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Tuesday, May 24, 2005
x-winger
""It's one thing to put your faith in a religion founded by a real person who claimed divine revelation, but it's something else entirely to have, as the scripture of your religion, a storyline that you know was made up by a very nonprophetic human being."
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Wha...? Your irony meters may have been spared if you didn't already know that Card is devoutly religious. Your meters are glowing heaps of radioactive slag right now if you knew that Card is a devout Mormon."
david cross is overwrought
"Top Ten CD's That I Just Made Up (and accompanying made-up review excerpts) to listen to while skimming through some of the overwrought reviews on Pitchforkmedia.com."
Monday, May 23, 2005
sigh ops
i eagerly await rupert murdocks "dressing down" for endangering our troops by enciting the enemy. or not.
"The Washington Post report on the preliminary investigation into the release of photos of Saddam Hussein in his underwear seems to be suggesting that the photos were released for military psy-ops reasons, rather than out of individual cupidity..."
Sunday, May 22, 2005
z2z
"We propose to acquire the rights to digitally duplicate and store THE BEST of every record company's difficult-to-move Quality Catalog Items [Q.C.I.], store them in a central processing location, and have them accessible by phone or cable TV, directly patchable into the user's home taping appliances, with the option of direct digital-to-digital transfer to F-1 (SONY consumer level digital tape encoder), Beta Hi-Fi, or ordinary analog cassette (requiring the installation of a rentable D-A converter in the phone itself . . . the main chip is about $12)."
Saturday, May 21, 2005
not a friend
Artist: Sebadoh
Date: 05.07.93
Venue: Cotton Club
Location: Atlanta, GA
cant explain
The WHO
"Fallout '73-Take A Little Too Much Dope..."
Cow Palace-San Francisco
20nov1973-Opening Night of North American Tour
Black & White-In House audio/video feed w/time code.
MPEG-2 w/2.0 Dolby
"A very significant piece of RnR history caught on the house system at The Cow Palace...Keith Moon collapses and is down for the count late into the first show of the tour...to be replaced by an audience member...who must have felt like the luckiest guy on Earth...at Keith's expense."
Friday, May 20, 2005
this is not greenday
"004: Neutral Milk Hotel
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
[Merge; 1998]
There are very few albums that resist categorization quite so effortlessly as In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. For forty staggering minutes, Jeff Mangum short-circuits all conventional modes of expression, forging a private language that is endlessly intriguing and haunting in the truest sense of the word. Mangum sings as if possessed, painfully conveying fractured and moving tales with the imagistic skill of a brilliant novelist. He gnashes his teeth at the fabric of time, then wraps himself in it like a blanket, channeling the violence of his personal past through a claustrophobic frustration with his dejected present. His band, whose contributions to Aeroplane remain criminally underappreciated, elevate Mangum's songs from chilling sketches into vibrant opuses, fully realizing the antique otherworldliness of Mangum's storytelling.
Opening with the achingly gorgeous nostalgia of "The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1", Aeroplane immediately plays upon a potent conflation of cultural and personal past. The world of Aeroplane is haunted by Anne Frank-- the specter of childhood's unimpeachable innocence amidst the unfathomable horror of the holocaust. In the feverish "Oh Comely", Mangum longs to save her in "some sort of time machine." By "Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2", the album's indelible and heartbreaking closing track, he seems to have resigned himself to loving a ghost, singing with a thoroughly unnerving blend of heartbreak and exhaustion: "In my dreams you're alive, and you're crying/ As your mouth moves in mine, soft and sweet." The way people have been affected by Aeroplane is ample proof of its power and uniqueness. Like all classic art, it is widely misunderstood; yet to some, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea has become a riddle the likes of The Wasteland-- an impossibly rich text that begs to be deciphered, yet continually evades any singular interpretation. --Matt LeMay"
Thursday, May 19, 2005
that torrs it
**Bob Dylan - Going Going Guam (The "Complete" Rolling Thunder 1976 Rehearsals)
**Cream 1967-10-15 Grande Ballroom - Detroit, MI (SBD)
**The Carpenters Clean-Living Millionaires Live In Japan 1972
**Arlo Guthrie's Gerde's Folk City1966 SB
**The Shins 2005-05-15 Portland, OR
**Bloc Party, 2005-05-16 , Pinkpop
**Elvis Costello 2005-03-09 Nashville with Emmylou Harris
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
man of the times
"People think nothing of ordering a $25 martini at the hotel bar -- but pay fifty bucks for archived material at the Times? Oh my God!"
Monday, May 16, 2005
zone din
"Alderson presented charts and actual game footage to make his point. Nobody was surprised by his assertion that the top of the strike zone was being called about waist high. The rulebook calls for the top of the zone to be at the letters. This would raise the zone by at least 10 inches, and everyone knew that a change of that magnitude was outrageous. So, the mandate was to call it roughly halfway between the waist and the letters, or from another perspective, just above the belly button. As a former pitcher, this sounded reasonable to me."