parallel processing
last night there was a pizza party for the people of the flooded-out mills, to celebrate the power being finally back on. it was bittersweet for me though, on account of i am still (electrical) powerless. so that’s the bitter, and the sweet was that there was a lot of really delicious homemade pizza, enough that everyone could have too much, and enough that there was not (as is frequent) a too-high ratio of creative ingredients to dough, by volume. you know when there’s a consensus homemade pizza and there’s too many cooks and nothing gets cooked right and you’re basically eating a food not bombs soup on a soggy whole wheat plate? it wasn’t like that. strict good ideas, or with bad ideas sparsely intermixed, but anyway no solid dumbs like broccoli and boiled eggs and entire shrimp cocktails with essential aminos and nutritional yeast. strictly white bite, b!
so anyway i’m still at nick’s drinking kombucha on ice and watching richard pryor movies, a no complaints (from me) zone. listening still to last fm all the time, and there’s some funny emergent behavior now that i’m days deep into listening. basically it’s this streaming music service tied to a recommendation engine, but the default is that if you listen to more than half of a song it gets added to the list of things you like, which list is used to refine the recommendation engine. so i’m never or rarely listening to the same thing twice, and i’m slowly expanding the breadth of music i’m listening to, on a very casual drunkard’s path that will eventually connect everything. right now i’m being blasted a lot of keiji haino, sidney sharrock, and lesser rephlex artists. how long on this path until i’m listening to dolly parton? how long until i’m listening to myself?
uh oh, how long until i’m listening to Lyte Funkie Ones’ ““? negative one minute, b. oh, “there are 2 bands called LFO”. for a second i thought warp records had a real weird spell.
the mike t art show opened saturday and obv i wasn’t there but i wasn’t there because i had plans to go to the mocca comic book fest, but then i didn’t do that because the flood upset my rhythm too hard and i couldn’t swing out the books i planned, and besides i noticed that money was suddenly low again, frown face. buuut mike’s look tite and hopefully there’s some miami party paparazzi shots of opening night too somewhere. if not we have photoshopping to do. and mickey z said she got me a new york present which i don’t want to chatter about because i’m too psyched about it!
meanwhile back home for no money i went to the zine fest at nurba narts where there was smartfood, orange dry, tostitos, salsa, and chips ahoy, straight up and down- smartfood! in addition to on point snack items, i picked up some new comics and shit by my psychic twin katrina. don’t know if i mentioned ya kid k yet, but we have the same birthday (trinity day), and exactly twelve years apart, so both of our zodiacs (newspaper and restaurant) line up, we’re practically indistinguishable except that one of us has cooler hair and the other is a 30 year old scumbo. i know it’s hard to keep track, but katrina is not to be confused with kartina, who is of course , from whom i am quite easily distinguished, in a complementary and certain fashion.
surprisingly, that LFO is one of my favorites!!! i will stand behind 4 of their songs being amazing, on many levels: summer girls, girl on tv (i fell for the…), every other time, life is good (featuring M.O.P. seriously). big influence. not that i’m saying we should be linked on last.fm or anything, but that connection is a lot closer than a lot of other ostensibly similar noise bands. and they’re from fall river. will talk about more non-guilty pleasures later. no shame about this, other things = tidal waves of shame.
“summer girls” is pretty nuts… so casual. i like the “impressionistic” method of having a loose story and then throwing in a lot of nonsense references.
but what’s the strong connection between the two LFOs? that you like them?
one LFO modulates the output of the other LFO. wait, we’re on something different now. i haven’t actively listened to the warp one, though they seem to have a solid pedigree. the connection is btwn w/d and LFO (boyband).
oh! ok. i fully believe that the connection between work/death and LFO is a lot closer than that between LFO and other ostensibly similar noise bands.