Saturday, February 28, 2009

Expert In The Art Of Frivolous Spending


[L-R:
Mountains|Choral|Thrill Jockey, 2xLP, /1000
No Neck Blues Band|Clomeim|Locust, 2xLP
Nonhorse|Slow Child|Young Tapes, 7"
Real Estate|Suburban Beverage|Underwater Peoples, 7"+CDR
Catastrophic Mermaids On Parade|Catastrophic Mermaids On Parade|URCK, CDR, /450
The Master Musicians Of Hop-Frog|Centuries Later|URCK, CDR, /450
Josh Burke|Imagination|Housecraft, CS, /75
Edgar Wappenhalter|Damptuygh & Rapalie|Cabin Floor Esoterica, CS, 30/50
Gorman / Do Tell|Split|Housecraft, CS, /60
Sacred Basil|Day Of Six Billion|Cabin Floor Esoterica, CS, 24/50
Second Family Band|Our Way Is The Right Way|Housecraft, CS, /75
Tricorn & Queue|Ragged Bright Degrees|Housecraft, CS, /75]

Thoughts / review-like blurbs later..

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Take Pills

Take one day at a time
Everything else you can leave behind
Only one thing at a time
Anything more really hurts your mind
I don't want for us to
Take pills
Anymore
Not that it's bad
I don't want for us to take pills
Because we're stronger
And we dont need them

Diphenhydramine

Total failure. Plus moderate setbacks.

Need to regain focus and stop screwing around.

158.5, 156.5, 154, 152, 150, 168.5, 166, 160.5, 158, 156


I am now, at 23 years of age, permitted to drive in the state of Pennsylvania while seated next to a licensed driver age 21 or older, or a licensed spouse at least 18 years of age.


New Mountains album, Choral, is absolutely gorgeous. People without record players should pick up the vinyl anyway..comes with a free digital download (as many many records do these days) but it also contains two bonus tracks that are not on the CD.


Sup Taylor? ;-)
Not really. 154.5.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Nackt Insecten


I bought this LP kind of on a whim. I was clicking around the Blackest Rainbow site, seeing what was coming up, and I saw that Joe had just put out two new LPs - one from Cam Deas and one from Nackt Insecten. I'd heard of both artists, but only ever actually listened to Cam Deas. It was already a given that I'd be ordering the Cam Deas LP, but for some reason...I just didn't expect Nackt Insecten to sound like something I'd be into. And for all I know, maybe the older recordings don't sound like this at all, but this LP is killer. I'm listening to it right now and it's blowing my mind. Out there spacey synth psychedelic realms, with noisier bits. But mostly just good shit to relax and zone out to. As stated previously in another post, Blackest Rainbow, like Arbor, is just on fire right now. So many consecutive incredible releases. Blackest Rainbow is sold out, but Nackt Insecten / Sick Head Tapes still has some. Go buy it.

Stuff

I use an old digital camera to take all pictures of records that you see posted on this blog. It was maybe the first digital camera that my dad ever bought for the family, or at least one of the first. Since then we've had several others, and this one has been passed around among family members. I ultimately ended up with it, so it's what I use. There was a memory card in it when it was given to me, which I have since filled up due to taking all of these pictures of records (not these on the blog, but maintaining individual photos of every record, tape, CDR, and limited CD for my tradelist on deadformat.net). So pretty much on a weekly basis I have to go through the memory card and delete photos to make room for new ones. They're all uploaded to a photobucket account, so they don't really need to be kept on the card. Each time I do this, I skip through a few non-record pictures, for whatever reason, and keep them on the camera. I don't know why I do this since they probably are already uploaded to my computer somewhere, and if not, I could easily do that. In any case I am going to post them here because I am bored. Here they are:

Expert In The Art Of Frivolous Spending


(photo one)
[L-R:
Cam Deas|My Guitar Is Alive And It's Singing|Blackest Rainbow, LP, /300
Hop-Frog Kollectiv / Magic Lantern|Split|URCK, LP,
/300
Nackt Insecten|Quantum Odyssey|Blackest Rainbow, LP, /300
Nodzzz|Nodzzz|What's Your Rupture?, LP]


(photo two)
[L-R:
Sunburned Hand Of The Man|Complexion|Records, LP
Sunburned Hand Of The Man|Wedlock|Eclipse, 2xLP
Vetiver|Tight Knit|SubPop, LP]

(photo three)
[L-R:
Emeralds + Dilloway|Under Pressure|Hanson, CDR
Steve Hauschildt|Critique Of The Beautiful|Gneiss Things, CDR
Hop-Frog Kollectiv / Magic Lantern|Split|URCK, CDR
Blue Sabbath, Black Fiji / Ajilvsga|Split|Digitalis Limited, CS, /85
Caboladies|Constellation Deformity|Smooth Tapes, CS
Color Dream|Reminisce|Young Tapes, 2xCS (Not pictured. First tape was blank, mailed back to Peter / Young to re-dub)
Flower Man|Peppermint Steamroom|Young Tapes, CS
Sam Goldberg|Winter Hallucinations: I|Pizza Night, CS, /50
Joe Montana|Shifting Spaces|Digitalis Limited, CS, /75
Lilypad|Sick: Volume II|Pizza Night, CS, /60
Sun Watcher feat. Zac Davis|Sun Watcher|Wagon, CS]

Sunday, February 15, 2009

For Taylor




Let begin our plans for the Vernal Celebration.