‘Noise is resistance, or at least it causes resistance, so can never be the mainstream. We should not have the idea that noise is subjective – it is something that happens to the individual, but it is not solely driven by that, however directly painful the moment might be when you encounter a concert that is too loud, or the relentless thrum of TV-derived hit songs. It’s more interesting than that: if that’s your reaction, you are noise, you are the bit that doesn’t fit.
‘But noise is a judgment, a social one, based on unacceptability, the breaking of norms and a fear of violence. So what do we seek if we are drawn to noise music? How and why would anyone want to be assaulted by it?
‘There is something ecstatic about extreme volume that undoes controlled listening, and creates a moment where you are just hearing, and not just through your ears. That moment is a moment of noise music – ideally a long moment with no obvious end or markers in it, like the assault of My Bloody Valentine’s You Made Me Realise, where their music was stripped of all instrumentation until the effects played themselves. Disturbance, disruption, distortion, these all make up noise music. But if all you’re doing is combining these elements, you will have a simulation of noise music, a generic version.
‘What I like noise music to have is a deeper sense of being overdriven, of being near to collapse, of courting failure, or using failure of machinery pushed too far (this includes human machinery).
‘At its strangest it should create a sense of liberation from thought, from trying to find structure, it should be made of material that just shouldn’t be there (“there” being in a concert, on a recording, or anywhere at all if you’re really lucky). But this is not an easy liberation. Instead of the ecstasy of the repetitions and crescendos of dance music, this is the joy of loss through the inflicting of sound (is this the time to say that noise music can be quiet, full of the threat and promise of silence, of sensory deprivation?).’ — Paul Hegarty
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Portal Kilter
‘Parsing Portal’s Vexovoid should take you the better part of this calendar year. Initially forceful and ultimately complex, Vexovoid redirects the image of death metal through a dervish funhouse, where the expected shapes have been mutated and multiplied into orders so strange they seem surreal. Rhythms stay the course where you expect them to shift before finally switching without warning. Sharp-barbed riffs emerge from and climb above dins that once seemed irreparably unordered. Songs that, for the first minute, appeared to have but one aim and direction find a half-dozen new missions and vectors in a five-minute span. Hearing it all go by– the forms flux, the pieces connect, the momentum volley– provides an exhilarating, bewildering sort of audio whiplash. Vexovoid is a gauntlet that, to run again and again, is every bit as exhilarating as it is exhausting.’ — Grayson Currin, Pitchfork
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Tsembla In B (excerpt, live)
‘Tsembla– Finland-based artist Marja Johansson– creates and inhabits melodic landscapes that are as decieving as they are addictive. Like fellow Finnish outré-experimental musician, Jan Anderzen– the brain behind projects Tomutonttu and Kemialliset Ystävät– Johansson creates recordings that feel equal parts childish, psychedelic, and tribal. Her craft may sound like alien transmissions sent from the past, but her style is inherently home-grown and of this world. On “Aivojen Pimeydessä,” Johansson weaves strangely melodic rhythms on top of each other before introducing pulsing, spaced-out bass hits. It’s not until halfway through, however, that Johansson restrains individual layers to show the true complexity of an effortless-seeming sound.’ — The Wire
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Fuck Buttons Brainfreeze
‘Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power have always been masters at dynamics and building momentum, only now they seem to have found a way to augment their strengths without having it derail the song. Unlike the constant building (which might be more accurately described as throbbing) that made much of “Street Horrsing” and “Tarot Sport,” on Slow Focus the songs actually build towards something. The band removes drums and synth parts for sections at a time, which gives the songs a feeling of pace they never had (and in my opinion always seemed to lack) before. “Brainfreeze” is the perfect example of this. It also is a track that tries to sonically recreate the feeling of an actual brain freeze, which is a pretty sweet thing to do.’ — Bitcandy
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Toshimaru Nakamura nimb #37
‘Toshimaru Nakamura began his career playing rock and roll guitar, but gradually explored other types of music, even abandoning guitar and started working on circuit bending. He uses a mixing console as a live, interactive musical instrument: “Nakamura plays the ‘no-input mixing board’, connecting the input of the board to the output, then manipulating the resultant audio feedback.”Nakamura’s music has been described as “sounds ranging from piercing high tones and shimmering whistles to galumphing, crackle-spattered bass patterns.”‘ — collaged
