July 2009
170 posts
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June 2009
179 posts
vociferator →
Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony (listen) About a year ago on his blog, John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats gave this record perhaps the highest praise a…
sell YouTube to the Greeks →
I do not understand Greek and thus, have no idea what Urfurshlag is talking about here, but am nonetheless riveted by the delivery. NSFW, more for weirdness than anything else,…
Your Jerry Roundup →
Squonk Informant →
McNeil Has a Point →
what I want from Yoko Ono →
I like this new Plastic Ono Band single. I don’t love it, as I don’t really care for most of her pop records, but I love her, so I make allowances. Like most of her dancefloor-oriented material,…
What's In Today's New York Times? →
smell the horse →
The Avett Brothers - Country Was (listen) I am to interview the Avett Brothers soon, and trying to suss out what I really want to ask them. They are one of those bands that I…
Local Monster Squonk →
Belt Watch '09: A Lost Cause? →
In All Fairness →
100 words on Saturdays at the pool →
Saturdays since joining the pool, an indulgence as modest as the riches it requires, consist of a mad dash of duties to be able get here at ten, and with that hour, a good table with a…
Buffered By Kittens and Pies →
Breaking News: Phil Enjoys Pie →
the trick is layers →
Kronos Quartet/John Oswald - “Spectre” from Short Stories (listen) In checking out some John Oswald info for the Michael Jackson piece, I came across this…
Werner Herzog's La Soufrière →
La Soufrière, Part one Continuing my Herzog jag, I watched Werner Herzog’s La Soufrière, his 1976 documentary about the evacuation of Guadeloupe before predicted volcano…
Encroaching Gloom Dispelled by Kittens →
Burn This Disco Out →
[outsideleft] Michael Jackson and plunderphonics →
MICHAEL JACKSON AND PLUNDERPHONICSMICHAEL JACKSON AND PLUNDERPHONICS by Alex V. Cook In 1989, radical composer John Oswald made a statement about copyright and the true nature of the…
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flying + RIP Sky Saxon and Farrah Fawcett →
I just watched the achingly beautiful Werner Herzog’s “The Great Ecstacy of the Sculptor Steiner” his 1974 documentary about Walter Steiner, a champion at ski-flying. Walter had to pressure the…
pushin' too hard →
Sky Saxon - The King of Garage Rock (listen) Word is Sky Saxon of the Seeds is in bad shape. Best wishes to one of our finest inner space cosmonauts.
agreement with everyone →
The Bats -The Guilty Office (listen) I am in agreement with everyone: this new album by classic New Zealand band the Bats is a corker. I’m envision that when the shit goes down and…
[outsideleft] Patterson Hood: Common Man as Hell →
PATTERSON HOOD: COMMON MAN AS HELL by Alex V. Cook Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers gets us in closer to the action on his second solo CD. (more…)
Frasier, Briefly →
thread social →
thread social →
[The Record Crate] Sympathy for the Devil →
Satisfaction, A Tribute to the Stones, at the Varsity
I caught the tail end of Satisfaction, a tribute to the Stones, this weekend at The Varsity, tellingly getting the set-ender…
harmonious + RIP Andy Hughes of the Orb →
Ali Akbar Khan - The 80-Minute Raga (from ROOT BLOG) I listened to this while walking to the library, returning some unread books, reading another book and walking…
"Spalling" Galling →
dem bones →
Dinu Lipatti - Icon: Dinu Lipatti (listen) My mind is brimming with mixtape ideas now. I was looking for the exact right piano piece to open in it with, and didn’t…
[outsideleft] Meet the Lemonheads' Tape Case →
MEET THE LEMONHEADS’ TAPE CASE by Alex V. Cook The Lemonheads ride high once again, this time held aloft by other people’s songs. (more…)
mixtape warning →
The Meters - Look-a-Py-Py (listen) Lee Dorsey - Ride Your Pony (listen) Joe Turner, Pee Wee Crayton & Sonny Stitt - Every Day I have the Blues (
I lean toward "yes" →
Hugh Cornwell - Hooverdam (available free from his website) Last week, I listened to the Stranglers for the first time in probably 17 years,…
Robert Ashley →
A friend of mine studied under Robert Ashley, and he aptly described Asheley’s art as “really boring, but in a good way” which is a description I keep at the ready for a lot of…
ruin →
Lydia Lunch/Marc Almond/Clint Ruin/Nick Cave - Immaculate Consumptive (via Mutant Sounds) I say all that about living breezily in the now just as the…
degree symbol →
St. Vincent - Actor (listen) My weekend was hot and largely lovely, but peppered sporadically with guilt trips from the periphery, for what purpose I do not understand. When life is…
Happy Father's Day →
Happy Father’s Day, originally uploaded by real_voodooboy.
From the front
LiterJerry Matters →
The Pants! The Pants! →
The Committee Has Ruled →
16 in a Series →
I Am Reminded of an Adventure →
Passion fruit snowball with condensed milk, Ninja... →
A most satisfactory snowball, though I told them next time I want to be confronted with a flavor that makes me go “I dunno about this…” like something with jalapeño in it, or hummus….
Currently Reading: The World ThatNew Orleans Made... →
per my GoodReads update:
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette My review Wow, the discussions about the semiotics of the street…
We Have a Winner →
Dr. "M." vs. The Lizard Man →
straight against the mack →
I half-wish Beck had followed through on his notion of making a full album-remake of Digital Underground’s Sex Packets, an album that I have probably listened to more times…
Chastised By Greil Marcus? →