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OOIOO Atatawa
‘OOIOO has always created a musical language all its own. Under the leadership of Yoshimi, also a founding member of Boredoms, the group has recorded six albums that have subverted expectations and warped perceptions of what constitutes pop and experimental music. Four years of work went into to making Gamel, their bold new album inspired by the Javanese style of gamelan and the first new music from Yoshimi in over five years. Gamelan is an ancient form that has inspired a great many composers and musicians over the past century, from Erik Satie and Claude Debussy to Mouse on Mars and Sun City Girls. The introduction of this traditional form transformed the group into a super tribe, side-stepping the road between the past and the future. Their focus is not to replicate these ancient styles, but to incorporate them into their consistently inventive, constantly shifting musical frameworks. They take their love of indigenous music into an entirely new dimension by freely weaving organic and electric tones into a vivid tapestry, employing their keen sense of color and texture.’ — Thrill Jockey
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Puce Mary The Course
‘Once in a while an artist comes along who manages to both cherish the tradition of industrial music and at the same time walk their own path, choosing their own route to truth: Experiment. With her first solo full length, released last year, Puce Mary managed to do exactly that – and now with the follow-up Persona, she proves herself to be one of the most interesting projects around today. Persona manages to balance the hyper personal universe of the artist with enough care for presentation to make it valuable for everyone to listen to, and take part in her experience. And she does that through six tracks, that each take their own place while corresponding beautifully with its neighbors. From primitive rhythmic patterns to elaborate drone pieces and pain stricken vocals. Insisting on finding new routes for the work and with a rare honesty, “Persona” holds its listener captive from start to finish.’ — Posh Isolation
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Pallbearer The Ghost I Used to Be
‘With the groundwork laid upon with Sorrow and Extinction, Foundations Of Burden essentially takes the PALLBEARER creative oeuvre to new realms that not only takes their doom metal pedigree even further, but also sees the them harness their prog and traditional heavy metal influences even more. The result being an album much more than its predecessor with the melodies and harmonies being more massive, the music more progressive and layered, the overall atmosphere and sonic weight even more earth shattering. Production and sound wise, Billy Anderson’s expertise behind the control boards has helped PALLBEARER flesh out and highlight their sound even more through massive crushing tones, attention to deteail and defined clarity while still maintaining that classic almost vintage-like production feel.’ — Profound Lore
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Tlaotlon Cassini Tubs
‘Rather than qualifying Tlaotlon as one of the innumerable acts that direct themselves toward the stimulation, sharing, and settling of emotion, its music’s sleek burbling and erratic turns of phrase lump Coubrough in that marginalized niche of soundmakers who chase after emotion’s suppression or even dissolution, who want to make its expression nigh on impossible. This is why the steady measurements of an artificial kickdrum are unceremoniously disturbed by out-of-step snares, hiccup’d synths, and irregularly phased samples, creating multiple trains of thought and affect that, in cancelling each other out, thereby prevent themselves from enjoying a concerted or continuous effect on the listener’s moodscape. And without their mutual coordination, even though this listener might momentarily recognize the shimmied, heavy clinking of a PC-generated riff as evoking maybe a futuristic wasteland or soulless HTML interface, any development or consolidation of her initial reaction is going to be quickly stifled by the arrant percussion and static-infused textural flourishes, leaving her stranded in a psychically indeterminate limbo.’ — Tiny Mix Tapes
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Tashi Dorji Throttle
