You know when you suddenly get the confidence to like something, without feeling like you have to calibrate it around the general opinion in order to not be "wrong" about liking it? I just had that experience with dance. It doesn't matter what "is" good, objectively, technically or statistically, I […]
Cowboys From Hell by Pantera may be my favorite album ever. It has always sounded magical, fresh and strange, both when I heard it in 2012, today in 2024, and back in 1990 when it was released. Everyone knows about the songs Domination, Cowboys From Hell and Cemetery Gates, but it's the less known s […]
Dark Gandalf: Hey, comrade! Welcome to EPISODE 2 of This Is (NOT!) A Car Club! Here's a quick recap of what happened in EPISODE 1. Dark Gandalf: In EPISODE 1, you got to know the car club and its members. Dark Gandalf: You got a letter from the government threatening to shut the club down, which mad […]
Here are some insights that are interesting but not true. - Songs that aren't great IMMEDIATELY (that have a slow intro, or are quiet the first two seconds) won't be super popular because people will skip them. - 50% of making a catchy chorus seems to be to make it a wall of bright sounds. The remai […]
Top 4 storytelling art forms, based on their potential. So, music is excluded, because it doesn't tell you anything. It's just sounds and stuff. PLEASE don't send me emails about how music is indeed a storytelling medium, all country music fans reading this blog. Here is the list! 4. Movies They're […]
Last year I wrote a text about the best and most timeless K-pop girl groups, and later I realized that almost all groups I mentioned there are produced by the company SM Entertainment. It seems like they're the ones making the most creative and fun things in the genre. Many of the things that make K […]
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT I have finally released the EPISODE 1 of the game / screenplay / whatever This Is (NOT!) A Car Club: This Is (NOT!) A Car Club - EPISODE 1 The fullscreen button may not work for iPhone, for some reason, and the game may run at double speed if you have a monitor with high "refresh […]
Let me present a new website that I DON'T promise to maintain or update in any way (even if it would be good if I did): The Jun Togawa archive! It's a list of links to a bunch of Jun Togawa stuff, where the goal (that I ABSOLUTELY DON'T promise to fulfill) is to keep track of when the links die so I […]