Liv.e
Nondi_
Deerhoof
Sightless Pit
Xylouris White
B. Cool-Aid
Schobbee
Marta and Tricky
Liturgy
Lonnie Holley
Zubin Kanga
MC Yallah
Guided by Voices
The Melvins
Shit and Shine
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Liv.e HowTheyLikeMe!
‘”You have this song called “Lake Psilocybin,” and I’m curious about your thoughts on mushrooms as a pretext to creativity and self-awareness and looking at things from a different angle.” — Oh, that shit is so clutch. Honestly, I was writing before I did ’shrooms and psychedelics and acid and shit. But once I did — I might have done acid before I did ’shrooms, which is kind of crazy.’ — Vulture
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Nondi_ Long Ago
‘Tatiana Triplin, who makes music under the name Nondi_, reimagines footwork, a frenetic and fast-paced subgenre of electronic music that has spread far and wide from the dance halls of Chicago. Flood City Trax, released earlier this month on Planet Mu, was influenced by the historic floods of Triplin’s home of Johnstown, Pa. “Sun Juke” is submerged under layers of filters, a departure from footwork’s typically clear and precise drum work. Like the photo on the album cover, the song is smudged and degraded, a mysterious artifact that unearths secrets if listened to close enough.’ — Miguel Otárola
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Deerhoof Sit Down, Let Me Tell You a Story
‘Deerhoof are at both their most whimsical and most energetically approachable on Miracle-Level, their 19th LP. Billed as the first Deerhoof album written entirely in Matsuzaki’s native Japanese, it is also the first to be recorded from start to finish in a proper studio. The album was produced by Mike Bridavsky, better known as the “dude” of the late online-celebrity cat Lil Bub, but Deerhoof’s air-quotes “studio debut” doesn’t so much smooth their scruffy charm as sharpen it up. Concentrating only on songs that could be done in one live take, with minimal overdubs but ridiculously lavish guitar textures, it’s a confident set of tiny epiphanies.’ — Marc Hogan
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Sightless Pit Calcified Glass
‘Sightless Pit is the project of duo Lee Buford (The Body) and Dylan Walker (Full of Hell). Buford and Walker are born collaborators, known for their ability to subvert musical expectations, transcend genre and plunge headlong into the unknown. Their work with the likes of Thou, Uniform, Merzbow, and Nothing, taken together with their The Body & Full of Hell albums, have established each as singular voices and masterful alchemists of heavy music. The duo shares an affection for rhythm-based beat music, disparate electronic genres, dub, as well as darkly-hued atmospheric ambience. Lockstep Bloodwar exceeds expectations by stunningly combining the noise and confrontational posturing they are both well known for with pulsing and kaleidoscopic electronic samples, drum machines, and grizzled synths.’ — Thrill Jockey
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Xylouris White Red Wine
‘Xylouris White is firmly rooted in the past and future. Playing Cretan music of original and traditional composition, the band consists of Georgios Xylouris on Cretan laouto and vocals and Jim White on drum kit. Xylouris is known and loved by Cretans and Greeks at home and abroad and has been playing professionally from age 12. Jim White is an Australian drummer known and loved throughout the world as the drummer of Dirty Three, Venom P Stinger and now Xylouris White.’ — skiddle
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B. Cool-Aid Wassup
‘Pink Siifu and producer Ahwlee named their group B. Cool Aid after brown Kool-Aid, a potion made by mixing so many flavors of the powdered beverage that the colors smear. “I was like, ‘Oh shit, that’s us,’” Siifu reflected in a Fader interview. “We mix everything together, and it’s Black too.” Brown Kool-Aid has no set recipe, but it is inevitably sweet and smooth, a standard he and Ahwlee aspire to in their fluid collages of neo-soul, rap, and jazz.’ — Stephen Kearse
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Schobbee Turkish Man Yelling Meow At An Egg