‘One fascinating paradox about art is that limits can prove freeing. Narrow your parameters and you might find solutions you wouldn’t have if your choices were infinite. It’s why entire movements have been based on self-imposed restrictions: take the Oulipo group, whose Georges Perec wrote an entire novel without the letter e. … It might seem odd to compare those contrivances to the simple act of making solo instrumental guitar music. After all, the form is not exactly unusual, having been around longer than jazz ensembles or rock bands. Still, to play guitar alone is to submit to restrictions—not only in the finite number of sounds you can make, but in what little innovation is still available. So much has been done and so many legends loom large—especially, for anyone picking strings now, the two-headed monster of John Fahey and Derek Bailey—that playing something new seems nearly impossible. I’m not sure Tashi Dorji has made anything completely new yet, but the range of creative solutions he’s found while trying to avoid the well-worn paths of instrumental guitar music is thrilling.’ — Marc Masters
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Martyrdöd En Jobbigt Jävel
‘Swedish wrecking-crew Martyrdöd have done enough to separate themselves from the crust-pack over their decade-plus existence. By combining the raw intensity and hardcore punk ethos of Käng forbears Anti Cimex and Totalitär with the twin-guitar attack of classic rock and the epic Scandinavian metal of Bathory, the independence borne from this blend of influences and the overall ambition of Martyrdöd – who boast members of Agrimonia, Skitsystem, and Miasmal – has never been in dispute. With their politically-charged 2012 debut for Southern Lord, Paranoia, Martyrdöd managed to announce themselves to a larger, albeit still underground audience. The album was well received by critics and crust fans alike; its incendiary spirit and ever-increasing melodic mindfulness proved to be salacious bedfellows. As a result, there’s greater anticipation surrounding Martyrdöd’s new album, Elddop, than on any of their previous four full-length albums. And unsurprisingly, Elddop proves itself to be just as good, if not better, than its predecessor(s).’ — The Quietus
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Cannibal Movie Fame
‘This Italian duo, consisting of Donato Epiro on organ (an old Italian one, according to the band) and Gaspare Sammartano on drums, cranks out some serious music that seems improbable given the number of players. If you want to talk about something being way beyond the sum of its parts, this is it, because at any given time, thanks to some creative layering and manipulation, the organ sounds like it could be three or four instruments playing at once, piling up riffs, effects, and reverb in scattered, pulsing, propulsive collages of sound. Still, the organ would be nothing without the solid drumming behind it — simultaneously loose and locked-in, the drumwork manages to both ground the music but also add to the overall wild atmosphere of the music. Put this together, and you get some incredible sound voodoo that evokes free-form psychedelia, krautrock, jazz improv, and a little bit of Suicide for good measure.’ — Secret Decoder
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Moiré Attitude
‘Moiré’s Shelter opens with a rising clatter. The moment when the bassline and loping kick join the thrum is a neat microcosm for both the album and the producer’s name: a first pattern onto which a second seems superimposed, creating a whole in a constant state of flux. Claps and stabs on ‘Attitude’ lag, while a skeletal, gloomy bassline anchors everything deep without adding much by way of a groove. As elements flutter in and out of the mix, it becomes increasingly apparent that concern for the dance floor is peripheral to Moiré’s introspective take on club music. In that sense, it owes a small but definite debt to the nebulous dance-not-dance music of Actress et al; but where that was an obvious touch point for earlier Moiré singles, the similarities are far less pronounced on Shelter. Moiré doesn’t search for perfect beats as much as he allows them to wander in and out of his tunes, so grooves are as apt to slip away just as suddenly as they appear.’ — Fact Magazine
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Moonface City Wrecker
‘Hello everyone and anyone. I recently made some more recordings under the name Moonface, which take the form of a 5 song EP called City Wrecker, and run at around half an hour. “City Wrecker” is the title track of the EP. I wrote it before Miley Cyrus released “Wrecking Ball,” but I cannot prove it. Oh well. In describing the song (and maybe the whole EP) I would say it’s the aesthetic opposite of “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus, which is not to say that’s a good thing or a bad thing, just an apple for you to hold up beside your orange. Regardless of all that, my friend Eetu, who recorded this EP, still likes to call the song “Wrecking Ball” and to sometimes call me Miley, but that’s okay cuz we’re buddies. I lived in Finland for a couple of years, but now I live in a little town nestled in the woods of Vancouver Island. This is a recent move, and so City Wrecker represents the last album I completed in Helsinki. Maybe I will go back to that big icy lighthouse, and all the lovely weirdos within I have come to love, one day, but for now I have used it up.’ — Spencer Krug