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Vår Pictures of Today / Victorial
‘Vår is the project of four best friends from Copenhagen. Each member of the band is involved in several other Danish bands and all four members are also accomplished visual artists. What began as the extremely lo-fi two-piece of Elias Rønnenfelt and Loke Rahbek recording on 4-track has evolved into an experimental noise/industrial/techno pop quartet. On this album Vår utilize everything from acoustic guitar, power electronics, bass, trumpet, multi-tracked vocals, and various percussive instruments, to broken glass & sheet metal samples. No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers is a remarkable debut, an emotional roller coaster of sorts which at times is profoundly uplifting, at times decidedly morose but remains unfailingly moving throughout.’ — Sacred Bones
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Bill Orcutt & Chris Corsano live @ Industry Lab
‘You know Bill Orcutt from dozens of releases with now-defunct Miami noise legends Harry Pussy (including the recent One Plus One 2xLP comp on his own Palilalia Records, and the reissue of Let’s Build a Pussy via Editions Mego) or from his skull-obliterating solo acoustic guitar work. If you’ve seen him live, I bet you know him as one of the most memorable guitarists you’ve encountered. You know Chris Corsano from dozens of releases with collaborators in the avant/free-jazz/improvised music scenes, as one third of Rangda, or as improviser-in-residence at Hopscotch 2012. If you’ve seen him live, I bet you know him as one of the most memorable drummers you’ve encountered. Together, nothing is softened: strikes of the E-string correspond with cymbal crashes; both players reach the end of a winding phrase and stop on a dime before swinging into a new barrage; shouts rise up into the room mic; a guitar is picked with such speed and savagery that it seems to both diverge into too many discrete voices and spiral into itself as if it could chew into the vinyl (the MP3 will probably be fine); a snare drum is struck hard enough, you think, to split it. This is the sound of two minds and four hands striking in every direction and covering the mix in treble shrapnel.’ — Tiny Mix Tapes
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Egyptian Sports Network Necropolis Highlights
‘Egyptian Sports Network is the new collaborative project between Matt ‘Ducktails’ Mondanile and Spencer Clark, also known as one half of The Skaters (with James Ferraro), one half of Inner Tubes (with ex-Emeralds member Mark McGuire) and label boss of Pacific City Sound Visions. Taken from their debut five-track suite called ‘Interstitial Luxor’ for Mondanile’s New Images label, the track is written by Mondanile and Clark and beautifully executed by Mark McGuire. It’s as fresh as you’d imagine and expect, combining weird and wonderful textures in a thick vein of metallic, futuristic abstraction and undulating riffs.’ — collaged
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Laundry Room Squelchers live @ International Noise Conference, Miami
‘Laundry Room Squelchers is one of the most unpredictable outfits in all of noise’s underbelly. A founding member of the despicable To Live and Shave in LA, Mr. Rat Bastard (Frank Falestra to Mom) has been cracking heads, bursting eardrums, and causing structural damage in shitty clubs for decades, most recently with his sprawling International Noise Conference, which touts: “No droning, no mixing boards, no laptops.” I had the opportunity to see the Squelchers at last year’s No Future Fest in Chapel Hill, NC, where a burly man with black-rimmed glasses and beanie (Rat Bastard) hurled his static-spewing amplifier into the faces and chests of audience members.’ — Washington City Paper
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μ-Ziq Pulsar
‘Mike Paradinas, the man behind µ-Ziq and peerless electronic label Planet Mu, has been a central figure in progressive and inventive electronic music for over 20 years. His work both as a label boss and as an artist has been very much founded on the principles of exploring sound and all the possibilities it possesses. Just as important as the sound itself is its relationship with the body and the mind. This relationship is at the forefront of all his work and Chewed Corners, the first µ-Ziq album for six years, is an album that is the product of all those years of exploration. he music collected here flows and glides. It sounds like the work of a man who understands perfectly the music he wants to make and the feelings he wants to convey.’ — music OMH
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Unicorn Hard-On live @ Raw Meet 10
‘Valerie Martino’s Unicorn Hard-On project has been a long running staple in the American underground since it’s inception in 2003. Through her own Tangled Hares imprint, as well as many others, she’s built a strong, constantly evolving catalog of singular works that serves to many as a prototype of the current beat-oriented phenomena currently sweeping the nation. Martino’s vision, however, remains unphased and flourishes accordingly to her own unique vision; standing outside of any trends and remaining loyal to the Unicorn Hard-On sound.’ — Spectrum Spools
