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Katie Gately Last Day
‘Katie Gately is an LA computer whizz whose work spans sound design, electronically rendered polyphonic choral music and a nascent form of laptop pop. Pop music that can’t sit still, is exploding with ideas. Sometimes it sounds overloaded with thoughts, which find literal expression in Katie’s dense Disco Inferno-like lattices of words. But then on other tracks her vocals pull back and space out, disassociating from the rhythms and finding unlikely companions in choirs of pitch-shifted and manipulated vocals – her voice made into marching, chirruping armies of munchkins, automatons, Substance D-stretched friend-apparitions.’ — collaged
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Boothroyd Colony
‘Boothroyd is working in a very strange space right now. He’s almost definitely genre-less (assuming you’re not the kind to count “electronic” and “experimental” as real tags), but he’s certainly not peerless. If anything, his association with Tri Angle is actually the most predictable thing about him. Following drops from Fis, SD Laika, and The Haxan Cloak, the harsh specters of Idle Hours feel quite natural. The former’s skeletal D&B; skank casts a long shadow over this release, particularly with respect to the fluttery, abstract percussion, and the whole thing feels like a cross between Evian Christ’s early ambient “Duga-3” tape and his more garish Waterfall EP from this year. However, I think one would be remiss to chalk Boothroyd up to a Frankenstein’s monster of the Tri Angle roster. The twitchy, rainy vibes of “Y5” in particular, replete with cascading sheets of hiss and ghastly moans, feel like they point to entirely new dimensions of darkness.’ — Tiny Mix Tapes
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Blut aus Nord memoria vetusta iii: saturnian poetry: 04 forhist
‘Consider the fact that enigmatic multi-instrumentalist Vindsval made his Blut Aus Nord debut in 1995 – the same year that ushered in the likes of black metal milestones like Immortal’s Battles in the North, Dissection’s Storm of the Light’s Bane, and Behemoth’s debut full-length Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic). There are others of course that bear their own significance to heavy music, but the mention of these black metal releases in particular is significant in the context of the nearly two decades since their release. Of the many things that Blut Aus Nord’s catalogue offers musically, it also provides a striking glimpse of what’s likely to be seen as black metal’s most substantial point of creative evolution since the Second Wave. The climb upward for Blut Aus Nord has included all manner of soundscapes ranging from the most bleak and frayed black metal to the cold and sinister language of electronica. Here at their apex thus far, Saturnian Poetry finds Blut Aus Nord appropriately at their very beginnings, only now the music carries alongside it those shadows and landmarks of experience and expertise, all culminating in a sound that unsurprisingly remains solely in the cosmic grasp of this band.’ — Steel for Brains
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Jason Crumer Wellsley’s Philosophy
‘If you’re listening to Jason Crumer albums without quality headphones, you’re doing it wrong. The Baltimore-based noise artist’s catalog teems with eldritch nuance that rewards close listening. From 2006’s Hum Of An Imagined Environment onward, a strong cinematic streak has characterized Crumer’s solo work; it’s often impossible to experience without succumbing to the whys and wherefores, the mysteries of creation. Disqualifier is no different in that sense. ‘Wellsley’s Philosophy’ is the most striking moment on Disqualifier. It opens inauspiciously with the concussive throttle of machinery, quickly gathering pieces of dander: the clink of pickaxes on steel, the rumble of locomotives, inaudible masculine shouts. The clinks accumulate, the shouts recede, Native American flutes interject, drums thunder through, distortion floods the scene, is chased out by equanimous synthesizers. There’s a strong whiff of blue-collar, all-American mettle in the track, communicated with the evocative, concentrated intensity that characterizes professional advertising. A narrative of some sort clearly unites Disqualifier — why else would the names of characters recur in the titles?—but ‘Wellsley’s Philosophy,’ taken as a single chapter, makes a greater showcase for Crumer’s storytelling potential.’ — City Paper
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Moniek Darge Turkish Square
