"i love you preston"
I believe Preston is that kid who was like upset that a VA hospital didn't have flags and provided them with flags... or something like this.
or like he was upset that the veteran grave site didn't have flags
"rampant fetishism"
I strongly dislike fetishism. Particularly various forms of political or cultural fetishism. Goes hand-in-hand with essentialism. My Twitter feed is filled with furious positions mounted on this shaky ground. It's a challenge.
"alien"
I have no idea what this was, but I do love the Franco character.
"outrage capacity"
There's so much that I have so little room for outrage, and I'm impressed or annoyed by my feed.
"what good is"
on the question of quality
"firmament"
Firmament is an interesting word. "The heavens, the sky, especially when regarded as a tangible thing; a sphere or world viewed as a collection of people." I have this coffee table book on the universe that surveys artifacts related to astronomy/cosmology, and this notion comes up in a lot of older diagrams/depictions. How does this idea of "firmament" play into our consideration of society/societies?
or also
How might there still be some sort of firmament? (universe edge, between "dimensions," life/death)... and the idea of this being tangible is also interesting.
or not
"iwillreviewu"
No idea. Reviews with ratings can be silly.
"I don't get it."
Reading people online is frustrating. Twitter is frustrating. I fail to understand how people are so sure of their positions to take on their indignant tone. I often find myself watching stones being cast and reading these messages and thinking "yes, but..."
I rarely tweet, and when I do it's usually fairly opaque.
I figured I might try using this space for some few-sentence elaborations on some of those tweets.
so let's see...
oh, K.K.
ha. "King Kendrick" Posted meaninglessly... nobody could possibly know what I meant there. Why do it?
"I was having a nightmare that I had tweeted something and had to wake up to make sure it wasn't something I had actually done..."
Unfortunately I can't remember what it was that I had a nightmare about tweeting but IIRC it related to an ex-girlfriend (funny of me to use the word "an" here).
"give me money tuesday"
Giving Tuesday is obnoxious. Everyone asks for money. How about just encouraging people to give to something without being that something asking for it.
In 1994, D. C. United defender Bobby Boswell appeared on Nickelodeon GUTS, competing against Robin "The Lizard" Rexroat and Jennifer "The Jaguar" Barnes, and finished with the silver medal. He was known on the show as Bobby "Lightning" Boswell and won the soccer event "Shoot Out", just a hint of what was to come for his career. Boswell, who was dressed in purple, also won the Mega Crag event in that very same show.
I love being given recommendations. I love it even more when they're this good. Groans, whines, fractured beats.
Black Thought - Streams of Thought, Vol. 1 (Human Re Sources)
super solid. love that it's vol. 1. A friend last week prompted a discussion of daytona/ye/nasir.... "yes, but..."
John Coltrane - Both Directions at Once (Impulse!)
It's not some rando show bootleg remastered. It's not 12 takes of songs you've already heard. It's a no-joke Classic Quartet session from 1963. Does not disappoint on that heavy promise. Kind of amazing that this fell out the sky (or closet).
The Essential Anthony Braxton: The Arista Years
I'm supposedly not a huge fan of compilations, but I've loved listening to this collection of idiosyncratic, playful, exploratory pieces by Anthony Braxton. It's a more reasonable experience than the previously released "complete" Arista. Braxton's compositions and performances bear the weight of genre and practice influences but break through expected boundaries with confidence. Of course this sax-bass duet would be played this way. Why wouldn't it? The music is able to occupy strange and natural spheres at once. Some of the highlights for me are more obvious pieces: the deterioration and minimalism of 22-M, the power on H-46M, the solo Giant Steps rendition.
So I have about 25 new albums that I'm listening to right now... more than usual, and it will take me awhile to work through them and come up with selects.
In the meantime I've been cheating my usual listening procedures and going back to one in particular.
not just sustains and brushes, but tasteful feedback too
It's a warm amalgamation.
winner of the "That Beautiful Chamber Sound" Award
The Nels Cline 4 - Currents, Constellations (Blue Note)
nels cline, julian lage, scott colley, tom rainey
captivating set of songs, from the muscular to the sensitive
winner of the "I Uploaded River Mouth as an Example of a Sound to Go After for this Thing I'm Working on" Award
John Zorn - Insurrection
julian lage, matt hollenberg, kenny grohowski, trevor dunn
winner of the Grand Prize
Notice who's on two of these albums. This one opens with some wild macho mayhem before stepping into sweet Dreamer territory. Comparable to C,C above in its variety but goes further in most directions, perhaps a little less Americana-oriented. From sweet to droned-out to metal-hard to thrashed. It's a wild album. This time when the editor asks if they "really brought it" I won't tell him that the sound was crappy and I couldn't hear anything and I don't recommend ever visiting this venue. I'll tell him, "Yes, they really brought it."
oceans
Félicia Atkinson - Coyotes (Geographic North)
raft down a steaming river of tones, voicebitscrackles, bells
speaking of warmth
Saba - Care for Me (Saba Pivot)
emotional/expressive/interesting throughout
fits w TDE vibes IMO but maybe I just don't get out enough
broken girls
northern exposure
Grouper - Grid of Points (Kranky)
Unloading with less haze and more direct emotion. I think of evocative, bereft [it's not] dreampop.
okay, we can have fun too
Thomas Fehlmann & Terrence Dixon - We Take It From Here (Tresor)
Not your (my) typical austere techno. Develops into something totally fun and infectious. Sounds like it's being played.
In Living the True Gods
Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4 (Warp Records)
nobody does it better
the greatest
"he's a thot..."
if you only have 8 hours this holiday season,
this is cool. melodies, atmosphere, sounds. music stuff?
I love hearing the expression of instruments with which I'm generally unfamiliar.
Flux Quartet - Michael Hersch: Images from a Closed Ward (New Focus Recordings)
Sustained (a)harmonies, from slowly terrifying to stab-punctuated aggressive/frantic to heartbreaking.
Björk - Arisen My Senses (One Little Indian Records)
Lanark Artefax, Jlin, Kelly Lee Owens. What an awesome suite of refractions of this great song. Would love a 2.5-hour mix of a selection of Bjork remixes.
cool set of live tracks, love the playful slam of repeating highs on the OOOOOOH that makes little sense out of that frame. ERA sounds like it's from tri repetae, which is great. would enjoy their show.
Dedekind Cut - Tahoe (Kranky)
t'challa on the ancestral plane
Yann Novak - The Future is a Forward Escape into the Past (Touch)
details
Brett Naucke - The Mansion (Spectrum Spools)
dense world
Pierre Henry - Polyphonies (Decca Records)
Excellent retrospective compilation documenting the genius of Pierre Henry. Highly recommended.
Jerry Quickley - (american) FOOL (Temporary Whatever)
peel and repeat
Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet - Landfall (Nonesuch)
It's funny how sometimes I'm not inclined to check out what icons are doing because I feel like I've been there... and then I'm reminded. Also interesting to go back to that time and place.
Maelstrom - Alph4 (Central Processing Unit)
goes
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Async - Remodels (Commons)
great reworking. had the chance to lie down for the duration. difficult to choose between itunes classic and whitecap.