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Interplanetary Prophets Zero Hour
‘The American producers Ital and Hieroglyphic Being, both known for their idiosyncratic and experimental approaches to house and techno, first teamed up for a performance at Unsound in Krakow last year under the Interplanetary Prophets moniker. The duo reconvened in the studio earlier this year, and this EP, Zero Hour, is the fruit of that session. They’ve boiled it down into three tracks, and from the sound of it, they’re covering a lot of stylistic ground. Expect everything from electronic post-punk textures a la Ike Yard to what the press materials describe as “deep space voyaging.”‘ — Resident Advisor
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Eric Copeland Masterbater
‘While the sonic crush of Brooklyn noise trio Black Dice consistently aims for the gloomiest part of the brain, its principal vocalist, Eric Copeland, aimed for the body in his 2012 solo effort, Limbo. Made up of plundered VHS tape breaks stitched together by an amateur seamstress, it was rough around the edges, and the songs lurched in their color and arrangement. Limbo was unquestionably tied to dance-floor rhythms in a way only foreshadowed by the kick-drum pipe bombs on Black Dice’s Mr. Impossible. Copeland’s first solo effort for DFA, Joke In The Hole, largely carries on that tradition: whimsical beat-driven cuts, indebted more to Copeland’s ADD crate-digging than to the noise conventions that populate both his Black Dice material and his earliest solo work.’ — A.V. Club
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Moonface Marimbas and Shit-drums
‘For those familiar with Spencer Krug, you know the drill when one of his many projects emerges with some new music. Acquire it, listen to it, and, in most cases, love it. For the newcomers… where have you been? Over the last decade, Krug has proven to be one of indie rock’s more intriguing contributors. The guy doesn’t sleep much, what with being a key member of every band you like (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Swan Lake, Frog Eyes, etc.). However, when he does take a few minutes to lay down, he dreams of riding around on leopards, exploring confetti-filled wastelands, getting lost in folds of dresses, and slaying dragons. But he’s always dreaming up something new. This time around, either somebody slipped something strong into his cactus juice, or he dozed off to a Discovery Channel special on Zimbabwean rituals. Who knows, maybe it was a combination of both. Either way, with the newest manifestation of the Krug Empire, a little project called Moonface, shit just got a little tribal.’ — Consequence of Sound
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p.s. Hey. ** Bill, Hi, B. First! Yeah, I’m not so into his non-fireworks pieces. He can get kind of precious or overdetermined or something when he works with solids maybe. How’s the hacking going as of whatever time you see this? ** Allesfliesst, Hi, Kai. That cover’s not so ideal, yeah. But those black fireworks pieces are such great eye-quicksand that it works anyway. My interest? Sure, the ephemeral sculptural aspect totally gets to me. And I’m a sucker for fireworks in a wide-eyed kid sort of way. And it’s pretty cool to watch fireworks and not spend most of the time thinking how unadventurous the practitioner is being, to be given such a new image that it stalls the imagination or something. So, I like his explosions the way I like the words and sentences in experimental fiction, and I like his stuff the way I love an innovative roller coaster. The black fireworks are the best, yeah, the real monsters. And the Xmas tree one made my head spin. ** Wolf, Hi. You made the blog’s very slow loading process exciting. It makes me wish I could control the speed with which the posts load in every browser. I could maybe work wonders with that or try to. Wow, nice meditation on his jumper. See, there you go. At my end of things, the post loads so fast I don’t have the time to notice things like that. No, I didn’t know that about the Shiva figure at the entrance of CERN. I’m going to CERN next year. I booked a private tour as a b’day present for my friend Zac. Did you know you can do that? You can, but it’s booked up in massive advance. Both Guo-Qing and Fujiko are doing pieces in this year’s Nuit Blanche. They’re happening way far apart (Fujiko on Republique, and G-Q over the Seine nearish the Eiffel Tower), but maybe there’ll be a very strong breeze that’ll make them touch or something. I knew you weren’t dissing them. I just meant that they both use wit in their work kind of architecturally, so the wit in the interview had this nice instructive quality. Or scary and pretty cool at the same time. That’s totally the best, no? ** David Ehrenstein, Thanks, D! ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh. As I was just telling Wolf, he’s doing a piece in Nuit Blanche this year, so I’m very exciting to see his stuff in person. Word is that he’s figured out a way to spell words with fireworks and that the NB piece might be his first attempt to do that. I love fireworks, yeah. When I’m in LA for the 4th, I usually go up to Griffith Observatory where you can watch all the fireworks displays going off around the city simultaneously. I recommend doing that. ** Steevee, Hi. Obviously, I hope the blood test will end with a simple explanation and mild treatment if any. ** Heliotrope, Hi, Mark! My pleasure, buddy boy. That’s weird that people think of the Dodgers as winners. Maybe thirty years ago. They’re the collapsers to me. Like fucking clockwork. Wow, you’ve made me schedule a re-listening of ‘Electric Music For The Mind And Body’. It’s been decades, I think. All I can remember is that crazy drifting organ sound. Interesting. Why are the Hitchcock fan group people nonplussed by his new one? What isn’t there for them? Can you say? I don’t miss those never ending LA summers, that’s for sure. Paris summers always end about three weeks too early, yum. I felt the more maxi-personal touch. How did you do that? How can I respond to both of you in kind? I’ll think of something. Love upon love, me. ** œ, Hi. I got here late and missed the previous comment’s explosion. I just saw the dull gray, cinder-like standard Blogger sentence announcing that said explosion had taken place at some point. I like the black ones the best. They freak me out very pleasantly. Ashbery rules. His humor is incredible if you end up entering it, but the work works whether or not. I won’t do a Lady Gaga Day, I assure you. If someone else here does, it’ll likely happen. I think in the whole history of this blog, I’ve only rejected one guest-post, and that was eight years ago now or something. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, B. Yes, I caught the selling price. Crazy yet understandable. Awesome about your djing tonight, and the Crawl sounds like a lot of fun and even more than fun maybe. ** Alan, Hi, Alan! I’m so glad that you’re doing well. By the end of the year?! That’s fantastic! This novel has come together kind of swiftly, no? Or, I’m forgetting, is the tempo at which this new novel is completing itself the way such things work for you generally? I love the title. ** Misanthrope, Hi, G. Interesting. I guess I feel like plagiarism has become a more slippery thing post- the post-modern. What that person did to Florian’s drawing is robbery. I don’t see any gray area there. And I’ve never even heard ‘Blurred Lines’, as far as as I know, other than kind of hearing it while watching the notorious Miley clip, so I don’t know about that, but it seemed a bit more transformative re: the Marvin Gaye track than the ‘Try’ alteration example, but I don’t know, like I said. I guess for me it’s an example by example thing. Theoretically, taking something pre-existing and putting a slight personal spin on it, and that slight spin being the point or art or whatever, could be okay. That’s different than just stealing Florian’s art and putting it on a shirt that you only made in order to earn money. ‘Blurred Lines’ didn’t sound interesting to me in my half-listen, but it seems to have made millions happy, and that means something that’s worth thinking about and studying, I think. I don’t know. It’s slippery to me, I guess, and I have this heavy anti-generalizing thing. ** S., I’m just whatever about Google +. It doesn’t seem either worth investigating or opting out of. I don’t think I know those paintings. I don’t know … you know, I get kind of skin crawly about objectification, so I can’t think of whether any boys I know are hot or not. For me, their visuals are too intersected with who they are to me to coagulate and simplify like that. Scott McClanahan’s books are very worth reading, I think. You leave near him? Weird. Or not weird, I guess. I’ve never quite figured out where you live. Or where he lives, for that matter. You get a slaves post tomorrow, so good timing on that. Wow, your place is white. That’s interesting. I like it. It does some kind of crystalizing, hands-off thing with the stacks or something. I’ll go scroll through the new stack pronto. Everyone, new Emo stack from that stacker among stacker S., now with a shiny white background. You’ve got to see it It’s called ‘Arcade Boys’. Here. ** Will Decker, Hi there, Will. Well, thank you very, very much. I hope all is going very well with you. ** Statictick, Hi, big N. High five on the American football thing. We are not legion and must stick together. Thanks, of course, for your kindness re: the recent posts. I’m glad that, if it has to be mysterious, your latest court appearance was mundane. That’s one of the few contexts wherein the mundane and the sublime bear a certain resemblance. ** Rewritedept, There’s a super-great huge fireworks store on the outskirts of Las Vegas. I used to drive all the way there from LA sometimes just to buy fireworks since California only allows the wussiest kind. Interesting, wise thoughts there about art making and writing. Kudos. Word count … mine? Mostly up but with a constant whittling back at the same time. Today I’m going to work on some stuff, mine and collaborative, and help a friend move, and we’ll see what else comes up. Hope your Friday pays off. ** So. There’s a gig of mostly new stuff that I’ve been into lately for you today. Take it or leave it or something in between, please. See you tomorrow.