‘Born in Bruges, Belgium in 1952, Moniek Darge has worked as a composer, violinist, performer and installation artist. She studied music theory and violin at the Music Conservatory of Bruges as well as painting at the Ghent Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Arthistory, Philosophy and Anthropology. She has published extensively on her musical experiences in Kenya, Rwanda, Japan, China, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand, both in ‘Logos-Blad’, the monthly magazine of the Logos Foundation (of which she is editor), and on numerous radio programs.‘ — Discogs
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Objekt One Fell Swoop
‘With these experiments of form and response with so-called “dance” and “experimental” music, Berlin-based TJ Hertz gets at larger issues concerning time and space by surgically slicing, operating, then suturing the operative functions of dance music. The dancefloor is, after all, a speculative space, at once common ground and no-man’s land. Hertz sees this and in turn separates the synaptic nerves of dance music genres to see “how things work.” The genius here is that he puts it all back together with a cold headiness that the legs never notice; the aesthetic here is disconnected from the affected, unaffected.’ — Tiny Mix Tapes
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Ashley Paul I’m In You
‘Ashley Paul is a performer and composer based in Brooklyn, New York. She uses an array of instruments including saxophone, clarinet, voice, guitar, bells and percussion, mixing disparate elements to create a colorful palate of sound that works its way into her intuitive songs; free forming, introverted melodies. Heat Source finds Ashley Paul working using her brilliant ears to find a zen like balance between her voice and a sparse arrangement of staccato instrumentation leaving as much open space on one song as most people would create in a lifetime. This open space isn’t empty, however, but it’s up to you to fill in the meaning. Heat Source is an emotionally challenging and fascinatingly personal listening experience that creates a powerful pace.’ — Brainwashed
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Institute Salt
‘Institute are of the here and now; they hail from Austin, TX, and share members with Wiccans, Glue, Blotter, and Recide. The project began as a set of four-track sketches made by singer Moses Brown, and a full-band demo turned into Institute’s six-song, self-titled debut EP, released in February on British Columbia’s Deranged Records. The Salt EP builds upon that foundation in subtle ways. The production is just as tarnished, just as ragged, but the elements have snapped ever so slightly more into focus. The songwriting feels sharper, and the hooks sink deeper. “Salt” opens the record on a high point, setting a bassline that flashes back to “She’s Lost Control” over rolling, skipping, “tribal” drums straight out of Siouxsie’s The Scream. For all their resemblance to deathrock and post-punk greats of yore, there’s nothing mannered or simulacral about Institute. They are as real as the lump in your throat and the salt under your nails, and their sting couldn’t be sweeter.’ — Philip Sherburne
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D/P/I 02 – B.I.D.
‘Upon being asked about organizational processes, Alex Gray described his angle to TMT earlier in the year: “I’ll have eight or 10 or 15 micro-compositions based on a sample, and handle each of those things as an uncompressed piece to the overall puzzle.” This would allow for an almost infinite number of combinations — an indication of Gray’s compositional knack — but whereas samples have sometimes been recognizable on past material (from Roy Orbison on FRESH ROSES to R Kelly on I’m Fuckin You Tonight), they are utterly tangled and transformed here, giving rise to only one comprehensible line of dialogue and the occasional garbled phrase amongst a magnificent dream-induced collage of sound.’ — collaged
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Pig Destroyer Red Tar
‘Unlike the frantic Phantom Limb — or Book Burner, Pig Destroyer’s intervening album—Mass & Volume is slow. As in, glacier-dragging-a-fallen-planetoid slow. In that sense, it draws from the dour, down-tuned slither of doom metal, but it’s a far cry from either the antediluvian groove of Pentagram or the antiheroic songcraft of recent outfits like Lycus and Pallbearer. “Red Tar” is only three times as long as your average Pig Destroyer song, but those six and a half minutes are milked of every conceivable ounce of sludge. Here the EP finally resembles a Pig Destroyer 45 played on 33, plain and simple, with none of the compositional mutation on display in “Mass & Volume”. It’s the perfect complement; tighter and more coherent—inasmuch as Hayes and Hull’s mutual assured deconstruction could ever be called coherent—the song creeps from plateau to plateau, leaving a trail of viscera in its wake. “Grief crawls in the shadow of time/ Try to keep in mind/ It’s all finite,” Hayes grunts in existential agony. Instead of seeming like some noble savage, he’s a trapped animal, snarling and soon to be gutted.’ — Jason Heller
