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a little bit presumptuous
a lot more ridiculous.
you may here: i will hear:
i really
dislike having to update areas. but! urgent:
may 27 -- transmitting,
will apolinario, tina kim. CREATION CONSORTIUM. free. see here
for more info.
june
3 --Stereolab, Yoko Ono, Thurston Moore, DJ Spooky and
Friends, Graham Haynes, The Wayward Shamans (featuring Barrett
Martin & members of Tuatara), Toninho Horta all this and
more at Battery Park, buy tix at www.jazfest.com; only $20.
defining
characteristics:
though my
tastes tend to ebb and flow, i remain consistent in the
pieces--
1. post-punk electronic
experimentations -- bjork. aphex twin. kukl. it's good to be post-punk when one
didn't even have to
pass through that awkward punk phase.
2. ethereal programming ambience --
portishead. eno. lamb. radiohead. yo la tengo. stereolab. cocteau
twins. lovely droning powers creating extreme logic out of
logic.
3. groove jazz world fusion-- beastie
boys. cibo matto. beck. dha fuzion. phbalance. things to smile to.
and all the ancestors of this funk.
4. sheer madness -- prokofiev. zorn. blonde
redhead.
5. southern-fried rock & roll -- black crowes.
early r.e.m. maybe this is 70s rock or college rock or some
other premature limited image of a genre, but for me this is
southern at its utmost. raised on this stuff before
discovering #1 (see above).
music i adore:
bjork, kukl, portishead, lamb, aphex twin, prokofiev, brian eno, radiohead, stereolab, beck, carter burwell, john cage, billie holiday, ella fitzgerald, sarah vaughan, janis joplin, moby, beastie boys, patsy cline, stravinsky, cibo matto, squarepusher, phBalance, transmitting
music i like[d]:
black crowes, rem, b52s, indigo
girls, maldoror, squirrel nut zippers, yo la tengo,
tricky,
saint etienne, cocteau
twins, seely, mazzy star, sneaker pimps, morcheeba, massive attack, herbalizer, hooverphonic, myrkskog, john zorn, boredoms, melt banana,
no doubt, sugarcubes, gus gus, bloem
de ligny,
ez rollers, schubert,
schumann, wagner,
holst, pj harvey, kate bush, vss,
mozart, the beatles, led zeppelin, the verve, michael
nyman,
beth orton, the smiths, the carpenters, joan baez, bessie smith, the mamas and the papas, thelonious monk, miles davis, john coltrane, the velvet underground, pizzicato five, violent femmes, bic runga, prolapse, elliot smith, jeff buckley, nina simone, garbage, jackson 5, marvin gaye, blonde redhead, legendary pink dots, they might be giants, talking heads, madonna, olive, pet shop boys, fiona apple, tori amos, smashing pumpkins, vengaboys, fatboy slim, sasha, paul van dyk, john digweed, goldie, mahalia jackson, sondheim, diana ross, bette midler (in her gay bathhouse years)
movies i
listen/look:
being john malkovich, run lola run, the
matrix, bladerunner, boogie nights, chungking express, high fidelity
saving wishes and alibis:
Groovebox
Fender Rhodes piano
(VK-1000, Mk80, Chroma-Polaris)
Wurlitzer (200A)
Cubase
acoustic guitar (gibson, martin, takamine)
recorder (for $15)
cd grocery list: cocteau twins (heaven or
las vegas, treasure, head over heels, victorialand, garlands), portishead (live:
roseland nyc, portishead), stereolab (emperor tomato ketchup),
brian eno (music for films, the pearl, music for airports), aphex twin, yo
la tengo (electr-o-pura, i can hear the heart beating
as one, fakebook, painful), blonde redhead (In
An Expression of the Inexpressible), saint etienne (so tough, good humour), at home with
the groovebox
top five (sod off):
1. bachlorette --
bjork
2. refractions in the plastic pulse --
stereolab
3. boy/girl song --
aphex twin
4. let down --
radiohead
5. zero -- lamb
6. summertime -- janis joplin
7.
gloomy sunday -- billie holiday
money i no
longer have:
once a year or so ago my cd collection disappeared. i was very unhappy.
then when i moved to nyc more went away. 5 floors below
lives a cd store. i can charge to my payroll. this is a good.
maybe. thank goodness i kept my receipts (though not all of
them), eternal packrat (tho when i need w2 forms, they are
nowhere). inspired by high fidelity's main character arranging
his record collection not chronologically. not alphabetically.
... autobiographically. sad: that the frequency with which i
buy causes only the replacements to have meaning (no not
that), whereas before, the originals, due to
my status of not having any money, were virtual
landmarks. memories
unfurling.