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Dennis!How the devil are you? This post is shit hot, as usual. So much great stuff! A few I've not heard before, so I'm going to wrap my ears around them and give you my verdict. How's life? Any sleep? Definitely going to come to France this year and catch some of your performances. You're only an hour and a half on a plane away. Silly question, but are they all in French? Annnd, doesn't the Pitchfork Festival lineup look amazing? I'd give my right arm to go. Anyway, have a good day and speak soon. H x
Hi Dennis
this is an awesome line up, lots of new things for my ears! that skaters/ducktails combo sounds great in my head havent pressed play yet to see if im close 🙂
gah ive been non stop since i got back from Norway nearly 2 weeks ago, lots of extra work before the museum closes for new shows + managed to squeeze a piece into a pop up park for their opening. all very last minute or 'Just in Time' as the art worldians say. your Bresson day was the inspiration for the piece, the line 'let nothing be changed and everything will be different' was stenciled in silver onto the compressed sand that made up the floor, so as people moved over it is was destroyed. the park has been made on what use to be flats that have failed to be re-build and so has just been waste ground for the last few years, i waiting for some better pics of the piece, there was some bad phone shots on FB. heading off to the conference/happening thing to install my banner later. need some fancy rope first.
hope your good? oh and did you know CERN are looking for twitters for their upcoming annual talks? a friend of mine did it last year.
okay time to dive into your sounds!
Oh dude, you guys are going to CERN? How awesome!! Are you going to go underground or just stay on the surface? I thought they did not take people underground anymore. I visited it back in 99 – my physics teacher had contacts – we went down there, pretty much inside the Hadron collider, which at this time was not quite finished, but almost. I'd love to go back.
The Shiva statue made the conspiracy theorists go nuts, it was worth it just for that – the amount of paranoid moronism regarding science in the wacko population is mostly scary, but once in a while it provides much-needed laughs. They were all "these guys are trying to blow up the planet, check out that occult statue they put up, it's The Destroyer, put 2 and 2 together maaannn!!!". Comedy gold. 'Cause, you know, people who understand things you don't are Obviously Up To No Good. Fucking scientists, with their low-paying lives of nerdiness and introverted white coats. Wake up and smell the lizard people already! Oh, sorry, I'm getting my conspiracies mixed up.
Noise! Well, you know my opinion on the matter. Something along the lines of… yup. 'Sright.
I was talking about nois/ze a few days back with M – how it's the only kind of gig that I'm really comfortable doing, and how you've got to push through a threshold, around 23 minutes by my calculations, that finally triggers something in the audience (either "fuck this, I'm out" or a shortcut to the collective brain-stem).
Most of the stuff on there is pretty clean, but Laundry Room Squelchers dude, beautiful. Chris Corsano, what a dude, saw him with Thurston, they were badass – more fun than truly violent, but still.