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Foxes in Fiction Rearrange
‘Toronto-native Warren Hildebrand began his Foxes in Fiction project in 2005, during his sophomore year of high school, as an outlet for his drug-induced, experimental sound collages. In 2011, Hildebrand hunkered down in his Toronto apartment, writing and recording what would later become his second Foxes in Fiction full-length album entitled Ontario Gothic. “The running theme throughout Ontario Gothic is how I picked up the pieces of my life after the death of my younger brother Drew in 2008, but each song references specific and discreet experiences,” says Hildebrand. “Personal loss and dealing with anxiety and depressive issues that I’ve struggled with my most of my life have played into my music and the way I work for as long as I can remember. Growing up gay on a small farm in rural Ontario was part of the reason that I got into writing and making music as a young kid, and the isolation and loneliness that I went through because of that helped to shape the conditions under which I usually make my best work.”’ — First Avenue
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uncertain the cycle of tears (moon) – the high priestess
‘uncertain is a music project started by artist, composer, poet, occultist, and androgyne Florian-Ayala Fauna in the WinterSolstice of 2007 during a dark night of the soul + Florian was later joined by vocalist and percussionist Felix Keigh in SummerSolstice of 2013 after revelations + visions through scrying with an obsidian black mirror. Their work seeks to collect, arrange, dissect, create, disfigure, beautify, set fire to, seed, and manipulate delicate, fragile sounds that vary from the organic to the unearthly. Sound sources frequently found in their music include natural field recordings, the noises of animals, processed acoustic instruments, synthesized and mangled electronics, and sounds found on decaying magnetic tapes.’ — collaged
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Pharmakon @ The Print Shop (MOMA PS1)
‘Unlike other experimental projects, Pharmakon does not improvise when performing or recording. She is concise and exact; each song/movement is linear with a clear trajectory. Perhaps more than any other style of music, noise is a genre almost exclusively dominated by male performers. Spin Magazine is apt to point out that her,“perfectionism might explain why her recordings are few and far between — a rarity in a scene where noise bros are want to puke out hour after endless hour of stoned basement jams into a limitless stream of limited-edition tapes. Her music may be as cuddly as a trepanning drill, but it’s also just as precise: She glowers in measured silence as often as she shrieks, and every serrated tone cuts straight to the bone, a carefully calibrated interplay between frequency and resistance.”’ — Sacred Bones
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Mai Mai Mai εὐφρόνη
‘Instantly, the UK “hauntology” scene of Demdike Stare and others springs to mind, but there is a playfulness behind Mai Mai Mai that many a British act seem to lack. Tracks bubble with wobbly analogue synthesiser lines and drones, consistently disturbed and unsettled by bursts of gristly noise. Beats are dropped casually into tracks, deployed sparingly but with subtle rhythmic force. Delta feels alchemical, a smartly distilled collection of sounds brewed together into a heady cocktail of genre-less, arrhythmic post-everything.’ — collaged
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Collarbones Too Much
‘Collarbones are a long distance Australian electronic pop/r&b; collaborative duo, comprised of Adelaide’s Travis Cook and Sydney’s Marcus Whale, beginning in 2007. Debut album Iconography was released in March 2011 on Two Bright Lakes, who also put out the followup, Die Young in 2012. “Last night, a few more Collarbones fans from overseas made fan accounts and spammed us dozens of times until we followed them. We like to joke around about being a boy band, but it doesn’t make it any less ridiculous when it actually happens.”– Collarbones.’ — collaged
