Somehow, it just became absolutely essential that I listen to this. Maybe the same is true for you. On The Corner - Miles Davis - Pandora Internet Radio
Branca, Symphony No. 5, 6th Movement.
Glenn Branca - Symphony 5 (live @ the Kitchen) PART 1
I'm listening to Stockhausen's Mikrophonie. It's like being in a concert hall with six judgemental ducks.
Shaping up to be a Sonny day.
Sonny Sharrock - "Who Does She Hope to Be?"
Mind-blowingly beautiful music for Tuesday afternoon.
Popol Vuh - Aguirre I (L'acrime di rei)
Last night: rehearsal/planning for 2011 gigs with belly dancers. Now: Kids' play date. Tonight: neighbors' family-friendly party. 2010's going out on a fun note. Here's to a great 2011 for everyone!
I just combined a Krautrock-inspired drum pattern I wrote in '08 or '09 with a belly-dance pattern from '05, and it all works.
"I'll take both of *you* on! I'll take both of *you* on!"
The Fall - Winter - Peel Session
Bert Jansch: transcendent. Pegi Young Band: very good. A great show in a great room.
No Neil; I have heard that he objected to a certain audience member's derogatory use of Lanois's phrase "I got in there with my sonics." still, a fine evening.
RIP, Captain Beefheart, difficult, cantankerous, impossible-to-work-for, sublime weirdo bluesman.
Captain Beefheart dies at 69 | EW.com
Guitar building update: According to the fretboard radius gauges, the Eastwood Saturn neck is a 12". Radius of pretty much every bridge I've seen, including the roller bridge I'd wanted: 12". Good news, especially since you can't file down a roller bridge.
Listening to this now. If you have an iPhone, you should snag this. (And the iPad version gives you six simultaneously!)
MATRIXSYNTH: Buddha Machine for iPhone is Free for Next Three Days
Res-O-Glas guitar body on its way. (Apparently I got the last white Belmont body of this run.)
Design Options - Res-O-Glas Guitar Parts, Custom Guitar Kits, Made in the USA, Fiberglas guitar
The stretch of pages 42-58 of Morton Feldman's Trio is really happening. Right now, this is my pop music.
I'm dealing with Bad Neighbor Effect. Fortunately this is just on a database server, and not in our real neighborhood.
I somehow went from listening to The Gary's Logan to Morton Feldman's For Philip Guston.
That was one great evening of fine American rock music, courtesy of the Karl Hendricks Trio, Black Helicopter, and Bottomless Pit. Boston, get out to tonight's show. (Bonus item: BP kept Random Weird Hat Guy outside dancing his bizarre acid dance throughout the whole set.)
I'm loading up the iPod with Cluster, Neu!, and Harmonia. I sense a theme.
New Venue! Thanks to Lili Coffee*Shop in Polish Hill!
The Eighth Annual Open Mic Jandek Cover Night
Then slowly turn...
Joel R. L. Phelps & The Downer Trio - 'Then Slowly Turn'
An afternoon for the Cellar Door Sessions.
The Cellar Door Sessions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
had no idea Van Dyke Parks had such deep roots in the Pittsburgh area--McKeesport High School, Carnegie Tech (as it was then), getting thrown out of the Frick mansion (though his visit there today went rather better). Great show.
It's morning, but this is the soundtrack.
Richard & Linda Thompson / Night Comes In
You gotta do what you gotta do.
Autumn Leaves - Live - Tripod Jimmie - 1982
Listening to the PRF Songwriting Challenges. Astonishingly wonderful stuff. These are my people. (NB: my work can be found in weeks 100, 80, 74, and 73, and A Fine Chaos covered one of my pieces in week 93.)
Somehow this became an afternoon for the great, inexplicable band Shorty.
I have become a bit obsessed with Pere Ubu's B each B oys seedee +, particularly the intro to "Down By The River": "I can't help it if my nightmares are stupid. I bet yours aren't that good, either."
Whoa! Robert Fripp plays on a Grinderman track! (OK, PFk link, so what.)
Whoa!
All about this song today--the Thalia Zedek trend continues.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJVfQVu9Uk
Come -- German Song at Tanned Tin
U.S. Maple afternoon: Acre Thrills, then Live at the Casbah. Next up: Purple on Time or Long Hair in Three Stages?
Speaking of next week's Jandek show, there's a Jandek show next week. The legendary outsider folk/blues figure emerges for a rare show Thursday, August 5, 8PM at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Tickets $15 advance, $17 at the door. This is Jandek's first ever Pittsburgh performance, and not to be missed. http://www.pittsburgharts.org/jandek.php
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts / Jandek - Aug 5, 2010
I just did an interview for the City Paper with Manny Theiner for Manny's upcoming article on next week's Jandek show.
I'm stretching out the left hand by practicing on the baritone guitar. Ow.
The Thalia Zedek phase continues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pcw1vAaAI8
Recent playlist: Live Skull, Come, Uzi. Looks like I'm in a Thalia Zedek phase.
I'm having a Live Skull morning. That band deserved better than they got.
I probably won't be joining the EGC club anytime soon, but just might talk himself into one of these projects: http://www.guitarkitsusa.com/
The boys and I sing this a lot. Except we just sing the chorus, and we sing it as "Underpaaaaaaants!"
