| Wedding/new suit |
[15 Oct 2009|11:45pm] |
So, on the 24th of October, my step-brother is getting married. This isn't what's concerning me though. I'm actually trying to find a new suit or outfit to wear for this. Being a bit of a lanky fellow and it being October, I was thinking of a nice, dark brown (you may also call this color "chocolate"). A white shirt and a plum tie would seal the deal. Or is this too much?
My family, namely my sister and mom, have suggested that I just wear my black jacket and pants and call it a day. I can understand the reasoning behind this since it'd save me money, and I don't need to go shopping for something I already have (an acceptable suit). There's also the issue of course that I may trump my step-brother or God forbid his bride.
I may just in fact just be looking for an excuse to get a new outfit. My wardrobe is incredibly empty in comparison to some people I'm friends with on here. The reality is that I only have two suits and that's all there is. It'd be great to expand, so long as it's affordable.
Suggestions? Thoughts?
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| NISENNENMONDAI |
[01 Sep 2009|11:48am] |
On the Electrical Audio forum today another user pointed out the existence of the band Nisennenmondai to me. Now that I've watched these youtube videos of them (see below) I couldn't be more thankful for that person for posting! This band, made up of three women from Japan and whose name means "Year 2000 problem," fucking rock.
  
It's extremely repetitive stuff (fans of OOIOO and recent Boredoms will like this fact, I'm sure) that evolves into full-blown noisy calamity (compared to No Wave, Sonic Youth, BATTLES, Lightning Bolt blah blah blah) but they do it in such a fashion that it's packed full of great energy and amazing musicianship ie NOT BORING AT ALL. As it turns out, they're signed to Smalltown Supersound in the West with two releases under their belts already for them, a CD reissue of their first two EPs "Neji/Tori" and a second CD called "Destination Tokyo" that doesn't have info about it on Smalltown's website. I'm going to the record store today to see what I can snag. HUZZAH!
( YOUTUBE VIDS )
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| New Jim O'Rourke |
[15 Jul 2009|06:47pm] |
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According to UK magazine The Wire, Jim O'Rourke's next album is going to be titled The Visitor. It's going to be released by Drag City September 7th in the US, and August 31st in the UK. I'm pumped.
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| Scott Foust |
[15 Jul 2009|06:00pm] |
Artist Scott Faust is a person who I discovered from shopping at the website Mimaroglu Music Sales (ran by Keith Fullerton Whitman aka Hrvatski), where you can buy a good number of his projects, including his most active group Idea Fire Company. After reading Whitman's exclaiming comments I started becoming curious about Foust, and immediately went to Google.
Foust, as it turns out, is part of a philosophical group known as The Anti-Naturals. You can read their Manifesto here. I'm not going to try to pretend to understand what it is the Anti-Naturals stand for. But, like in this lecture of Foust from this past February, it's laced with these wonderful nuggets of thought that I find myself nodding in agreement with in my mind.
The lecture has the title "How To Be An Art Object," and while it is more heavy in philosophical definitions of words than ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lord_whimsy's "On Curious Living," I can't help but put these two papers side by side and feel that they are after a common goal. What makes me especially think so is what Foust says after the five minute mark: "If you worked on a painting every day of your life, you'd expect it to be pretty good, rich and full of ideas, details and coherent substance by the painting's finish at the time of your demise. You should think about your life in the exact same way. A true aesthetic approach to your life involves not only the combination of selected elements and influences, as well as an awareness of history, but also an attempt to create something new, beautiful and useful."
You can find out much more about Foust personally in the Swill Radio section of the Anti-Naturals site. Swill Radio is the music label Foust runs and releases music he's worked on, in addition to the music of others that he feels embodies the Anti-Natural aesthetic.
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| This is neat. |
[19 Jun 2009|09:38pm] |
Fat Charlie Nancy from Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys is someone I always felt I embodied. Especially going from job to job to make ends meet, being in fear of putting myself out there, and feeling like the world is in on a joke, and that joke is Fat Charlie. Though I don't have a twin brother who is the most interesting man in the world, or a dad who is an African trickster god, I can relate to many of Fat Charlie's stresses and fears. I most definitely usually feel like the least cool person in the room. I'm not invited to parties. I'd like to be able to do amazing things in front of people, but when I do, I flub in the most terribly embarrassing way and I wish I was never born.
Don't worry though, I'm working on it.
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| On Folk, or really, what I've been listening to |
[12 Mar 2009|05:20pm] |
With Lisa Hannigan spreading like wildfire across the Internet thanks to Stephen Colbert, the other day I found myself saying in a post about her on lord_whimsy's LJ that I'm "nowhere near where she's coming from, musically." Which is not to say that I hate the folk genre, but it dawned on me that it's not really my thing at all.
