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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: out now CUNTZ Aloha LP on Homeless
« on: January 15, 2013, 06:13:37 AM »
Listening to the bandcamp right now, I'm impressed! Will buy from Lammie too.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Stand-up comedy
« on: January 13, 2013, 04:45:41 PM »Stewart Lee is one of the best. Did you ever watch Armando Iannucci's ''The Armando Iannucci Shows''? Related, even though Iannucci is not a stand up comedian, and as far as I know SL is not involved in that particular one. Also, check out Lee & Herring's ''Fist of Fun''. Stewart Lee is a massive Fall fan too.I know Iannucci from SL's "Comedy Vehicle" which he produced (and did those funny interviews). Will look for the shows.
I've seen Fist of fun clips, but I'm not sure if I really liked 'em. Young Stew isn't as biting as he is now, and Herring tends to irritate me after a while with his "overexcited kid" style. But yeah, not bad at all! Also found clips of "This morning with Richard not Judy" which is I think as fun as a British 90s morning tv show can be.
He also co-wrote ''The Jerry Springer Opera'' for the theatre I work in and used to come to the staff bar wearing a Neu t-shirt. He's a sound bloke.
He also writes record reviews, all readable on his website. Some are good, but if I remember correctly he has a tendency to write in a way that you can only understand the review if you are familiar with the record, so it's kind of useless.
I imagine Louis CK has already been mentioned but I haven't read this thread till this page, I think. I find him funny but he irritates me too. I'll have to figure out why that is. When I have, THERE WILL BE TEARS, I AM TELLING YOU.
I can tell you this: I really like everything Louis CK has done so far, the only thing that bothers me is his milking of the "I have kids" routine. I mean, it's starting to sound like a cliche, that kind of cliche British comedians make fun of in American comedians.
Attn. user: Scale - are there any youtube clips of your stand up or something? I would love to try doing it, but in Italy it's really not a thing, at least in 26 years I've never seen a comedy club or an open-mic situation where they would have amateur comics. Comedy here is seen as a theatre thing, and it's almost only ok for proper actors to do it. I can count italian stand up acts on one hand (more like one finger)! Also my problem is that it sounds more plausible in english, I can hardly bear italian comedy. But that must be pathological xenophilia.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Stand-up comedy
« on: January 13, 2013, 02:15:02 PM »
Just finished watching the new show by Stewart Lee, "Carpet remnant world".
I had made the mistake of watching a few clips on YouTube and they didn't quite do anything for me compared to his other shows. But I was wrong! To watch the whole thing from start to finish is a blast! Possibly his best show. His jokes get more and more twisted and he gets more and more confident about fucking with people's head.
Also, the opening music is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlMwX9LxHcg and the closing music is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZcwhFizAmc
The man knows his krautrock!
I had made the mistake of watching a few clips on YouTube and they didn't quite do anything for me compared to his other shows. But I was wrong! To watch the whole thing from start to finish is a blast! Possibly his best show. His jokes get more and more twisted and he gets more and more confident about fucking with people's head.
Also, the opening music is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlMwX9LxHcg and the closing music is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZcwhFizAmc
The man knows his krautrock!
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Music Shit / Re: The "Why isn't this reissued on vinyl thread?" Part 2
« on: January 11, 2013, 04:57:55 AM »Supercharger
You mean the first LP? Cos I found "Goes way out" for cheap (about 10 euros if I remember correctly) at a record fair and I figure it's not that hard to come by.
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Music Shit / Re: 2012 Best
« on: January 10, 2013, 07:19:04 AM »Well, those Church Whip guys are no geniuses, but they chose the correct response. Even if they had meant "rape" as in sexual violation, they shouldn't apologize. Mentioning something or joking about it isn't the same as condoning it. This isn't a "rape culture" issue. "Community"? What community?
Agreed.
Also I would like to point out that my post isn't calling out for any kind of censorship. The bottom line is I don't give a fuck.
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Demo Tape / Re: Mirrorism - psychedelic punk / post-punk
« on: January 10, 2013, 07:14:25 AM »
Drug Punk blog sez:
http://drugpunk.blogspot.it/2013/01/mirrorism-fly-eye-ep-2012.html
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Mirrorism is a Ferrarese three-piece trafficking in slow-burn psych punk. Sometimes plodding, sometimes awkward, this EP's a lot of fun towards the end. "S.P.O.W." is a lumbering composition of heavy bass, soft drumming, and erratic guitar that drops out, dub-style, only to come shooting back into the mix with staccato bursts.
"Slow Homo" deepens the groove: centered around the drums, the song coulda been written by a math rock band that smoked too much weed and came up with a reggae song unintentionally. Mirrorism really finds its stride on "Night Flight": it's the sort of jittery, jerky tune The Ex specialized in, back in the early '80s. Complete with bursts of saxaphone. It wouldn't be out of place on one of those "New York Noise" compilations, maybe. The last third of the EP is the best: from "Night Flight" on, this EP transforms from lilting squawking to compelling post-punk psych that I wanna dance to.
If Mirrorism continues the rhythmic squall sound they've developed here, I expect good things from 'em in 2013.
http://drugpunk.blogspot.it/2013/01/mirrorism-fly-eye-ep-2012.html
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Music Shit / Re: 2012 Best
« on: January 10, 2013, 03:44:21 AM »
A couple of posts earlier: "bring your booze, your drugs, your women... we want them all!" which of course implies that they are only referring to a male audience and consider women a commodity.