‘Schobbee is film editor and composer Rik Chaubet. Poe’s Law is an album of internet audio gargled by film editing software. The result is a torrent of in-the-red glitch, digital concrète and corrupted beats like a GIF turned necrotic. Its name comes from what Wired magazine, in 2017, dubbed the most important phenomenon on the internet. ‘Poe’s Law’ is, to paraphrase, the inability to detect online whether someone is being serious. Grasping at the difficulty in detecting nuances like sarcasm and irony in cyberspace, the idea resonates with longer running philosophical musings on the distance between intention and interpretation. The distortions in communication.’ — Daryl Worthington
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Marta Złakowska/ Tricky When It’s Going Wrong
‘When It’s Going Wrong does a lot with very little. The nine-track album lasts barely over 19 minutes—a downright astonishing runtime, given how developed and complete it sounds. Tricky’s arrangements, inventive and fast-shifting as ever, account for part of this, but the credit also lies in Marta’s gift for beckoning you into the mood.’ — Katherine St. Asaph
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Liturgy 93696
‘For over a decade, Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix has cloaked her shapeshifting metal band Liturgy in a dense matrix of symbology. Diving into her Substack and YouTube channel, where she connects dots between Marxist thought, the Upanishads, Thomas Aquinas, and Aleister Crowley, can be as enlightening as it is mystifying. For all of Hunt-Hendrix’s theorizing, though, the music has always been thrillingly physical. It’s one thing to read about her concept of the “burst beat” and how her rapid-fire rhythms are intended to induce a state of awakening and transformation. It’s another thing to simply feel it.’ — Sam Goldner
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Lonnie Holley Kindness Will Follow Your Tears
‘Holley is a self-taught visual artist who specializes in vast, sprawling sculptures and found-object assemblage—work that he fashions from discarded materials such as animal bones and abandoned shoes and pieces of steel and which has made its way to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Throughout Oh Me Oh My, he applies a similar approach to music, creating unorthodox and moving songs out of the trauma and raw life materials that others would rather forget or discard.’ — Zach Schonfeld
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Zubin Kanga Car-Pig
‘The album is the result of the four-year research project Cyborg Soloists, funded by the UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship at London’s Royal Holloway University and commissioned from a number of composers working with bleeding-edge digital instruments. In a sense, it’s a showcase of all the ways in which contemporary technology can exist in a symbiotic relationship with art, from physical interfaces like MiMU sensor gloves to, yes, AI-generated sound sequences. On the opening ‘Car-Pig’, composed by Alex Paxton, we hear a deranged symphony of cartoon effects packed into sampler keyboards – from alien oinks to wheezy concertina yowls – excite themselves into a hyperspeed, pitch-shifted jazz soundtrack to a Tom and Jerry chase.’ — Antonio Poscic
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MC Yallah Yallah Beibe
‘Born Yallah Gaudencia Mbidde in Kenya and raised in Uganda, MC Yallah has been involved in East Africa’s rap scene since 1999. Alternating rhymes in Luganda, Luo, Kiswahili and English, her conscious, poetic and experimental style was slow to creep into Uganda’s mainstream. Following a brief but necessary hiatus, she returned to the stage in 2018 with a new lease of life accepting her role as a central component of the Nyege Nyege/Hakuna Kulala family. The finished album is an international patchwork of futuristic cyber-rap experiments fastened together by Yallah’s unforgettable personality and elastic flow.’ — Movinapes Productions
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Guided By Voices Face Eraser