Excellent post! And you didn't even mention Wolf Eyes. We could blow the doors off this topic, and it'd be worth every word. For now, this is for you>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YjS7PpdSBk
i'm reading the intro text to today's post while construction work is going on in front of my window. now if that's not a perfect soundtrack. they seemed just about to finish the new ritzy real estate apartment block next to this house when we decided to move in. but berlin has invented a new art form called 'infinite construction' (you may have heard about the berlin airport, which has been turned into the national museum of infinite construction). so it took them another 1,5 years to finish that apartment building, and after they finally did it has been fairly quiet for a couple months now, but two days ago they suddenly started cracking open the slabs in the courtyard and currently they're drilling and digging for…i dunno what, but it's deep, deep down there apparently. maybe they forgot to install sewer pipes or something. anyway, instead of unsuccessfully trying to ignore it, i will LISTEN to that noise from now on. and imagine elias rønnfeldt is down there in worker's gear, sweaty chest bare, creating the drone with some percussion drill thing. drew daniel once wrote a brilliant essay on music as sound as noise in the wire magazine. i couldn't bring myself to agree with much that he said, but still loved the text. — yeah, i'm also basically a happy kid when it comes to fireworks. failed twice in my attempt to use them on stage back when i was doing theater. the theaters would have nothing of it and threatened to sue me if i'd light up the tiniest rocket. or maybe that's a sexualized memory too? — this has become my favorite tumblr. things rhyming, or not so.
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sent CD yesterday – going through a huge Dylan thang, god knows why, I do this every couple of years, the release of Another Self Portrait inspired me to, ton's of great stuff, dylan and band at Isle of Wright the best part – odd sloppy, "out of tune" etc…hopefully you won't think my Cd is a version of my own "Self Portrait." Have a good weekend, hope it's as productive as the last one. I am staying over in Paris the weekend after them, Probably doing a gig with Jassem Hindi and Andrea Parkins. I'll keep you posted
DC
Just checked back in this morning and was overwhelmed by the fireworks of a day or so ago. Unreal, especially the displays that are evocative of scattered birds, which seems like such a no-brainer when it comes to doing something beyond just the attractive explosion that fireworks provide. Total magic. Still waiting to get the chandelier installed before shooting a picture for you. First thunderstorm of the season up here in Portland yesterday morning, and due to this new early-morning activity on my part, I was awake and conscious enough to witness. There can never be enough rain up here. Maybe too many LA years did that to me.
Hope the sleeplessness has done its work and plans on leaving you soon…
Matty B.
I don't know about the "Egyptian Sports Network" but elsewhere in Egypt — the Cairo prison — John Greyson and Dr. Louani are still being held. There was supposed to have been a hearing yesterday but it was cancelled because the judge didn't show up. No idea of when this horrible situation will end — or whether it will end well.
i'm no optimistic.
Camille disses Miley
But reader "The Super Amanda" notes: "So seeing as Paglia and madonna-bots are talking about how she melds Pro-GLBT culture with other artist's best moments. Why is Madonna getting a free pass from Paglia and the rest of her elite media fan base via her multi-million dollar investments in Russia? Those two luxury Hard candy fitness centres which are aimed at the wealthy elite in Russia and which carry her name and image were opened the same time that her radical chic moment for P. Riot occured. They go to prison and madonna opens a gym. There is no dire financial need for Madonna to do business with Russia other than making money off and investing millions into a human rights abusing regime. How clever- take the money of GLBT fans and invest it into a country that is abusing them. A friend said 'that's just her, she's just clever, she can get away with it…' There is something severely wrong with being clever in that regard. Why is this being ignored?"
And tat's not to mention Madge's enormous financial investments in Russia.
interplanetary prophets–zero hour is nice. kind of quiet. i will search and listen to other things by them. i am actually listening to their "burning chrome" now. very cool. coolest to my ears in a while. —-my humor is very bad. don't get anything out of others' either. many praise ashbery humor. some said blanchot has profound humor too. i just don't get any. i don't get yours either. some say i have a great sense of humor. but they are all antidepressant addicted. so i guess, everything is funny and absurd for them, a little hurtingly. (i saw many bad cases of antidepressant results in people round me. i don't like it.) —-i don't even know lady gaga face. there was a pop-up of her thigh fat bulged out of her short skirt on internet. other than that i don't know any about her. does she make music? some academics write papers on her intelligence, but i guess, they are just bored.
I guess I'm very superficial and vein. If it looks good, that's good enough for me. Personality is a luxury. Interiorism is often bullshit in my experience. I like good conversation. I like interesting people. I just don't know very many interesting people, so I've learned to appreciate surface appearances. I only know a few hot boys come to think of it. I don't like anyone but a few people at the level of personality. I think many things are terribly interesting, with people it's feelings, style, habits, self-concepts, how they navigate, etc. I like easy-going people. I'm thinking of buying a bunch of new books soon, I might check him out. Duh, crappalachia. Charlietown. Scott lives in the like snowy part, resort town. Slaves! "Slave to the hormone." I've went back to being a top exclusively, so the idea of slaves just gets better and better. Yeah, it does, haven't thought of that. Hope you like the new post. Oh, watched a S. Roggenbuck thing last night live on Twitter, it was tres fun. Off to be productive/haves some fun.
