週ＲＥＶＩＥＷ０５。０６～０５。１３
What up.
Happy Mother’s Day
I did not intentionally publish my Acid Mothers Temple review on Mother’s Day it just how it worked out. Also, it’s occurred to me that if you yourself are really into Jesus you might conclude that my review of Clang Quartet was my way of saying I was also into Jesus in a similar way. Which makes sense because I think he’s really doing some kind of Dadaist postmodern deconstructionist thing that he probably isn’t.
What am I doing
Really, what. I think it’s getting better tho. Just last week I was talking like I was some kind of D-list celebrity for a minute. What the hell was that about. And I got no shot at that job. Even if I do things don’t line up right now. Somebody younger should get it.
Lost pictures
I have not been caring much about photography, but this might have turned my attitude. I didn’t just lose a couple snaps from one night but a couple weeks worth. Now I’m suddenly caring a lot more than if I had them probably. I want those pics back!
Metal/Hardcore shows not reviewed
Just saw the Decibel Tour w/ Evoken, In Solitude, The Devil’s Blood, Watain and Behemoth@The Troc, Converge@Union Transfer, and Ghost/Opeth/Mastodon@The Electric Factory. Just great all around shows. I’m sure I’ll be talking about all those bands’ records at some point. (Am I really sure?) The openers on the Converge bill were good too, but man, I am not part of that scene. Felt like a narc at that show. But that was my first visit to UT, what an amazing venue. It’s almost too nice. Is anyone else missing the Starlight Ballroom or the church basement?
I’m suddenly thinking about way too things
I can’t get to them all before midnite. I’ve given myself a deadline here.
Health
My friends are not junkies. Sorry, I kinda made it sound like that. They are crazy tho. If this were a physical health thing, I would still have friends that I talk to on the phone or whatever. Me and my friends growing up were all crazy. The ones who haven’t killed themselves or gotten themselves killed seem to be going off in different directions. This is not surprising, or it shouldn’t be when you think about it.
Retiring my very clever twitter bio.
The phrase “このイタリックは和歌りません。” is nonsense. It could mean “This Italic is not poetry.” (in a poetically garbled way) or read phonetically “I don’t know about this Italic.” But twitter bios are no longer rendered in Italics. How long has it been like that? It’s a throwaway joke that no one notices but I’m obviously very proud of so there it is.
Is twitter done?
People are spamming the hell out of it lately. Honest exchanges feel awkward. Does anyone think about that whole Library of Congress archive? If I die tomorrow, in a few months my hosting expires and all these thousands of words I thought out are gone forever. But shit like “Photo: moarlolcatsprease: Yo check dis cat. tmblr.co/DisCat” will live on. Shitty way to think about life, but at least it’s thinking. It’s not going to be done for a while I guess but jeez maybe it’s time to start thinking about thinking again.
Still obsessing over titles
Every so often it gets to me how illogical using number dates with the MMDDYY format is and I resolve to use DDMMYYYY or YYYYMMDD. Seems pretentious tho even if it makes more sense.
No one talks over people better than Mike Watt
He is the best. Respect due. %
Acid Mothers Temple@Johnny Brenda’s
Acid Mothers Temple must be seen live, obviously.
The afternoon of the show I started feeling nostalgic for all the times I have almost seen this band in the past because I almost didn’t see them again. (I was late getting a paycheck. It’s always something dumb.) But at the last minute things came through and off I went. I told myself it didn’t matter that much anyway—there was a moment of panic where I thought I would never see them now, what with them saying this is their last tour in America and all—but wouldn’t these guys be deep into the 2012 thing? It’s a psych band. Yeah, if the world is ending, this would be the last tour wouldn’t it. Sure enough, the tour poster has a Mayan calendar symbol right damn in the middle:
It was pretty much like this.
I do not think the world is ending, not this year anyway. But some people might disagree with me. The opening acts on this tour for example. The AMT set seemed typical, a mind-melting performance, but nothing that suggested impending retirement or cosmic extermination. No goodbyes, barely any audience interaction at all. But these other guys really set the mood for apocalypse. All shrewd marketing maybe, art even. Really you can’t ask for a better theme.
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週ＲＥＶＩＥＷ０４。２９～０５。０６
Crazy week.
