The sound of the sound of science.

With Octo­ber near­ly upon us, it’s about time for Black­mail Is My Life to final­ly roll out its own fall guide of sorts. Expect some short fea­tures on artists and albums, as well as DVDs, movies, tele­vi­sion and books I’ve been dig­ging into late­ly, includ­ing: Yo La Ten­go’s endur­ing psy­che­delia; LSD March and the mys­ter­ies of the Japan­ese under­ground; the resur­gence of black met­al, specif­i­cal­ly USBM; The Wire and urban polit­i­cal mythol­o­gy; Michel Gondry, his­to­ry and mem­o­ry; any­thing by John Dos Pas­sos and the Ash­can school; Jim Miller’s Democ­ra­cy Is In The Streets; Darc Mind and ear­ly Nineties HipHop and more!

Also, since I’m inter­est­ed in devot­ing more time to web devel­op­ment here at Black­mail Is My Life [take that as a euphemism for over­haul­ing the site, updat­ing it and mak­ing it more user friend­ly], please leave any sug­gest­ed read­ing regard­ing that sub­ject in the comments!