October 2003

liars/otomo yoshihide

October 31, 2003

I checked out Liars tonight, having heard they were an incendiary live act, but was left pretty cold. After a long wait, the lead singer came out wearing white velcro sneakers and this too-small white jumpsuit with something about Sauron painted on the front, and later stripped down to reveal a too-small red rayon thrift-store [...]

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answer

October 30, 2003

Pop quiz answer is here! Thanks to all contestants! The correct answer is not ‘their girlfriends all have better hair than they do’ nor is it ‘haha they all suXoR’ but: they all used a Fairlight sampler. The winner has been notified.

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original soundtrack pop quiz!

October 30, 2003

What common thread connects all the following artists? Stevie Wonder, Keith Emerson, Jean-Michel Jarre, Supertramp, Heaven 17, Hardfloor, ABC, Hall & Oates, Thomas Dolby, Jon Astley, Michael Jackson, Yes, Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, Vince Clarke (Yazoo/Yaz), Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney, Devo, Julian Lennon, The Cars, Lindsey Buckingham, Jan Hammer, Herbie Hancock, David Gilmour, Kate Bush, [...]

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psychic academia mindmeld!

October 30, 2003

Haha — Douglas Rushkoff, the NYU media studies professor, is a member of the latest incarnation of Psychic TV. He’ll be playing keyboards and doing backing vocals! My god I wish I was joking but I’m not. Gen sez on his official blog: “We’ve been rehearsing and thee old feeling ov an extended, joyful famille [...]

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we are the woebots

October 29, 2003

I was so petrified when I read the title ‘The End of TWANBOC’ that Matthew was going to stop writing that I wrote him straightaway and begged him not to! Fortunately, the end of That Was A Naughty Bit of Crap marks the start of something new — Woebot, Matthew’s latest creation. Expect great things. [...]

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drum machines!

October 27, 2003

Drum machines! I love ‘em. I don’t have the mad dough though so the only drum machine I’ve got is the fearsome PLAYSKOOL brand — purchased at Dollar-A-Pound back in Cambridge for 70 cents! (it weighs 0.7 pounds.) Yeah it can only do 2 beats and one lame fill but it’s got a line out [...]

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we want fun (i know it’s over)

October 26, 2003

here is where i further my Damo Suzuki + Morrissey = Andrew WK theory

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hah!

October 25, 2003

Suggestion for Simon’s prog chart: Whitehouse! Apparently William Bennett is a total Yes-head. Or so it says in Forced Exposure #17 dated 1991, in an article by Steve Albini. Quote: Whitehouse “Thank Your Lucky Stars” 45 and LP: William Bennett can effortlessly play almost any Yes song you could be pained to mention on Spanish [...]

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when worlds collide

October 24, 2003

Spotted at that DFA party I went to last night — Pharrell from the Neptunes talking to James Murphy. Perhaps they’ll produce some tracks together?!

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p-p-p-p-prog

October 23, 2003

Good lord — after putting in a bunch of work today on a certain postpunk project (cough) I see that Simon‘s gone full-guns-ablazin’ with a progstravaganza! Jesus man it’s like the ‘Stairway to Hell’ of prog! The urgent and key question, then, remains: is Teena Marie prog? Go read Jon‘s blog too, while you’re at [...]

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