Sun, 15 November 2009  The busyness is everyday. Not even enough time to do this justice. Hilarious the idea that this is a diary to help me remember these days - but that the days are so packed that I can't make time to remember them. Anyways. Music is a constant - hell yes. nomeansno- Everyday I Start to Ooze Metatron - 10 Psychedelic Culture The Time and Space Machine - The Joys of Living Un-hung Up Blind Boys of Alabama - Run on for a Long Time Capitol K - City Al Caiola - Experiment In Terror Bobby Bare Jr. - Stay In Texas Fugazi -Waiting Room Marc Shearer - Magma on My Mind Blood Red Shoes - Its Getting Boring By the Sea Matias Aguayo - Rollerskate (album version) Doves - Kingdom of Rust (Prins Thomas Discomiks Instrumental) Learn the Songs of Phil Ochs - That's What I Want to Hear Pet Politics - When I Get Old Sea and Cake - a man who never sees a pretty girl that he doesn't love her a little thanks to Ana Comments[0] |
Tue, 25 August 2009  August already? - I am surprised but yes apparently I missed July. huh. Finished classes for summer - so yeah this was Physics and a film and fiction class. Happily I have good things to report from the conclusion of that as my GPA continues its trend unabated. Sorrows in breaking as this month saw the leaving of: Hannah from downstairs, is off to other Brooklyn 'hoods Mollie, another import by way of Portland, is leaving to Princeton - we're all quite proud of her and, also, ashamed of ourselves. Tim Krieder, of incomparable artist behind The Pain (see illustration), is walking away from stripping to take up a columinst job at the Times. Respectable stuff and lordy but I feel it. So times are at a turning point, right? This month is heaving on the tracks of Lux and Ivy's from WFMU. Lux passed on not too long ago and this list was compiled by fans of his band The Cramps. The total is about 11 albums of selected tracks and they've been on heavy rotation here this summer. So ... here we go: 1. Candy Claws - Don't Turn Around 2. Jack Nitzsche - The Lonely Surfer* 3. Blues Rockers - Calling All Cows* 4. Lightnin Slim - Its Mighty Crazy* 5. Shinichi Osawa - Love & Peace 6. Bosstones - Mope-Itty Moope* 7. The Symbols - Do the Zombie* 8. Mcfadden and Dor - Noisy Village* 9. David Bowie - Oh You Pretty Things 10. Doctor Ross - The Boogie Disease* 11. John Buck and his Blazers - Forbidden City* 12. The Big Pink – Velvet (Gang Gan Dance Remix) 13. Sheriff and the Revels - Shombolar* 14. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin'* 15. Storey sisters - Bad Motorcycle* 16. Robert Mitchum - Ballad of Thunder Road* 17. Can - Turtles Have Short Legs 18. Roy Brown - Butcher Pete - Part 1* 19. Roy Brown - Butcher Pete - Part 2* * Tracks are from Albums 1-3 Image From: The Pain Comic I'm Currently Up to My Tits in: Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol Comments[0] |
Sat, 27 June 2009  Title from Unamuno.Happy June - and what a summer! Record rain fall has preserved my mind from migranes and hallucinations of divinity. Summer classes have preserved my embalmed, pickled, and thoroughly petrified extracurricular activities. And yet, wondrously, only one week to go and then I am done with Spanish, which is a thing I never really liked - but admittedly it is a bit of fun even if you don't like it. You see, and this isn't just me here, talking in a foreign language does things to your mind. I've been a language user for years and have always been bowled over from what a good chat can do to me - but another language . . . is more like an out of body experience of the mind than a hallucination of the tongue. To embrace it I would like to share my new favorite Spanish idiom (narrowly beating out the phrase, "The Devil is the devil because he is old") - in espanol: Pensar en la inmortalidad del cangrejo that is ... as the cartoon lovingly illustrates: Thinking about the immortality of crabs. Generationals - When They Fight They Fight Hey Penny - Cop Car (demo) cazwell - Money Back Get Back Quinozzi - Carpet Madness (demo) Cheveu-Lola -langusta Das Racist & Wallpaper. - Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (Wallpaper. Remix) Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Little Girl (Julian Casablancas) Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha- Orgasmatron (Motorhead) Illinois - Shes So Blonde SilverJews - SanFrancisco BC The House of Apples and Eyeballs - Psychic Swelling Regina Spektor - Machine YACHT- Psychic City Jimmie Rodgers - TB Blues Vaqueros Paganos - Asesinos Image from: Wikipedia's Entry on "Thinking About the Immortality of Crabs" Artist: Greg Williams Online Comic I'm Currently Reading: Templar, Arizona Comments[0] |
Fri, 29 May 2009  A belated month - but only because of the harried pace of life. And while I would love nothing more than to dedicate my self (again) to the twin frivolties of 'fun' and 'communication of ones emotional state through artistic means' which drive this haphazard ship of woebegotten delights into the ragged rocks of alliterative allusions and malaproped metaphors.All hands on deck our cavorting has run out of spare time. So as a brief summary too congrats to Ana on her promotion and Molly on getting into her Doctoral program. Happy Birthday Craig and Ana. And lastly yay me. I did things too: Short and Ugly Comic: shifter-magazine.com/shifter13.pdf Quick and Brutal Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQmdQPy_3yg So that was then - also on a small not the format is going down from 80 min shows to a brief 50 min. this is mainly due to space and time considerations Intro Led Zepplin - Immigrant Song Women - Black Rice (Green Go remix) Krazy Baldhead - The End ft. Beat Assailant Bruce Springsteen - Erie Canal Lisps - Documents Black Moth Super Rainbow - Feel The Drip Elliot Smith - Twilight Passion Pit - Little Secret (Nouveau!) Cat Power - Love and Communication Le-Face - Salvador Dali Vagabondopera Kabarista - Farewell Honeycut - Shadows Curious Hands - Birthday Song For Ana (Ed. thanks guys!) Lynne Richards with the Jimmy Etta Orchestra - Hydrogen Nitrogen Potassium Image From: Tori Miki Comments[0] |
