucks more.) Second trailer, by AITPL#12 artist Matthew Pazzol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWEoSBZVBHU. I am waiting…

  • Obsessed with shuffle

    I have become obsessed with shuffle. Let me explain. I have a lot of music, or at least I think I do. I know people with 10,000 CDs and I know people with three. Anyway, this adds up to a bunch of songs, and I have ended up with something like 6000 in my iTunes…

  • Let it Blurt

    It’s hotter than living hell out. It’s been an entire weekend of unrelenting weather, but this afternoon we got a wicked thunderstorm and some rain, so it felt good for a few hours. Now it’s getting hot again and the apartment is returning to swamp-like consistency. I should probably stop bitching about the weather, but…

  • Killing Bono

    I’ve been reading Killing Bono by Neil McCormick, something I picked up on Sunday at a Barnes and Noble where I was trying to escape the heat for a few minutes. It’s an interesting little book that most people will see as a sort of first-person biography of the band U2. McCormick, now a music…

  • Moleskine, GnR

    I finally picked up one of those Moleskine notebooks this weekend, after looking for one locally for a few weeks, and finally running into a stash at a Barnes and Noble. I don’t know why I’ve regressed to the point where I think the right paper and the right pen will make the right words…

  • The useful/uselessness of the new Napster

    I’ve been busy lately, with a thing or two I can mention and maybe a couple that are secret for now, but nonetheless, busy. The one thing I can mention is the zine, which is still going strong. I had a near-aneurysm trying to think of a new name for the thing, and now I’ve…

  • Shuffling

    I’m listening to MP3s on random shuffle on my PC, which is new to me. I know, this is something I was supposed to start doing five years ago, which is also when I was supposed to chuck my CD player and receiver and start stealing all of my music. I used to listen to…

  • Dream Theater bootlegs

    I bought some CDs today and got a few more in the mail, and that brings the total in my collection up to 900. I think the goal is to get to 1000, but I don’t know if that’s doable by the end of the year or not. I’m buying CDs at a much more…