https://soundcloud.com/skipndie/skipdie-the-purpose-of-the-moon-mix01
*Trying to figure out what it is that I like about "Skip&Die." I think it's that they're not "from" any particular city, nation, or even continent. Also, they're not actual no-kidding "musicians."
*I admire Skip&Die's apparent lack of focussed ways to make money. They can't possibly be living on their touring merchandise sales and Cata.Pirata's endearing offers to hand-craft jewelry for her fans. Obviously they get along somehow, and as global bohemians go, they even look perky and well put-together, but I have no idea what weird, post-national combo of middling CD sales, modeling fees, art installations, clothes design, deejay fees and shareable nail-soup AirB'n'B hacks get them to payday. Do they pay rent? Do they even HAVE "rent"? I don't know, and better yet, I don't think they know, either. I don't think they much care, or even bother to figure that out. It's like their blithe anticapitalista indifference to the ongoing plutocratic totalitarianism.
*Skip&Die seem to be remarkably fond of Dutch marijuana. They're very keen on being up-front and yeah-bro about stoner identity, but I don't understand why they do that. Actual Dutch people I hang out with have no use for the stuff. They regard marijuana as some distasteful underclass substance that has to be re-packaged and sold to Yankee tourists.
*I find it difficult to believe that Skip&Die fans actually smoke marijuana and then listen to Skip&Die. Cata.Pirata and Crypto.Jori are about as relaxed, hazy and groovy as Constantin Malevich. Their lyrics are the very opposite of bong-huffing reggae one-love: it's all jungle riots, muti murder, love jihads, blood, brains, pistols, dictatorships…
*The world's full of wonderment, really. Maybe Simon Reynolds will interview them some day, and then I won't have to work this hard.
*This is "Beyond the Beyond" post #11,000, by the way. May heaven protect anyone who ever tried to read all of them.