"Raping the east" is not offensive and the people who speak against the use of that word are just PC-bots who can't understand what they're fighting for. The sentence above, though... It's obvious they mean no harm, but if you play in a punky-punk band, "fighting the system" and shit, you shouldn't spill out such nonsense.
I didn't mean to come off as some kind of feminist prude, but I am.
Not what I wanted to say. Let me try again.
It's not a matter of "PC" or "Political correctness gone mad" as Stewart Lee would put it, it's just: these guys are punks, right? They're outcasts, they play DIY venues and they fight mainstream culture. Sexism though, is (one of) the worst facet of mainstream culture, so either you fight it or you support it.
Just to be clear (please remember I'm a ESL speaker so everything may come off a little charged in the wrong way): I wouldn't care if it came from a garage revivalist band; but a crusty diy punk band? It's not offensive, it's stupid. They should reconsider what side they're on.
"Raping the east" is not offensive and the people who speak against the use of that word are just PC-bots who can't understand what they're fighting for. The sentence above, though... It's obvious they mean no harm, but if you play in a punky-punk band, "fighting the system" and shit, you shouldn't spill out such nonsense.
I didn't mean to come off as some kind of feminist prude, but I am.
Not what I wanted to say. Let me try again.
It's not a matter of "PC" or "Political correctness gone mad" as Stewart Lee would put it, it's just: these guys are punks, right? They're outcasts, they play DIY venues and they fight mainstream culture. Sexism though, is (one of) the worst facet of mainstream culture, so either you fight it or you support it.
Just to be clear (please remember I'm a ESL speaker so everything may come off a little charged in the wrong way): I wouldn't care if it came from a garage revivalist band; but a crusty diy punk band? It's not offensive, it's stupid. They should reconsider what side they're on.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: USA to overseas mail prices jumping late-January
« on: January 10, 2013, 01:16:14 AM »Quote
and I live in a city with no record store.
I hear you, brother.
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: FAMILY CURSE - 'Twilight Language' out soon > listen to entire LP here <
« on: January 10, 2013, 01:10:33 AM »
Great! Now find some fat rich French actor and convince him to pay for your plane tickets with the promise that it'll help cut their taxes.
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: FAMILY CURSE - 'Twilight Language' out soon > listen to entire LP here <
« on: January 09, 2013, 09:33:27 AM »
So when exactly is the LP coming out?
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Styrenes 2x7"
« on: January 08, 2013, 04:00:18 PM »
30 bux? With a cover like that? No way. Is it available for cheaper somewhere else? I won't dare to ask for euro distros...
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Music Shit / Re: best of PUNK MAGAZINE book! seriously cool stuff!
« on: January 07, 2013, 10:03:16 AM »
Thanks for the tip on the amazon.com offer, even with international shipping to Europe it's still pretty cheap. I bought it right away.
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Music Shit / Re: first record store experience
« on: January 03, 2013, 03:23:38 AM »
And of course some of the other records I bought were the first 2 New Bomb Turks LPs, the Lazy Cowgirls A little sex and death, Supercharger Goes way out! on CD, the Devil Doesn't Saturday night fever on CD.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: What are you gonna do in 2013?
« on: January 03, 2013, 01:14:51 AM »opening for the queers tonight, good god, how bad must they be in this day and age?
I thought they would only play in Italy! I don't know because I haven't been to their shows, but my friends tell me they're pretty bad. And my friends are italian!
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Music Shit / Re: first record store experience
« on: January 03, 2013, 01:11:57 AM »
I think my first actual record store experience was at Amoeba records, first in Berkeley and then in Height st., on my first USA trip with my mum, when I was 14.
I went in there with a list of names my friends had recommended, some of which I just had never heard but I trusted my friends.
Bought the Misfits' "Collection II", Dead Boys "We have come for your children" (still a great fucking record by the way), Teengenerate's "Audio recording" all on CD, Social Distortion "Prison bound", Rip Offs "Got a record" and I really can't remember what else on vinyl. I also bought a "legacy of brutality" longsleeved shirt at a mall, which got me several "thumbs up" from the punks hanging out on Height st. I still have it and recently I turned it into a tank top. It's got a big corny skeleton with Danzig hair on the back.
My mum never liked my thing for records, especially punk records, but I gotta say on this trip she was great. I remember checking out of Amoeba in Berkeley with a 100$ receipt. She just let me buy whatever, but she wouldn't allow the "born to lose" belt: "my son was born to win!".
She was wrong.
I went in there with a list of names my friends had recommended, some of which I just had never heard but I trusted my friends.
Bought the Misfits' "Collection II", Dead Boys "We have come for your children" (still a great fucking record by the way), Teengenerate's "Audio recording" all on CD, Social Distortion "Prison bound", Rip Offs "Got a record" and I really can't remember what else on vinyl. I also bought a "legacy of brutality" longsleeved shirt at a mall, which got me several "thumbs up" from the punks hanging out on Height st. I still have it and recently I turned it into a tank top. It's got a big corny skeleton with Danzig hair on the back.
My mum never liked my thing for records, especially punk records, but I gotta say on this trip she was great. I remember checking out of Amoeba in Berkeley with a 100$ receipt. She just let me buy whatever, but she wouldn't allow the "born to lose" belt: "my son was born to win!".
She was wrong.