‘Pollard may release a lot of music, but his commitment to simultaneously (and sometimes indulgently) navigating many separate corners of his own signature sound leads us to assume that he is never done searching for what sound or album or song might, actually and substantially, define his music. The questions that are often asked of long-tenured “legacy” artists are a) whether a new release holds up to releases from years past and b) what target market the artist is looking to strike–old fans or new? Of course these new Guided By Voices albums are roughly as good as those released twenty years ago, but answering the second question is not as easy. Is Pollard looking for new Guided By Voices fans in 2023, or is he continuing to move at this pace in order to regain access to the Guided By Voices fan within himself? Forty years in, Robert Pollard the musician has nothing left to attempt, nothing left to really try for the first time. As he clearly sees it, though, he has plenty left to perfect.’ — Jack Peterson
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The Melvins Grinding Process 2023
‘The Melvins have their 40th anniversary this year & we’ve got quite a few projects in the pipeline to celebrate & the first one is ready to go. So here’s the deal. 1 Album with 2 versions of the same songs. One half of it is the tracks from the sessions recorded in 1986 for the Melvins first 7″ EP record. The other half is those same songs re-recorded in 2023, this time with Steven McDonald on bass.’ — Shoxop
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Shit & Shine Annoyed
‘Kicking off New Confusion in over caffeinated style ‘Annoyed’ is an unstoppable roller, a satisfyingly relentless wave of blown out bass, carrying all before it and powersliding straight into your ‘best of’ playlist. Sketchy but reliable contractors, Shit & Shine have pulled off several versions of this trick before of course, and that’s why you love them, but ‘Annoyed’ is a particularly overwhelming new shake up of the familiar ingredients. Deep below its surface sickly detuned drones and hair metal guitar fight over the last of the damp drugs.’ — Jared Dix
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p.s. Hey. ** Dominik, Hi!!! I thought I had made an earlier picnic basket post. I wonder where it went. If I manage to hit the city at all when I’m in Vienna, I’ll pass along discoveries. ‘So bad it’s good’, yeah, I can see that thinking back. I’m not remembering the twins. Wait, the two guys who keep propping up the dead guy? I know bananas are popular, but I still think they’re underrated as a taste sensation, especially when incorporated into something. Banana bread, for instance. Love making my left earphone work properly so I don’t have to pinch it with my fingers to get sound out of it when I’m listening to something, G. ** A, Hi, I wrote to you this morning. Sorry for the ill effects of my being swamped. I do know The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black and Kembra Pfahler, or I mean I know the work, not her personally at all. I like the work, duh. She’s in Paris. Weird. ** Jack Skelley, Steal away! I’m going to steal your title call my next novel ‘Kear of Fathy Acker’. Hopefully no one will notice. ** David Ehrenstein, The production design on that ‘Picnic’ clip is cool. ** Misanthrope, Agreed. I think maybe I like them because they’re like the experimental fiction of place setting or something. It’s nice that someone so high up in the agency smokes. Tennis is back? Wait, tennis never leaves, does it? Blasting music can kill malaises. Music you like a lot, obviously. I blasted that Guided by Voices song up there about seven times in a row yesterday, and I felt like Godzilla. ** _Black_Acrylic, I was going to say I’ve never eaten a teacake, but actually I have, they just don’t call them that in the US. I can’t remember what they call them. ‘A unique brand of puke football’! What in the world does that even mean? It almost sounds kind of exciting? ** CAUTIVOS, Hi, buddy! Huh, I admittedly have a primitive browser, but I couldn’t figure out what you were linking me to? A black t-shirt? Thank you in any case! ** Philip Hopbell, Hi, Philip. Oh, lucky you. I wonder if the French don’t do picnics as a rule. I live right next to the Tuileries, and I’ve never seen a single person/couple/family sprawled out or huddled around a picnic outlay. Ibiza, nice. Do you know the Sparks song ‘The Rhythm Thief‘ aka ‘Lights out, I-bi-tha’? It’s always the first thing I think of when people reference that place. Have fun. ** T, Howdy, T! How’s Paris been treating you? I heard there was a lot of garbage everywhere smelling up the place for a while. I’m honestly sorry I missed that. The film was great, intense, exhausting. Problems up top vis-à-vis money, no