let us not forget this moment in recent history. my god, these people make me sick. the obama campaign needs to use this image every chance they get (with or without the blingee).
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
in the history of recorded bullshit
let us not forget this moment in recent history. my god, these people make me sick. the obama campaign needs to use this image every chance they get (with or without the blingee).
Monday, September 29, 2008
bear mauled by self
Myspace Glitter Graphics
We can all breathe a little bit easier today — Bill Murray has given his blessing to Ghostbusters 3. When the update/reboot, to be penned by The Office's Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, was confirmed earlier this month, it was also announced that there'd be roles for the entire original cast. We weren't quite sure if Murray would be game, seeing as he's the only truly in-demand actor left in the bunch (with apologies to Ernie Hudson). But at Fantastic Fest yesterday, where he was to plug his new movie City of Ember, he sounded all for it: "The wounds from Ghostbusters 2 have healed," he said to big laughs. Murray also said that "the first forty minutes of Ghostbusters is about as funny as a movie gets."
-from some dumb website that i forget because it's not blingee.com
Friday, September 26, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
by popular demand, a talk talk post
so here's what's up with talk talk after talk talk:
mark hollis put out a self-titled solo album in 1998. after that he more or less retired, but did play piano on one track from psyence fiction by unkle. unfortunately, it's the pretty crappy song "chaos." he also produced and played on a pretty decent record called smiling and waving by anja garbarek in 2001.
paul harris and lee webb went on to form a group called .o.rang whose records are nearly impossible to find. they're probably pretty decent on their own, but when you spend four or five months trying to track them down, they tend to disappoint. they're kind of in the same spirit instrumentally as spirit of eden but a little more world music-y. if i still have them are i'll upload them to you-send-it so you can judge for yourself. they both played with beth gibbons on out of season which i'm guessing you guys already have around. if not, it's pretty decent.
lee harris played drums on bark psychosis' excellent codename dustsucker which you should seek out immediately. according to wikipedia he played with a group called midnight choir, but i've never heard that. i'll let you know if the inevitable obsessive searching turns anything up.
paul webb produced an album by somebody named james yorkston in 2006. i've never heard it but for some reason i really doubt its any good.
tim friese-greene, the unofficial fourth member, records under the name heligoland. i've long been searching for his records, but the cover art looks super-crappy.
mark hollis put out a self-titled solo album in 1998. after that he more or less retired, but did play piano on one track from psyence fiction by unkle. unfortunately, it's the pretty crappy song "chaos." he also produced and played on a pretty decent record called smiling and waving by anja garbarek in 2001.
paul harris and lee webb went on to form a group called .o.rang whose records are nearly impossible to find. they're probably pretty decent on their own, but when you spend four or five months trying to track them down, they tend to disappoint. they're kind of in the same spirit instrumentally as spirit of eden but a little more world music-y. if i still have them are i'll upload them to you-send-it so you can judge for yourself. they both played with beth gibbons on out of season which i'm guessing you guys already have around. if not, it's pretty decent.
lee harris played drums on bark psychosis' excellent codename dustsucker which you should seek out immediately. according to wikipedia he played with a group called midnight choir, but i've never heard that. i'll let you know if the inevitable obsessive searching turns anything up.
paul webb produced an album by somebody named james yorkston in 2006. i've never heard it but for some reason i really doubt its any good.
tim friese-greene, the unofficial fourth member, records under the name heligoland. i've long been searching for his records, but the cover art looks super-crappy.
the best album for fall?
today my vote goes to odessey and oracle by the zombies.
is a video of a perfromance of 'brief candles' from the reunion tour they did last year to celebrate the 40th (!) anniversary of the ablum.
is a video of a perfromance of 'brief candles' from the reunion tour they did last year to celebrate the 40th (!) anniversary of the ablum.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
more spot the sample
the drum loop.
it really is a bummer the unkle album didn't turn out better.
ah well.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
You're wild, man....WIIIILLLLLD!
Maybe you all have heard it already, but here it is anyways just in case.
Venom live at City Gardens in Jersey, music cut out, just between-song-banter.
YOU'RE FUCKIN' PRETTY LOUD, NEW JERSEY!
Venom live at City Gardens in Jersey, music cut out, just between-song-banter.
YOU'RE FUCKIN' PRETTY LOUD, NEW JERSEY!
how did we miss carl craig?
in all of our mid-to-late 90s dance fetishizing, we managed to overlook one of the finest electronic records ever made: carl craig's more songs about food and revolutionary art. it was released in 1997, so it's contemporaneous with orblivion and homework. it's sort of a strange amalgam of ambient-house, jazz (but not even a little in a chees or acid-jazz way), and berlin-style coldness.
also check out programmed under craig's innerzone orchestra alias and his recent detroit experiment album.
also check out programmed under craig's innerzone orchestra alias and his recent detroit experiment album.