John Foxx - Underpass hd ( Official Promo )
I'm rebooting the afternoon with That Petrol Emotion's fine Manic Pop Thrill.
"OK. S-see, there was this...and, a-and tha... Never mind. Forget it--you wouldn't understand anyway."
"Spring always sighed, Summer had to be satisfied, and Fall's a feeling that I just can't lose."
Oh, man. I do love me some vocoded vocals.
Sam Anderson on 'How to Wreck a Nice Beach: the Vocoder From World War II to Hip-Hop, the Machine Sp
Another great talent gone: RIP Alex Chilton. Thanks for the thrilling, beautiful, harrowing music.
I strongly recommend the glorious end section of the song "Italy," if you need some uplifting. For those of sensitive or easily-offended constitutions, try to look past the band name.
Italy
I'm bringing you a better tomorrow today, but isn't sure what will fill the vacuum where tomorrow was going to go.
If you haven't heard this Maserati show, you should:
http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=1702
R.I.P., Jerry, you incredible musician.
Mental soundtrack: Maserati's "12/16." RIP, Jerry. Those one-armed fills still blow my mind.
I misread the track listings in iTunes, and thought for a moment that the band Shorty had, like Shooby Taylor, done a version of "Lift Every Voice and Sing."
The King Tubby-to-Autechre transition was a bit jarring, but seems kind of natural now.
Considering how unpleasant the Automat 0.4-to-Automat 1.0 conversion process is, I can see why I've put it off, but there's no resurrecting most of my Ableton Live work without it. So here goes nothing.
Morning bus soundtrack: Dirty Three's "I Really Should Have Gone Out Last Night." Up next: either something from Friends of Dean Martinez or Tonight's the Night-era Neil Young.
I'm not as bad off as this sounds, really.
I was going to type "Hallo, Gallo" as a status update, but then most people would think I'm either drinking jug wine way too early, or hanging out with Vincent Gallo, instead of listening to Neu!, which is what I'm really doing.
Yet another day of PHP programming, and still no flying teapot in sight.
Kraftwerk, Bremen, 1971. If you haven't heard it, it's not what you'd expect.
A certain kind of software developer, if he was building a house, would lavish great time and attention on an elaborate and possibly revolutionary scheme to replace all the doorknobs with something "much better," but meanwhile none of the bricks would be mortared together, because people have already solved that problem in other houses.
Started with Friends of Dean Martinez -> The Birthday Party -> The Jesus Lizard -> Earth -> Beefheart today, getting the highest productivity with TJL and Beefheart.
I'm probably the only person in town to go to work with a bag of Jandek CDs.
I wrote yet another good yoctonaut track last night. Bleep!BOX is teh hottness.
Duuuuude:
http://guitarz.blogspot.com/2009/09/upside-down-tokai-gakki-hummingbird.html
I'm surprised by this glorious pop melody. Sounds like a bridge or post-chorus or something. Gonna have to get this down.
Here's one for a friend who's on a Fairport Convention kick today.
Fairport Convention "Now Be Thankful"
I'm it all that wrong to be listening to U.S. Maple this early in the morning?
I'm really impressed with Kevin's work on the upcoming Artificial Sea disc.
Studio dialogue. False start. Fragment. Studio dialogue. Fragment. False start. Take 27. Studio dialogue. Fragment. False start. Studio dialogue. Take 28.
I went spelunking through the archives and found a very promising track.
I'm trying to decide: Cellar Door Sessions, Get Up With It, In a Silent Way, or the In a Silent Way Sessions?
I'm thinking that when Neu! 75 is over, it's time for Shorty's Thumb Days.
I'm happily listening to the new Polvo advance single!
New Polvo From Merge Every Bit As Good As Expected…Listen To The Album’s First Track! | Make Major M
I'm all about the pedal steel right now. Now if I could just find one ultra-cheap...
So I just did a table-based layout with pixel shims for an HTML email. Does THAT make me so evil?
I'm all about the Band of Susans version of "Guitar Trio" this afternoon.
I'm debating: Birthday Party live, or more minimalism? And is "more minimalism" a kind of oxymoron?
I'm watching this, wherein Jandek brings the funk/skronk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLwiYpSTFE
I have determined that it's all about the On The Corner Sessions today.
I'll note that the multi-DVD-swapping Adobe CS4 install is just like the multi-floppy-swapping software installs of 20 years ago.
Drinking coffee, starting the work day, and listening to the Furbies singing, each to each.
I wonder what Damo Suzuki's auctioning off beginning at 6:40 in "Peking O."
points out that James Gyre's video post has turned this into a Can day.
That riff was too good to be his own composition, but I can't figure out which song I ripped off.
I ask: James Tenney or the Bar-Kays? And wonder what both would sound like together.
Abdullah Chmairan's guitar playing absolutely melts/slays in this video (though you can barely see him, if at all). A Moroccan wedding musician is now on my list of favorite players. More info in this travelogue here: http://blastitude.com/27/#morocco
I wish I'd gotten up at 3 and put down that little melody I can't remember now
I'm seriously enamored of Earth's "The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull."
I'm really making good on my threats to start an avant-garde drone metal band
I'm listening to Morton Feldman (notably "Coptic Light," "Crippled Symmetry," the Rothko Chapel, and "Patterns in a Chromatic Field")