surprise, and organisational crap, but it was a dream. I can tell you whatever you want to know about it when I see you. Iow, yes, let’s hang! Except for a short trip over to Vienna early next week, I’m around. The Paris/Pinault screening has been delayed until next year, happily for us. If we can manage to get a solid cut by October, we’re going to take to LA and show it to the cast and crew, and do Halloween while we’re there. When’s good to meet up? Give me a shout, and let’s plan it. Love back to you from me. ** Bill, Right, ‘Basket Case’. It should have been so much better. ‘The Detweiler Boy’, no, I haven’t read it. It’s now on my list. Or the new Kelly Link. Ditto, but at the top of my list. ** politekid, Hey, Oscar. That does sound exciting: Mike Nelson. I’m going to do a big hunt for him/his today. Oh, wait, I just watched the clip you shared, and I do know his stuff, but not in person. His stuff has been a post or two here. Huh. I’d love to see that show pretty badly. ‘Tudor Liveliness’ is a really good title. And it sounds pretty fascinating. Huh. Maybe I’ll score it. Congrats to her. She sounds pretty interesting. Do you guys click personally? Thanks, and all sorts of resonances to you. I’m going to see this interesting art writer guy Yves-Alain Bois do an event on Friday. Might be curious. ** Steve Erickson, One has to believe your doctor knows best. Sounds sensible. I like the shift in your film’s concept. I started listening to your new album yesterday and really like it so far. Kudos. ** Nick., Hey! I’m sure we’ll show the film in NYC. Ideally I’ll get over there even before as I haven’t been in NYC for forever, and it would great to meet up! The basement scene sounds lovely. And the new (?) boy and the related chilled passion. You do sound really good. Really happy to hear it. Yep! ** Cody Goodnight, Hi, Cody. I’m good. It’s weird because I really love the idea of a picnic, but every memory I have of having been at one revolves mostly around shooing insects away from the food. I love early Disney films too. And I adore the theme parks obviously. Or most of them. ‘Pinocchio’ is my favorite Disney film and I think one of my all-time favorite films period even. Your tomorrow, or, wait, today sounds so rich. I need to start watching things again. I’ve been too busy just outputting for too long. Have a superb one. ** Kyle, Hi, Kyle. Yes, my apologies for being so slow. The film thing has been really all-consuming. But thank you for the nudge, I’ll do everything in my power to watch your film this week and let you know. After the big and ongoing money hassles around making ‘RT’, I am really wanting to go micro-budget next time. I’m kind of with you about ‘House of Leaves’. I love the idea/concept, but I wasn’t so into the follow through. His writing kind of irritates me and doesn’t really ever go … I don’t know … deep or poetic or something enough to become seductive for me. I don’t know, but, yeah, I think I’m with you. ** Okay. I made you a gig of some musical odds and ends I was listening to when (not) working on the film, and I thought I’d do a share. See if anything strikes you. See you tomorrow.
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Hi Dennis great post
https://www.latostadora.com/design-tool/?image=5c50e653-862e-4208-92a6-5b9539d4156a
Hi Dennis, I always enjoy seeing what’s going through your head musically. oh and Jonathan Mayhew and I have been working on an interview about my book and maybe some extras for when it comes out if you are still interested for here?
The beauty of Leif Erickson circa 1977 represents the apex of human evolution, and KID VENGEANCE is the purest distillation of instinct, the primary drive of the species, except for the end where he spares the life of the Mexican boy when philosophical revolt against angels and their like demanded a cold and brutal execution.
Dennis, What’s with the Leif Garrett tease and then no Leif song?! Eek.
I think I told you this a long time ago, but my brother and I had the 45 of Leif’s “I Was Made for Dancing” back in the day and would play it over and over and over. We loved that song. That was 1978, so I would’ve been 7 and he would been 5 going on 6.
And the crazy thing about that higher-up who smokes is that he’ll smoke two to my one on a break. Something I picked up yesterday. And it’s not like he’s out there longer.