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RIP MCA
I was feeling pretty good when this came out of nowhere. We knew he was sick and all but wow. Ruined that whole day, I just had to lay down for while. Would be a great excuse to kill a six-pick or two but I just took a nap instead. Seriously have no friends right now, but occasionally my health concerns are vindicated in the most depressing of ways. I’m talking like I knew him personally when I never met him, (saw them at Lollapalooza) but he was a guy you felt like you knew. Some people are getting nostalgic over the early stuff…I always thought it was garbage, it’s a joke. Got into them with Check Your Head and those next few albums after that were huge for me, I thought they really did great stuff musically and actually had a message but had a sense of humor about everything. I eventually went back to Paul’s Boutique, and the recent stuff was still good, but it was mostly about Check Your Head, Ill Communication and Hello Nasty for me. Haven’t pulled any of them out yet, it just feels like a bummer. There’s nothing sad about their music and I don’t feel like twisting it around to fit the mood now.
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Acid Mother’s Temple@Johnny Brenda’s
Should have it’s own post but I didn’t get to work on it. Got some pics I haven’t even looked at yet. Need to get the flickr back in order. Yeah, I don’t have time to sum it up now, so that will be a post this next week.
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UBUWEB
I didn’t get to any of these movie links this week but I couple things I did get to that have cheered me up a bit. One was these Henry Miller interviews. Besides the content, which although I am linking to them are not my exact thoughts, the way he interjects so much with “do you see?” “don’t you know?” are really like Japanese “ne”s in a way. (They’re good alternative translations for it, or other interjections.) The other is this Radio Web Macba post which is a great intro to the high weirdness of Ubu, including the classic Cake and what should be mandatory listening for all art students The Man Within. Be sure to get the PDF liner notes, but the tracklisting is out of order:
00:00 Benjamino Gigi
03:45 1-100
09:52 Diddlage
10:26 Edges
16:54 Diddlage (reprise)
17:27 Bubble Blower
22:40 I Really Should
27:37 I’m Not In a Hurry
30:34 Missing Dog
33:25 Why Am I Always So Depressed?
34:55 The Mud Kids
38:42 The Man Within
57:04 Sometimes When I’m Low
58:06 Cake
59:00 Lend Me Your Ears
59:52 The Sonance ProjectAlso Charles Bernstein’s 1-100 might have inspired the crazy counting guy from this Tofugu post on Japanese comedians:
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Free Music Archive
Have to talk to some people if I should even apply for the job or not. Even thinking about the possibility is some major lifechange shit. Have been planning to get back into podcasting with some FMA stuff anyway. I’m going to be doing something with it whatever my employment status.
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Being a dick
Yes, I’m being a dick when I talk about certain past blog stuff. But I think I’m being too nice in some respects. There’s some creepy shit out there and you can’t really parody it while you’re part of it at the same time. But almost on another topic, it’s kinda bullshit to delete whole blogs about bands with almost no other write-ups in English.
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Decibel Tour
Leaving write now to see Nergal of Behemoth, who has recently beaten cancer, and crew. Can’t think of a moral there, but that’s life. I’ll end with this clip of Brad Warner’s Hardcore Zen audiobook:
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10 UbuWeb Posts I Should Get Around To
In the order they were in my queue:
- The Outsider: The Story of Harry Partch (2002)
- Robert Hughes – The Shock of the New (1982)
- Salvador Dali – A Soft Self Portrait (1967)
- Brian De Palma – Dionysus (1970)
- Robert Wilson, Tom Waits & William S. Burroughs – The Black Rider (1992)
- The Dial-A-Poem Poets: You’re the Guy I Want To Share My Money With
- Amos Poe – Unmade Beds (1976)
- Antonello Branca – What’s Happening? (1967)
- Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995) History Making Performances
- John Cage (1912-1992) – Diary: How To Improve The World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)
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[New] 週Review
Starting a standard format for weekly meta posts. My reading and study backlog is getting under control now and nothing crazy is going on so I’m going to write more again. Obviously I spare to one meta post a week, but if they start piling up I’m going to feel like a real asshole with no clever title or anything, a blog full of excuses, a house of lies, a Beckett play with NO AUDIENCE. “Oh, look at me in the depths of existential angst with this audience of thousands and critical acclaim, respect from my fellow artists.” Sure, bub. I guess you’re bleak. Lo, but it is I who blog the blart of darkness. None have obscured their toil in more frosty a blackness; it is like unto the proverbial liquorice milkshake, inside the proverbial broken refrigerator at the bottom of the proverbial dead sea, inside the proverbial overlong sentence inside the proverbial blog no one reads. Ugh! That’s rough. Is it even possible to go on?
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