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Category Archives: music
After Laughter
Posted in music, pitted
Tagged After Laughter (Comes Tears), Stax Records, Wendy Rene
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Lithium Territorial Pissings
Just because you’re paranoid Don’t mean they’re not after you…
30 years
†December 7, 1980
Daniel Johnston
Daniel Johnston performing I Live My Broken Dreams in 1985 on IRS’ “The Cutting Edge” at Liberty Lunch in Austin, Texas.
Tiny increments, necessary imperfections, and contingent community
And you can thank the wanking eighties, if you wish, and digital sequencers, too, for proving to everyone that technologically ‘perfect’ rock—like ‘free’ jazz—sucks rockets. Because order sucks. I mean, look at the Stones. Keith Richards is always on top … Continue reading
Posted in history, music, pitted, technology
Tagged dave hickey, Gimme Shelter, recording, Rolling Stones
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The Scene dance show, Detroit [1982]
Love songs
In attempts to moderate they ask why we don’t write love songs. What is it that we sing then? Our love of life is total, everything we do is an expression of that, Everything that we write is a love … Continue reading
Oslo Editions: Contra Mundum I–VII
THE INITIAL invitation to curate a lecture series came in the spring of last year from Justin Beal, who asked us to put something together for the Mandrake, an artist-run bar in LA. The title Contra Mundum comes from Brideshead … Continue reading
Posted in art, graphic design, literature, music, the fall, writing
Tagged Alex Klein, Contra Mundum, Marc Owens, Oslo Editions
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Brian Eno
Brian Eno: I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together … Continue reading
Posted in media, music, science, technology
Tagged Brian Eno, Mark Richardson, Pitchfork Media
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Crass
Steve Ignorant: The truth of Crass that I’ve read of his is revisionist to say the least. There’s no question that during the period that we lived 15 people in the house with 25 cats there was unbelievable accord. Obviously … Continue reading
The Lake
The Lake Edgar Allan Poe, 1927 In youth’s spring, it was my lot To haunt of the wide earth a spot The which I could not love the less; So lovely was the loneliness Of a wild lake, with black … Continue reading
Posted in animation, art, illustration, literature, music, so pitted
Tagged Adam Shecter, Antony and the Johnsons, Edgar Allan Poe
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Augustus Pablo
Java live 1986; via Avocado Goth.
HERSTORY vs. HISTORY
Pretty epic riot grrrl mix by Ceci Moss: I HATE HISTORY.
Blood clean, body lean, mind sharp
Failing on most counts. Sorry Henry…
Posted in adjectives, graphic design, lol, music
Tagged black flag, henry rollins, Keep Calm and Carry On, parody, pastiche
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Late ’80s roadtrip
When I was a kid, my mom drove from Stockholm to southern Sweden in a car with two cassettes: Graceland and this single .
Posted in music
Tagged BJ Thomas, Graceland, Paul Simon, Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head
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