Weird, though, to see some guy stretch and go, “Eh, I gotta get back and budget two billion dollars. See ya later.”
Nice, the GbV playing. I need to do that too. I’m a listen to it now. I’ll probably find something else too.
Haha, tennis never goes away. And like I told you before, lots of good young players these days who can be fun to watch. Roland Garros is coming up at the end of May. You should try and get tickets for a day. I think you’d enjoy it.
I’m liking Nondi_’s smudged and degraded take on footwork here. Her label Planet Mu always seems worth keeping an eye on.
Waking up at 5am I’ve been listening to a bunch of Techno mixes from SoundCloud at a low volume. Hard-as-nails 90s stuff from the Orbit in Leeds or newer sets from Berghain have soundtracked my mornings of late. Speaking of Techno, the new LP from Surgeon – Crash Recoil may well be my latest vinyl purchase.
Earlier today Big Sam was announced as the new Leeds United manager. The “puke football” that he is said to be a specialist in, it just means that his teams will usually punt the ball upfield to the big man. I’d like to think most Leeds fans have more sophisticated tastes but hey, needs must I guess?
Hi!!
Yeah, yeah. The Twins are the two guys who keep propping up the dead guy, haha. They charmed me deeply, but I remember we also talked about how different our approaches to watching films are – I’m very character driven. And there’s just something in two complete sociopaths who only love each other, haha.
Banana bread, yes! And chocolate with banana filling. Though I’m not so sure it’s got too much to do with the actual fruit. My dog’s favorite food is bananas. She loves it more than any meat or treat or whatever.
Ugh. I hope love helped you out. Malfunctioning earphones are a pain. Love giving you the ability to turn someone’s head into a dandelion and blow on it, Od.
Ok Dennis, what I steal is fair for you to re-steal. I forgot to mention the pink donuts are gobbled by pink My Little Ponies. Re: Melvins: I like this incarnation of them which includes Steven McDonald of Redd Kross.
Morning DC. I saw your email. Thanks for fulfilling your promise of getting back. Are you more of a tea or coffee guy? Do you know the band The 1975’s music at all? That’s cool you are a fan of Kembra, I had a gut feeling she would vibe with you. No it’s fine about the being swamped, I understand. I feel like I haven’t seen my friends or family in years as I’ve been working on this novel and it’s not personal. It’s just so consuming, especially the designs/bleeds/review process. I feel subhuman. I get it . She’s not in Paris right now, she lives in NYC but I thought it’d be cool to connect you guys if she is ever in Paris.
What in hell is going on in France? Riots in the streets without end, Take car, Denis!
Ah, a music post…
Recently I relistened to all the Skinny Puppy albums I owned, in chronological order. Although the last album I listened to most recently was the 2 CD PURE MCCARTNEY album by Paul McCartney.
I have tried to get a few new CDs this year, including the new Depeche Mode (which I found a bit turgid), the new Ladytron (okay but not as good as the last one) and the new Miley Cyrus (very enjoyable), among others. I tried out that Boygenius group as well but wasn’t super-impressed.
Intriguing gig items today, Dennis. Wow, the Melvins are still doing their thing.
Here’s Detweiler Boy:
https://archive.org/details/rog-TomReamyThatDetweilerBoy
I’m not sure whether knowing the movie would ruin the experience. The story is from the POV of the denizens of the shabby hotel who are wondering what’s going on with the boy.
Hope Kelly Link doesn’t disappoint…
Bill
Hey Dennis! How ya been? Hope the film shoot went well. Added some of the stills you posted to my painting reference pic pile so thanks!
Glad to see Xylouris White is in your rotation. I saw them open for Godspeed You! Black Emperor a few years back–fantastic set. I think they had a third person on cello(?) too. Had a very energetic, almost violent sound going–played at dusk which lead in nice to GY!BE’s night time projector heavy show.
