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Current Reading
Planned books:
- 20 Jazz Funk Greats (33 1/3) by Drew Daniel
- Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation (33 1/3) by Matthew Stearns
- Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
Current books:
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
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The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
Recent books:
- The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
- Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression by Bill Morgan
- The Brotherhood of the Disappearing Pants: A Field Guide to Conservative Sex Scandals by Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer
- And The Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by Jack Kerouac
- The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris by Barry Miles
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Current Listening
Category Archives: Uncategorized
May
07
2008
May 2008 Current 25
Gas - Zauberberg [Mille Plateaux; 2008 reissue forthcoming on Kompakt]
Coil - The Ape of Naples (2008 vinyl with The New Backwards) [Important/Threshold House]
Matmos - Supreme Balloon [Matador]
Anthony Rother - Super Space Model [Datapunk]
Portishead - Third [Mercury]
Meat Beat Manifesto - Autoimmune [Metropolis]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! [Anti]
Diamanda Galas - Guilty Guilty [...]
Apr
21
2008
P is Back!!
P is for Portishead. It’s been nearly 10 years in the making and is almost here at last. Portishead’s new album, Third, comes out a week from tomorrow, on April 29. However, Last.fm is streaming the entire album on its Portishead page today ONLY.
Listen here
This past Saturday was Record Store Day and Easy Street Records [...]
Apr
14
2008
That’s news to me…
Apparently, the new Madonna record, Hard Candy, is a hotly-anticipated release. That’s news to me…I am not “hotly anticipating” its imminent release. As a matter of fact, I am not looking forward to it. I particularly don’t like the fact that the grossly overhyped and overrated boy wonder Justin Timberlake is involved with the album. [...]
Apr
08
2008
Current Listening 25 - April 2008
Diamanda Galas - Guilty Guilty Guilty
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
Lawrence - Lowlights from the Past and Future
Anthony Rother Presents We Are Punks 2
Faust/NWW - Disconnected
Boris with Merzbow - Rock Dream
J2 (Jarboe and Justin Broadrick) - Self-Titled
Grave Temple Trio - The Holy Down
Autechre - Quaristice
Sunn O))) - 00 Void (Japanese Reissue with Nurse With Wound remixes)
Ellen Allien [...]
Jan
21
2008
I Realize
I realized just now that we are at the 21st of January and I still have yet to complete my 2007 year-end lists. Why am I still backtracking? I don’t know, but I want to finish it off so I can move onto the future. I am 5 days away from my 35th birthday. YIKES!!! [...]
Jan
03
2008
Where? (Followup)
I GOT IT!
I GOT IT!
I GOT IT!
I GOT IT!
Yes, I know that is pretty immature, but I got it nonetheless. The TG Video Archive is now in my hands. I might have to put on a viewing party!!!
Nov
21
2007
Walked in Line
Thought for today - Just trying to get through slow day at work before I head into the arms of a 4-day holiday weekend. Yeah, yeah I know the analogy there is cheesy! The cheesiness of that statement is the result of the impending boredom I’m enduring right now.