thee_blacklisted

hey -- SOOOO i just listened back to the tape of "Mr. X" the marine turned conscientious objector and i'm convinced he's for real.

i've figured how to transfer cassette to cd-r to mp3 then i'm ftp'ing it to my bro in portland who'll transcribe it for me -- yay bro! if folks want to read it i'll post at least parts of the transcript...
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I met this guy last night who's in a very intense situation or says he is anyway -- I chose to believe him so I helped him out.

Mr. X is a conscientious objector about to become a deserter.

Right now I'm only home for a few minutes (inbetween work and two rock shows -- gonna see schneider tm and the my friend scott aka...
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Gods eyes are closed just like yours
Califone, in a song off their new album

The weekend was great sooooo exciting being around alla these smart and sometimes successful music writers (FYI there are VERY few successful music writers) especially my friend RJ who was the best editor I ever had (years ago at the VOICE he edited their Rock and Roll Quarterly) and hes...
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"May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" (Neal Merritt)

One fine day as I was walkin' down the street
Met a beggar man with rags upon his feet
Took a penny from my pocket,
In his tin cup I did drop it
And I heard him say as I made my retreat.

CHORUS: May the bird of paradise fly up your nose
May...
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Busy busy day. Bunch of friends in from outta town for this pop music conference -- I met some pretty cool music writer folks for the first time as well, including novelist Darcey Steinke who is hott I gotta say!

Delgados were fucking fabulous live, the string section just kicks serious ass. I love them. Ran into Spiral Stairs who I forget lives here now...
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so -- date #2 with the artist girl was fun! she is very bubbly and smart. we were late to the "mighty wind" screening and it was already full, so we ate quick/ cheap/ good chinese food and headed over to the littlest movie theatre in town, the little theatre, to see this really rad showing of three films by '60s avant garde musician and...
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It's late and I should REALLY be asleep now but I'm not and I'm reading and I feel all excited and retarded like in high school, the way I read voraciosuly -- there was so much to discover (Artaud! Bataille! Burroughs! Genet! Acker! Lautreamont! Jarry! E-T-C!)

In fact now I'm digging Lautreamont -- it so perectly suits the addled, adolescent mind, as do all things...
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"Fuck me now, Charlie. Oh! Oh, I love it! Push it up hard. Fucky, fucky, fucky. I fuck you, you fuck me everywhere! No one can see us under the trees. Now fuck between my _chi-chis._ See, I kneel. Ai chi wow wow! I like your taste. Here now, we lay in the hammock some too... Come in it, juice my split, fuck, Mingus!" --...
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did NOT have a great date with record store girl -- she was showing much more attention to another guy at the club than to me. now i got her into the show, picked her up, then drove her and her roommate back to their house, and i just wasn't getting the kind of interest i felt beforehand -- that's not very good, man. now...
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I am feeling better! And no -- I am not about to give up sushi anytime soon, either Does anyone here dig the Lilys? The new Lilys album Precollection, out May 20, is for the most part fucking fabulous. Theyre touring with the Swirlies in May in a bit of early 90s shoegaze nostalgia thats one part groovy and one part too obvious to be...
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