It’s been years since I thought about Tricky, at least in relation to his new music. Those Island albums had a magic he’s never been able to recapture. The Marta song made me think of Tirzah’s stripped-down pop/R&B with Mica Levi.
The Nondi_ song is excellent. I’ll check out her album. RP Boo’s upcoming LEGACY, VOL. 2, which compiles unreleased music from 2002-7, is a really strong look at the start of footwork. Some of it is almost as chaotic as POE’S LAW.
Speaking of music, will your new film have a score or just a selection of songs?
The Prismatic Ground experimental film festival started in New York today and runs through Sunday. It includes new films by Tsai Ming-liang, Jodie Mack, Soda Jerk and many others. They’re streaming nine shorts online here: https://thefilmstage.com/ashley-mckenzie-on-queens-of-the-qing-dynasty-asexuality-and-staying-focused-as-a-filmmaker/
For some reason, I have a massive block when it comes to actually sitting down and writing that script. I think a big part of it is that my laptop contains a near-infinite number of distractions. I’d like to go to a cafe with a notebook and start writing by hand to get around that, but I find my own handwriting almost impossible to read.
Oops, I linked my interview with Ashley McKenzie in place of the Prismatic Ground link. I swear that was a mistake. Here’s the PG one: https://www.prismaticground.com/infinity
Ah, I was listening to the Nondi_ record this very morning! I listened to something else you might like the other day, ‘One Butoh’ by Fuji-Yuki. It’s a set of butoh-inspired vocal pieces that I really enjoyed, super spookuy and atmospheric. And oh yeah, I forget you missed the wild period of strikes and riots! I have several stories, but there was one particular day in March, near where you live and I work, and basically come evening people lit massive trash fires all down the road from Madeleine to Opéra, there were squadrons of riot cops charging, and in the midst of all this some groups of very sweet, confused tourists taking pictures of it all. Although the latter disappeared somewhat when the cops started on the tear gas and grenades. My office was closed early but I stayed out til midnight or so to see what went on. Never seen Paris so beautiful! I have more stories but I should probably save them until I see you. So, I have resigned from both my jobs and consequently I am very free at the moment! That said, the one at Madeleine insisted I give them 2 months’ notice so I’m not completely free until late June. If you want to do something on a Saturday afternoon like the last time, I finish work at 3 so that could work? Otherwise, if you give me a little notice I can make time on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Sundays and any of the Mondays that are public holidays – so yeah, a lot of choice! I can drop you an email if you rather, T.
Hey Dennis,
How’s everything going? All recovered from the filming, jet lag and what-not now? Did everything go according to how you hoped?
I’ve been good. Escaped London for two weeks. I finished my PTSD therapy at the end of March, like right on the 31st. So I was like I need to take a break from here. I feel like the therapy has done what it set out to do, we ended where we had hoped to, and there was movement in the processing of the memory, and I feel in a better place in regards to Tree’s death. I’m still getting my head around the whole impact of what happened in my childhood and the abuse there and how that was all catalysed in that friendship and final trauma, but that is still an on going journey I guess.
My escape was actually to visit my mum’s place, and part of my intention was like to “talk it out” with her, but when I got there, the way things were bypassed, or how she still rushed to defend my brother other stupid things like him ‘not’ stealing the pack of cigarettes I had left when I last stayed there during his “controversial stay”, I was like “whatever, I don’t need to resolve this.” Some things just won’t ever change, and you know, I can sit with that.
But now I’m back in London, back focused on moving forward. Revitalised. All files in order. It will be the tenth anniversary of her death on Saturday, and I’m gonna take that as an ending point. I went to her grave today, and for the first time I saw it as just that, a grave. I’m sure she would be proud of what I’ve achieved.
Much love and hugs from me,
Dom
Mr. Lyne– I’m probably too late getting this in to you (will you even see it?), but I just wanted to say that your art is incredible– love love love it; esp. The Hollow Soul series, Beauty, Mannequin, and the Cycle-2 series (“Will you eat/ or admire?” and “No voice comes”… ). Amazing. Very, very pure. Have you done much current work, or really shifted to other mediums?
