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Lias Saoudi is a musician and writer from Northern Ireland/Scotland. I was obsessed with his blog âLife Beyond the Neutral Zoneâ during early lockdown. Before Covid, he toured with this pretty unhinged band called Fat White Family and the blog describes his difficulties adapting to life without catharsis. Itâs really funny and really sad. Made me feel good when everything sucked.
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Its the same author as come as you are, the nirvana book, and if you have any interest in indie bands or indie music this is a real page turner. admittedly Iâve only turned about 15 of those pages but I already can tell I love it. didnât realize how many of these guys were truly DIY, indie to the bone, pressing Their own records type indie.
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As entertaining as you think it would be, and more. (Dude is a fantastic and funny conversationalist; even better over a Spanish coffee or four).
One snippet I fully support (ha) --
Stephen, youâre a pretty beloved figure at this pointâdoes that annoy you at all?
Malkmus: No way. For all that shit, I still wouldnât want to be taking strays from people, or if it got back to me that thereâs people saying Iâm a dipshit or I donât tip well enough or whatever, just this internet world. If people are like, âI met that guy, heâs a fucking dick,â that shit hurts. Iâve had people come to me with preconceptions occasionally, and it was no fun. Not like I needed a bodyguard or anything, but still, itâs just like, Dude, you donât even know me. You want to have a clean record if you can, unfortunately. [laughs]
Maybe another reason why [being a big-headed rocker] doesnât completely work now is that musicians get more rapid feedback, and sometimes it can be beneficial. In the â80s, some musicians made these bloated albums that just them and their seven friends thought were brilliant. But now people are instantly like: âYouâre old and you suck,â or, âYour jams are flaccidââand it can help! Iâm not saying [the Rolling Stonesâ 2024 album] Hackney Diamonds is a genius record or anything. [laughs] But I bet Robert Plantâs new music is better because of the internet.Â
Sweeney:Â Because itâs keeping him in check?Â
Malkmus: Yeah, or heâs listening to younger artists. I mean, Robert Plant seems to be genuinely interested, and heâs a fan of bands like Lowâunlike Eric Clapton, who just says he likes the newest guitarist, and then his records sound awful.
Feb 1, 2025
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There was a time when media, social or otherwise, just focused on a few people. Usually going through the things humans go through. But it was amplified. Fewer avenues and fewer stars.
Where were was once dozens of famous people, there were hundreds, thousands, and now millions/billions(?). Everyone looking for their 2 minutes of fame. Where there was once 15.
And a lot of it's infamy but we take views, clicks, likes, hearts as doing the thing.
Even this post tings of a lil' hypocrisy. Early twitter, like 16 years ago - until 2012, I was pretty famous on the app with an account that'd say pretty disrespectful and gnarly things about celebrities. It was when the death hoax joke was a fad and when I saw an obvious one I'd lambast the celeb hoaxed and get my likes and laughs. Even sold a few of the jokes to some known trash comics (Gilbert Gottfried sent me 100 check that I never cashed cuz his handwriting (or so I believe) was on it. Lost it tho anyway.
Until 2012 when Whitney Houston passed. I was first to crack something mean - and boy I found out what the sole of my foot and the soul in my heart tasted like when she really passed.
I stopped. I apologized and just left social media in a broad sense.
Managed accounts for awhile after but too many clients wanted the flame bait and many of them would lie to tie in scams in their 'deals' and I just couldn't stomach it.
So in a nutshell I wanted to post this song and make a quip. Now I've wrote a novel. Sorry PI
I fucking love it here tho'.
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đŁEmma is actually a genius and I enjoy recording her conversations with friends and sometimes foes.
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đŁI saw this recently at The Roxy with my friend Ben and it hit so hard. I really liked this one in high school but seeing it for the first time in maybe 10 years, I was kind of shocked by how great it was. To enjoy Lost Highway, you have to shut your brain off and just submit to the movie. At the end, two characters drive out to the desert in the middle of the night looking for a burning cabin theyâve seen in visions and then have sex on the sand, illuminated by the headlights of their parked car. This Mortal Coilâs version of âSong To The Sirenâ plays. We were in the front row it was crazy.
Mar 8, 2023