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Music Shit / Re: Super Duper Alice Cooper
« on: March 07, 2014, 08:50:24 AM »
The band better not get shafted.
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Music Shit / Re: Bands with 2 drummers
« on: March 07, 2014, 07:57:21 AM »
Also, Allman Brothers and Pavement.
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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: March 06, 2014, 09:56:00 AM »
Some recent stuff I bought:
Twilley/True Believers/Brats HoZac reissues. All great, no need to say much. I was particularly excited when the Brats came out. Always loved that song, now I don't have to handwring over finding and paying for an OG. It out-Dolls the Dolls.
Cheap Time total punk single. The band's albums are always solid, but the singles rip.
Counter Intuits: Had it digitally a while back. Revisiting it. Still like it. House rules.
Thin Lizzy LITA reissue. I got scammed on the booklet, which sucks. Weird record. It reminds me a little of Pretties for You not in sound but in terms of how it relates to the rest of the band's catalog
Peter Gutteridge -- Pure: Bought this on a slight whim. I like everything he's affiliated with, but wasn't that familiar with Snapper. I'm glad I got it. Even the unfinished instrumental tracks have the Kiwi warmth that I never tire of.
I Got Two Wings: Elder Utah Smith (book/CD). I read a book abut Ernie K. Doe recently and Smith was frequently cited as a big influence. I like Raw gospel, but this stuff is particularly great, right up there with the Rev. Charlie Jackson stuff, but maybe not as paint-peeling. I don't imagine I'll ever get saved, but this stuff hits me for sure.
Twilley/True Believers/Brats HoZac reissues. All great, no need to say much. I was particularly excited when the Brats came out. Always loved that song, now I don't have to handwring over finding and paying for an OG. It out-Dolls the Dolls.
Cheap Time total punk single. The band's albums are always solid, but the singles rip.
Counter Intuits: Had it digitally a while back. Revisiting it. Still like it. House rules.
Thin Lizzy LITA reissue. I got scammed on the booklet, which sucks. Weird record. It reminds me a little of Pretties for You not in sound but in terms of how it relates to the rest of the band's catalog
Peter Gutteridge -- Pure: Bought this on a slight whim. I like everything he's affiliated with, but wasn't that familiar with Snapper. I'm glad I got it. Even the unfinished instrumental tracks have the Kiwi warmth that I never tire of.
I Got Two Wings: Elder Utah Smith (book/CD). I read a book abut Ernie K. Doe recently and Smith was frequently cited as a big influence. I like Raw gospel, but this stuff is particularly great, right up there with the Rev. Charlie Jackson stuff, but maybe not as paint-peeling. I don't imagine I'll ever get saved, but this stuff hits me for sure.
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Music Shit / Re: Vivian Girls: DEAD!
« on: March 05, 2014, 10:20:34 AM »
That is a shit-ton of words on the Vivian Girls, although not a completely uninteresting read either.
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Music Shit / Re: The Fix 7" reissues
« on: March 05, 2014, 10:13:55 AM »
Who's running Touch & Go these days? I thought it basically folded a few years back. Or are they doing just special projects like this, but not releasing CocoRosie and TV on the Radio?
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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?
« on: February 28, 2014, 01:23:09 PM »The section on Jerry Lee Lewis was great -- I can't believe that guy is still alive -- and I see that the author has a whole book on Jerry Lee: I'd bet that's a good one.
Hellfire is one of the greatest bio's ever written and possibly the best rock 'n' roll book as well.
I'll see your Hellfire and raise you Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams, his Dean Martin bio. Tosches's best book hands down, IMHO.
I'd agree with the earlier take on his country book, though. That sort of endless listing of records and sides and labels and catalog numbers can be standard for Tosches. I think he means it to be more than just filler even if it too often reads that way.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: True Detective
« on: February 24, 2014, 02:02:05 PM »I guess I don't understand why: it can't be a cop show, be funny (yes it is funny), be self-serious (obvs) and be a kitchen-sink depository of all sorts of "leftfield" story-writing tropes.
It is! And that's why it's good. Totally.
But some of it is bullshit too. Of course.
And when I say "just a fucking cop show," I'm both selling it short AND elevating it. It's pretty obvious that the best of modern police procedurals (any medium) are just means to explore ancient ideas on life, sex & death. So, that isn't really an insult. But it's also to be aware that it is, still, despite it's deep dark trappings, pulp (as you said). And i think most people who read this board would know to not read the word "pulp" pejoratively. Pulp is where the real shit gets laid bare, albeit in an sensational way. The best pulp feeds the hungriest parts of human curiosity. Gross us out, turn us on, make us think.
