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The La Historia Family
Sr. (R.I.P.) and Jr. (R.I.P.) and III (R.I.P.)
History Lesson -- Part II
This blog is named after my last three iPods, all of which have been well-loved despite their spotty service records.
Historia Sr. was a Gen 1 Shuffle with a gigabyte of flash memory and was probably purchased in early 2005. Jr., a 1 GB Gen 2 Shuffle with the (Product) coloring that they told me would cure hunger in Africa or whatever, was purchased upon the final heat death of Sr., sometime during the long hot summer of 2007. Jr. finally passed on in Mid-August of 2010. My current unit, called III of course, is one of the only-briefly-available Gen 3s, with the controls on the headphones. It proved so popular with the masses that Apple was forced to rush in with the Gen 4 after only a few months, but I like mine just fine.
All three units, of course, were named after the seminal Pussy Galore album of 1990, which itself was named after and spoofed the long-running series of Spanish record albums, the ones you always used to find in the cutout bins, if you're old enough to know what those were.
Historia Sr. was a Gen 1 Shuffle with a gigabyte of flash memory and was probably purchased in early 2005. Jr., a 1 GB Gen 2 Shuffle with the (Product) coloring that they told me would cure hunger in Africa or whatever, was purchased upon the final heat death of Sr., sometime during the long hot summer of 2007. Jr. finally passed on in Mid-August of 2010. My current unit, called III of course, is one of the only-briefly-available Gen 3s, with the controls on the headphones. It proved so popular with the masses that Apple was forced to rush in with the Gen 4 after only a few months, but I like mine just fine.
All three units, of course, were named after the seminal Pussy Galore album of 1990, which itself was named after and spoofed the long-running series of Spanish record albums, the ones you always used to find in the cutout bins, if you're old enough to know what those were.
Rastronomicals - What Does It Mean?
- rastronomicals
- I'm in my 50's and live and work in South Florida.
Since 2000 or so I have kept a website about my extensive Houston Astro baseball card collection at http://www.astroland.net.
Back in '05, I founded The Crawfish Boxes, which became under my direction the web's leading blog about the Houston Astros baseball club. Disgusted at the workload-to-pay ratio, and by the arrogance of sabermetricians, and close to devastated by the Mitchell report and its implications about the complicity of Houston Astros management, I left TCB at the beginning of 2008, promising my readers there that I would be starting a music blog.
This, finally, is that blog.
Site Specific Carnivorous Occurence
Journey Through The Past
Last Child
Culture Vultures
TVC15
He's A Whore
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October File Under:
- 2013
- 2014
- A New Favorite Thing
- A New Member of the Family
- a range of frequency ratios which sweep across the audible spectrum in a band within which two notes will sound like they are fusing into one rough sound
- A sense of dread
- A Shaky Sense of Diction
- Accessories to the La Historia lifestyle
- According To You
- Accordion Crimes
- Acoustic Psychedelic
- Alt-folk
- altrock
- Ambient Punk No More?
- American Hardcore
- And yet somehow Nirvana were better than Liturgy
- Apocalypse Rock
- Art punk
- Atmospheric Noise
- Bands Named After Unexplained Phenomena
- Bands that were like really into Bullfinch
- Baseball Songs
- Be Like Godspeed Not Like Sweep the Leg Johnny
- Bigger Than Chthulhu
- Bigger than Dubuque
- Blind alleys
- Blues Rock
- Breakfast of Champions
- British Folk Rock
- Canada Rock
- Canadian Post-rock Ensembles
- Carpe Diem
- Celluloid Heroes
- Chainsaw Pop
- Color Co-ordinated Rock
- Combat Rock
- Concerts that Rastro Went To
- Contradictions and/or Evolutions
- Cops
- Covers Where They Change The Words
- Covers Where They Forget the Words
- Covers where they get the words exactly right
- Crossover
- Cybermetal
- Daddy's Little Girl Songs
- Death/Prog Metal Hybrid
- Deaths
- Delta Blues
- Devil Music
- Ditch Music
- Doom Metal
- Dreams
- Driving Music
- Drone/Doom
- Drugs
- Duplantier played guitar
- Every dead body that is not exterminated gets up and kills
- Excellent Shows by Bands I Disagree With Politically
- Exotica
- Feeling Arizona
- Filthy Fuckers
- Followups
- From suites with parts released in backwards order
- Fuck you you fucking fuck
- Funk Metal Fusion?