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p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Ha ha, nice. ** James, Hi, James. I’m like Jimmy Hoffa with my emails. I have read the new Levé. It’s great, of course. Short, linked works. Very, very good. If you like his writing, you’ll like it a lot, I think. It was his first book in France. And there are only those three books by him, although apparently he left some unpublished mss. along with a stated wish that they not be published, so I don’t know if they ever will be. ** Thomas Moronic, Thanks so much again for the gp! Uh, now that you mention it, there was this inexplicable phenomenological event in the air at one point yesterday, huh. So that’s what it was trying to tell me. Cool riff on those restaurants. I feel pretty confident in saying that they must be far more interesting in theory than in practice, not that I won’t swoop in given my first proximity. I think a really great faux-haunted restaurant could definitely be devised and realized, by me, given the funding, but whether anyone who would want to eat there, I don’t know. Probably not. Of course I love what you say about your novel’s surface. I mean, wow, totally, what an amazing goal. Yeah, it sounds incredible. That didn’t sound like a mess at all. My novel is very exciting and very different and quite difficult to figure out how to write in the right way, and I’m pretty confident about it, but I haven’t been able to do more than dip in and scribble a bit for a couple of months. But as as soon as the film shooting is over, it’ll get the great majority of my attention. Thanks, T! ** Keaton, Yeah, I noticed you were away. I’m sorry that it involved a wreck. I didn’t actually get to read your thing yet because yesterday ended up being involved in a couple of sudden crises, but, as soon as I go out to the Paris suburbs this morning to buy a tent for our upcoming scene, I’ll get to savor it. Big time. Welcome back, pal! ** Jared, Hi. You would really and totally think so, wouldn’t you. It’s positively bizarre that there isn’t and, I think, never has been, given LA’s status as the world leader in Halloween spooky attractions. Oh, I would very much love either a Tory Dent Day, which, no, I’ve never done, or one on Arabic calligraphy, which is a really exciting idea and thing to imagine. Yeah, would be invaluable and very helpful if doing either of those would suit you. Thanks, J! You’re ruling. ** Kier, Hi, Kier! Me too, about the not knowing what you’re eating, being a vegetarian and all. There’s an eat-in-the-dark restaurant here in Paris with blind waiters, which is a fun idea, but no way would I enter it. No, I haven’t been to many themed restaurants, for the above stated reason. Zac and I almost went to a robot themed one in Tokyo where robots serve your food and do a big robot show and stuff, but it ended up seeming too intense to do or something. Yay for the great and generous and multi-talented — my spellcheck just corrected ‘multi-talented’ into ‘mutilated’, which I think he might enjoy conceptually — Bill! Wait, and yay for the great, generous, not mutilated but multi-everything you in return! What a lovely exchange! Good about your excitement trumping your nervousness. I’m getting that way about the film shooting finally. Sucks that ‘Still Life’ sucks. I like the title. I’m anxious about the film shooting, for sure, but I’m feeling weirdly calm, and Zac’s very nervous since he’s the director and everything, so I’m trying to maintain my calm and exude it in his direction infectiously. Love from me. How was Tuesday? ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. I just googled ‘Dundee “weird restaurant”‘ but nothing came up, sadly, other than some restaurant what had ‘weird’ waiters, but not weird in an interesting way. Cool and fingers twistedly crossed about the post-work meeting with Andrew tomorrow! Or, wait, today! ** Matthew, Hi, Matthew! How really great to see you! Thanks about the thematic slide between the weekend post and yesterday’s. I guess if one finds experimental dark music horrific, and I know many around here do, ha ha, today might even qualify. Or at least the gif at the post’s head does. Hm, house horror, interesting. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of anything other than the obvious ‘House of Leaves’, which I wasn’t so into. My ‘Marbled Swarm’ has some of that, I guess. I’ll think, though. Everyone, Matthew asks for ‘some recommendations or directions on how to find some good books that experiment with house horror, like [Blake Butler’s] “There Is No Year”.’ Any ideas? Thank you! ** Turn porter, Hi. Yeah, Vilnius sounds really far away and exotic, but it’s only a couple of hours by plane from Paris. Europe is weird. Sorry about the reluctant composer but, yeah, you’ll find another. Wow, the shoot sounds like a lot of fun. You’re shooting the whole thing in three days? Yikes. We have three-day shoots for each of our scenes, and it has never been as much time as we really wanted. I will give progress updates when we start again. On Sunday, for the actual shooting. Thanks about that old dog ‘Closer’. You sound really up and excited. It’s really nice to hear, read, and feel! About half of those ‘haunted’ restaurants are still open, and, no, I haven’t been to any of them. ** Etc etc etc, Hi. That sounds nice: the wine and Seine thing. Wednesday should work. Do I have your email address? Hm, why don’t you send your phone number by email, and I’ll send you back mine and try to call you. Mine is: [email protected]. I don’t know what ‘viber’ is, but I’ll ask someone. Cool, hopefully see you right away! ** Misanthrope, Oh, man, that’s so sad about LPS’s return to hell, or, well, hopefully not hell, but, yeah, it sounds hellish. Oh, man, it sucks to be young enough to have no real power over your life. I hated that. So Lesnar is still a monster? I guess that’s cool. I never liked Cena, not one little bit, so that’s cool except for if his neck is actually fucked up in the real world. I’m sure he’s nice. ** Steevee, Hi. ** Hyemin Kim, Your description of Bernanos’s style makes it sound like something I would like. It’s really nice that you like his work. It’s so exciting to find a writer one likes enough that his or her work becomes a future path. ** Kyler, Hi, K. Really, it surprises you that I did Space Mountain? Theme park rides and roller coasters are very prominent on my menu of things I love to do. Fire Island, cool. A bunch of people in my news feed on Facebook seem to be there right now. That German guy sounds like a tasteless jerk, yeah. The period just after the excitement of the initial publication is always really confusing and rough. Always. You have to find a way to transition into feeling the ongoing, back burner pleasure that the book is alive and mysteriously having a life, reaching people you don’t know by means you don’t know, leading to reactions that you’ll never hear. I like that, but it took me a while to learn to like it. ** Rewritedept, Hey! Nice to see you, man! It’s been a while! What’s been up? Frisco, cool. And for lovely reasons on both counts. Shooting starts on Sunday, and rehearsals start on Thursday. Actually, both of those are mostly really fun. The cray cray part is the build up and getting ready part. I’m good. There isn’t a whole lot going on that isn’t film-related. But I am starting to plan an upcoming trip to Iceland with Zac. That should be amazing. I hope your trip to No. Cal. eases the semi-crazy thing a ton. ** Right. Today you get another gig of music I’ve been listening to lately and really liking. Great stuff in there if you’re game to watch and listen. See you tomorrow.
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Dennis,
I'd been waiting for the next Gig Day, because I want to recommend Ian William Craig, I recently discovered him and I think his music is beautiful.
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I think there was some other stuff I meant to recommend as well, but I'm spacing at the moment. Maybe I'll remember later.
Thanks for this day, the musicians new to me that jump out are Cannibal Movie, Mai Mai Mai, and uncertain. Gonna check all that stuff out later, I need to sleep (I actually just watched/listened to the uncertain video, it's great.) Take care man.
Hey D!
Let's see, reading Savage Detectives with the "book club", bad summer of intolerable heat here in OR causing my eczema to SUCK ASS and cause misery, 2 months of a guy remodeling the bathroom (we rent, no choice), leaving us huddled in the front of the house, invaded, bad summer. But hey, life goes forward, I keep meeting new and inspiring people, I am collaborating on many poetry projects, still at work on my Duchamp/Harry Smith novel, if work means scheming not writing, stuff stuff stuff. Highest regards. -L
oh, more—
really liking 1st song of today's gig, saw they are on Thrill Jockey or something, makes me think of my friend Emil whose project Holy Sons just landed there, and he also drums for Om and I see there are Sleep reunions. That makes me think of Emil and Duncan Trussell http://duncantrussell.com/ who is a friend of Emil's and I really enjoy his podcasts and a regular contributor is this guy Christopher Ryan who wrote a screed called Sex Before Dawn about the unnaturalness of monogamy and I've met and beat him at corn hole many times (dare you ask?) and still managed to hold down a 16 year marriage… I ramble… check out the podcast, scroll thru to see if you see a guest you know. I love Duncan's take on life, irreverently spiritual and searching and funny as hell…
love,
-L
digging this Gig day
Dennis – Thanks about my novel description – yeah, that’s the goal – “goal” is probably the best way to put it. I’ll see how it goes. Doing some more work on it today but just taking a break to coffee up again and check the blog. Cool that you’re feeling good about being able to jump back into your book confidently once the filming is finished off. It’s probably obvious for me to say that I’m super excited to see what comes of all of that, of course. Ace!
