Oh hi, guys. I didn't hear you come in. Thanks for stopping by. So…I drank a lot last night. Like, A LOT a lot. And oh boy did I ever make an ass out of myself. It's almost as if when I drink now I convince myself that I'm creating a social performance art piece [...]
had this dream a while back. i glanced a snatched mirror glimpse of something, something i didn't understand, couldn't grasp; something simple yet complex, essentially vast and meaninglessly small, recognisable yet utterly other. it caught me capriciously with clutching damp fingers round throat, wrung the breath like ragwater from my tar-browned lungs and i realised, in that one monotonous fleeting(eternal) second that everything, evveerryytthhiinng, the word vibrating, a dreaded om, is hideously inconsequential, that everything i'm aware of, blank-eyed and knowing: is. just. nonsense. a pointless construct. a plastic skeleton. a feeling, simultaneous, of narcotic glee and feverish fucked gloom. [...]
Merry Christmas, Everybody. The pictures and video from last night's shenanigans are beginning to filter in, very slowly, so you'll have to wait to see the really good stuff. The night turned into a shit-show very early. There was me, the mouse. There was Tom, the lion. There were two pixies with LED lights and tiny stereo speakers on their wings. There was Zach in a cow hat, Pat in a rabbit mask, Ken, Katie, Arthur, Kelsie, Autumn, Shaun, Erin, and probably others I'm forgetting. We started our pub crawl in the Los Feliz neighborhood, at Ye Rustic Inn. My [...]
these ten songs. these ten songs are all perfect tumours and broken-teeth smiles and drunkdrunk women in shortshort skirts. they're like getting ripped and taking off all your clothes and running running running; listening, it's cracking an egg and finding a chicken fetus. it's blood and vomit and spunk and piss and shit. it's the sky falling. it's a house on fire with the family inside. it's the best worst orgasm of your goddam life. it's the sun the moon the earth. it's everything horrible and glorious [...]
Did you all remember to deprive yourselves of one hour of sleep this morning? I sure did! I had to be at work early and the entire day just kind of crept by like the slowest, most excruciating event since...uh...that presentation I had to give for English class my senior year of high school. Sure, on those rare occasions when I actually eat lunch (Sundays only), it usually revitalizes my spirits, but for some reason today it made me even more tired. Oh well. Two more days until my "weekend", and LOST . Too bad Top Chef [...]
More shotgun blasts of worthy releases from last year that we never got around to when they were initially released, but are all most definitely worth your time. Birchville Cat Motel Four Freckled Constellation (02.2008, Conspiracy Records) Now that Birchville Cat Motel has moved beyond his beloved moniker to analog only recordings as Our Love Will Destroy The World, Four Freckled Constellation stands as one of the few releases by the New Zealander pressed on wax. Separated into six wonderfully varied slabs of textured, [...]
New: Jesu - Why We Are Not Perfect EP (Hydra Head / Daymare) Bird Show - S/T (Barge Recordings) Birchville Cat Motel - Gunpowder Temple Of Heaven (Pica Disc) Piano Magic - Dark Horses EP (Make Mine Music) Autistic Daughters - Uneasy Flowers (Kranky / Staubgold) These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower And Dove (Suicide Squeeze) Windy & Carl - Songs [...]
1. Birchville Cat Motel - Gunpowder Temple of Heaven ( Pica Disk ) MP3: Gunpowder Temple of Heaven (excerpt) With Gunpowder Temple of Heaven Campbell Kneale has delivered his masterpiece. Massive church organ drones majestically unfold over the course of 40 minutes and collide with shimmering rays of noise and eventually a deep, sluggish pounding. Layer upon layer of blissful drones melt together and grow into a timeless aural monument that sets out to explore the relationship between time and music. The piece manages to challenge its listener's perception of [...]
Birchville Cat Motel Gunpowder Temple of Heaven (2008 Pica Disk ) Verdict: A wave of sonic bliss Mr. Thistle in multiple instances of musical nerdiness has blushed over how Birchville Cat Motel is the best band name ever (or at least currently). Now personally I feel combining the words wolf, black and, the eff bomb in any order would result in something far more marketable and indie hip, but I guess that doesn't have too much to do with how awesome this record is. Discussing an album such as Gunpowder Temple of Heaven [...]
Birchville Cat Motel Seventh Ruined Hex (11.2007, Important) Verdict = Above Average Mind Essplode! I have recently began an infatuation with the game Guitar Hero (I am still waiting to give Rock Star a try) and ever since rocking that plastic key-tar have gone about imagining how cool it would be to have an indie version of the game rife with songs from Black Mountain, Deerhoof, Sunset Rubdown and the like. Surely if your any fan of the game and this blog you have thought the same thing. Well, after listening to Birchville [...]
I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made object never equalled the purity of sound achieved by the pig. - Alfred Hitchcock Free jazz and bagpipes share the reputation of being unlistenable squalls - totally unfair, of course, as they both can be quite listenable squalls. And like chocolate and peanut butter, bagpipes and improvised music have a history of comingling. John Coltrane and Albert Ayler both played them. Rufus Harley made a career [...]
* Birchville Cat Motel : Kanji Email Dreaming (38.0 mb) From Curved Surface Destroyer : Last Visible Dog Records : LVD105/06/07 Well, the Midwest is soon to be in the jaws of winter, with a projected snowfall of a couple of inches today, which is totally cool. I'm a big fan of winter and love the look of a city during and after the first major snow. The city starts to slow down, the streets look clean and [...]
Time is running out to pick up your copy of Live at KEXP Volume Three . This limited release is available in retail stores in the Seattle area and online only until the end of the year. Think of what a great gift it would be to give your friends (and yourself) a collection of exclusive live songs recorded in the KEXP studio from outstanding bands like The Long Winters , The Shins , Ghostland Observatory , Grizzly Bear , Peter Bjorn & John , Beirut , [...]
• We begin with a shocking revelation. "Programs that focus exclusively on abstinence have no been shown to affect teenager sexual behavior." Really? Someone thought it wise to study that? Whatever grant money was given to the group that studied the impact of abstinence education should have just been handed directly to me. I could've told you that teenagers don't care about chastity. They just want to stick their dicks in warm holes or have their warm holes filled with dicks. That's life. Our parents did it, we did it, and our kids will continue to do it. Fucking is [...]
New Scientist is reporting that researchers at the University of Tokyo (In Japan -- they don't have silly universities named University of Indiana Pennsylvania like we do in America) have created a headband that lets its wearer "feel" their surroundings from a distance. How it works is, a series of infrared sensors act like whiskers and vibrate whenever the person wearing the device nears an object. There's a cool video on the site of people dodging objects while blindfolded. I suppose this is a relevant scientific and medical advancement because it actually has some real world use. [...]
Photo credit: Soul Dirty With this instalment we gradually start our exploration of the infinite emptiness of space, black holes and time bending energy. But watch out, while we will continue to move away from the sonic attack of exploding stars and spiralling galaxies and into the darkest corners of space, we will encounter some strange and mind baffling places. The bizarre and alienating sounds of Pamelia Kurstin's theremin for example. Quite possibly one of my favourite records of this year so far. With this, the overall feeling of this part is [...]
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