Fri, 10 April 2009  Says Simon I been face to face with a Serpant, Demon and a Saint, think it is what it aint... Aint that right baby face?, cutie pie?, good lookin'?, twinkle in your Daddy's eye?  Comments[0] |
Sat, 7 March 2009  Another month and things are still happening - downturns or no, lay offs or not, things proceed to decay at a pace unprecedented. To our vestigial ape descended brain parts this is another insult thrown by the modern world. We are overcome with despair at times by not what is happening, which is still too fast and recent to comprehend, but on what has just happened. So shuttered from the immediate and blinkered to the future we have to cast about for a path with the blind ineptitude of dumb stones rolling down hills. Anxiety, nervousness, fear and dread, ever present but also on the rise - marking higher on the measure of my own inner metric the the rising tide of ill happenings far beyond my ken or control. There is no ennui among destitute - since there is just too much which remains to be done. Also Ana's birthday is this month - so there is that too. We're thinking of a party in the park with an anti-scavenger hunt. Also, Sket and the Hobo - a project blog for me and Ana (and a compliment to the still undisclosed Autoshop project) has gone "live" with the completion of a poorly illustrated and woefully written 7 pager, soon to be published, maybe - by an online magazine. Or not. Who knows. So here are Hobo themed songs (three really) to celebrate. Hobo Jug Band <- hobo song The Beginning Of The End - Funky Nassau, Pt. II The Who - the Kids are Alright Benjy Ferree -Fear The Standells - Medication The Holy Modal Rounders - Give The Fiddler A Dram The Fugs - I Saw The Southeast Engine - Black Gold Death - Politicians The Long Blondes - Once And Never Again Soko - I'll Kill Her TMBG - (She was a) Hotel Detective in the Future Dan Deacon - Snookered Casey and Brian - Rumble in the Jungle The Moving Sidewalks - Set Me Free (Feat. Billy Gibbons) Link Wray and the Raymen - Baby What You Want Me To Do Les Ambassadeurs Internationales - Mousso Gnaleden The Frames - Lay Me Down The Raincoats - Fairytale In The Supermarket Papercuts - Future Primitive Girls - Hellhole Rat Race Deertick - These Old Shoes <-hobo song Rt. 78W Outlaws - Too Much Tequila Ame - Rej (Sonar Kollektiv Orchester cover) image from: Darwin from Mikero - also as a tee-shirt Bellisop - Philosopher for Hire (shifter-magazine.com) Comments[0] |
Fri, 13 February 2009  Look I'll keep this brief as I've found little succor from expounding on this site to any length. Instead let me divulge my recent doings - for diary purposes: Got a 7 pager posted on Shifter Magazine about Bellisop. Not the best art I've ever made but hey. Made me a composting bin. Ahh yeah I be mulch like a mother' now. Semester 2 is GO! After visiting Florida I now get to crash [on] the slopes of Vermont. Oh these wacky "doing things" thing is nuyts. Also - got this here musical interlude: Camisra - let me show you <snippet> Sgt Pepper_s Lonely Hearts Club Band _Streetlab mix_ Larkin Grim - How To Catch A Lizard Man Man-Easy Eats Or Dirty Doctor Galapagos Lucky Dragons - Jean's Theme Leadbelly-C.C. Rider Owl Brain Atlas - Doktor Tongues LCD Soundsystem-New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down Camper van Beethoven - Eye of Fatima High places - From Stardust to Sentience Ezrra Furman - Not Recognized-The Stakes are High Company - <Snippet> Firewater - Hey Clown Kasey Chambers And Shane Nicholson - Jackson Hole Mike Monday - Through the Keyhole unknown - snippet SoulWax Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band - A Fifth of Beethoven (Hidden Cat’s “Based on the Soulwax” Edit) Otis Redding - Pain In My Heart M.Ward - Rave On Dani Deahland Mike Gillenwater - TheSoundOfDisco Wavves - So Bored Of Montreal - Heimdalsgate Like A Promethea Samara Lubelski - Taste the Candy Royskopp - Happy Up Here Port O'Brien - Fisherman's Son Muck and the Mires - Hypnotic Deerhunter - Saved By Old Times Emperor Machine - Aimee Tallulah Is Hypnotised George Harrison - I'd Like to Be a Pirate Image from: The incontestable excellence of B. Patrick, Akimbo In memory of: Joseph M. Williams (1933-2008) who wrote The Phenomenology of Error which I found to be clear headed and rational a scare trait in composition studies. That he purposefully included 100 errors in it was both smart and funny. "Real readers reading real texts don't respond to error as grammarians want them to. Nor, in fact, do the grrammarians." Direct download: Songs_For_February_-_Protein_Electrophoresis_Valentines_Day.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:06 PM Comments[0] |
Sun, 18 January 2009  Another year - but this one seems to have more promise right?It certainly seems that way. So lets keep our fingers crossed and kick it off by listening to my new favorite song that, according to Colin Larkin and a 1998 BBC poll is the worst album ever.
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Fri, 12 December 2008  Hola,Everything is late - lateness is the order of the day If winding gyres were unwinding daydreams And learning and learning is of the most dire And the thing I could not do is just to pay attention Mere distractions make me lose the world At my best these are convictions my eventual goals aligned with these passions.
Image From: Sconeborough Congratulations to: American Progressives Condolences: Nathaniel Mayer Comments[0] |
