Dorks And Losers

As much ridicule as I got in ele­men­tary school, I never stopped pro­fess­ing my lik­ing Garth Brooks music. I con­tin­ued that sup­port through­out high school and col­lege. But some­where along that time, it’s not so much that I stopped lik­ing Garth Brooks, it’s more I stopped talk­ing about him.

And it has more to do with him not releas­ing new mate­r­ial, and my musi­cal tastes grav­i­tat­ing more toward indie rock music. Coun­try music has gone through a mini-revival; how­ever, I stopped lis­ten­ing to Kenny Ches­ney and I don’t really like the new music that Ras­cal Flatts has put out.

Sure, Garth has declared him­self semi-retired, but he is doing a mini-concert tour that sold out in a few min­utes. He still draws a crowd, and the fact that his last album Scare­crow didn’t sell his usual mil­lions. The music indus­try would chalk it up to piracy, but artists don’t sell mil­lions of albums any­more, not even Garth Brooks.

He also gets docked for his exclu­sive dis­tri­b­u­tion deal with Wal-Mart. How­ever, I did only find out about his lat­est two-disc album The Ulti­mate Hits through a Best Buy cir­cu­lar ad. There’s prob­a­bly a legi­mate rea­son for it, but I don’t care. I have almost all of the man’s albums, minus his first great­est hits album (The Hits) and his first Chris­mas album (Beyond The Sea­son). I don’t need the for­mer, but I really should get the latter.

I’m con­flicted as to whether or not to buy the album. If I’m going to buy it, I should buy it soon before the prices shoot from their sale prices. How­ever, like I said before, I have almost all of his albums, but Garth is crafty like a lot of artists, in that he’s bundling the album with four NEW songs. Oh the humanity.

The album sold 352,000 units to open at no. 3 on the Bill­board top album charts.

Is it worth it? I already bought his exclu­sive Wal-Mart box sets. The only rea­son I bought the first box set was to get the CD of B-sides, which was kind of a rip-off con­sid­er­ing there were only ten songs and I had to rebuy Scare­crow. The other box set was more worth it since it included his Cen­tral Park concert.

What to do…
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I finally got around to lis­ten­ing more of swedish singer El Perro Del Mar, and boy am I in love. The only way to describe her is as a haunt­ing ver­sion of Bjork.

My favorite tracks are “God Knows (You Gotta Give To Get),” “Party,” and “Here Comes That Feeling.”

A cou­ple of videos (“God” and “Party” — the lat­ter being very creepy).

Cur­rently lis­ten­ing to: Office — “If You Don’t Know By Now.” It’s not an El Perro Del Mar song, but I’m still lis­ten­ing to it.
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The great­est Star Wars poster ever.
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Quote from Dex­ter:

Dex­ter: “Maybe if I don’t blink, my eyes will tear up.”

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