Album-of-the-week: 5/27/04
This is my favorite Skinny Puppy album. It is beautifully demented. An industrial classic.
Archive for May, 2004
May 27, 2004
May 26, 2004
I’m in some serious pain here. This is the stiffest neck I’ve ever had.
Earlier I almost fell down when moving my arms around caused a nerve to get pinched. Aye carumba.
In other news, RemixFight has returned from the dead.
There is a new due date for the Starfinger remix, so everybody should do one!
May 21, 2004
Album-of-the-week: 5-21-04
I would have posted this earlier in the week, but I was torturing myself over the ramifications of recommending an album with a song about venereal disease on it. Material seems to have become another name that Bill Laswell sticks on whatever he wants to. This incarnation is a bunch of his telltale beats and soundscapes with a slew of guest rappers. (Flava Flav spits out the VD Epic Burnin’).
Anyway, if you like rap, it’s definitely worth hearing.
May 18, 2004
At the risk of looking like a music software nerd, I just heard about this program.
I’m not sure if my setup would benefit from this, but I felt obliged to mention it.
COOL.
May 17, 2004
Remixfight appears to be in a death spiral, so I’m trying to salvage the remnants of the dwindling community.
If you are one of these people, please check this out:
May 13, 2004
I guess I’ve gotten boring in my old age. Nobody wants to make any comments anymore?
Is anybody out there?
Did I break something so they don’t work?
I’m lonely!
May 12, 2004
Hey, I added a page for some creative writings.. namely the 50 word stories that I intend on writing after discovering them yesterday. Maybe I’ll write something else some day.
I also moved my poems over from my old site. The links are on the left, but I repeat them here to encourage you to check them out:
Album-of-the-week: 5-12-04
John Linnell’s solo effort has a lot in common with his main band They Might Be Giants. If you like their sense of humor and skewed poppiness, then you probably already have this album. I just listened to it for the first time in years, and it cracked me up so much, I had to post it here.
How can you go wrong with such great lines as these: “Oregon is bad, stop them if you can” and “Iowa is a witch” ?
May 11, 2004
By the way, I provided a bass solo for Heuristics Inc’s Songfight entry Fight The Sea a couple weeks ago.
Check it out in the songfight archive.
At the moment I am finishing up a mix for a new Suave Noise Youth track for the Songfight due tomorrow.
Lastly, and unrelated to the music, I was just challenged to write a story with exactly 50 words. Here it is:
The food danced down the conveyor as the vapid cashier began her
tally. After forty-five minutes of toddler-juggling and
rusty-cart-wrestling, this brief pause is a Gift from the Grocery Gods.Soon the kids will be chained to the TV.
I’ll have a joint and a bubblebath.
Uhh.. Where’s my purse?
May 4, 2004
Album-of-the-week: 5-04-04
Praxis is a constantly changing group of musicians under the direction of the one-and-only Bill Laswell. He has spent his career breaking down genre barriers, and this album is the ultimate musical free-for-all. The band is a hodgepodge of guitar virtuosos, funk legends and turntable troubadours. Check out this cast of characters: Buckethead, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Brain and Af Next Man Flip (from the Jungle Brothers).
And it sounds good too!
