What I See Is At The Store

In this “consumerism” series of posts, I usually feature unusual music packaging.

IMG_5868This one isn’t that unusual.  It’s just three albums of two vinyls each, some of which are oddly coloured.  But it’s a really nice set of albums.

IMG_5870snd made an album in 1999 called makesnd cassette, part of the then-current glitch/clicks & cuts genre, but he quickly started making very different-sounding music.  Which I though was a shame, because that’s a beautiful album, and that musical area didn’t seem fully tapped.

IMG_5871Here he’s back to the same basic template: Music based on rhythms and sounds that seem like they could have originated from locked grooves on vinyl.  These aren’t as extreme as the Systems Medley 7″ (which was a bunch of locked grooves that you had to navigate around manually), but a few of these 12″-es do end with locked grooves.

IMG_5872So listening to this I find myself thinking about how great it sounds. I think whether this just sounds like a locked groove or it’s an actual one, and in which case, am I bored with it yet and should I put the next album on?

It’s quite beautiful.

Useful Consumer Review (feat. Rockvember)

I decided I didn’t want to go to a concert every day, after all.  But I did see Cat Power on Tuesday and The Thing on Thursday and Cloroform yesterday.

Anyway, I gave the weird audio-recorder-with-a-camera thing a go at the The Thing concert.

The video quality is, not surprisingly, pretty awful.

This is what it really looked like:

The Thing, 2014

See?  A lot cooler.  It also helps that a good photographer took the picture. (I.e, not me.)

I snipped a bit of footage at the Cloroform show, too:

 

Bookvember Redux

A month ago, I was watching too many movies, so I decided to read too many books instead: At least one per day.

So short books, then.

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The blogging camera setup
language
Sorted by language
genre
By genre
gender
By gender
translated
Translated or not
form
Form

So there you go.  Normally, I’d be reading sf, sf, sf, sf, literature, sf, sf, sf, sf.  But I don’t really have a lot of unread shorter sf (because I tend to read those immediately after I buy them), so this turned out to be more hoity toity than planned.

There were some clunkers, but not a lot.  I’m a firm believer in abandoning books the second they start to bore me.  There’s an infinite number of books out there, and there’s no point in wasting time on stuff that’s awful.  But I only abandoned two books out of all these, and that’s less than normal.

And now I’m never going to read another book in my life!  Rawk!