All of this doesn't mean that many characters (and as Whet pointed out, most of the men too) are just stand-ins and signposts. Esp. the women. But as I said, the whole thing is about the two dudes (if that wasn't obvious before, I'd say last night cemented that pretty hard). Everyone else is superfluous.
I think we pretty much totally view it the same way. Let's hold hands now.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: True Detective
« on: February 24, 2014, 12:46:09 PM »Wire's the least sexy show in TV history. I doubt this one is much more titillating.
Sorry, brah, but this comment is what's wrong with this thread. First statement is just.....weird....how do you quantify that?
Second, there's no need for doubt: The fucking show is on the air! and trust me, there's plenty of "titillation."
It's a fucking cop show, people, just a good cop show w/ interesting themes and a big budget. Fuckin A.
This was in my FB feed the other day: "Is anybody else as obsessed with True Detective as I am?"
Now, the poster is an intelligent person, of that I have no doubt. And I like the show quite a bit too. But I'd be much more interested to hear about your obsession with 19th century beekeeping, to be fucking honest. You could enlighten me as to whether the same techniques are still used perhaps? Oh, no, you just want to discuss if Matthew McConaHey is the Yellow King and what does that one tattoo mean and zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
It's been awhile since I've read Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, and for some reason I've been thinking about it. Now that's a weird story full of easter eggs. And no Woody or Matty!
I agree with everything your saying, Eric, but what intrigues me about True Detective and what I don't think is present in any other drama (or show of any sort) I've seen on TV is how nearly campy it is while being so dark and self-serious. There are plenty of cop shows that are "over the top" or "intense" or "well-written," but True Detective is extreme to the point of flirting with Theater of the Absurd absurdity (but really never getting there). It throws every pulp, detective, and Southern Gothic cliche at the wall and then envelops it with this grotesque, dreamy Sandman-if populated-by-hillbilly-Pantera-fans patina. All the while you have Rust: essentially nothing more than a super smart 17-year-old autodidact trapped in Wooderson's body. My point is, I laugh at this show a lot. With it? At it? I don't know, but I don't think I'm doing it a disservice when I do. This is, of course, just how I read it. It also might be my way of compensating for not wanting to admit that, like you said, it's just a fucking cop show.
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Non-Music Shit / Movies on YouTube
« on: January 31, 2014, 08:50:47 AM »
Can anyone recommend any good full-length movies (music docs, weird obscure stuff, Joe Versus the Volcano, whatever) available on YouTube? I always hear of stuff and then forget what it was and never watch it.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Movies I've been watching
« on: January 31, 2014, 08:39:41 AM »
I watched the Ricky Jay documentary on Netflix the other night. I've always been fascinated with Jay, he teeters right on the border of con man and magician. And while I'm not especially into magic (although I suppose I can be wowed as much as anyone), I am especially into con men. He's truly the last of a dying breed and the fact that he made a genuine career out of mastering and being the definitive authority on such strange, arcane knowledge is really compelling. The doc is fairly well made and while there's not a whole lot to learn about Jay himself, that's the point--he's shrouded in mystery for a reason, it's all part of the illusion. The tricks themselves are pretty amazing and just watching him play with a deck of cards is hypnotic. Recommended.
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Music Shit / Re: BRUNCH ROCK
« on: January 30, 2014, 11:57:39 AM »
The wife and I have a standing date every Saturday at around 1:30 at a diner . We both get some variation on sandwiches (hers breakfast oriented, mine lunch) and split a plate of curly fries. No booze-based drinks. The diner plays either hot 97 or KTU and has the Cartoon Network on (not Adult Swim, mind you, we're talking Scooby-Doo, Jetsons, other HB cartoons). Brunchin'? Clearly not. Here's the catch though, we're often arguing about Woody Allen and it's all happening in Park Slop. Hillside, WHAT AM I DOING!
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Music Shit / Re: BRUNCH ROCK
« on: January 30, 2014, 09:23:18 AM »
What if you are drinking a brunch-approved alcoholic beverage but you have like ten of them and spill at least one and it gets on the breakfast or lunch food but you keep eating the food anyway even though it's now slightly soggy and potentially slightly orange flavored as well? No way you're brunchin'.
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Music Shit / Re: Talbot Adams "Away" video
« on: January 29, 2014, 11:04:56 AM »
I'm a big fan of those solo albums. Nice video, too.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: True Detective
« on: January 28, 2014, 10:50:43 AM »Diggin it but not blowing me away. There's still time
Episode three completely blew me away.
I'm a sucker for Rust's particularly misanthropic brand of existentialist philosophy, so I enjoyed the first two episodes as well, but goddamn the last shot of episode three scared the shit out of me.