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Terrence Hannum HYSTERESIS
‘Terence Hannum’s works all use magnetic audio tape as art media. This an obsolete technology. As such, the deliberate choice of this material reads as symbolic, chosen for its history as much as the way it looks and functions. Audio tape is ferrous powder bonded to narrow strips of plastic film; audio tape records sounds through the rearrangement of the iron particles into patterns by an electro-magnetic head, which also decodes those patterns back into audio. This encoding, the rearrangement of particles, is invisible to the eye. With a CDR or DVR, one can see a different pattern in how the surface of the disc reflects light. There, the unwritten portion looks different from the encoded. The tape is uniformly grey/brown and shiny. Magnetic tape is similar to a traditional hard drive; the magnetic encoding is the same. And with each, the recording of information and change to the material does not leave a visible mark or pattern.’ — Bmore Art
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Pinkcourtesyphone closer to here than you care to be
‘The aesthetic Richard Chartier has developed as Pinkcourtesyphone may bear little resemblance to the serious, scholarly work that he issues under his own name, but it features the same level of compositional skill and complexity that sounds like no other. The underlying theme of vintage camp and ennui results in an juxtaposition with the dark sexuality and hints of sleaze that permeates, resulting in a genius reality versus fantasy pairing befitting the 1950s housewife sensibility PCP has featured heavily in his albums thus far.’ — Brainwashed
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Mirage Blood of the Return
‘The story of Mirage is an interesting one. He put out his album Blood For The Return on Bandcamp at the beginning of the year and contacted Todd Ledford of (mostly-defunct) independent label Olde English Spelling Bee about it, but his emails got more and more bizarre as time went on: increasingly demanding, more rambling, and generally more psychologically unsound. It turned out that Robin Nydal has been listed as a “19-year-old” musician from Los Angeles for a good few years now, and that “Robin Nydal” is, as name’s go, awfully close to “Bob Dylan”. Whether any of Ledford’s story is true or not is, obviously, completely beside the point, as the drunk and woozy psych pop music speaks for itself.’ — DUMMY
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p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Thank you, David. Ah, it makes sense that Lordalfreddouglas would tip your scales. Certainly an interesting approach on his part. I imagine his inbox is rather packed with prospectees. ** Bernard Welt, B! Johnny Rapid, I know him. I mean I know him not at all and yet intimately. Now that I’m over my lifelong desire to make a porn, I think you should fill my void. Or you should at least add narration pre-existing porns. I’m not kidding. Awesome that you’re serious about Paris. Yeah, sort stuff out, and let me know before you apply to the Recollets, so I can butter Chrystel up, not that she’ll need much butter, but still. Would totally, totally love to Skype/phone. Let me know when is good. I should be home here for a while ‘cos I’ve got work/deadlines galore. Not too shabby fiction class indeed! When I saw Paul McCarthy when he was here few weeks ago, he said Benjamin is finally finishing up a new book of stories at extremely long last. Great about Trinie. She’s wonderful. I think you should write that NoES essay obviously, clearly. Did you? ** Damien Ark, Damien! Dude, Iceland was insane. Zac took the bulk of the photos, so I’ll see if I can pry enough out of him to make a post. School’s good? What are you studying, etc.? Never read ‘Dhalgren’. It’s great? I always meant to, but long books are so intimidating. I think you could marry the Ukraine guy and have the furry as a pet maybe? ** Sypha, Thanks, James. Welcome back to you too! Congrats on the gold pin. That’s pretty cool. Oh, the new Nadon is out! Awesome! I’ll go get it! Everyone, while the blog was way, the eminent author-slash-many things including composer/ musician Sypha released his new album of music that he records under the moniker Sypha Nadon, and it’s called ‘Canadian Atheist’, and you can hear it, get it, read about it, peruse the lyrics and other related stuff right here, and you so totally should, obviously, if you haven’t got it yet. So do that, won’t you? Thank you. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh! I got your emails, and thank you a ton! I’ll get the post set up and get back to you with the very imminent launch date right away. Great, great! ** Bill, Hi. Thanks about the ribs. Sucks. I’ve broken my ribs twice before, but never the ribs in my back before, and that location is a much bigger drag for some reason. Right, ‘Zeroville’, you like it? I’ve never read it. I read, I think, two Erickson novels, but early ones, I think. I think I liked them. I need to reinvestigate him. A week off, yay! ** Steevee, Thanks, Steve. Yeah, broken ribs are no fun. Watch your step. I read your top ten documentary list last night. Really interesting. I haven’t seen a one of them yet. They all intrigue, I guess especially the first two due to their formal adventuring. Thanks! Everyone, Steevee has made a 2014 top ten best documentary films list for Fandor, and I read it last night, and it’s very interesting and will make you want to watch some obviously very strong films, so I obviously recommend that you click this. Obviously, I’m curious to hear that Azealia Banks LP, and those are cogent points on your part, obviously. It is really bizarre and somehow telling how many gay guys refuse to accept bisexuality as a real thing. ** Mark Gluth, Hey, Mark! The trip was crazed great. If you ever get the chance to go Iceland and travel around, grab it fiercely. The broken ribs are a total drag, but, you know, what can you do but stuffer stoically or whatever. I’ll have to ask Gisele about future theater piece shows. I know that ‘Ktl’ went really well in NYC, and I think she said that has lead to some new possible US gigs, but I’ll try to find out when I see her. Yay, about the videos of you and MANCY! Can’t wait to watch them very shortly. In the meantime, I’ll share, duh. Everyone, Here’s a serious treat. If you watch the two videos that I’ll lead you towards in a moment, you’ll get to see both author Mark Gluth and visual artist/musician MANCY aka Stephen Purtill reading/ performing recently in Bellingham, Washington at the launch gig for Mark’s extraordinary new novel ‘No Other’. Total fun and mindblow awaits on every level should first click this and then click this. Great! ** Kier, K-ster! I am back, yes! Yeah, the ribs thing sucks. I’m in pain right this very moment, though I’m trying not to let it show too much. Three weeks to feel better, but six weeks until I can pick up something heavy or shimmy and shake. Lucifer, ha ha, nice. Oh, I like both your shark and its swoony pose! Based on the photos, I think know what “karding/karing” is, or I mean I’ve seen it. It’s boring? Favorite thing in Iceland, wow. I’ll have to give you a handful, ‘cos I can’t pick one. Mm, riding ATVs wildly over lava fields and black sand beaches and through ponds and hidden valleys; snowmobiling on a glacier in the middle of blizzard; exploring an ice cave formed in/by a glacier; exploring a lava tube cave that was the inspiration for the cave to the center of the earth in ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’; our car getting stuck in the snow by this amazing thermal plant/factory at night and getting scared we would die there or something and then getting accidentally discovered and towed out by this guy we kind of believe was a troll or an elf. There were a lot of great things. My day yesterday was good. Zac and I met up with Kiddiepunk and Oscar B., and we went to the Paul McCarthy Chocolate Factory, which none of them had been to yet, and it was really great, and we had big fun. Then I hurried over to Pere Lachaise to meet up with the brilliant young UK filmmaker James Batley, whose work I’ve showcased here on the blog, to be filmed/interviewed in the pouring rain in front of a tomb for some website, and that was cool but awfully wet. By then my ribs were starting to kill me, so I limped home on the metro, pain-killered up, and tried to do some work. I bought Zac and me tickets to see Iceage. I texted with him and did sone emailing and stuff. Then ate, crashed. It wasn’t a bad at all. How was your Tuesday, buddy? ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Well, I would hope that he would have thought the Vines idea is a great idea because it is! I do remember that your favorite Viz character is Terry Fuckwitt, strangely. I’ll check that new strip out. Everyone, here’s _B_A: ‘You may remember that my fave Viz comic character is Terry Fuckwitt. Maybe not, but he is, and there’s a sublime strip been uploaded onto their website today. What I love is how very meta it is: each panel just flips the narrative as it goes along until the whole story collapses in on itself.’ ** Keaton, Hey. I am. It’s true. Oh, but I am a strange landscape myself, ha ha. Family ghost, whoa, like … what did it, like, do or say or whatever? Sweet trip plans. Paris near Xmas time, it doesn’t get no more beautiful here than it is then, seriously. Big hug back. ** Zach, Hi, Zach! it was totally really nice to see you outside the ‘Ktl’ show. Definitely. And that’s so awesome that you not only liked it but liked it in such a sharp, awesome way. Stephen will of course love “the most metal shit i had ever seen”, so I’ll tell him. Thank you really a lot, man. Yeah, man, hang out here, let’s blab about stuff. It would be great! ** Misanthrope, Big M and big G! Broken ribs are most highly not recommended as an injury even to those who seek injuries like some of those fellows yesterday. Really glad you dug ‘Ktl’ again. It sounds like you had a blast in NYC, very cool, and you obviously saw some sweet folks. My pleasure about the yen. Now I’ve got some Icelandic bills if those intrigue him at all. 6 of you, wow. Yikes. Good move on the home teaching. Little dude needs some exercise for his exciting brain, that’s for sure. Great to be back and have you back too, buddy. ** Torn porter, Hi, man! Fim editing is underway, and we’ll see. So far so good. As far as I can tell, the ‘Ktl’ shows went really well. We got nothing but excellent reviews, and that’s unusual. The mood of my Autumn has been superb. It has. Broken ribs being the only fucked aspect, but hey. I have not seen ‘Birdman’. Have you? Thoughts, if so? Much love back, and give my hearty wave to Ratty. Is she there with you? Where is she? ** Kyler, Hi! Oh, horror, ‘Dennis lover’, Jesus. I’m fighting the strong urge to retire that term, if that’s the case. Ugh. Paris has good cemeteries, that’s for sure. Full of exciting former people. Fingers crossed on the awards submissions! ** Okay. Today I give you my latest gig of music that I’ve been liking a whole lot in recent times, and that’s the entire intro and explanation for the post, which is surely enough. See you tomorrow.
Hi D
Hope your re-cooper-ating (sorry bad joke), sucks that your ribs got bust 🙁 im looking forward to hearing about & checking out your 'moments'/photos of the trip!
Wow Katie Gately is cool gonna check her out! & well that Objekt album is awesome, his Eps are pretty great too. Have check out the rest of the unknowns on your list stat.
The new Andy Stott is pretty yum, ive been listing to it via soundcloud/youtube.
See you soon & feel better!
jx
Never red "Dhalgren"? Hard to believe as you and Chip are in a "Vulcan Mind-Meld."
Nice collection today.
Dennis, thanks for the shout-out. Let me know what you think if you give it a listen. I find this one has gotten way more feedback than some of my previous albums, perhaps because I spent way longer working on it than I usually do. It's one of the first albums where I've really concentrated on things like dynamics, bass levels, stereo panning, and other "studio" trickery.
Have you ever read E.M. Cioran? Ligotti's always namedropping him, so earlier this month I read his book "On the Heights of Despair" and really loved it: finally, a philosopher I can appreciate! I hope to read more of his work in the future. Other books I've read recently are the "Plays of Oscar Wilde" (loved it) and William Gibson's "The Peripheral" (which I generally enjoyed, though the last 40-50 pages or so are one big let-down, and the ending is extremely uninspired and generic).
I also have about 200 pages to go in Blake Butler's "300,000,000." As you know, I kind of have a love/hate interest with his work, and my feelings for this one are still ambivalent, but because yesterday I decided that one of my New Years Resolutions is to not be so negative all the time, I'll get a head start and focus on what I do like about it so far: that there is at least some type of narrative (fragmentary as it is), characters with actual names that I can at least somewhat have a bit of interest in, and so on. My favorite portions of the book are generally the apocalyptic tableauxs where Butler lists all the ways in how different people from different walks of life in America are slaughtering each other, or like how on page 223 where he makes a list of all the things that are ending. I almost wish there was more of that and less of the whole "haunted house" shenanigans that he's already handled before (though now that I think about it, "Scorched Atlas" was pretty apocalyptic as well).
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Quick question; Does Benjamin have a publisher for his short story collection?
Sypha, your reading of long works always amazes me.
Dennis, don’t fret. That was just one of several guesses I had for the initials back then (some of them X-rated) and we were just having some fun. The true meaning is classy, so I hope you’ll keep it.