Well, I hope you know how incredible these works are.
Be well- K.
WHEW I’m back. Ran to the store to get some monster 4 my friend. How long was I gone? Oh gosh! three days! Hahaha sorry! That is my name Darby! I had a cat named Darby who fell from the balcony and lived but walked with a limp. Thats where I got the name from, but I think I named him after Darby Crash, because I was OBSESSED with him and still have his records like from their first performance and yuh. My friends call me Darbs, my best friend calls me darblzes and darbington.
OH so I realized that I don’t have as much friends as I thought I did but it’s cool because ive become so close to my best friend. I called them every day at the hospital, and we had some really good conversations during that time. Gonna throw an inside joke here just to confuse you.
Meaty founding fathers…
Hmm…this is so funny but my close friends and I are all weird, emo, short and trans and I think it’s funny how that itself could be clique. I hate being called emo though, no one takes u seriously.
Anyways OH the German artist is Alec Empire! God he’s amazing! like techno punk and really gritty kicks and high hats with distorted voices. Have u heard of him?
ok so I moved to like this program thing and there’s like curfews and they wont let you do drugs, and I can barely even see my fiends without some weird restrictions so its weirdly lonely even though I have roommates and other people. I was planning to like to run away but GET THIS ok ok so my mom has this conservatorship on me blah blah probably won’t let me have surgery and blah blah BUT the people here say they might be able to grant me some independence in regard to the whole transgender stuff and that’s the only reason why I’m staying.
I really, really hope that works out. Once I get that I think I might run away I feel so closed here. I want to be an artist. I know what i’ll do and how. But when you say that its like ur “crazy and delusional” to them
Do u know those two artists I mentioned? I want to hear your take on them! >:)
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god I write a lot oops. Have fun reading that.
Darbs– I’ve got a playlist alternating (songxsong) Alec Empire’s album ‘Futurist’ and Coco Rosie’s ‘The Adventuresn of Ghosthorse and Stillborn’ — surprisingly wonderful. Very good for working. Do you have a favorite AEmpire album? ‘Bass Terror’ for me, I think. He takes Aphex Twin a step toward the human voice, if-you-will; makes the machine play ‘nicer’. Be well –K.
I was gonna say, Mike Nelson is so you-ified I’d be amazed if he hadn’t crossed your path one way or another. the retrospective is only on til the 7th so even I might not be able to get to it.
haha I shall pass on the congrats to my sister. oh let me know if you do score it! I’ll see if I can do anything this end re: free/cheap copies. from what i can tell from other siblings my sister and I are very close, which means that either we get along like a house on fire or we are in an apocalyptic argument. we have a lot of shared interests & culture stuff as well, tho she is much more trad. Dickens and Wodehouse and MR James kinda vibe. I’m not going to persuade her to pick up Bataille or Acker or whoever anytime soon. I’m fairly lucky family-wise I think, well now my dad isn’t in the picture anyway. are you close with anyone in your family? it does seem, from what I’ve picked up, probably not…
(my beautiful lowercase “i”s! that’s what I get for writing this on my phone)
also a ps to Darbs who commented as I was writing this to ~big hang on in there~ and also that “weird, emo, short and trans” is, at least in the UK, deffo the current vibe. Like the queers in Leeds would 100% be your crowd.
Hi Dennis, I’m sorry I’m a day behind. Currently, my workload is insane, but thankfully summer isn’t too far. Anyway, I absolutely adored your picnic baskets! I’m not really a picnic person, but they even made me crave a nice, little picnic. I have difficulty imagining you as a picnic person either?
In your previous response to me, you said something really interesting that I’ve been thinking about, but it has left me with a burning question: How does anarchism intensify/ cause optimism? For me, it’s the opposite; I feel particularly pessimistic at my most anarchist.