virilio

listening to a bunch of old vinyl at my mom's....mine, not hers. She's got all this old Stax Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, Joe Tex type stuff. Otis is the man.

standouts in the almost new year: Husker Du: New Day Rising; Pavement: Slanted/Enchanted; Minutemen: what makes a man start fires?....and Best of the Isley Brothers.

also: AIC: Damn That River

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a7sCkGFD6A&feature=related

Would:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGOrBx9jc3M&feature=related

back in Colorado after the holidays. what a ride. Portland, ABQ, and Dallas. Got to see my niece Nora (now 1.5 years)....what a sweetie she is.

flying sucks. airports suck.

"got to have something to sit on, before I carry ya home".

--James Brown

man, no Frank's Wild Year's takers....i guess i am a geezer. fuckin hell.

my mom emails me that she likes Of Montreal. she's 60.

we used to listen to Sly and the Fam Stone Stand! and James Brown for Christmas. Sam and Dave.

she's awesome.

so i'm at the grocery store, standing in the check -out aisle. like the good lemming. the magazine racks....such bad consciousness there. celebrity horseshit. who cares? transparent window into the cultural psychosis. how many times can Cosmo print a list of "10 Sex Tricks" that will make you a tiger in the bedroom (without being slutty)....or something. i hope someone is cataloging all these tricks...some...
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"no one ever went broke over-estimating the vulgarity of the american people". i first this quote in a Kurt Vonnegut novel, pretty sure. but i see the same thing in a lot of other places.

is it Vonnegut, or some creepy ad exec (veritas!) like Eddie Bernays?

today's old school rocker: Slint: Good Morning, Captain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoH5MPIgM7c&feature=related

and:

the Mats: Gary's Got a Boner:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8r-LnsRY64

listening to a lot of Desmond Dekker and live Feelies from 85 i guess....thinking that the winamp shuffle algorithm is bullshit.

noticing that Smyth and Succor are no longer active on the site. sad. some cool, beautiful women from what little i know.

that bodysuit banner ad is pretty hot.

my sister emails me that Gang of Four was on NPR. she stole a bunch of my vinyl, but hey. now she knows. now she sends me emails about G4. "my job is done here". would like to have those flaming lips original colored vinyls back....and hatful of hollow. NPR is a bit weak IMO, but hell Gf4. best guitar sound ever. note the sub...
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i always thought this was a pretty cool, if not post-punk overlord type tune from Husker Du's drummer....Grant Hart. Mould gets all the love, but Hart had many great, earnest straight ahead punk rock Husker classics. this is a little dif, with ? and the Mysterions feel....

at this point in time in human history, it's entirely possible that every college aged girl on every campus in the United States will be wearing black tights and Uggs boots *at the same time*. what then?

the ancient Stoics believed that when all the potentialities became actual (as they inevitably would)....the world would consume itself in a cleansing fire.

what's the deal with this??

four lions: hilarious:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGk2TojOd-4&feature=player_embedded

Animal Kingdom:

highly recommended.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5BsYRmMfus

went and saw DC yesterday at his crib. pretty good time. he's a force of nature and a tremendous pain in the ass for someone in a wheelchair. smoked a little grass, listened to some old Kinks (Muswell, Arthur) and Roland Kirk. went to the culinary outlet and bought him a new knife and a ladle for his spanking new stock pot. comical. two of...
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talking with some students about MMJ here in Colorado, decided to re-assign some of Klosterman's Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs. Enjoying the reread. Not always sure what to make of Chuck K. His stylisic turn of phrase and "punchline" overstatement owes a great debt to Hunter Thompson and Lester Bangs...his forebears of cult critique. which is by no means a bad thing.