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About discoinfernal
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Member:
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Greg
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discoinfernal
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Location:
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Highway 61
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Member Since:
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Mar 15 '05
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It ain't over. I'm not done.
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Activity Summary
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Reviews Written: 74
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Member Visits: 6,190
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Total Visits: 22,417
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About discoinfernal
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Yo.
Name's Greg. I've been around this site for a couple of years now, though I do most of my floating around the music section (I was even a Top Reviewer/Advisor there for about a month). I've had a lot of things fill my profile over the years: half-written reviews/fake personal ads/various rants etc. etc. This is probably the closest thing to a decent bio that I'm going to get.
Truth be told, I'm pretty embarrassed about the majority of what I've written for this site. A lot of my early output was written about the time I started college, when I had little writing experience and almost nothing in the way of focus. I had this crazy idea (as a lot of young collegiate writers do) that bigger automatically meant better, which is why my older reviews are usually seven to ten pages of purple prose and bullshit. I also had a lot of confidence issues back then and went out of my way to please everyone (which is why a lot of my old reviews are loaded with references that you probably don't get). What can I say? I was a young liberal arts student who thought he was much more clever than he really was. I mean granted, I'm still a young liberal arts student (chasing my M.A. in History) who thinks he's much more clever than he really is, but at least now I have enough sense to know that most of my early work is pure horseshit.
A lot has changed over the years. My taste in music has shifted several times. I've picked up a number of influences, some of them famous (Charles Bukowski, Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, Ernest Hemingway, Bob Dylan, Arthur Rimbaud), some of them not so famous (Hollywood Bitchslap's Peter Sobczynski, Max Burbank and Protoclown at I-Mockery), one or two them even being from this site (the most notable probably being my good friend Mike Heyliger). I also like to pretend that I've grown something of a backbone in the past few years. That being said, other than a few which were just too embarrassing to keep around, I've resisted the urge to incinerate my old reviews. Hey, it may be crap, but it's crap I feel a certain twinge of nostalgia for.
Most of the music I listen to is only popular on the Internet. Some of my favorite artists include: Tom Waits, The Beatles, Elliott Smith, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley & The Wailers, The Roots, Dead Kennedys, Queens of the Stone Age, Sigur Ros, The Mountain Goats, Massive Attack and Radiohead. I'm somewhat critical when it comes to the music press. There are a few great publications/websites out there, but more often than not, the rock press encourages bland writing and musical conformity. Plus, I get the feeling that a lot of them just don't care anymore. Of course, a few magazines/websites are just flat-out terrible. I mean seriously, is being an unlikable prick required for writing at cokemachineglow, or is their staff just naturally that full of shit? I also find it odd that NME has been around for over fifty years now, and their testicles haven't dropped yet.
In any case, that's me. If you want to talk or bitch me out for something I've written, feel free to shoot me an e-mail. Peace, cheers, etc.
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