Nice gig day. I love that Pharmakon Abandon record that came out on Sacred Bones. Really strong piece of work, so cool to see her on here. Very nice to have some new stuff from dl’s-related projects like Uncertain, Foxes in Fiction and Collarbones – such a talented bunch of people come in and out of this blog. And wow – that Foxes in Fiction song is really beautiful. Thank you for bringing that into my world today, Dennis. Holy fuck … I just had a real moment listening to that song. OK, so if Warren is reading the blog today – HUGE congratulations on creating that, man. Gonna definitely grab some more of that soon. Wow.
Tashi Dorji is new to me. Definitely get the Derek Bailey comparison. This is cool. Gonna investigate further.
A few new names for me in here today, which I always think is a good thing. Cheers, Dennis!
hello dennis, i am early today. no music talk though. deadline facing and my internet is on and off. it seems to know i will quit the service very soon.
dennis, i like to learn how ashbery wrote shadow train too. it is very good. themes in poems in this particular book are something that i have been interested in with my favorite authors in literary criticism (though writing). more than that tone is so flat and language does not overwhelm me, yet savored humbly. accordingly amorous emotion of a poet fades like asleep status of mind and words. thanks again for the suggestion. its dust jacket design too is so pleasant. i think i am looking at one of finest minimal ephemeron. hope your next poetry book will have a cover like this, if you too like. perhaps no longer trend nowadays?
glad you are traveling to iceland with monsieur zac x. when are you going? hope you are planning that very well as much as you have been working so hard. though your diligence inspires me to work like a registered writer.
The Man Who Translated Proust had quite a story of his own.
Oh and Dennis. I don't think I ever mentioned this before … I ended up having a tidy/sort out at home this afternoon (I think I'd drank too much coffee and needed a break from the novel editing) and I came across a copy of TAR magazine that had your piece about Aiko Hachisuka, with the little 10 year old boy visiting the artist's studio. Such a cool piece of text!
D– just emailed ya, hopefully hear from you/see you soon!
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hi dennis, these music days are always some of my favourites on the blog. so far i really like the pallbearer song. today i've been to the psych's, my referral to the transgender clinic place in oslo is almost done! and we're getting rid of my eating disorder diagnosis! on paper i'm doing pretty well. and in reality too. after that i went to the post office, sent in 5 films for development, and the aforementioned drawing for bill. the rest of the day i've been drinking coffee, listening to 'devil between my toes' and cleaning up the apartment. the curator, eirik, is coming tomorrow morning, i pick him up at the bus stop. wish me luck. i'll tell you all about it tomorrow. that's cool that you're cool about the film. chronologically speaking, which scene are you filming tomorrow? first, last, middle? what was your day made of?
Gay dudes read "50 Shades of Grey" and try not to collapse with hysterical laughter
l@rstonovich,
I'm glad you mentioned that Duncan Trussell guy, I listened to a few interviews with Christopher Ryan recently, and had been thinking "what's the name of that guy they mentioned, who has CR on his show regularly?" Couldn't exactly remember, but it was indeed Trussell.
I'll give a listen to his podcast later, starting with the interviews with CR. I also noticed the interview with Emil there, which I'll give a listen to as well. I like his music. Particularly Lilacs & Champagne.
Anyway, I'd been thinking about Chris Ryan's theories recently. I'm not sure exactly where I stand. There's definitely a 'trying to fit a square peg into a round hole' feel to the institution of monogamous marriage, IMO.
