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September 2009
The Archives
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09.30.09Bukowski’s Laughing Heartyour life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. you can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it. you are marvelous the gods wait to delight in you. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/va1t6a0zCkQ" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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09.29.09Coal miners and chimney sweepsSeparated at birth. The strange tale of Mark Linkous and William Blake. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/m3GCYWiz7Dk" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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09.27.09Beautiful NoisePerfecting Sound Forever Greg Milner (Granta) He had me at hello. In his preface to Perfecting Sound Forever, music journalist (and occasional political speechwriter) Greg Milner explains in clear and concise language Guglielmo Marconi's hypothesis of immortal sound: that there might exist an astral history of signals which have aged and decayed beyond our human hearing, but which one day may be Lazarused back to life through technological advances. Thus the maestro's dream of building a device powerful enough to someday range across time to pick up Christ's Sermon on the Mount. Flawed science maybe, but a beautiful idea. By rendering ...
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09.26.09J the R paperback...reviewed in UK Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/john-the-revelator-by-peter-murphy-1792709.html
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09.25.09Howl"Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfBzCG4H8uo
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09.23.09The View from last night…...is now online. Subjects on the slab include the films Creation and The Soloist, William Boyd's novel Ordinary Thunderstorms, and the sublime Edvard Munch exhibition at the National Gallery. http://www.rte.ie/tv/theview/archive/20090922.html
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09.19.09This Land is Your Land"I always thought it was our America as much as anyone else's – circus people and carnival freaks, prisoners and music makers, troubadours, minstrels, hobos and poets and such, we can't let the goddamn country go down to politicians and corporate madmen and media people and college professors, run it over and ruin it all. It's ours, our goddamn country. We built the midway, didn't we? And we make the music that goes on the midway, from sea to shining sea. You know, goddamn, Ronald Reagan died recently and they flew the flag at half-mast. Well, did they fly it ...
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09.17.09Manson V MurphyShirley Manson interviews the Rev Murphy. http://www.faber.co.uk/article/2009/9/when-manson-met-murphy
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09.16.09Emptiness is FormGhost Dog: In ancient times bears were considered equal with men. .................................. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFMY4jJ6SVE [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/iFMY4jJ6SVE" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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09.15.09Cars hiss by my window like the waves down on the beachRichmond Fontaine We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River (Decor Records) I don't care who you are, come up with an album title like that and you get a free pass. But then, we were always well disposed to Richmond Fontaine around these parts, and not just because mainman Willy Vlautin is a damn fine novelist as well as exemplary songwriter and bandleader. It's the way RF scuff that melancholic diners-bars-and-gas-station sound, playing roots rock with the guts of The Replacements or The Feelies or some such Amerindie act. Vlautin sketches entire lives on a beermat, intoning in your ear ...