me and the terribles and stonewall jackson played a show in brattleboro last saturday, it was pretty tite. the show was at the tinderbox, which is a cool arts space some friends of ours got (by asking), which has a skate ramp and lots of little studios. the show was the three of us and a local favorite called “PSA”. one thing i always have to remember is that sometimes everyone loves the local band and then they leave right after they play, so sometimes the locals should play last, right? and it’s not about honor or dignity, it’s about numbers. anyway the show was great, the spot was great, everyone’s great. abby banks is great.

lots of stuff this week:

• TUESDAY 12/11 two band show at the go go at 7pm- Darkling Plain (lee “the body” buford + shon “root beeer” mahoney) and French In Action.
• WEDNESDAY 12/12 the play “a christmas carol” at doherty high school. be a creep and go to a high school play when you don’t know anyone in the play. i’m going.
• FRIDAY 12/14 clifton terrace second floor – the foundation, the rabbits frolic, jamie buckmaster, and special performance by jenine bressner. 8pm8pm8pm8pm with “dance party” afterwards.
• SATURNDAY 12/5 at HBML- zombie event from 2 to 5- bring a dark object of clothing and we’ll silkscreen a zombie on it for $3, and not just a zombie but the zombie from the movie “zombie” aka “zombi 2″ aka “the one where the zombie fights a shark”. we will also have a shark design available. it takes a half hour for the ink to dry, so plan on doing some holiday shopping too.

oh, the picture above isn’t the picture for the silkscreen. in fact it isn’t even a zombie.

ok, just getting the computer music muscles going again… here’s my two-track tribute to Stockhausen and Pimp C.

• Kontakte UGK

• Pourin’ Up / Kreuzspiel

the first track was made by trying to open up a file of kontakte that had not finished torrenting, somehow it got mixed up with the entire UKG album, which was also not finished downloading.

i’m using audacity, but i feel like it’s not as good as soundedit 16 was 12 years ago. which is to say, the response time is bad, between me hitting space bar and the sound playing. this is weird right? why am i moving backwards?

What he has in abundance is the ability to focus a long and apparently rambling argument in a sudden, blazingly dramatic gesture.

more pictures after the cut

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What he has in abundance is the ability to focus a long and apparently rambling argument in a sudden, blazingly dramatic gesture.

more pictures after the cut.

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What he has in abundance is the ability to focus a long and apparently rambling argument in a sudden, blazingly dramatic gesture.

” Almost everything goes wrong; and these humorous mishaps result in the bartender playing his environment like a bagpipe. “

that’s right- gearing up to watch cremaster 3 this sunday, at, oh, 6:00. if you’re in it, let’s win it.

cremaster 3 is three hours long and involves architecture, masonry, ireland, the sea, the 1930s, five 1967 Chrysler Crown Imperials, cement, beautiful paraplegics, horses, zombies, genitals that resemble a splash or sea anemone, richard serra, the guggenheim, Agnostic Front and Murphy’s Law (preparatory sketches indicate Barney originally wanted to use Boston Hardcore band SSD instead of Murphy’s Law, which would have added an additional layer of meaning due to the rivalry between the New York and Boston hardcore scenes), prolapsed intestines, vaseline (duh), and half-human satyrs (duh). cremaster 3 was the last movie in the series to be made, and references the other four movies quite heavily, but we’ve been watching them in numerical order, not chronological order, so there are going to be parts here where we’re all going to be in the dark.

the main themes of Cremaster 3 are Narcissism and hubris.

if you want to read a complete synopsis on cremaster 3 (which if anything else will prepare you with a list of topics to investigate on your own so that you can bring as much as you can to the movie and get the most out of it), see:
http://www.cremasterfanatic.com/Synopsis3.html and http://www.cremaster.net/crem3.htm.

total rollercoaster of a day but here’s my favorite part:

DKLR: (apropos of nothing) hey jake, i just invented a word that rhymes with “paprika”.
JPB: oh yeah? what is it?
DKLR: oh, wait, i forgot it.