I find it disheartening that most of the films on my documentary list only played New York for a week or two. My #1 pick, WHAT NOW? REMIND ME, closed in a week. That said, I suppose a 3-hour diary/essay film would be pretty uncommercial in almost any context. ACTRESS got a tremendous amount of buzz, and it's up in the air whether its run here will continue for a third week. A friend in L.A. is waiting to find out if it's even going to play there.
This looks awesome, looking forward to playing these babies later! I'm fine, thanks D! But so sorry to hear about the ribs, really hope you get better soon.
Lots of love
N x
Broken ribs? Golly. Get better quick.
I have been doing this series on dream-related films and I only have a couple left to go. I'm on short deadline so I decided to do the one of the Bugs Bunny cartoon "The Big Snooze," and leave Elm St for next time. "The Big Snooze" is a pretty brilliant piece of work on its own.
Lovely collection today, Dennis. Ashley Paul is the kind of abstract pop I enjoy but have trouble finding more of; hope the CD gets here soon. Pinkcourtesyphone is very odd and intriguing.
Those ribs are sounding very unpleasant. Hope you have good painkillers.
Bill
hey coop, can't wait to dog into this day! now i'm picturing you shimmying and shaking. karding/karing is pretty boring, and the wool is kind of smelly, but it's a tranquil job, you just get to hang out and talk. but i keep scratching my hand with the bristle of the karding thing and bleeding. your fave moments of iceland sound fantastical, and boy am i glad for that troll/elf. today at work i handled everything to do with the animals, feeding them, shoveling horse shit, feeding them some more, letting them out, taking lucifer out, giving them water, etc, not in that order. i'll take a photo of lucifer for you! in between all that we also made fir wreaths which was cool, i'll probably get to take one home. on friday i'm going to Bardufoss to visit my friend, hope to see the northern lights! oh yeah, i gave away my copies of Wonderful Witches (little tiny copies) and forgot i promised you one, so i made a special A4 one for you and mailed it to you today. that's it! how was yours?
dennis,
ao glad to have you back on the cyber-waves! NYC is cool — getting time off to try to pull together a few potential freelance submissions and send out some fiction stuff of my own; a sorta full-court blitz as I'm stacking polished things here and there.
Might also write about the new David Foster Wallace reader that was just released stateside — there's a previously unpublished piece of his in there called "The Planet Trillaphon [sic?] in Relation to the Bad Thing," which actually really blew me away for being something done so young. as a fellow dfw-o-phile I thought you'd appreciate the tip. What're the new projects afoot in Paris? Or are you more just free-form dabbling?
oh, also, PS, was going to send you some stuff via email later tonight (not sure what time that is in France) or early tomorrow morning, if that was alright, and you had a second to check email these days!
In any case, glad NYC was a smash for you, and that KTL wove itself together so well;
many fog sculptures to you,
c.
Hey man,
Glad to hear that iceland was awesome. One agency has asked to read the whole novel but i've not heard back from them yet.
I was hoping i could use this space (and maybe up above as i still can't get the links in place here… i know i'm a simpleton) to draw attention to a crowd funder my wife is involved in:
'The Quipu Project is an interactive documentary about women and men who were sterilised in Peru in the mid-1990s. Many did not give full consent for it to happen. Twenty years later, they are still seeking justice.
Using a specially-developed telephone line and web interface, we are working with some of the affected people, providing the framework for them to tell their story in their own words and bringing it to an international audience.The story emerges as the archive of testimonies and responses grows.'
http://www.quipu-project.com
https://www.facebook.com/quipuproject
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/quipu-project-a-living-interactive-documentary
meant to add in above section that i'm also putting it here cause i think people here would be interested in knowing about it
I'm really intrigued by that Katie Gately material. When I saw her background was the LA tech/sound art scene, I thought immediately of Holly Herndon but Ms Gately is very much her own thing. Will seek more of it out, cheers!
The exciting news is that at long last there's been another ART101 update! We now have a start on all 4 episodes and although each needs work to some extent, the big picture looks much better as of now.
kyler, well, the Oscar Wilde, William Gibson and Blake Butler books are still all under 500 pages, so I wouldn't classify them as THAT long. Now, just wait till I get to "Les Miserables" next year!
