WRITING FOR PAY AIN'T EASY

before I started doing I thought it was (isn't that just like most things).
You know...listen to something you either like or hate, than write about it. But you not only have to entertain(which I think really is the number one job of most writing) but you have to inform as well, and you have to inform people who probably know nothing about what the hell you're talking about in the first place (obscure references might as well not be references at all)

and it all has to be under 275 words

so here was the second draft of my second review (the first was so fact filled and boring that I had to do the second one immediately after finishing the first)

DIGITAL LEATHER Sorcerer (GONER)
What can I tell you? I could tell you how heat affects one's mind.
I could list obscure bands as reference points (Factrix/Nervous
Gender/Gary Numan) or try to reach the masses and type Nine Inch Nails
and Depeche Mode, which would be like typing Led Zeppelin for a review
about Slayer. I could tell you how half this record is an evil genius
studio project, the other a full band performing live, but I'd rather
tell you a story.
A broken hand pleasures you in an abandoned alley somewhere off
the information superhighway. A thin stream of blood arcs out onto the
asphalt next to boxes of thrown out faded jpegs and deleted love
emails. Your inner sexual organs soon follow, jettisoned from your
body by the sonic reverberations that emanate from inside the club you
are standing behind. The music swelling destroys you from inside,
turning your guts to jelly and your brain to slime. If only this
fantasy could actually play out, if only the scads of hessian townies
and captains of the football team who screamed "WHIP IT!" at the kids
they didn't understand, before jumping out of their Camaros to reign
fists and feet down on their victims for the fashion trespasses they
had committed like an extreme Mr. Blackwell, could suffer this fate.
Attention: ElectroFecesToni&GuyWave DJs play
"Modulated/Simulated" or "Styrofoam" at your weekly Check Out My iPod
bash or do a disservice to all the little coked up girls that will be
rectified when said DJs parents play John Souza marches at their
funerals.
And The Urinals cover "Hologram" pleases me like no woman ever has.

third revision

DIGITAL LEATHER Sorcerer (GONER)
Digital Leather is local (regardless of what some other dipshits in town have to say) Tucsonan (by way of Yuma…and spent a couple years away in Phoenix before coming back) Shawn Foree’s musical output. Starting out in bands like the Screenz and Dickless Torso with an occasional venture off into black metal territory of Mere Mortals and even time with the Jay Reatard/Alicja Ttrout camps, Shawn ‘s steady job now is DL. It’s been a one man operation pretty much in the studio with differing lineups as a live act. This album is the first that captures both elements. While the current live act, which has stuff recorded but I have no idea when it will come out, is his best - Isaac Reyes(Swing Ding Amigos/SharkPants) on guitar, Sean Rousse on drums, Jason Baker on synth and Shawn on vox/guitar, the band assembled on side two (recorded at the second Gonerfest , one of the better musical events that happen every year in Memphis) consisted of members of Tokyo Electron plus one of their brothers, and did a bang up job.
While most bands in Tucson seem to fall under the spell of hanging out downtown so they can be the big fish in this pond. Digital Leather has been doing the opposite - touring and putting out records. They realize that no matter how big you are, this pond is dried up. The very nerve.
I could list obscure bands as reference points (Factrix/Nervous Gender/Gary Numan/Suicide) or try to reach the masses and type Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode, which would be like typing Led Zeppelin for a review about Slayer.
Lyrical content includes the ultimate sexual partner, airplane crashes, Naked Lunch style cut up prose, a young girls pubic region, the Beat It video taken to its logical albeit extreme end, and of course dystopian futuristic love.
Attention: ElectroFecesToni&GuyWave DJs play "Modulated/Simulated" or "Styrofoam" at your weekly Check Out My iPod bash cause your audience would like them way more than another one of your Cat Power/Coldplay mash ups.
And The Urinals cover "Hologram" pleases me like no woman ever has.