Note: my newest blog post for WFMU is now available for your reading enjoyment. An interview with William Fowler Collins! Click here! Also, there is now a link on the right sidebar of this page where you can see all of my WFMU blog posts on one easy-to-read page! Check 'em out! Now, for today's post. Look, there really isn't any way to sugar coat this story, so I'm going to come right out and say it: I'm giving Swan Fungus t-shirts to as many homeless people around Los Angeles as I [...]
"Everyone has AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS!" Louise had a lovely birthday dinner (she made traditional Danish foods, and also there was a bowl of macaroni and cheese with hot dogs!), we played a rousing game of Apples to Apples, and now Tom, Thesy and I are watching Team America: World Police , which pathetic Thesy has never seen before. The pathetic girl. Hey, here's a mix tape! Please enjoy! RULES for uninitiated noobs : With roughly 100MB [...]
I'm sitting in Podcast Jack's basement. He's more drunk than Ken or I have ever seen in our entire lives. No, wait, Ken just remembered that Jack puked two years ago at the Broadway Diner in Summit, New Jersey -- but he had also been smoking grass that night, and it totally threw off his equilibrium. Or, so he says right now. Jack wants me to write about how "we" (and by that he means the Obscure References crew, I think) are a failed culture. "Jack, how are we a failed culture?" I ask. "Fuck." he [...]
I'm sitting in Podcast Jack's basement. He's more drunk than Ken or I have ever seen in our entire lives. No, wait, Ken just remembered that Jack puked two years ago at the Broadway Diner in Summit, New Jersey -- but he had also been smoking grass that night, and it totally threw off his equilibrium. Or, so he says right now. Jack wants me to write about how "we" (and by that he means the Obscure References crew, I think) are a failed culture. "Jack, how are we a failed culture?" I ask. "Fuck." he [...]
Two conflicting news stories, both published today, state that album artwork is being murdered by the iPod, but vinyl records (which provide the largest and highest quality album artwork) are making a huge return. I'm sorry, but "the media" as an entity is developmentally disabled. I guess as long as it stirs debate it doesn't matter if an article's thesis is even remotely plausible. The Independent, a UK news source, reports that iPod popularity is sounding the death knell for album artwork . The history of the medium is detailed, from the images of Elvis and the [...]
The clock struck 7:00am and I was already awake. I rolled out of Nicci's bed, dressed, packed my dirty clothes and gathered my belongings before waking her up and leaving for the airport. It was 8am when we hopped in her car. The traffic between Echo Park and LAX was very manageable, and we actually arrived there in less than thirty minutes. This left me way too much time alone at the gate, reading the book Ilya got me for my birthday. At some point a voice came over the loud speaker announcing that anyone who printed their boarding pass [...]
As described last week, Obscure References recently ended their longest hiatus to date and returned to Studio Evan Studios to commit two hours of music to tape. The sessions have yielded eight tracks and 68 minutes of listenable audio. Please listen closely, for you will hear delayed drum signals, ugly guitar tones, brilliant nothingness, and meandering abstract sound paintings. It is the audio-equivalent of complete isolation on a deserted isle. Officially titled Music For Poetry In Orbit , each track is dedicated in memory of a poet. The entire album, of course, is dedicated in loving memory to [...]
Swan Fungus
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Family of the Year - "Diversity"
