i know i look like a hardcore kid in that fuck the dead video. i always did.

it's not that i wasn't a hardcore kid. i was a hardcore kid. i was just a bit of an anachronism - i was a hardcore kid c. 1985, when being a hardcore kid was about being politically active, existing c. 2000, when being a hardcore kid was about almost the opposite of that. so, i sounded and mostly acted like one of the hardcore adults.

i really had no idea what emo even was. really.

but, i listened to a lot of socal punk, and a lot of politically aware industrial, which was just an outgrowth of punk. and i hope it's pretty obvious, actually.

scooped guitars suck.

ok.

where was i?

1) double checking today, inri002 sounds good, published. these are the added tags for inri002, fwiw: alternative, blues, grunge, hardcore, industrial, jazz, no wave, noise, punk, shoegaze.

2) double checking today, inri003 sounds good, published. these are the added tags for inri003, fwiw: aleatoric, collage, cut-up technique, electronic, glitch, industrial, minimalist, musique concrete, noise, plunderphonics.

3) i've re-uploaded inri004 a few times, and it doesn't want to hold. right now, it sounds good, published. but, i haven't stepped away and come back and found it undisturbed, yet. that's a necessity before i step away from it, entirely. these are the added tags for inri004, fwiw: alternative, blues, goth, grunge, hip hop, industrial, melodic hardcore, noise, punk, shoegaze.

i actually spent some time listening to is survived by yesterday and yelling at the wall - these aren't metal guitars, they're hardcore guitars. highs, not lows, get it. stop fucking with it. fuck.

the actual influences on the guitar part back in 1998 were more along the lines of smash and siamese dream. but, the key, central part of the song is that twangy flanged  guitar part that sounds like a pedal steel (but is just an electric run through a digital effects pedal). even the drums are mixed to crank the treble, not the bass. you should hear a subtle sweep on the noise sample, which is acing like a snare. i keep reuploading it to bring back the definition, but it just keeps defaulting to this crappy "scooped" mess.

:(.

i'm jumping to inri005, but  i'm not confident that these tracks are stable, quite yet.

i found some extra material to file, so i had to go back. i'm at inri010.

i wanted to make more music videos when i was out and about, and i think i should refocus on that: