A knife to open up the sky's veins
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oneirophreniaI miss the Meat Puppets. They were one of the few "alternative rock" bands that I ever liked...mainly 'cause they reminded me a lot of a heavier version of Let's Active.
Anyway, this here is a random thoughts/recounting of the weekend, entry, so
Saturday, went shopping at Kawaii with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alternakittyn and got some excellent stationery with my new little heroes, Relax Bear and Nukumuri Neko (Sleepy Cat), on them. Relax Bear is just this chilled-out little bear who hangs out and...well, chills. Sleepy Cat is pretty much the same thing: a sleepy cat, who drools. Now I know why I'm growing so fond of contemporary Japanese culture--it has the same obvious naming strategy as I do! Why call a relaxed bear anything other than Relax Bear? Truth in advertising, I call it! Aaaaanyway, alternakittyn is totally the best to go shopping with, and I'm pretty convinced now that she and I were definitely produced at the same factory. Her birthday's coming up, though, so I snagged her a copy of Geek Love, one of my alltime favorite books, and she's already read more than half of it. But, hey, how can you put down a book that's about a family who exposes themselves to all sorts of mutagens so that they have mutated circus-freak children? Sounds like something I would do, right?!
That night, went to dinner withblackcatbon and had a wonderful time feeding, talking about school, teaching, and endoscopic fun. After that, we went to see Big Fish: Bonnie's first time seeing it, my second. Gods, I love that movie--and so did Bonnie. I mean...how can you not? It may be the most mythcially-resonant film I've seen this year, not counting obvious contenders like the Matrix films and The Lord of the Rings. I'm seriously thinking about getting a big ol' catfish chewing on a wedding ring tattooed on my shoulder now.
Jeremy and I recorded more Nyarlathotepnic freshness for the upcoming EP, mainly so that Jeremy could play with his new supertoy, the Korg AX1G005A, crown prince of all multi-FX platforms. While I was away that evening, Jeremy actually recorded a new track, too: just guitars withmartygreene tweaking the knobs and elements of the Axigoosa to make a totally fresh sound. Hell, I don't think I even need to touch this one: I might layer some noise behind it, but that's about it...it's pretty ready to fly just as it is. We've also discovered that Jeremy's old Yamaha keyboard belts out the best pure sin-wave bass I've ever heard. It is teh sexx.
I just finished grading twenty-some papers while listening to Haujobb's Freeze Frame Reality and Solutions for a Small Planet. Haujobb is excellent grading music. Daniel Meier be praised above all men except for cEvin Key and Nivek Ogre and Gary Numan.
And finally....I just started reading Jeff Noon's Needle in the Groove, an avante-garde, Newer Wave literary glitchfest about a bass player who joins a dance band and becomes all wrapped up in the weird world of dub culture, remix wars, and strangeness that we here in the States would call IDM, I guess. It's surprisingly fresh: the writing is a little more sharpedged than usual, and Noon has always been known to write prose that cuts--but this shit could slice diamond. Rather Anthony Burgess-esque at times, but dubbed up with some fat Autechre-style beats and braintwisting linguistic wibblewobble. Kraftwerk meets disco meets garage punk in the near future of the Manchester Sound while grabbing Morrissey by the short hairs and making him cry. Gritty, grubby, bipply and bubbly, all at once, it's the literary equivalent of DJ Spooky getting assraped by Madison Avenue and Deltron 3030 while Kraftwerk and Massive Attack look on and e. e. cummings drunkenly slobbers on the mixing board. Bang!
Anyway, this here is a random thoughts/recounting of the weekend, entry, so
Saturday, went shopping at Kawaii with
alternakittyn and got some excellent stationery with my new little heroes, Relax Bear and Nukumuri Neko (Sleepy Cat), on them. Relax Bear is just this chilled-out little bear who hangs out and...well, chills. Sleepy Cat is pretty much the same thing: a sleepy cat, who drools. Now I know why I'm growing so fond of contemporary Japanese culture--it has the same obvious naming strategy as I do! Why call a relaxed bear anything other than Relax Bear? Truth in advertising, I call it! Aaaaanyway, alternakittyn is totally the best to go shopping with, and I'm pretty convinced now that she and I were definitely produced at the same factory. Her birthday's coming up, though, so I snagged her a copy of Geek Love, one of my alltime favorite books, and she's already read more than half of it. But, hey, how can you put down a book that's about a family who exposes themselves to all sorts of mutagens so that they have mutated circus-freak children? Sounds like something I would do, right?!That night, went to dinner with
blackcatbon and had a wonderful time feeding, talking about school, teaching, and endoscopic fun. After that, we went to see Big Fish: Bonnie's first time seeing it, my second. Gods, I love that movie--and so did Bonnie. I mean...how can you not? It may be the most mythcially-resonant film I've seen this year, not counting obvious contenders like the Matrix films and The Lord of the Rings. I'm seriously thinking about getting a big ol' catfish chewing on a wedding ring tattooed on my shoulder now.Jeremy and I recorded more Nyarlathotepnic freshness for the upcoming EP, mainly so that Jeremy could play with his new supertoy, the Korg AX1G005A, crown prince of all multi-FX platforms. While I was away that evening, Jeremy actually recorded a new track, too: just guitars with
martygreene tweaking the knobs and elements of the Axigoosa to make a totally fresh sound. Hell, I don't think I even need to touch this one: I might layer some noise behind it, but that's about it...it's pretty ready to fly just as it is. We've also discovered that Jeremy's old Yamaha keyboard belts out the best pure sin-wave bass I've ever heard. It is teh sexx.I just finished grading twenty-some papers while listening to Haujobb's Freeze Frame Reality and Solutions for a Small Planet. Haujobb is excellent grading music. Daniel Meier be praised above all men except for cEvin Key and Nivek Ogre and Gary Numan.
And finally....I just started reading Jeff Noon's Needle in the Groove, an avante-garde, Newer Wave literary glitchfest about a bass player who joins a dance band and becomes all wrapped up in the weird world of dub culture, remix wars, and strangeness that we here in the States would call IDM, I guess. It's surprisingly fresh: the writing is a little more sharpedged than usual, and Noon has always been known to write prose that cuts--but this shit could slice diamond. Rather Anthony Burgess-esque at times, but dubbed up with some fat Autechre-style beats and braintwisting linguistic wibblewobble. Kraftwerk meets disco meets garage punk in the near future of the Manchester Sound while grabbing Morrissey by the short hairs and making him cry. Gritty, grubby, bipply and bubbly, all at once, it's the literary equivalent of DJ Spooky getting assraped by Madison Avenue and Deltron 3030 while Kraftwerk and Massive Attack look on and e. e. cummings drunkenly slobbers on the mixing board. Bang!
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Date: 2004-01-27 10:29 pm (UTC)Yay for Geek Love! I had yet to find anyone else who actually read it, even though I've been pushing it on all of my friends for the last year and a half. Beyond the circus-freak facade, the religious references are downright disturbing considering the context.
By the way, your last sentence is perhaps the funniest thing I've come across in a loooooong time. It reminded me of that quote you posted not too long ago....
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Date: 2004-01-28 07:26 am (UTC)And as to that last line: _Needle in the Groove_ literally is just *that*, a hyped-up remix of a thousand different weird themes that...damn, just tear your mind apart and mix it back together again like Einstuzende Neubauten attacking a Joy Division record. Amazing.