02.21.10
Disconnect
There’s a song by Rollins Band called Disconnect. Good ol’ Hank Rollins sings these lyrics:
Too damn bad if at the end of the day the only thoughts
In your brain are all the things that they say, what a waste
Too damn bad if at the end of the line you got no idea
What’s on your own mind, you got no one to blame but yourself
Too much to know, too much to see,
It might mean something to you but it’s nothing to me
It’s just another ad for someone’s version of how they think it should be
I want to pull it out
I wanna break it all down, I wanna pull it out
Disconnect myself, disconnect myself
I wanna see it go down, disconnect myself
Rollins Band came out with that song in 1994. It’s from the album Weight, which also features the song that you might know Henry from due to its popularity as an MTV video, Liar. Disconnect is an honest opener, and for me, Hank is one hell of a straight shooter. He speaks, sings, screams and shouts, directly.
08.04.09
A Round Robin Approach
Many moons ago, when I was in my early stages of becoming a designer, three friends and I sat down and came together to be a design company or collective or group of some kind. This is that period in your life that aside from the rare real paying job, you mostly do dirt cheap or pro bono jobs for your friends — who are in bands or artists or involved in some sort of subculture group that needs a website, logo, poster, flyer or some some of thing needing to be designed.