DKLR is, of course, bert’s cool pseudonym. it means “da killer”.

i jusst got the last ghostface album, it’s good. cats been peeing on my laundry, not cool. getting donuts today, that’s good. eating sugar again in moderation but this is what i put on my cereal: powdered ginger, cinnamon, fennel, saffron, cardamom. new t-shirt design for the junk shoppe, it’s just the crass font, white on black, the whole alphabet. dip!

work to do…

amazon has a book search feature where it displays “statistically improbable phrases”– phrases that occur more in the book in question than in any other book. there’s a newly republished harry stephen keeler book called the case of the 16 beans and the SIPs are “copper fingers” and “materials room”.

some other statistically improbable phrases: amongst others, don quixote gets “everything your grace”, “three nightcaps”, “errant chivalry”, “lion keeper”, “enchanted head”, “enamored knight”, “jalousied window”, “lady the duchess”, “six reales”, “sorrowful face”, “good squire”, “knight errantry”, “captive knight”, and “virtuous desire”. leonardr‘s “beginning python” includes “omelet class”, “gui queue”, “meal module”, “pickle file”, and “persistent dictionary”. borges “ficciones” gets “pink corner”, “circular ruins”, “blue tiger”, “forking paths”, “knife fighters”. most of these are titles of stories, but “knife fighters” isn’t, and that’s a good one. tale of two cities gets “immovable close”, “eight great towers”, “dun médecin”, “wigged gentleman”, “honest tradesman”, and “monthly parts”. “wigged gentleman” is good.

the search is limited to books with the once-controversial “search inside” feature, so there’s a lot of books you can’t boil down in this way. anyway if you find a good one let’s hear it.

also, if anyone wants to get me a present, i’d really like that keeler book.

i forgot to mention something i don’t want to forget, about the show at mister worcester last saturday. not only was there a dude passed out on the couch super early and not only did he get his face drawn on with magic marker to the extent that he looked like five black metal kids worth of face paint superimposed onto one face, and not only did he still end up making out with someone at the end of the night, but the person he made out with took a magic marker to their own face so he wouldn’t feel so bad. and if that doesn’t get you pumped on life, then who are you and what have you done with the real whatever your name is?

last night was the wag 20th anniversary at jumpin’ joe’s dance club. i don’t need to tell you it was weird, but here i go anyway- it was weird. jumpin’ joe’s is an all-purpose dance club on the eighth floor of a factory building on grafton st, right next to (and just overlooking) the freeway. my understanding is that they have all sorts of events there- swing dancing, reggaeton, singles nights, whatever. there was some weirdness when one of the dudes that hangs out there regularly (?) told one of the harsher dudes to turn down, but that was more funny than anything else. the show started at noon (!) but i got there at a sensible 6:30. there was a free buffet which included crab sandwiches, cranberry sauce, and a huge tray of deviled eggs. totally weird.

so anyway i got there just in time to see industrial sonic echo, which i’ve gone through phases of liking and disliking, but now i’m at the point where i just have to like it. well, this time i liked it a lot because j-me johnston (ostensibly the main force behind all of it) was super wasted, and spent the whole time skulking about their elaborate set-up, turning tvs on and off, telling the other dudes to shush, rearranging various orbs, and eventually peacing out to leave the other dudes to plod along until he got on the PA to announce the next band. it was like watching a band break up, which sucks, but it also kind of rules, to see someone come to a realization and then act upon it at the most dramatic moment. immediately following was bob jordan and ratobasher, total freewheeling improv. the night was so casual that it wasn’t obvious they were playing– until they really got into it, it just seemed like they were soundchecking. but it was good– bob playing acoustic instruments, nathan recording, looping, and processing them through a tabletop full of effects. after them was a bunch of stuff i wasn’t super into, then negative time (josh and greg greg), then greg greg solo closed out the night.

ssome notes:

• ML liked these two harsh noise dudes, pretty much just because they were skinheads.
• the floors were hardwood and pretty clean- me and ml and spato and vaula van sspent a long time sliding around on our butts.
• there was a cash bar and i bought a shirley temple for $2, which sucks, and i forgot the shirley temple trick, which is that you get someone who’s drinking a lot to order one for you and the bartender will assume you’re their driver and give you one for free.
• i don’t like a lot of that music because it’s all keyboard drums and i like sample drums, and it doesn’t have what i like about noise, which is openness, interpretation, and catharsis. it’s more like house, but with too much stuff going on.
• greg greg is still the best, and still destroys everyone else in the genre because he has personality and emotion.
  

also

• it’s snowing in worcester. but it’s not just snowing, it’s also icey out, which is scary.
• i got a little money from a crafts fair the other day so i ordered the spirulina and the full-spectrum light bulbs i need for my health.
• i’ve been playing music every day, and not even songs, just hollering and yelling and funny laptop sinewave stuff.
• i’ve been drinking coffee maybe every third day, and i feel like i’m finally in adult world. which is to say, now when i’m walking around at night, drug dealers and prostitutes pitch their lines at me, whereas before they would look right through me, as though i were a ghost or lizard.
• my new place (which is no longer new) is apparently warm enough.

next year’s calender is in the works, so now is the time to tell me you want your birthday listed and what day your birthday is. by special request from MT, next year’s calender will have the days of the week listed. anything else?