(desperation and noise)

http://desperationandnoise.com/2009/02/03/panzer-bebop/



Expand and abandon shape.

Improv is the last frontier. Improv was the first frontier. Improv will be there for you when she is gone and you have hidden all her good records from her and you know that though… Continue

(published in edited form in INSIGHT magazine)

Belief in the cure which [Christianity] offered has now been shaken to its deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exist - Friedrich Nietzsche

Like I can't cry for myself so I will le

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Inspired by various discussions of late, I was on a youtube hunt for awesome Otis Redding videos, of which there are a great many, but hey, I found the Monterey Pop Festival performance in three parts, and besides the random girls in the third part obscuring Otis' fever, it is a pure document of what a live performance should do - invite each and every audience member, even if separated by decades and monitors, to achieve wild… Continue

"I have reached enlightenment," he said, knife in hand, and the birds flew upstream in search of eternal heat and all our personal gods became spectacular hide n' seekers, secluding themselves in places we'd rather never breach, but where they can eat berries in the grove for all time until we are desperate and bleeding and designing salvation from the intolerable cavernous cruelty of our minds; sick off the wine, our drunk ve… Continue

Fell asleep listening to Stereolab's Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements for the first time, but kept waking up because MY WHOLE WORLD WAS FALLING APART, for one minute Lætitia Sadier's lulling me into coma and the next all manner of once-still musical architecture grows limbs and fangs and breaches the very barriers of my mind with its several accurate laser beams! I have been mad coughing since arriving… Continue