People (not everyone, but many) like to fuck around, so may as well admit it and be open about it.
I don't know if it would turn into some kind of bonobo free love society if they did, though. Not for everyone, anyway. Maybe if you're a comedian and/or in a band, haha. That might be why those types are attracted to his work. It's kind of already that way for them.
I'm not seeing much of that bonobo action myself, and doubt I would even if people in general loosened up about sex and admitted their polyamorous nature (that might have something to do with my 'unique personality'). So I have no vested interest in that coming about (besides maybe that the people around me might be more relaxed). I also have no vested interest in the institution of marriage continuing, as I don't want to get married and have children.
Thus, as far as I'm concerned, it could go either way, and not particularly affect my personal (non) sex life. Thus, I remain intrigued but somewhat skeptical regarding our commonality with bonobos (I see a lot of chimp in us, as well).
I should maybe learn how to play guitar, though. 😉
P.S. I'm not going to ask about the corn hole thing.
RE: Fifty Shades of Grey, a local comedian I like named Andrew Orvedahl has a pretty funny bit about it. I don't know how to do that thing where you link to a youtube video and it goes right to a certain part, but it starts around 12:50 here.
(Coincidentally, I'm pretty sure I saw him endorse 'Sex at Dawn' somewhere.)
I like the Pallbearer album. They're the only gig attendees I've heard. I've been meaning to check out the new ooloo album, but Other Music is selling it for $18.99. I guess I should see how much it costs on iTunes. Puce Mary is a great band name.
Hi Jeffery Coleman … Yeah, I'm all about people fucking around, I don't get why they'd get married tho. If I was forced to get married I'd have a mistress too. But I wasn't, I chose it. Monogomy isn't natural from a human wiring standpoint indeed. Works for me tho. Chris is a nice fellow to drink beers with. Never read his book.
Awesome post! I've seen Puce Mary and Pharmakon live.. Noise chicks are cool. I was drugged by one. I bought Puce's new record and have a random cassette of hers with a penis on the cover.. She was yelling at my face during the show at one point and someone took a picture, it ended up on a newspaper lol.. I also pre-ordered the upcoming Pharmakon.. The last album was good and meh so I'm curious how this will turn out. I think she's more powerful in a live performance. And of course Pallbearer is gr8.
Dennis, I finished my loose thread in the matter of a day. So far it's my fav thing I've read by you.. As dark as it was I thought it was also kind of funny – just how confused Larry was all the time (always saying "I don't know) and the part in 60 to 61 is my favorite part; always conflicted that he has to kill someone or himself or both at some time or at least punch someone and prove he's not gay when it's obvious everyone is gay as fuck lol. The kid that got killed in the beginning reminds me of myself. Kind of imagined myself dying..
I'm sober ATM but I am really trying hard not to fall. Just moved and stuff, no friends or job.. Things are extremely stressful right now with money too. Going to just spend my time reading more and writing more.. I can't believe I wasn't reading your stuff any earlier on in my life, because I always thought, "Where's the gay transgressive writer that breaks boundaries?" And there he is.. !! <3 I love you.
I'm very much into a fair few of today's acts, all of whom are new discoveries for me, and Tlaotlon and Cannibal Movie in particular.
The good news is that ART101 has seen more updates thanks to Andrew's editing mastery. The first episode is now almost complete, and he'll maybe make a start on the second this week too. After a long time of delays and frustration, I'm happy to report some solid progress.
Hey Dennis – Nice gig day. Love OOIOO and their new one. I've been meaning to check out Pharmakon and a number of these other acts. This will soundtrack my freelance work tomorrow.
Recently been listening to lots of Popol Vuh, the new Shabazz Palaces, the new Eno (surprisingly excellent), and Marissa Nadler who I never cared for previously but something clicked with her latest. Not so sure about the new Spoon, though it certainly ain't bad.
Hope things go well with the film work. Are things feeling any more settled?
I have an idea for a guest post I'll see if I can put together sometime soonish.