I've dabbled in folk in the past, having listened to the collections of songs that were previously (and in some cases, only) available on 78s but now reissued on CD and modern LP, the catalog of Vashti Bunyan, the folkish acts of Drag City, Devendra Banhart, and the guitarists who wave the banner of John Fahey's American Primitivism. Most of it though, hasn't stuck with me. Why? It could be that most of it is pretty redundant unto itself; there's only so much you can do with the same playbook as an old dude that Alan Lomax recorded playing on a back porch in Appalachia, or whoever else you're borrowing the playbook from. It could also be that it doesn't fit my personality; it all sounds nice and most of the players are good musicians and/or singers, but it doesn't rock my boat.
( What does, then? )
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| Now Hear This! |
[13 Feb 2009|05:43pm] |
A fucking excellent Looney Tunes cartoon from 1962/1963... My friend pamlivesinabox was telling me about this, and apparently it was the first "Looney Tune," obviously way before Bugs Bunny and co. arrived. From the "modern" intro to its use of sound poetry/musique concrète in lieu of dialogue, not to mention the way Philip DeGuard utilizes that entire white background, I am totally won over. Enjoy...
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| On "Important Things with Demetri Martin" |
[12 Feb 2009|02:11pm] |
So last night was the premiere of Important Things with Demetri Martin, which I've been highly anticipating. Martin is my favorite young comedian; he's like the anti-thesis of Dane Cook with his quiet, geeky jokes and dorky observations, as opposed to Cook cranking it to eleven like a hard rock concert.
Important Things on paper sounds pretty awesome to a fan of Martin like me. Each episode is devoted to one "important thing," something that is mundane that only a geek/dork/nerd like myself and Martin would only notice. Martin then explores the comedic aspects of this important thing through a series of one-liners, skits, and animations. In a weird way, it's kind of like Sesame Street is, with its own little "commercials" that are devoted to the important thing of the episode.
Last night though, I felt like Martin and the writing crew haven't worked out all the kinks. There wasn't any smooth transitions from the jokes to the skits, resulting in a disjointed delivery of content. I think this undermined the material, and in an ironic fashion, showed just how important the "important thing" of last night, timing, was. I also felt there was a whiff of Martin trying too hard with the skits, which is a shame as with his stand-up performances he comes off as a natural.
That said, last night I searched Youtube for a couple of Martin skits to show to a friend, and I found a special that was aired on BBC Four, If I. I've never seen or heard of it before, and I was rewarded with an incredible performance. Essentially, Martin takes a humorous look back on his life from when he was in elementary school and reading puzzle books, all the way up to what lead him to get into comedy. Despite the fact that it combines aspects of lecture, motivational speech, and his stand-up, I was very easily able to watch the whole special with my face glued to the monitor. It's smooth, wonderfully idiosyncratic, inspiring, hilarious, and educational. I hope that Martin and his team look to this for where to go with "Important Things."
( watch )
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| oh hai the sun's out yay! |
[01 Feb 2009|03:45pm] |
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C.C.C.C. - Early Works |
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Books I Read in January 2009:
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell - A
More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman - B+
Duchamp: A Biography by Calvin Tomkins - A
The World of Marcel Duchamp by Calvin Tomkins - A+
Duchamp & Co. by Pierre Cabanne - A
Marcel Duchamp by Dawn Ades, Neil Cox, David Hopkins - C+
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - A
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| Think back, way back for me |
[16 Nov 2008|11:53am] |
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Between 2002 and 2004, before I stopped caring about "dance" music and what was also passing as "electronic music," I watched that show AMP on MTV2. They used to have these little commercials that acted as station IDs to remind you that you were watching MTV2 - but they were really bizarre. They all featured this guy with a bicycle, various colored light-bulbs and I believe there was also a keyboard in his set-up. I'm trying to remember who that guy was. I know I googled him a million years ago, but now when I type in "MTV2, bike, commercial" I get nothing that helps me. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Help me!
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| lol centaur |
[14 Oct 2008|04:22pm] |
I'm not sure how I haven't posted about this ad before. It's an ad for Old Spice's Double Impact Shampoo and Bodywash. I find it hilarious in an incredibly surreal fashion. You have a centaur never acknowledging the fact that he is a centaur; instead he cleverly dodges the issue and pitches the product. Then, the ad comes to its conclusion with an attractive woman suggesting that she's in this zoophiliac/furry relationship with him. It's a weird, wacky ad that has the right amount of surrealism and psycho-sexuality that makes me laugh. It also reminds me of The Centaur by Buck 65.
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