lp's

i'm addicted to vinyl. . .bought 30 bucks worth of wax yesterday @ double decker in allentown. . . still got the blood lust. . .this is a problem. . .

another short, sweet reading @ barnes and noble friday. what do you expect: it's summer.

in lackawaxen tomorrow? yeah, i have no idea where it's at either. . .

more later

today's soundtrack:
prince-purple rain; shellac-at action park; otis redding-live in eurpoe; paul mccartney-s/t; jawbox 24 hour revenge therapy

as featured on ZED!!!

So ZED is the artist community sponsored by CBC (Canadian Broadcast Channel for all us Yankees) and today I got this email:

We want to let you (+ your friends and enemies) know that your work is being
featured right now on the ZeD website: http://zed.cbc.ca/go?c=contentIndexPage.
Hooray!

Thanks for your contribution. We look forward to seeing more in the future.

Thanks,
Jennifer


Jennifer Aikman
ZeD Website Editor
http://j-diddy.zed.cbc.ca/
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So, I go the page, and there I am, featured and what not!!! Pretty cool. Check it out before someone figures out I'm not cool. . .

Go Canada!!!!

Today's soundtrack:

white zombie: la sexorcisto, devil music vol.1; bjm: give it back; snow patrol: final straw; stone roses: the complete; iggy pop: the idiot; archers of loaf: icky mettle; pulp: different class; mc5: back in the usa

manuscript radio

A new venture is coming. . .check it out here!

I am very excited to be doing a radio show again! It will be a weekly radio show focusing on the arts and an eclectic mix of music as well. . .

more later

today's soundtrack

www.littlestevensundergroundgarage.com

on tour. . .

Friday in Elk Lake: amazing cooked carcasses w/friends. . .layed on a dock unil the sky began to ebb, pulling clouds to the horzion of the tide. . .matched my breath to the laping of waves. . .

Went to a flea market: i now have access to a record player. . .behold the new addiction!

Monday in Binghamton. . .working as a techie. . .eating more Greek seasoned flesh at a diner. . .listening to jeff buckley. . .talking about radio theatre. . .81 traffic. . . overwhelmed by burning oil and orange cones. . . thought about drowning. . . everything I've dreamt about has been mixing in various paints. . .

Next week. . .NYC? Tokyo? London? The Mall??

am soundtrack:

ryan adams: cold roses; velvet underground: loaded; bjm: give it back; dj shaddow: endtroducing

spokenlist: july 05

The following made July not so humid. . .

1. BJM
2. Harlem Book Fair
3. MA/CW
4. Otis Redding's cover "Higher and Higher"
5. smoked tofu
6. riblets!!!
7. Chapelle Show Season 2
8. Michael Jackson: "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough"
9. Lucero-nobody's darlings
10. Dreamweaver MX
11. Social Distortion-sex, love, and rock'n' roll
12. Salvation Army
13. air conditioning
14. Ben and Jerry's Chubby Hubby
15. Norman's Sound and Vision (St. Mark's Place)
16. Elvie's Turo-Turo
17. Hotel 17
18. H.L. Hix "As Easy As Lying (essays on Poetry"
19. William Carlos Willimas "Doctor Stories"
20. New Balance 490's
21. www.theclassicsoulnetwork.com


today's soundtrack: bjm-strung out in heaven; otis redding-rememeber me; rolling stones-let it bleed; teenage fanclub-a catholic education

a slow news day?

Sometimes, you just got to wonder what the hell it going on?

today's soundtrack
Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dirtbombs!

the heat

The town has a weird energy at night and I think it's the heat. After a long, hot summer with 90 degree days, the temperature is starting to slowly boil humanity from the streets around my apartment. Last night an elderly lady got stabbed 10 times in her apartment. . .there has been a rash of violence quietly growing around here. My buddy who works at Gallery of Sound downtown says people are shootin' him looks--and this is a guy who has cred since he's slinging discs everyday. There is a tension in the air and even my level headed friends are feeling the heat. . .frustration is high, drama is building. . .not to make it sound like a Spike Lee joint, but damn welcome to the summer in the low-cash district of the WB.

today's soundtrack
bjm-thank god for mental illness; dirtbombs-singles comp.; mos def-black on both sides; otis redding-tell the truth; whiskeytown-faithless street; marvin gaye-what's going on?; van morrison-astral weeks; rolling stones-let it bleed; libertines-up the bracket

cirlce the missing wagons

somedays really confuse me. . .that's all i got tonight.

today's soundtrack: bjm and tom waits; neil young-after the goldrush

hotel 17, Elvie's turo-turo , and BJM

So, I stayed @ Hotel 17 (225 E. 17th St.) this weekend to catch Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Quarter After (boring), and Hopewell (amazing!) at the Bowery Ballroom on Saturday night. . .went to see Princess Bibbi @ the Strand and then proceeded to walk to Delancey from 12th and B'way. . .long ass walk to say the least!!!

The show was pretty cool and everything that I figured a BJM show to be--amazing, frustrating, mesmerizing, and trying. . .The first forty minutes or so was powerful--this incarnation of BJM has a great chemistry and impact. They played a mix of older and newer material. . .

and then. . .this guy standing nearby begins to shout nonsense @ Anton. Of course, Anton stops the show and begins to tear the guy a new one. "I don't come to Walgreens when you're working and hassle you." Outstanding stuff. This jackass in the audience was the typical, ball-less chump and shut the f$%k up right promptly. Unfortunately, the dammage was already done--other people were getting frustrated with the lack of music, and Anton just went off about how the performance as time to be shared by the audience and the band as a whole and that he was not "your object" and "Toronto got two and a half hours" and we were not getting much of anything. The band played a fifteen-plus minute psyche-drone-jam and then they split.

Eventually, the band was coaxed back onto the stage for two more songs and then, near the end of the last song, band members began to just unplug and walk off. . .I wonder how their Sunday night show went. . .

Hotel 17 was pretty cool and reletively inexpensive. The room was small, but definately had a charm to it--the building itself was just amazing with all the great wood-work and had a style to it. I think I could get some major writing done there--very quiet. Although each floor shared a bathroom, there was a sink in the room and the bathroom was extremely clean. It was also very inexpensive to stay for the night--under 60 bucks I think.

On Sunday, I ate at Elvie's Turo-Turo--a Filipino place on 1st Ave. and it was amazing!! My friend and I ate for very cheap. I had Adobong Manok O Baboy (Chicken in a garlic/ansie sauce--kinda creamish) and this great dessert called halo-halo (kinda parfait-ish dessert with ice cream, frozen flan, and various fruits including sweet beans). Everyone there was very cool and helped end the trip on a good note, well that and Norman's Sound and Vision which had a kick-ass selection of soul music (found a Garnet Mims import as well as a hard-to-find Otis disc). The basement was full of great wax and my friend bought some Richard Pryor LP's.

and that's how i spent my summer vacation. . .

today's soundtrack

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club-s/t; Stone Roses-s/t; johnie taylor-who's makin' love; garnet mimms-warmth and soulful; otis redding-tell the truth; bjm-give it back; hopewell-& and the birds of appetite; elton john-madman across the water