{"id":1666,"date":"2018-05-04T08:52:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T07:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2018-05-02T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T08:22:42","slug":"song-of-the-week-better-ways-by-1000-homo-djs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1666","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Better Ways&#8221; by 1000 Homo DJs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Better Ways&#8221; by 1000 Homo DJs:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L4v3xQgQUkc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last weekend I went to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxtraxfilms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax Records<\/em><\/a>, a really wonderful documentary film about Wax Trax record store in Denver, which became Wax Trax record store in Chicago, which also became Wax Trax Records, a record label that released all kinds of heavy, noisy bands in the 1980s and 1990s. The film, by Julia Nash, serves as a loving portrait of Wax Trax itself, but also of the founders of the store and label, Jim Nash (Julia&#8217;s father) and Dannie Flesher, and of their relationship as well.<\/p>\n<p>Wax Trax was kind of a legendary place and label for a kid growing up in the Chicago suburbs in the late 1980s and early 1990s. My friend Rob was really into the kind of music they put out, and I spent a lot of time at his house (and other friends&#8217; houses, but especially Rob&#8217;s) listening to KMFDM and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult and Revolting Cocks and Ministry and and and and and and and and.\u00a0 I also remember one of my classmates, Nathan, coming to school one day with both a new, better, discman (16 bit? I can&#8217;t remember) and a copy of a 1000 Homo DJs album he&#8217;d just gotten, and basically slapping the headphones on me before I could say anything and telling me I both had to hear how much better the sound was than on other discmans (discmen?) and also, more importantly, how mindblowingly awesome the song &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BA18oKFDW5c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hey Asshole<\/a>&#8221; was. Nathan was right about 1000 Homo DJs and &#8220;Hey Asshole&#8221;. 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This is &#8220;Better Ways&#8221; by 1000 Homo DJs: Last weekend I went to see Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax Records, a really wonderful documentary film about Wax Trax record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Better%20Ways%22%20by%201000%20Homo%20DJs\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-week","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}