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Music Shit / Re: Killed By Myspace

« on: May 24, 2008, 09:39:49 AM »

Teenage Strangler - Minneapolis
http://www.myspace.com/thebandteenagestrangler

Lo-fi twee-esque Velvets-influenced pop music made by old, old friends of mine. These kids were thrashing it up in basements with me when I was a teenager. Dylan is thee Minneapolis faction of Pink Reason. He's played drums for me a bunch.

Oh yeah, they cover Rudimentary Peni!

This stuff is great! 

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Music Shit / Re: Dead Hookers Album that Never Was

« on: December 05, 2007, 05:27:46 AM »

Old link dead, new link here:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AQZZ9116

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Music Shit / Dead Hookers Album that Never Was

« on: December 02, 2007, 11:53:58 AM »

I know maybe one-half of a human being who reads this board is interested in the lost Dead Hookers Album entitled (by me 5 minutes ago): "Soft Bananas"  Here it is:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/cxcv6y

Written and recorded on a cold November night in Minnesota a year ago.  This is the sound of brotherly love.

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Music Shit / Re: Sabbath v Hawkwind

« on: June 15, 2007, 01:48:34 PM »

W/ Dio, Sabbath
wo/ Dio, Hawkwind

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Music Shit / Re: Killed By Myspace

« on: June 15, 2007, 01:47:10 PM »

Dead Luke:

www.myspace.com/bornunderadick

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Dead Hookers LP

« on: March 23, 2007, 04:09:51 AM »

We just received our copies and they look great!  Thanks Mike Sniper!

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Horselover Fat

« on: March 10, 2007, 10:22:02 PM »

This is far and away one of his best books, especially for the later period.  There was a weird electro-opera composed by Tod Machover based on it that is worth a listen or two, especially if you like the book.  Lots of weird synthesizer and rhythmic vocal patterns.  When I first read Valis I became kind of obsessed with trying to figure out some of the "reality."  Fish Cannot Carry Guns.

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Music Shit / Re: The Jaguar

« on: February 06, 2007, 04:09:22 PM »

I will say that I was exposed to the Jag back on the Wisconsin R n R board and didn't really like it, but I listened to his excerpt from Metasession a couple of months ago and really dug it.  It reminds me of Bobby Beausoleil's Lucifer Rising score, which I hold in the highest regard.

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Music Shit / Re: Favorite sci-fi drug (for the nerds)

« on: February 06, 2007, 04:07:13 PM »

Can-D in PKD's "flow my tears the policeman said" where you get to become Barbie and Ken to beat the boredome of being a moon colonist sounds pretty awesome.  that and the competitors drug that lets you create your own reality (Chew-Z).

that bursting into flames drug sounds really familiar and its gonna bother me all day trying to remember

Not to be a PKD-snob or anything, but Can-d and Chew-z are in The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.  Flow My Tears begins with Callistro Feeding Tubes altering reality.

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Music Shit / Re: Favorite sci-fi drug (for the nerds)

« on: February 05, 2007, 03:46:59 PM »

3.  The time-displacement drug (from Now Wait For Last Year by PKD).  A drug that will randomly yank you through time without warning for the rest of your life.  Would definitely make the experience of living one's life and one's priorities an entirely new experience, although I guess this is kinda what drugs do anyways. 

no way, JJ-180 withdrawal SUCKS!

What sucks more is when your lousy wife slips it to you when you're not paying attention!  The relationship woes have always been my favorite part of PKD's novels. 

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Music Shit / Re: Favorite sci-fi drug (for the nerds)

« on: February 05, 2007, 03:45:23 PM »

Vurt sounded pretty damn good. Black feather Vurt.

http://www.vurt-feather.co.uk/

I can't believe I forgot about Vurt!  The idea of being able to bring something back from the drugworld is intriguing, although by law it takes the place of something equally important. 

I think I would like Vaz more, though (I know, I know, not a drug).  A substance with many different applications.  Kind of like Ubik.

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Music Shit / Re: Favorite sci-fi drug (for the nerds)

« on: February 05, 2007, 03:43:37 PM »

Steve Aylett has some cool drugs in his books. none that come to mind now.

Not a drug but I love the book they are trying to steal in slaughtermatic.  A book with infinite hypertexts that traps whoever is reading with never-ending references.

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Music Shit / Re: Hello, I am Helen!. And even though this my first post here

« on: February 04, 2007, 07:35:59 PM »

I had no idea he was in a punk band, but it makes sense.  I'm gonna see if I can track down some Dead Dogs.

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Music Shit / Favorite sci-fi drug (for the nerds)

« on: February 04, 2007, 07:29:43 PM »

With the popularity of the movie version of A Scanner Darkly I've been privy to many conversations on how "trippy" the movie was and how Substance D would be a cool drug to try.  I never got that feeling from reading the book.  I think part of the reason the book is so tragic is due to the hopelessness of the drug despite the comic episodes it causes.  That being said, here are some sci-fi drugs I would like to try:

1.  Merge (from Rudy Rucker's ware series) - Seriously, a drug that completely melts your body, leaving you a puddle with two floating eyes on the floor.  A drug that allows you to "merge" with another in the ultimate sexual experience.  You just have to be sure no one stomps your puddle apart before you reconstitute.

2.  The person drug, I forget what it's called (from Jonathan Lethem's Amnesia Moon).  The drug is named after the main characters friend.  Basically it's a needle drug that contains the friend.  You can only interact with the friend after you shoot him into your veins, and no one can see the interaction but you.  I think I would want to be the drug in this case.  It would make interactions a little more interesting.

3.  The time-displacement drug (from Now Wait For Last Year by PKD).  A drug that will randomly yank you through time without warning for the rest of your life.  Would definitely make the experience of living one's life and one's priorities an entirely new experience, although I guess this is kinda what drugs do anyways. 

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Music Shit / Re: Hello, I am Helen!. And even though this my first post here

« on: February 04, 2007, 07:20:11 PM »

Huge fan!  Have you read any of his recent non-fiction books?  Pretty much anything that guy writes is hilarious and golden!