Monday, September 15, 2008
richard wright = dead
i've long said that wright was the true draw of this band. the piano in this song (and the keyboards on this album in general) prove it. this band didn't succeed -after barret - because of roger waters or david gilmour, but rather in spite of them.
this video is pretty cheese dick, but it does contain the original piano piece that became us and them, a piece of unused incidental music from the 'violent sequence' in zabriske point.
also, one of the 'related videos' is 'real compton g's' by eazy-e.
the klf burn a million quid
man. i love this band. i don't care. the actual burning goes down about halfway through the second video.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
david foster wallace
hung himself. which is a drag.i never read any of the big stuff, just little pieces of 'girl with the curious hair'
here's what he had to say about mccain recently after having written a fairly positive essay about him in 2000:
David Foster Wallace, author of the novel "Infinite Jest," was asked by Rolling Stone magazine to cover John McCain's presidential campaign in 2000. That assignment became a chapter in his essay collection "Consider the Lobster" (2005); the essay has now been issued as a stand-alone book, "McCain's Promise." In a phone interview, Mr. Wallace said he came away from the experience marveling at "how unknowable and layered these candidates are." Mr. Wallace also answered questions via email about presidential hopefuls, the youth vote and smiley faces.
[david foster wallace]
Marion Ettlinger
WSJ: So why would a novelist want to travel around on a campaign bus?
Mr. Wallace: What made the McCain idea interesting to me, was that I'd seen a tape of his appearance on Charlie Rose at some point the previous year, in which he spoke so candidly and bluntly about stuff like campaign finance and partisan ickiness, stuff I'd not heard any national-level politician say. There was also the fact that my own politics were about 179 degrees from his, so there was no worry that I'd somehow get seduced into writing an infomercial.
WSJ: Have you changed your mind about any of the points that you made in the book?
Mr. Wallace: In the best political tradition, I reject the premise of your question. The essay quite specifically concerns a couple weeks in February, 2000, and the situation of both McCain [and] national politics in those couple weeks. It is heavily context-dependent. And that context now seems a long, long, long time ago. McCain himself has obviously changed; his flipperoos and weaselings on Roe v. Wade, campaign finance, the toxicity of lobbyists, Iraq timetables, etc. are just some of what make him a less interesting, more depressing political figure now—for me, at least. It's all understandable, of course—he's the GOP nominee now, not an insurgent maverick. Understandable, but depressing. As part of the essay talks about, there's an enormous difference between running an insurgent Hail-Mary-type longshot campaign and being a viable candidate (it was right around New Hampshire in 2000 that McCain began to change from the former to the latter), and there are some deep, really rather troubling questions about whether serious honor and candor and principle remain possible for someone who wants to really maybe win. I wouldn't take back anything that got said in that essay, but I'd want a reader to keep the time and context very much in mind on every page.
WSJ: You write that John McCain, in 2000, had become "the great populist hope of American politics." What parallels do you see between McCain in 2000 and Barack Obama in 2008?
Mr. Wallace: There are some similarities—the ability to attract new voters, Independents; the ability to raise serious money in a grassroots way via the Web. But there are also lots of differences, many too obvious to need pointing out. Obama is an orator, for one thing—a rhetorician of the old school. To me, that seems more classically populist than McCain, who's not a good speechmaker and whose great strengths are Q&As and small-group press confabs. But there's a bigger [reason]. The truth—as I see it—is that the previous seven years and four months of the Bush Administration have been such an unmitigated horror show of rapacity, hubris, incompetence, mendacity, corruption, cynicism and contempt for the electorate that it's very difficult to imagine how a self-identified Republican could try to position himself as a populist.
WSJ: In the book, you talk about why many young people are turned off by politics. What do you think could get young people to the voting booth this election?
Mr. Wallace: Well, it's a very different situation. If nothing else, the previous seven years and four months have helped make it clear that it actually matters a whole, whole lot who gets elected president. A whole lot. There's also the fact that there are now certain really urgent, galvanizing problems—price of oil, carbon emissions, Iraq—that are apt to get more voters of all ages and education-levels to the polls. For more interested or sophisticated young voters, there are also the matters of the staggering rise in national debt and off-the-books war-funding, the collapse of the dollar, and the grievous damage that's been done to all manner of consensuses about Constitutional protections, separation of powers, and U.S. obligations under international treaties.
here's what he had to say about mccain recently after having written a fairly positive essay about him in 2000:
David Foster Wallace, author of the novel "Infinite Jest," was asked by Rolling Stone magazine to cover John McCain's presidential campaign in 2000. That assignment became a chapter in his essay collection "Consider the Lobster" (2005); the essay has now been issued as a stand-alone book, "McCain's Promise." In a phone interview, Mr. Wallace said he came away from the experience marveling at "how unknowable and layered these candidates are." Mr. Wallace also answered questions via email about presidential hopefuls, the youth vote and smiley faces.