Here's my review of the documentary OUR NIXON.
shit happens.
I dig this. i really want to see Unicorn Hard-on now. the gig reminds me of a calm mincemeat or tenspeed gig.
i've been looking into more writer workshops for the winter. i don't know what it is but i'm really into that type of combative environment. hehe tho i'm sure everything i like about them are the same reason others avoid them. or i'm wrong about that assumption. either way with all this new time on my hands i've been very active in my isolation. i didn't realize how much time i spent at staring at walls, trying to make them disappear.
No title
Night deep, rosewood station on fire now
Bunched flowers blooming, and
the wind and light, as long as
Monologue begins
The neck is drained
To listen night clamour
Back to the woods to seek a holed column
Household curved as shown
Blue brushes beholding in the sky
Write a letter to typeface
Third-one, festered wound up
Bandage winding winding senses
Snow near a well, is it to build or fall?
Rice sounds like a rubbing
One person towards another person
A dialog at night
A heaping bowl of white rice, laying a spoon next
Hey Dennis,
Nice fireworks post yesterday. And I've been slowly enjoying the gig today, realizing how much new music I need to catch up on. Anything new you've been checking out that you'd recommend as a highest priority?
Recently been listening to new Julia Holter, new Superchunk, newish Primal Scream (2/3 of which is their best in ages), and older Stockhausen 'Ceylon' that Steevee tipped me off to.
Been reading a bio of Nico and ran across this staggering tidbit: Nico wanted someone to write her autobiography which would be part fact and part fantasy. Her choice: Kathy Acker! They met in NYC to discuss the idea, but it didn't work out b/c Nico later claimed she "didn't like women." Did you know about that? I found it mind-boggling to imagine what might've come out of that.
Sending you some material for a book post shortly – still gathering some odds and ends.
Great gig post. I like the Paul Hegarty intro – that guy writes about noise so well. I like his book.
Cool to see Portal on here,he's a friend of a friend. I had a very brief correspondence with him a few years back and he always came across as a totally cool person and his work is always consistently good.
I'm also in agreement about the absolute greatness of the Var album.
Corsano,too! Wicked stuff. I've seen him play a bunch of times live with various people (I really love the Flowers/Corsano duo that he bashes around with).
So yeah – lots of ace stuff to listen to and some new names which is always appreciated. Thanks,Dennis!
Oh and thanks also for the email the other day – I'll write back to you in the next couple of days.
d-
oh the fireworks shop on the indian reservation outside valley of fire? i LOVE that place. it's a great stop to get cheap smokes and good beer on the way to utah, as well, so you don't have to deal with the shitty low-percentage beer in utah or spend hours driving around trying to find a state liquor store with decent hours (which doesn't exist in the state of utah).
noise day! i've always been on the fence about fuck buttons. they just don't grab me, i guess. definitely some cool stuff to look into though.
so yesterday, i took my friend colin to pick up a bicycle (he got a DUI so he can't drive for a while) over at his coworkers' house. and met some cool folks, possible new friends. why is it that when i meet people who are into cool music like wire and the saints and gbv and burma and all that old punk stuff that i've had a boner for since i was like ten years old, they're like my dad's age? my parents' friends all told me i was born in the wrong decade when i was a kid. i guess they were right, although i kinda like being the age i am at the time i'm in. but. yeah, it was cool to meet some new people with whom i have something in common, even if they are 20 years older than me.
living situation is working itself out as it does. i'm either getting an apartment with a friend or moving with my mom and sister until my house is rebuilt. figuring that out today, and then spending the weekend moving. and then, i will hopefully never set foot in my dad's house or speak to my brother again. i just strongly dislike both of them. so, that will be nice. yay, things are getting better. i'm more or less decided that i'm going to not speak with anyone on my dad's side of the family, for a multitude of reasons. firstly, they don't really like me. also, they're two-faced, repressed catholic assholes. i guess that's only two reasons. but they're still good ones. i also guess that could count as the secret i promised the other day, so keep it on the low if i come up in conversation (because i'm sure you tell yr friends about me all the time, har har).
so far, my friday is paying off. it's my dad's 50th birthday and i'm not going to spend any time with him because i'm angry at him right now. his loss. i plan on spending my day getting very stoned, watching some parks and rec and maybe finishing the lemmy book so i can start something else. was yr friday cool? it was semi-stormy here today. lots of rain for a while. have a fun weekend. you still didn't tell me if you got one of those l'escargots cassis. talk soon.
