drat fink

lap tip

n.e.r.d

link tank

portage

cataracts

sarah white
scout niblett
new bethel
mia doi todd

some assembly required

maquiladora

peeled down

nina nastasia's peel sessions

yes maam

yeah yeah yeahs after blowing off the reading festival have a parking lot concert on saturday in the afternoon with the liars and others at 401 wythe avenue in williamsburg.

light breeze

the zephyrs
mus
aroah
songs:ohia
refree

girl on girl

dear nora

non dairy creamer

creamburg

sci-fri

"Ten years in the Valley, and all Murray Swain had to show for it was a spare tire, a bald patch, and a life that was friendless and empty and maggoty-rotten. His only ever California friend, Liam, had dwindled from a tubbaguts programmer-shaped potato to a living skeleton on his death-bed the year before, herpes blooms run riot over his skin and bones in the absence of any immunoresponse. The memorial service featured a framed photo of Liam at his graduation; his body was donated for medical science."

iraqneeds

iraq war links

24/7

2000 flushes

n/ice/gl/ass

understanding duchamp

double cheeseburg

couple of bargain bin pickups this week -

love and rockets -- express
berlin -- pleasure victim

flasher

the struggle continues at mefi

critical mess

blogcritics is up and running.

disc us

"Frisbee golf creator dies, may land on someone's roof"

cut your air

todays musical meanderings --

telex
doktor kosmos
tahiti 80

bowery blues

when i left my apartment tonight to go out to dinner with my neighbor to discuss our fast approaching displacement from our home of six and forty years respectively, there was a note on the steps from the son of the landlord. the son runs the lighting store on the ground floor. it was somewhat unusual but not wholly beyond the realm of possibility that he would want to talk to me. so i called him when i got back from another fine meal at alias (especially fine as my guardian angels picked up the tab), only to find SOL (son of landlord) in a rebellious mood. seems he was trying to enlist my support in an effort to sue his father who is in the process of evicting the three of us from the building. as if my real family werent disfunctional enough. i doubt anything will come of it as neither myself nor my neighbor is itching for a fight at this point but its sure is tempting to throw a wrench into the fathers plans. after all, what kind of father forces his own son out of business? is the animosity that it would generate within the family worth a couple of hundred thousand dollars? the fuck has already had a stroke in the last couple of years. does he need more heartache? does he want his grandchildren to grow up hating him too? if i only had the right kind of friends, we could take care of the problem without any pesky lawsuits. who needs lawyers when youre above the law.

oh yeah, you would think that dining with me would be the highlight to anybody's day but my zelig-like neighbor attended a luncheon at mayor bloomberg's townhouse as part of some nyc educational conference. and what did he and bloomy bond over as hizzoner made the rounds? the blight of teen smoking, of course. alot of good that will do in helping us to get an apartment or two, but if i ever get another ticket for running a red light on my bicycle, i know where to call and complain.

tonight im gonna party like its 1995

managed to overcome my dis-ease and mal-laze to attend the late rock show tonight at the knitting factory. i probably would have liked the angular guitared punk chicks in the earlier show ( erase errata) more but the proggy punkish swedish rockers The Soundtrack of Our Lives put on a good show. and theres still nothing like being 5' from the stage to appreciate the histronics of which there were many. but i still wanted to crack the kid who kept backing into me across the skull with my beer bottle. too much of the sopranos on dvd, i suppose, or else im harboring a thinly concealed veil of rage. (we report, you decide.) i mean, i had a nice perch until he snaked his way in front of me, the least he could do is knock into the people in front of him instead of me. overall worthwhile but i didnt stay for the encore.

the whites of their lies

"In what may be the opening battle of the war for Iraq, the Kurds are preparing to crush an Islamic fundamentalist group which has seized territory on the Iraqi-Iranian border and which some claim provides evidence of a link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden."

smoke-free

"The few remaining outposts of smoking in public indoor spaces in New York City, such as small restaurants and bars, will soon be smoke-free — if Mayor Michael Bloomberg has his way, and it seems that he will. While most of the workers in these establishments and their nonsmoking customers breathe a sigh of relief, smokers find their universe shrinking yet again. The law, if passed by the City Council, will put the city alongside California and Delaware as the nation's most unaccommodating places for smoking."

high flyers

""Futurists say that if anything's going to happen in the way of leaps in technology, it'll be in the field of medicine," says retired Rear Adm. Stephen Baker, the Navy's former chief of operational testing and evaluation, who is now at the Center for Defense Information in Washington. "This 'better warrior through chemistry' field is being looked at very closely," says Admiral Baker, whose career includes more than 1,000 aircraft-carrier landings as a naval aviator. "It's part of the research going on that is very aggressive and wide open."

credit check

"Instead of sending cash, coins and cheques up to the altar on a collection plate, parishioners can use special envelopes to charge monthly donations to their credit cards, or they can add their offerings and gifts to God to monthly bills paid online or through automatic bank account transfers."

chipping away

"The Los Angeles Police Department is seeking to censor films and television shows by threatening to sue any company that uses its name, badges or logos without getting approval for the script first."