Dennis, Lesnar is a monster heel! Yeah, he's big and bad again. I guess you know he went to UFC -real MMA fighting- and was heavyweight champion of the world. (Seems he also made the Minnesota Vikings football team too, but he quit because they wanted him to do a year in NFL Europe first and he didn't want to travel.) Well, he got sick -it's still up in the air as to what it was, just diverticulitis, or worse, swine flu- reduced in size and got beat twice in the UFC. He came back to WWE as mean as ever but not quite the guy he once was after the illness. Well, now he's back to full-on badass, bigger, leaner, meaner, just fucking scary. And people are loving it.
Paul Heyman's still his manager, and I tell you, that guy is something else. People pay rapt attention when he's ranting on and on with his crazy shit. Great salesman, that guy.
Seems Cena is okay. I've never liked the Cena character. Bernard Welt saw an interview with him and was quite impressed. He's nobody's dummy. And yeah, he's supposed to be a really good guy. He gets the most Make-a-Wish requests every year and he fulfills the most too.
I often wonder if he doesn't think his character's getting stale like everybody else thinks.
We'll have to depend on LPS's little kids' resilience. I think he'll be all right, he just has to make it through. He does know that if shit ever really hit the fan, I'd be there in a hearbeat and steal him away. It's just that his mother's so full of shit. I can only imagine what 24/7 of that shit is like. I'd probably punch her in the face.
Dennis, great gig. We're kind of on the same page here, man. Been listening to ooioo, Pharmakon and Foxes in Fiction recently. Totally agree with Thomas, the FIF song is a beautiful thing. The uncertain and Collarbones tracks sound great as always, the rest I'm listening to as I type this. Puce Mary is so amazing, wow.
So, any new developments since we last spoke? And I also want to second something Damien Ark said up there about MLT, that is quite possibly my favourite of your novels. It really is a thing of beauty and is one of the most emotionally affecting novels I have ever read. I felt like I knew those boys. You've said in the past that you don't see your characters as people, rather constructs, but that just attests to your gifts as a writer, because they seem as real as anyone I have known.
Anyway, that's the love-in finished, I'll get back to Cannibal Movie, good day to you, sir!
It hit me right after I left the comment, duh, The Marbled Swarm! That part, and this is me prying it out of my bad memory, where you put holes in the reader's walls and instruct us to get our asses indoors if we're outside, which I was, that total momentary mess of the intradiegetic and extradiegetic like a hand could be coming out of the text/wall any minute, well damn. That was great. I'll do some of my own scavenging on the topic and report back with any good finds. Later!
Hey D, back from a beautiful day. Of course I know you love the parks, just didn't realize that you still do the rides. Your comments are always helpful to me, more than you know. Thanks a lot, always appreciate them. BTW, really looking forward to seeing your film when it's out. I'm sure you'll tell us.
Oh, Dennis, have you seen this??
http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9465-the-top-100-albums-of-2010-2014/5/
I haven't been listening to all that much music as of recent. Probably because I've been spending a lot of my free time working on a new album. I find working on music much less stressful than writing, for whatever reason. Mainly because I don't have to worry about things like writing, editing, publishing, and whatnot. Just record it, slap it on my netlabel, then do another one a few months later when the urge hits me.
Nice batch of gigs today, Dennis. Wow, 00100 sounds like what deranged young Asian women came up with after listening to too much gamelan.
I tend to prefer my meals in more conventional settings, but I have to say I'd totally go eat at the first restaurant in Belgium. Wonder if they had a good beer selection, hmm.
Kier, sounds like you've been keeping busy! What are these films you sent in for development?
Bill, mutilated, yes
p.s.: I'm working on the blog post, Dennis. Sorry, things have been crazy around here…
Bill
dennis glad there are so much post contributors — are you still in touch with starry who made beautiful model days? i miss her posts
misa, i'm sure LPS knowing that you're there if things get too bad means the world.
bill, the films are all from northern norway! hopefully there's something nice in there.