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[Dec. 10th, 2009|08:15 am] |
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| | Discharge - the more i see | ] |
it has been an interesting few weeks, musically speaking.
stuff i want to recommend:
Bela Bartok - anything but i've really been diggin The Miraculous Mandarin
Black Flag - again, anything, but i've been listening to stuff off the Who's Got the 10 1/2? album. get it. i was really stunned by how tight the band sounded. i guess i've always thought towards the end they weren't really into it, and the music wasn't so great anymore, but the band really sounded like they were ON when that album was recorded. maybe i was just clinging to the early stuff a little too much.
Boredoms - been listening to Soul Discharge '99. get it or die. also get Pop Tatari. not really into the more recent stuff, which is more mellow and relaxed. get the older, crazy stuff.
Swans - anything before they mellowed out. been watching some live performances from the mid 80s. scary band. heavier than anything you've ever heard.
Discharge - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing. finally gave em a listen. catchy stuff, i can see why so many people like them (they are so influential they spawned their own sub-genre..), but i dunno if i'll ever be fanatical like some people. the impact they had on bands like Metallica is very very obvious.
Psychic TV - formed after the breakup of Throbbing Gristle, haven't explored them much but the song Godstar is too good.
Sun Ra Arkestra - check out the chicago jazz fest 81 stuff on youtube. i guess you can call that free jazz but it's definitely the most extreme jazz i've ever heard. instant fan. i'd love to hear more of the really crazy, hectic, far out stuff they did but i can't seem to find any.
Alexander Scriabin - anything. atonal russian piano compositions. okay, what's not to love?
Cecil Taylor - anything. just found out about him last night. fell in love right away. the godfather of free jazz, apparently beating Ornette to the punch.
Haydn - anything.
Big Black - Atomizer. get it or i'll kill you.
Mastodon - Leviathan. acquired taste for me, and i don't know how to explain why. they're metal, the drums are free jazz. don't know. check em out, though. they're very good.
before i get to this last album, i want to throw out a final few bands/artists i've been listening to:
Hanatarash (sounds like merzbow before merzbow was merzbow), featuring none other than Yamantaka Eye, a legendary figure who founded Boredoms and has worked with Otomo Yoshihide, Bill Laswell, and John Zorn. i can't recommend Hanatarash because frankly i think it's more of this japanese noise crap that pretentious assholes think is music. i've actually seen the "song" "structures" analyzed. im not going any further with this. i only listened to this because of Eye's rep + because i wanted to hear some noisy shit. well, noisy shit is exactly what i got.
Gauze - i think the jury's out on this one. i do like one song but it's possible i just haven't heard enough. legendary band in any case.
Merzbow - sigh.
i've really been craving some hard, fast, fucked up, noisy stuff, and i was satisfied to an extent with Boredoms. i just wanted something more extreme.
enter Melt Banana. they have a live album out under the Melt Banana Lite name, entitled Melt-Banana Lite Live: Ver.0.0, which is the same band except with synths and samplers in place of guitars. i was a little skeptical. they're the masters of hard/fast/fucked up.. but i just wasn't sure. and yes this may be heresy, but i think their cover of We Will Rock You was a little off the mark. i only mention that because i heard it earlier for the first time and thought it might be indicative of a new sound they were going for. Queen is Queen. leave them alone. i want MELT BANANA songs from Melt Banana. those bursts of insanity fill my heart with love and warmth.
i checked out the album on amazon, listened to a sample of a song i was familiar with. one word: wow. if the rest of the album is as good as that little clip, we may actually have The Album of the Decade. well guess what fuckers, i downloaded the whole album. and you know what? there has been some truly astonishing stuff put out in the last ten years (Prowler in the Yard, The Director's Cut, California, Black One, etc) and this really might be better than all of those releases. full disclosure: i worship Melt Banana and have called them The Greatest Band in the World on multiple occasions.
i will say it again: Melt Banana is the world's greatest band. their music is hard, it's fast, it's fucking crazy. band of the decade. album of the decade. they have reigned supreme for 15 years.
this is the album you need to hear. |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 2nd, 2009|12:32 am] |
Shed no tears for the suicide
He has made his choice, the pain of life is great
And some will find it sweet to rot beneath the earth
As we rot and live and breathe
No tears wasted
No sorrow no pity
No, no crying, no loss |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 17th, 2009|08:49 am] |
| [ | music |
| | RATM - Bulls on Parade (Battle of Mexico City)* | ] |
recent reading:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
Enuma Elish (the Babylonian Creation myth)
Petition of the Candlestickmakers - Bastiat
Government - Bastiat
Gold, Peace, and Prosperity (PDF) - Ron Paul
Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat - Rimbaud
The Call of Cthulhu - H. P. Lovecraft
A Free-Market Monetary System & The Pretense of Knowledge (PDF) - F. A. Hayek
The Production of Security - Gustave de Molinari
Hanuman Chalisa Jai Hanuman!