4/25 - st. etienne tiger
bay
i've been losing money gambling on cds so
much that i should do one of those easy to manage online
journals; at some point i'm going to get irritated at how i
change so i'll simply refuse to update this page. then i'll
have to do something permanent. yet permanence is so faux pas.
anyway, this cd is not so hot, but i heard pieces of their
other albums which were promising.
4/24 - stereolab dots
and loops
slight impulse buy, as i already
have intense, down-your-throat access
to this spiritualistic sound playland. happened upon the realization that
i left ok computer at home, why i brought
it home makes no sense as i already have home version. weird.
back: can't program without good. i will be going to their
concert in june. inner cartwheel.
4/19 - replacing the
carpenters.
sophomore year my roommate was a huge fan of
the carpenters, abba, blondie, the smiths. we were friends
from before not for music tastes, but for kids in the hall and
the young ones and absolutely fabulous. i wasn't originally fond of her
music, but i liked it when she played the carpenters so i
bought the same cd. also back in 6th grade my parents had one
of their albums on vinyl and i remember when i sat in front
of the record player and listened to
the album. the whole day.
4/18 - smashing pumpkins machina. a good! also replacing
radiohead; i now have a copy atwork and one at home. free access to let down, i started suffocating
from holding my breath, it was that good to hear it
while coding.
smashing pumpkins:
not replaced, but memories of their concert in 1994. this was
the day i met two people who influenced my life tremendously,
and still manage to do so. and they watched over me
after the concert; this was back when i found subways scary
and didn't tell my parents i took the subway. another piece, a high
school friend and i lying on a hill with
grass on it in front
of the music building and headphones and playing a sp taped instead of
having lunch. she made me tapes
of college music mixes back in
middle school; if it weren't for her, blanketed in my classical
world.
radiohead #1: a car trip from philadelphia to
pittsburgh back junior year. i had gone to visit a doe-eyed
model boy i was dating over the summer. he liked mozart's
symphony in c and had a high fahrenheit 451 consistency. the 8
hour drive consisted of ok computer on repeat. also: we were
pulled over by a policeman. a beautiful ending: i moved, left no phone
trace.
radiohead #2: between junior and senior year, living at
a friend's place. he lived for music, vegetarianism, and computers. also a cat
that i taught to wink while this cd played. even though
i am allergic. then one day--cds and stereo
disappear.
2/25 - next best thing soundtrack. i
wanted to hear olive. i am very very sorry i bought this. i
have since then conveniently lost this cd. it is probably somewhere in
my cubicle.
2/11 - go! by letters
to cleo. also a collection of opera pieces i want to
remix.
1/25 - replacing telegram by bjork.
remixes. you know.
a
long, drawn out, almost 2 year relationship with venus as
a boy, serious; incessant playing of this cd between the two
of us; the early days of cognac pieces in his room,
our togetherness revolving around bjork. months later i cried almost every day with him
there, apologizing. never again. whenever i listen to the cd now (which is
rarely), i have to create a distance. i stand away from the
stereo. which really isn't mine.
1/24 - sarah vaughn's greatest 18.
not the exact cd i
lost, but close. played overwhelmingly by a comparative literature major i was entertaining myself with summer
before junior year. this, nina simone, sinatra and
opera. his best friend was a conductor and once
complimented by bernstein on oboe. this has nothing to do with the
boy at hand. the boy preened his intellectualism and
smoked a lot of pot which he called drugs. i was
charmed for a time, then became annoyed. i moved on to better things,
like soup.
1/20 - squarepusher selection
sixteen
1/14 - being john
malkovich soundtrack. i had to special order this. bjork's
newest was on; layers upon layers of voices; tres beautiful.
and carterburwell. also tres.
all this in reaction to / in reflection of how i fucked up
badly on new year's.
1/5 - went dorothy and got easter parade.
also replacing a patsy cline album.
this occurred the second time i saw
coal miner's daughter, summer before senior year. a very good. this is around
the time my a/c unit kept
blowing out the electricity and one of my roommates that also liked patsy
cline and had a shaved head would yell my name
out in anger. this i did not like. taking my name in vain.
i hid in the closet.
12/13 - tori amos to venus and back
i normally am not a fan of
hers, but this cd reminded of the first and last girl. the
closest i ever got to being with tori amos.
11/25 - beastie boys
sounds of science
went to a concert of
theirs in 1994 with two boys who ended up being the sweetest
ever (if not a little strange). they went into the mosh pit
and one lost his bandana and had this beautiful amount of hair
that it still bothers me to see him with a financial haircut.
by the end of that summer i knew all the words to sabotage
without even seeing the video.
i need help.
please stop cd
addiction.
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