"The city attorney's office said it would take legal action to protect its "intellectual property rights" as it expects to be "treated just like Starbucks and Coca-Cola"."

croc me up

theres got to be an easier way to go.

tarmac daddies

"Pavement - archived and committed to video as rumoured elsewhere (well, fuck, here actually), we'll be reissuing Pavement's groundbreaking 'Slanted & Enchanted' album on October 22, completely remastered with scads of extra tracks (at least 3 outtakes, the "Summer Babe" b-sides, b-sides from the "Trigger Cut" single, the entire "Watery, Domestic" EP, plus more), liner notes from SM, Spiral, Chris Lombardi, Dan Koretzky, Gerard Cosloy, Boche Billions and other hangers-on.

On the same day, we'll also be releasing the long-awaited Pavement 2-DVD collection, 'Slow Century'. Compiling all of Pavement's videos, two live gigs with multiple camera angles, plus a 90 minute documentary by director Lance Bangs. And no exhaustive DVD set would be complete without self-serving commentary from the musicians and video directors. If only we could've hired Elvis Mitchell to lob the softball questions up there the way he did on that "Memento" DVD....well, that would've taken us another year to get together, so be thankful we didn't bother."

saturday in the dark

blew some cash this afternoon on discs, although it could have been alot worse. bought nina nastasia's The Blackened Air in anticipation of not seeing the show. also picked up francoiz breut's Vignt a Trente Mille Jours. the darla records samplers are always "a treat" for $6 (the middle listing at the bottom). for my oldies buzz i picked up fairport convention's Heyday: BBC Sessions 1968-1969. and finally despite my waning enthusiasm, i couldnt help but grab the sleater-kinney pre-release promo for One Beat. and i also couldnt pass up a $10 North by Northwest dvd.

among the many other items consider but passed over were:

1) Bright Eyes -- Lifted, or The Story is in the Soil... (clip)

2) Gram Parsons -- Live 1973

3) Les Sans Culottes -- The Ennui and the Ecstasy

4) Interpol -- Turn On The Bright Lights

5) Lee Hazelwood Tribute Album -- Total Lee

6) T-Rex -- Dandy in the Underworld

7) Carter Family -- Clinch Mountain Treasures

8) The Fall -- The A Sides

all sewn up

might check out this nina nastasia show at the knitting factory tonight if i can motivate myself. any interest?

also, both of these monday shows at the knitting factory are appealing -- erase errata/ex models/kimya dawson or the later show -- The Soundtrack of Our Lives.

it think not

"For this is not about conspiracy but about coincidence -- unexpected connections that are both riveting and rattling. Much religious faith is based on the idea that almost nothing is coincidence; science is an exercise in eliminating the taint of coincidence; police work is often a feint and parry between those trying to prove coincidence and those trying to prove complicity. Without coincidence, there would be few movies worth watching (''Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine''), and literary plots would come grinding to a disappointing halt. (What if Oedipus had not happened to marry his mother? If Javert had not happened to arrive in the town where Valjean was mayor?)"

swing shift

"The pedal steel guitar is not an instrument you would immediately associate with electronic music, but, BJ Cole is no ordinary pedal steel guitar player. Cole came to fame in the early '70s with his group Cochise, and he went on to collaborate with the likes of Mark Bolan, Scott Walker, and John Cale. More recently he has worked with Bjork, The Verve, Spiritualized, and Beck."

this is our youth

feeling my usual pangs of regret today over lost time. news of brownies closing has intensified that. where does the time go? (clips)

lighter than snare

telepathic butterflies
ashley park
shimmer kids underpop association
doleful lions
kevin tihista's red terror
June & the Exit Wounds
the webb brothers
the aislers set

concert tiny

live concert archives from radio good including the polyphonic spree

forget me knots

ze malibu kids

tweeform

acid house kings
labrador records mp3s

au pair

"The first REACTION RECORDS release is an album entitled 'Rolled Gold' by amazing sixties English pop group, The Action. Although equal in talent to their contemporaries, The Action somehow managed to slip under the commercial radar, even with music industry wizards like George Martin backing the band! What's certain is that 'Rolled Gold' transcends time and space and exists on its own terms as a masterpiece of melodic, guitar- driven rock'n'roll. Now fully restored and re- mastered, 'Rolled Gold' sounds more explosive than ever. And with artists like Velvet Crush, Matthew Sweet, Robert Pollard and Beachwood Sparks singing their praises, the Action seem destined to turn on a whole new generation of listeners..."

jam session

lemon jelly

blister

"Favorite Music of our Interview Victims"

sweet nestle

the marinenine
matt pond pa
leftys deceiver
polyvinyl records mp3s
the lucys
the twin atlas
the bigger lovers
the capitol years
darla records mp3s

up in flames

burning airlines
franklin

ca cough orly

papa m
zoviet, france
edie sedgwick
lenola
the eternals

salad days

spaceheads
enon
radar bros
erase errata

stir ink

ink19: the glass bottom boat of the cultural press

pharma con

Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy: The Kerry Report

color field

technicolor
jhno
colorfilter

whistle stop

benett

proud airy

i am a robot and proud
printed circuit
figurine

moon rivulet

mooney suzuki

band its

yeah yeah yeahs
the liars
nina nastasia
the black heart procession
soledad brothers
her space holiday

shooting craps

"LAS VEGAS, July 30 — After voting two years ago to ease state drug laws, Nevada voters could go even further this year, making their state the first to legalize marijuana and derive taxes from a regulated sales system."