[david foster wallace]
Marion Ettlinger
WSJ: So why would a novelist want to travel around on a campaign bus?
Mr. Wallace: What made the McCain idea interesting to me, was that I'd seen a tape of his appearance on Charlie Rose at some point the previous year, in which he spoke so candidly and bluntly about stuff like campaign finance and partisan ickiness, stuff I'd not heard any national-level politician say. There was also the fact that my own politics were about 179 degrees from his, so there was no worry that I'd somehow get seduced into writing an infomercial.
WSJ: Have you changed your mind about any of the points that you made in the book?
Mr. Wallace: In the best political tradition, I reject the premise of your question. The essay quite specifically concerns a couple weeks in February, 2000, and the situation of both McCain [and] national politics in those couple weeks. It is heavily context-dependent. And that context now seems a long, long, long time ago. McCain himself has obviously changed; his flipperoos and weaselings on Roe v. Wade, campaign finance, the toxicity of lobbyists, Iraq timetables, etc. are just some of what make him a less interesting, more depressing political figure now—for me, at least. It's all understandable, of course—he's the GOP nominee now, not an insurgent maverick. Understandable, but depressing. As part of the essay talks about, there's an enormous difference between running an insurgent Hail-Mary-type longshot campaign and being a viable candidate (it was right around New Hampshire in 2000 that McCain began to change from the former to the latter), and there are some deep, really rather troubling questions about whether serious honor and candor and principle remain possible for someone who wants to really maybe win. I wouldn't take back anything that got said in that essay, but I'd want a reader to keep the time and context very much in mind on every page.
WSJ: You write that John McCain, in 2000, had become "the great populist hope of American politics." What parallels do you see between McCain in 2000 and Barack Obama in 2008?
Mr. Wallace: There are some similarities—the ability to attract new voters, Independents; the ability to raise serious money in a grassroots way via the Web. But there are also lots of differences, many too obvious to need pointing out. Obama is an orator, for one thing—a rhetorician of the old school. To me, that seems more classically populist than McCain, who's not a good speechmaker and whose great strengths are Q&As and small-group press confabs. But there's a bigger [reason]. The truth—as I see it—is that the previous seven years and four months of the Bush Administration have been such an unmitigated horror show of rapacity, hubris, incompetence, mendacity, corruption, cynicism and contempt for the electorate that it's very difficult to imagine how a self-identified Republican could try to position himself as a populist.
WSJ: In the book, you talk about why many young people are turned off by politics. What do you think could get young people to the voting booth this election?
Mr. Wallace: Well, it's a very different situation. If nothing else, the previous seven years and four months have helped make it clear that it actually matters a whole, whole lot who gets elected president. A whole lot. There's also the fact that there are now certain really urgent, galvanizing problems—price of oil, carbon emissions, Iraq—that are apt to get more voters of all ages and education-levels to the polls. For more interested or sophisticated young voters, there are also the matters of the staggering rise in national debt and off-the-books war-funding, the collapse of the dollar, and the grievous damage that's been done to all manner of consensuses about Constitutional protections, separation of powers, and U.S. obligations under international treaties.
speaking of ffwd
i didn't realise until i read the allmusic bio, but thomas fehlmann was a contributor. if you haven't heard his stuff, i highly recommend visions of blah on kompakt. he's been a frequent orb collaborator, most notably on okie dokie it's the orb on kompakt. he was also involved with sun electric, though i don't know if he had much to do with the music. good stuff. now he's all old:
edit:
after reading his bio at his official site (flowing.de) it looks like he's the reason pomme fritz and orbus terrarum sound similar to ffwd. he was heavily involved with the recording of all three.
edit:
after reading his bio at his official site (flowing.de) it looks like he's the reason pomme fritz and orbus terrarum sound similar to ffwd. he was heavily involved with the recording of all three.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
fun fact
the kick drum sound from 'closer' by nine inch nails is, in fact, sampled from 'nightclubbing' by iggy pop.
maybe i'm behind the curve
this record came out last year. i've had it for a few months and haven't really given it much play until lately. kind of perfect for rainy weather at the end of summer.
burial - archangel
from untrue
burial - archangel
from untrue
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
dub not dub
how far do th bounds of dub stretch? i think there's a case to be made that any of these fit:
bark psychosis - absent friend
fishmans - nightcruising
burial - ghost hardware (note: don't listen to it on laptop speakers; you'll miss half the song)
tortoise - galapagos
sub oslo - celestial penetration
so what is it?
the spring reverb?
the tape echo?
the upstroke?
bass?
bark psychosis - absent friend
fishmans - nightcruising
burial - ghost hardware (note: don't listen to it on laptop speakers; you'll miss half the song)
tortoise - galapagos
sub oslo - celestial penetration
so what is it?
the spring reverb?
the tape echo?
the upstroke?
bass?
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
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