-me.
That Portal track is sick! I like music that changes your mood instantly, I'm gonna check out that album for sure. I liked a lot of the stuff you posted, thanks for giving me a couple new things to listen to. I want to see a laundry room squelchers show, that looked awesome
I've been listening to album called Scratch N' Sniff by Stone Titan which follows a bit along the lines of the type of stuff you posted, it's really noisy and chaotic metal type stuff…and I'm enjoying the new No Age album a lot, that's a good laid back stoner record…and for like the last two hours I've been listening to this youtube compilation of Wiley tracks that is kicking my ass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lO8px7eYJw&feature;=youtu.be
I've kind of ignored/felt indifferent to british rap but maybe I've just been listening to the wrong stuff, this has so much crazy relentless energy…I guess a lot of british rap has seemed just like watered down American rap to me, but this sounds unique
The firework clips were really beautiful, thanks for putting that together
Talk to you later, you're super awesome — bye
Dennis, You and your gigs… 😉
See, we completely agree on everything. As usual.
I'll just put this out there: I fucking love Miley Cyrus. She's my new hero. I like how nobody knows how to define her performance, it's been called everything from pornography to a Disneyesque lap dance and everything in between. To some, it's vulgar and crass, to others (like me), it's no big deal. She's confounded them all.
And underneath all the hate is this hint of misogyny that says, "Wittle girl, you can't do dat. You'll be a whore and we'll all have to masturbate to you because we can't control ourselves."
And really, for me, after watching hours of porn daily, with guys fucking each other till they bleed and beyond, a little foam finger action on MTV is nothing.
Though I hear that when she was wringing that thing out backstage after the performance, it was like a slip-n-slide back there. That girl is hot. And believe me, I'm not being sarcastic at all. I really like her.
What's really funny about it is that she's making some of the best pop music out there right now. "We Can't Stop" and her new "Wrecking Ball" are pretty damned good.
Busy weekend now. I'm going to visit my great-aunt in Mt. Airy, MD Saturday. She's 92. Gonna see some cousins and other fuckers too. My mom and niece are going.
Then it's dinner at this new Italian place with some friends Saturday night.
And then…….. 1D 3D! on Sunday. I've already bought the tickets. I know it's essentially just a feature-movie-length-promo-video, but fuck it, I love Harry Styles and I want to watch him act goofy and corny for an hour and a half. (His recent "Kiss Cam" with James Corden is pretty fucking ace too. Did I say that I love that guy?!)
So weird, though, that their movie is directed by Morgan Spurlock, no?
Then it's some shopping: shoes for work for me (I've been wearing the same pair for five years and the rubber's falling off the soles) and a birthday-present-cum-leather-jacket for my niece. She'll be 19 on the 15th of September.
I just wish the regular season of football started this weekend too. I could die a happy man on Tuesday if that were the case.
Oh, shit, Dennis, and here's a funny story from the LS Chronicles: so his mother's dating that 23-year-old pill-head, right? Two weekends ago or so, she asked him if he would cut her grass for her. He said he sure would, he just had to go home and change clothes first. They haven't seen him since. Hahahahaha!
Hello Again Dennis,
Yes I am doing good:health, reading, and taking a 10 day Amtrak trip to Chicago the middle of September for a monetary conference & visit of my friend over in Detroit.
Besides DavidE's post concerning Pasolini being so important to me S.s mention of Scott McClanahan. I looked him up and just now bought his Crappalacia.I want to know the people in that novel. They are the ones who used to work in my foundry. Maybe I will finally get to know why I liked them so much.
Bye for now. Just hope this post isn't to late for you to see.
BEST,
WILL
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