Jesus…you forget how talented some musicians are until you go back and listen to them. Frank Zappa, probably the grandfather of obscure music considering the names that he chose for some of his albums is just one of those extremely talented yet underrated musicians that people from my generation just aren’t listening to, and that makes me sad.
Take today’s track as an example, the song “You Are What You Is” is the beginning of side 3 of the album with the same name (yes kids, side 3, it used to mean something to guys like me) and is perhaps one of the most amazing and progressive songs to ever get a video back in glorious 1984, yes…this song is nearly 30 years old, but doesn’t sound like it. Crap, I mean just watch the video and listen to the lyrics, even though some of the references are a bit outdated it’s still an awesome piece of work that was avant garde for its time.
I sit upon my throne as the owner/shogun of this site, WatchPlayRead. But it wasn't always so. I too have had blogspots, I've done other community blogs, I've even written professionally for other sites out there...yet none of them provided the content I had a real passion for.
It is then that I became tired of being a small cog in a big machine, and of writing about nothing but game news after game news article and the periphery that comes from such schlock, like knowing who Michael Pachter and Bobby Kotick are.
I decided to start MediaWhoreNetwork.com and ran up my post count there for about 2 years, commenting about any and everything that I wanted to. I even started a weekly podcast that I feel has come into its own.
It wasn't until earlier this year that I realized that having the word "whore" in your URL might be a bit limiting to my potential audience. I then made the website and its branding move over to WatchPlayRead.com.