Mike Literman

I spend way too much time and money buying records. I am also very opinionated. Therefor, I will start putting up record reviews one by one. It’s not going to overtake the entire site, not that it matters, because it’s my site. There will be metal, pop, rock, old, new, etc. Anyone who knows me knows what will be reviewed, otherwise you are in for a treat. Please enjoy.

As many of you know, I am good friends with people in bands. I take a lot of pictures and share them with all of you when I am lucky enough to go on tour with them. As of last week, the Failures’ Union released a new record titled “In What Way?”. I thought that it was going to be hard to compete with their last record, “Sinker” which is 16 tracks of glory.

So please, visit their site and see them on tour right now. They just started their tour this week and will be traveling all the way to Texas and back. Check them out and tell your friends.

Cold weather came up pretty quickly, didn’t it? Who’s an idiot now.

It’s true. I often give you, the audience advice. Good/bad/indifferent. It’s all there. Here’s some good advice. Don’t work at a position where you have to sell yourself? Like a hooker? No, not like a hooker.

As you know, I am a web developer. I create websites for a living. I work for a small company. Very small. Things are slow, you know that. Business is not booming and because of that, I need to pitch some work. It’s not easy. Everyone and their brother think they are web designers and those people also think they are web developers. Everyone knows HTML and some thing that’s all they need. So people who do bad work take all the work and give my profession a bad name. So I have to deal with this.

When you become a certain age and are in this type of work, not specifically web development, but artists, sales people, construction, and so many more, you become a jerk. Everyone who you meet, you ask “Oh, what do you do?” which is just bait for “Oh, maybe this dude needs a website/my services now or in the future.”. I don’t even care what you do, I just need work. I still am far from an adult but I ask these questions in order to make ends meet. It’s such an empty thing to say, right along the lines of “How’s the weather today” and “Did you watch the game last night?”. Sometimes, I’m sincere, but it just comes out.

So I bought business cards to make myself more professional because I’m sick of writing my legitimate credentials on flyers for Sublime cover band shows. They’re ridiculous, so I hope to keep some cred and also make people know what they’re getting into. I know that I’m going to start using the line “Here’s my card” and the whole cliche deal soon.

So, soon I’ll be completely dead inside, carrying around a bunch of my cards, trying to get free lunches here and there from local restaurants, smoozing with people I can’t stand just to make a buck. I’ll see you in hell, capitalism.

As I stated, I’m sorry everyone, but don’t worry. I have put a ton of gems up there for you and we’ve got enough right now to fill over a month’s worth of images. There is an extra special trip in there, too, which will provide you with some fun viewing pleasure for a few weeks. Please comment and check out the archive. For those who check the site frequently, I have added images from about mid-July to today.