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
Self-Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perpetual Peace - Immanuel Kant
Guerrilla Warfare - Che Guevara. i stopped at page 36. there are two sections on page 35 that almost made my head cave in:
#1: When conditions have improved sufficiently to maintain a territory permanently free from the dominion of the opposing army, it is possible to set up collective plantings, where the peasants work the land for the benefit of the guerrilla army.
#2: If conditions continue to improve, taxes can be established
so, the "liberating force" (yes, he uses this phrase at one point in the book) wipes out tyranny.. and as soon as possible, the peasants are put to work.. and taxed for their efforts. almost sounds like something a capitalist would do!
*a note on RATM
i had a tape (remember those things?) of a live RATM performance in 98 and i'd watch it before going to school. my days were shit but at least i got to hear Timmy C's thunderous bass riffs and Tom Morello's menacing, dissonant quasi-shred before those savages got to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVv19-ojn7w
with all the fuss over global warming, where's the talk of Tom Morello's tone? i demand a measure of near-surface air temperature before and after he plays. keep bitching about aerosols and solar variation. we all know it's his smoldering tone heating up the atmosphere. |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|12:37 am] |
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| | Killing Joke - Dominator | ] |
im pretty much done with people. i get absolutely no feedback from anyone. they have nothing to contribute. as far as conversation goes, there is nothing they can offer. luckily, some people are attractive so at least they're good for sex, right? or at least they're nice to look at. who's to say they're worth a fuck? literally. they skate through life using their good looks, doesn't mean they're motivated to get someone off. they probably just lie down and expect all the work to be done for them. why should they have to do anything for anyone?
i listen to music i like, i read books i think are interesting, and i feel better because of it. then i talk to people and i feel like shit. fuck everyone. you spend your whole life searching for some sign of intelligent life, something that'd indicate the presence of higher consciousness. and there is nothing. absolutely nothing. and there's only one solution: to start killing you, all of you, one by one, until the earth is cleansed. we have to get rid of you. we, thinking people, have to exterminate you. for the sake of our sanity, for the betterment of our race, it is time for you to go. |
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| SCARY |
[Sep. 24th, 2009|04:02 am] |
as i said on fb,
el. oh. el. as fucked up as this is, it doesn't even come CLOSE to the "obama youth" and "we're gonna change the world" videos. i hope he performs human sacrifice on all the kids in this video. we don't need these brainwashed fucks roaming freely. |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 7th, 2009|05:50 am] |
why are we still in iraq? and afghanistan?
fuck george bush. fuck barack obama. fuck all your wars. |
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[Jan. 1st, 2009|03:35 pm] |
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QUIEREN UN BEBE BLANCO? VISITE ANTONIO NINOS BLANCOS 100% GUARANTIZADO CADA VES |
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[Oct. 27th, 2008|07:47 am] |
VIK IS A FAGGOT HOMOSEXUAL MOTHERFUCKER WHO RIDES THE METRO TO BEN'S HOUSE WHERE THEY SHOOT HOT CUM ON EACH OTHER'S BACKS
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 5th, 2008|09:28 pm] |
OBAMA YOUTH
HEIL OBAMA!
HEIL OBAMA!
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 30th, 2008|10:49 pm] |
We're gonna spread happiness
We're gonna spread freedom
Obama's gonna change it
Obama's gonna lead 'em
We're gonna change it
And rearrange it
We're gonna change the world.
SCARIEST.
VIDEO.
OF.
ALL.
TIME. |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 2nd, 2008|09:49 am] |
| [ | music |
| | Origin - The Aftermath | ] |
I just listened to John Zorn's (big fan) cover of WRU by Ornette Coleman (big fan), and then i listened to Origin, and i've said it before and i'll say it again: free jazz and death metal are basically the same thing. if your tastes are varied enough to tolerate the two extremes (and they do represent the extremes of their respective genres), you will understand exactly what i mean. |
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| Books |
[Jul. 29th, 2008|01:33 pm] |
i've decided to dedicate a big portion of my time to reading since it seems to keep me out of trouble.
i have read:
animal farm - george orwell
factotum - charles bukowski
post office - charles bukowski
ham on rye - charles bukowski
black spring - henry miller
nexus - henry miller
notes from underground - fyodor dostoyevsky
a season in hell & the drunken boat - arthur rimbaud
the great gatsby - f. scott fitzgerald
the stranger - albert camus
melmoth the wanderer - charles maturin
maldoror - the comte de lautreamont
zen in the art of archery - eugen herrigel
the sound and the fury - william faulkner
books im in the middle of:
paris spleen - charles baudelaire
journey to the end of the night - louis-ferdinand celine
books im putting off:
1984 - george orwell
selected writings - gerard de nerval
prisoner's dilemma - william poundstone
books i have bought but have not read:
one day in the life of ivan denisovich - alexander solzhenitsyn
books i wanna read:
too many to list. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 27th, 2008|06:59 pm] |
while singing along to Madonna's Get Into the Groove in my absolute highest voice..
Cowboys From Hell by Pantera comes on the metal channel.
me: *pointing at the tv and headbanging* TONIGHT I WANNA DANCE WITH PHIL AN-SEL-MO! |
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