Good morning, The Lee Harvey Oswald Band, Blastronaut. 90’s-new, recentlyish-reissued, select audience for lost power-yawp anthems. Ziggy via 90s (yes, again) tribute/parody, tone-perfect earth-conquering oversexed Rock that ends w/a Psychedelic Furs nodding chug. Sanity saved via time machine or off-planet rocket? Both.
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Good morning, Ice Baths, s/t. The opening track Freighter, all muffled mouths and warped instruments, wobbles forward into clatter. A great opener, and onward we go into the icey angularity of a past that wasn’t our future then, but could be, now. Tell then Paul sent you?
I don’t like my data being tracked without my consent. It turns out most people are creeped out by tracking of the sort Facebook does). That’s a bit hopeful. As the authors note:
Trust is a growth industry.
From the late 60s. Perhaps truer now than then. Do you work just to survive the spectacle?
The difficulty in listening to Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians isn’t the music, but rather the concern that you’ll drive anyone else in earshot into a angry frenzy.
After posting this picture of Cows last week, the internet gave it an attribution: it’s by @jjgonsonphoto. Maybe JJ will lay some more Cows pics and history on us some day.
Mixed blessings:
Pro: you have a Ramones song stuck in your head
Con: It’s “Havana Affair”
Some good news around these parts: Gov. Baker Signs Sweeping Criminal Justice Overhaul. Its Seven Key Provisions are a step forward in treating crime-related problems with intelligence.
@manton when posting to a WP blog and having it post here, if there’s a title on the post, only the title is shown here. I know about the “no title” philosophy behind posts here. Would it be possible to grab the title and then the feed item itself? So posts have content?
Cecil Taylor, Computer Crasher
I just learned of Cecil Taylor’s death and the computer crashed. These events aren’t coincidences. Nothing works right when the world has fewer magicians in it.