- Fuzz absolutely rule brother
- Garage
- Garage Revivial
- Garbage Rock
- Gladcore
- Going to Iceland and Waiting for the End of the World Rock
- Good Old American Know-how
- Goodbye Cruel World on a String
- Granolaheads
- Great songs on crappy albums
- Grumpier Rock Stars
- Grunge
- Happy New Year
- Hard Rock
- Hashtag Doom
- Hashtag Weed in Space
- Hashtage Stoner
- Hero Worship
- Heroin Rock
- Heroin/Trance Metal
- Hippie Punks
- Hipster Assholes and others like me
- Iconic Cutouts
- If The Universe Went To A Death-Metal-Only Format
- Indie
- Japanese Stoner Rock
- Jazz for Druggies
- Jingle Bell Jazz
- Last Post Before an Extended Hiatus Songs
- Less Famous Originals
- Lists
- Live Fast Die Young
- LOUDquietLOUD
- Louisville Rock
- Manifestos
- Market Consolidation Moves from Psychotic Punk-Rockers
- Merry Christmas
- Metal Folk Protest
- Metal Machine Music
- minimalist/art
- Mirror Music
- More Bullshit
- Movie Dialogue
- movies
- Mudhoney
- Multi-instrumentalist Rock
- Music for a lonely Sunday night on an island and without a girlfriend
- Music From Tampa That's Not Death Metal
- Music That Celebrates Itself
- Music-Related Comments Elsewhere
- My apologies to the spirit of hair metal
- My Favorite Things
- Named in honor of the Music for Airports reference in CK's unfilmed script for Eternal Sunshine
- Neo-Beatnik Neo-Folk
- Neocolonialism
- Neocolonialism Part 2
- Nerd Rock
- Nixon Rock
- Noise metal
- Noise Rock
- Nomenclature
- Norway or the Highway
- Nosferatu Men
- Not-So-Grumpy Really
- Number One Country Hits
- Numbers Stations
- NWOBHM
- Old School Rap
- Osaka Rock
- Outtakes
- Overdub Rock
- Overplayed
- Permission to Dream
- Photonic Prog
- Picking up the phone and talking to God rock
- Picking Up the Pieces of Our Hearts
- Pigfuck
- Planet Rock
- Poetry
- Post-Hardcore
- Post-metal
- Post-metal (in an older sense)
- Post-punk
- Postrock
- Postrock Revival it said so on Wikpedia
- Postrock songs named after UNESCO World Heritage Sites
- Posts That Started Out Being About Something Else Entirely
- Power Speaks Truth
- Practical Poetry
- Progressive Post-Black Metalgaze
- Progressive Rock
- Progressive Rock: American Branch
- Proto-doom
- Proto-postpunk
- Proto-Trower
- Proto-Zeppelin
- Protopunk
- Psych/Prog Parody
- Psych/Prog Revival
- Psychedelic
- Psychedelic Pop
- Psychedelic-Synthesis
- Psychobilly
- Psychotic Rock
- Punk Under the Sun
- Quentin Tarantino's Greatest Hits
- Rants
- Recipes
- Reposts
- Ridiculous little snippets
- Rock and Roll
- Rocket roll
- Roots Rock
- San Francisco Blues
- Saved From The Storm
- Sci-Fi and Fantasy
- Scottish Balladry
- Scum Punk
- Sellout Bastards
- Singer-songwriter
- Site Business
- Sk8core
- Some Favorite Album Covers
- Someone on the internet is wrong
- Songs Named After Mah Jong Hands
- Songs on a Starship
- Songs with parts recorded on a Monday night in Oakland
- Songs with versions by Robert Burns
- Space Rock
- Speedmetal
- Spoken Fuckin' Word
- Spoken Word
- Spooky Electronic Stuff
- Spooky Snacks
- Stoner/Death Crossover
- Stuff That's Inexplicably Titled
- Supergroup Rock
- Surcease
- Synthpop
- Tattooed Love Boys
- Technical Death Metal
- Tejas
- the Best Album of 2014
- The Downbeat Exotica
- the Dreaded Ironic Detachment
- The Great Jam Band/Heroin Rock Mashup
- The Imitation Game
- The lovely and wonderful Kim Deal
- Things That May Not Have Really Happened
- Time is a flat circle
- Tumblr crossposts
- Underdone
- Vampire Blues
- Viking Metal Bands Who Know How To Play Proto-Doom
- VoIce Over Follies
- We Grab Anything
- Weird Pants
- Welcome to Miami Beach
- well it's not like they're nazis
- Who the fuck covers The Residents?
- Who's Cooler Don Zimmer
- Xmas Blew
- Youze all suck who don't tink so
1 comment:
Hi Rastro! Good to see you're still doing this. You're the only other music-blogger I know who's still writing a blog. I wrote my first blog post in months this morning, about my girlfriend Linda passing away back in June. It at least explains what I've been doing for the past few months. Hope you are well. I'm still around, just functioning at a much-lower energy level. Take care of yourself!
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