my careless contagion

A Thousand Miles From Nowhere by Dwight Yoakam. Why am I posting this video? Why not? Stop asking so many questions. Do you work for the CIA? I'm posting stuff that doesn't have anything to do with anything. It's liberating. Probably won't post much about my life anymore. Instead, I intend to write about things of absolutely no import. Actually, by that definition, I should write about my life exclusively. Haha.  This song was released in 1993. Think back to what you were doing then. That's how long this guy's been rocking. Well, longer, actually. And it probably took him that long to get out of those leather pants. Oof.  I like this video because it's a split screen, which is not something you see very often. It's a lot for the mind to process, two screens at once, but it works. When our minds are overloaded, we are more susceptible to things slipping into our subconscious unnoticed. Our minds have gateways, and when we're bombarded, things slip thr...

Making Believe is a cover song by Social Distortion (formed in 1978) on their Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell album (1992). It was written by Jimmy Work and was originally recorded by Kitty Wells and released in 1955. This song has been covered many times over the years. I liken music to a living thing, and living things have DNA. If you could look at Social Distortion's DNA, you'd see a lot of country music in there. Country music is basically folk music, so this further cements my theory that punk rock or hardcore is folk music as well. A lot of themes pop up in folk music. There are the murder ballads. There are the lost loves. There are the drinking songs. This song is about a lost love.  Mike Ness, Social Distortion singer, revealed a lot of his influences not only through his principal band but also through his solo work. His two solo albums, Cheating at Solitaire and Under the Influences, both released in 1999, show a rich body of influence on his punk rock mus...