Albums That I Own

I write about albums. Albums that I own.

Eureka

Posted on December 4, 2012 by R.J.

Band: Jim O’Rourke
Album: Eureka
Best song: “Something Big” and the title track are great.
Worst song: “Happy Holidays” is not really needed.

I started college in the fall of 1999 after spending my high school years trying to understand the Chicago underground music scene. When I got to college, I gravitated right toward the radio station and KCOU became the thing that defined my college time, for the most part. I idolized the older DJs. I desperately wanted to be like them, in one way or another. Continue reading →

Insignificance

Posted on June 28, 2011 by R.J.

Band: Jim O’Rourke
Album: Insignificance
Best song: “Memory Lame” and “Therefore, I Am” are awesome. “All Downhill From Here” is very good.
Worst song: The final track, “Life Goes Off” is not great.

I didn’t drink in college, so I had a slightly different college experience than a lot of people. Which is to say that my 20th birthday — not one of import like the 21st or 18th, certainly, but a new decade and all — was less raucous than most others’. Two friends and I ate hamburgers at a local landmark. Age 20 is when I got into the University of Missouri Journalism School, unknowingly finalizing my career path for, at least, the next ten years. I stopped eating red meat at age 20, simply for health reasons. I was elected to be program director at my college’s radio station that year. I lived alone — in a single in the dorm, so, not really alone — for the first time that year. Continue reading →