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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: October 14, 2008, 12:09:31 PM »

just started on 'the street of crododiles' and find myself reading every other paragraph twice because it's so beautifully written. poetic yet simplistic.

Yeah, I love that book! at Have you seen the Brothers Quay short based on it? I picked up his other book (Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass) a while back and haven't had time to read it.  I'd like to reread Street of Crocodiles as well; the writing was so incredible that I sometimes forgot to pay attention to what was actually happening.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Oliver Stone on Colbert

« on: October 10, 2008, 08:16:23 AM »

He's probably made some pretty right-wing comments before

Didn't he blame conservatives for Alexander tanking at the box office? i.e., because the movie depicts Alexander's bisexual relationships (at least from what I hear--never saw it) and conservatives weren't having it?

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: October 09, 2008, 08:45:23 PM »

Yeah, pull up any list of writers who didn't win the Nobel Prize, and it's like a best-of-the-20th century.  Greene, Nabokov, Joyce, etc etc.  I've never even heard of that guy that just won before.

Just started Phillip Lamantia - Bed of Sphinxes.  Only read two poems so far, so I can't really make a valid judgment, but it has some nice imagery.  Really over the top, though, almost to the point of being surrealist self-parody.  Have been reading Miller's Colossus of Maroussi on and off.

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Music Shit / Re: new goodnight loving tracks/lp

« on: October 09, 2008, 04:49:50 PM »

I WANT MINE NOW WHERE IS IT GIMME GIMME GIMME

Yeah, I'm starting to wonder if I accidentally put my old address on the PayPal order form.

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Music Shit / Re: Best of the Year Thus Far (Fall Edition)

« on: October 08, 2008, 02:35:51 PM »

Thomas Function is definitely tops for me.  Probably haven't listened to a new album that much since the first King Khan and BBQ Show.  7+ months of straight listening and not even remotely tired of it.

Also love:
Lili Z.
Blank Dogs
Dutchess and the Duke
Oh Sees

that's probably the top five off the top of my head.  TNV, Gentleman Jesse, Wax Museums floating around there in the top ten somewhere.  New GNL is climbing pretty quick.  TV Ghost is one of those albums I don't pull out that often but always love whenever I do.  Can't think of a 7" list immediately, but Catatonic Youth and the Barbaras are up there.

Shows:
Keiji Haino in Houston - I'm generally not enough of a noise fanatic for 2+ hours of it, but this was an experience, for sure.  Exhausting, but mostly awesome.
Ty Segall/Sic Alps/Oh Sees two days in Austin - Oh Sees were untouchable the first night, Sic Alps killed it on the second.  Ty Segall was great, too.
King Khan and the Shrines
Dutchess and the Duke sitting outside at some picnic tables at the Mohawk
Thomas Function/Wax Museums/Harlem/Teeners/Teenage Cool Kids - every band on this show ruled.  Probably the best of all the times I've seen WM, too.

Reunions that defied generally low expectations:
Zero Boys
Homosexuals
Boys (and a lot of bands at Power Pop Fest.  20/20, just 'cause they looked like they were having the time of their lives playing in front of young people, GJ was great, Tranzmitors totally took me by surprise.)

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Music Shit / Re: new goodnight loving tracks/lp

« on: October 08, 2008, 02:23:28 PM »

Still waiting for this in the mail, but I finally found it on slsk yesterday.  Love the female backing vocals on Safe at Home and We're in a Place.  Wasn't as into it as Crooked Lake at first, but the whole album grows on me immensely with every listen.  The second half slays the first, too. Ol' Geraldine!

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Non-Music Shit / Re: The Debate

« on: October 07, 2008, 07:31:06 PM »

Well, he needs someone on staff who can use the internet.


...someone was bound to say it eventually.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: THE GOODNIGHT LOVING "self-titled" LP - OUT NOW !!!!

« on: September 30, 2008, 06:06:05 PM »

Just ordered this.  Mad that it's not in my hands right now.

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Music Shit / Re: Hey! I got lost in the Mall!

« on: September 19, 2008, 02:43:45 PM »

I haven't even been able to finish the b side because of Safety In Numbers.  Good to finally have this track on vinyl after hearing it live for a year plus.

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Music Shit / Re: Soviet Heritage...

« on: September 17, 2008, 08:53:59 PM »

This article sparked some interest,  and I soulsucked some of it to hear... Dug all which I could locate -- Kino, Akvarium and Yanka, but could not secure for hearing that Egor Letov album (which, from description, sounds like it would be right up my alley, since I like the Grob stuff and would certainly like to hear a more "sprawling, psychedelic" album by it's prime mover).

I just got it on slsk.  I'm hazelmotes.  Horosho! is my favorite Gr. Ob. that I've heard, though it doesn't seem to get mentioned much on most of the online writing about them.  I just started learning Russian and it's pretty cool to be able to pick up words here and there, although I can't even discern a general idea of the meaning yet.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: September 11, 2008, 12:54:30 PM »

I just started reading Blood Meridian after finishing Confederacy of Dunces. Been in the modern classic fiction mood lately.

Blood Meridian is great so far, fucking brutal. I'd love to see someone take a shot at adapting this puppy but I just can't see any studios approving all the blood and violence. Wait...

Isn't Riddley Scott supposed to be doing it?

Yup, and it will suck. The aussie director of "The Proposition", John Hillcoat, would be the obvious candidate to do "Blood Meridian" in my opinion. Ridley Scott will make a flashy tame version of the book.

Ah, I still haven't seen The Proposition.  I'm assuming you'd recommend it?

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: September 10, 2008, 09:46:03 PM »

I just started reading Blood Meridian after finishing Confederacy of Dunces. Been in the modern classic fiction mood lately.

Blood Meridian is great so far, fucking brutal. I'd love to see someone take a shot at adapting this puppy but I just can't see any studios approving all the blood and violence. Wait...

Isn't Riddley Scott supposed to be doing it?

The judge's spiel about the world being a "hat trick in a medicine show" is my favorite in the whole book.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: September 08, 2008, 06:10:07 PM »

Finally got around to finishing The Gift.  Loved parts of it, completely lost on others.  In other words, like a lot of Nabokov's less famous stuff.  Now tackling Despair, which reads much, much quicker.

Also been reading Sweet Soul Music by Peter Guralnick on and off.  Just got to the part about Stax, so I'm eager to see how that compares to Bowman's book, Soulsville USA.  Anyone read either or both?

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Music Shit / Re: I wonder how that powerpop fest is going in texas?

« on: September 05, 2008, 10:29:47 AM »

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Kerve6HGP98

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Music Shit / Re: What is everybody jammin' to? Part III

« on: September 01, 2008, 08:14:22 PM »

Grazhdanskaya Oborona - Horosho!

In hopes that it will help with my Russian homework.