But people can’t be landscapes… ::face distorts and screams:: 🙂 Oh gosh, I feel like I’m not supposed to talk about it. A very remote cemetery, late 19th Century. Lots of babies in the shade, little boys, slaves, etc. Let’s just say, it was way beyond obvious and wonderful. And icing on the cake, a profound “Get!” 🙂 I like spooky stuff. Looks like I may get in some Dublin too. Haha, I’ve been to Paris/Europe at the end of November. I accidentally attended the Cannabis Cup, froze to death, and slept in Schipol. I fell asleep and woke up to a sparkling blond boy in uniform asking me for my ticket. “Santa?” Haha. I really like Christmas. All this talk of Charlie McCarthy has me sharpening my Christmas axe LOL. Hope you’re feeling better. xoxo
I got the new William Gibson book out of the library and will be starting it soon, although I'll probably read the new Martin Amis book first.
steevee, it's funny, I've been thinking about reading the new Martin Amis myself (even though I've never read Amis at all). I'm thinking of maybe reading the new David Cronenberg book also. It seems this year, more than any previous year, I've read way more books published this year than I have in past years. I hope that next year I'll be able to read even more new books. It helps that the list I have of old books to read grows smaller and smaller each year.
You guys are so well-read. I'll stick with the Les Miz movie, thank you. I'd be humming the tunes if I were to read the book. Re-reading some Paul Auster, who's had a big influence on me. Never heard him discussed here. I like his voice and use of metafictional techniques. Any opinion on him, Dennis?
Dennis, I think I may have told you this before, but towards the end of my brother's life, he was coughing so badly and so hard that he cracked 4 ribs. Of course, he still had the cough on top of the cracked ribs. That's how he ended up getting the morphine that killed him.
Wow, you'd do that? I mean the Icelandic money? He'd be thrilled. Man, thanks in advance. Big thanks.
Yep, 6 people 3 rooms. It's kind of cramped, but not really. We're making do. It's just putting up with the mother's nonsense that's trying.
We're kind of at loggerheads over the home schooling/home teaching. She can home school him, which means she'd be solely responsible for everything and there'd be no guarantee of his passing to the 8th grade. Or she can enroll him at the local middle school a ten minutes' walk away and they'll send a teacher out twice a week who'll do everything for free. He'd be able to pass to the 8th grade next year just as if he attended class regularly. For some reason, she doesn't seem to want to do that. Of course, it'd be the best thing for him. I mean, who the fuck's gonna teach him in this family besides me, who happens to spend about 12 hours a day with my job. It'd be impossible. But we'll keep chipping away until she does the right thing.
Hey Dennis,
Glad you're back and that the trip (minus the broken ribs) was a blast. I'm still in NYC and bummed that I missed KTL.
Got the see the amazing Godard 3D film and a surprisingly great Chris Ofili retro at the New Museum. Went with our own Steevee to see the new restoration of the once thought missing Burroughs: The Movie. Really enjoyed that doc. Have you seen it?
That's about it for culture. Been mostly in rehearsals, slowly working away on a new theater piece, making progress in fits and starts.
Please share some Iceland pics and more details. Recap/highlight post? Anything in particular that's a must see if you're only there for a few days?
Hope you're mending quickly
It's amazing what a jerk James Grauerholz comes across as in the Burroughs doc, even though he was one of its producers.
1000 thank you's Dennis from Terence Hannum.
Dennis, first off thanks so much for shining the blog spot light on MANCY and I's videos. I cant stand watching or hearing myself, but I think they were good, though I wish his guitar came through a tad more. He was great live.
For the record, Iceland has been my #1 dream vacation destination for 10+ years or something. The landscape, the weather…so it's great to hear it served you and Zac well. What were the eats like?
Dude, best of luck on the ribs. The worst for me was the random not being able to breathe…. (do you get that with back ribs) as well as getting totally intoxicated on like 1/4 painkillers and almost burning the kitchen down trying to make tea. But at least I figured out I'm an opiate wimp, which is probably a good thing.
acho otimo os filmes da globo eu siceramente gostaria muito que por gentilesa vocês passa se um filme que eu gosto muito que é [o dia depois de amanhã] o então o filme [elas e os caras]. estarei muito agradessida se vocês atendece meu pedido obrigada