SOUNDTRACK: MOGWAI-My Father My King (2001). Yet another EP release from Mogwai, this is a twenty-minute song that is everything that Mogwai does best. It’s a slow builder that grows into a loud, epic track; it’s not only noisy and chaotic, but features some really catchy parts as well. This song was produced by Steve [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Robert Coover–”Going for a Beer” (New Yorker, March 14, 2011)
Posted in Anachronisms, Funny (strange), Huh?, Language, Mogwai, New Yorker, Postmoderism, Robert Coover, Short Story on March 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Brendan Connell–The Life of Polycrates and Other Stories for Antiquated Children (2011)
Posted in Black Flag, Brendan Connell, Death, Decadence, Demons, Drinking, Drugs, Fantasy, Food, Funny (strange), Gold Diggers of 1935, H.P. Lovecraft, History, McSweeney's, Oddities, Religion, Short Story, Top Hat, Unlikable main character, Yuck! on March 29, 2011 | 3 Comments »
SOUNDTRACK: BLACK FLAG-Damaged (1981). I’ve liked Black Flag since I bought Loose Nut on vinyl way back when (1985, the year punk broke for me). And those four bars were iconic to me even before I had heard a note (although I just learned they are supposed to represent a flag waving). And this is [...]
Consider David Foster Wallace [essays 10-12] (2010)
Posted in Black Sabbath, Books about writers, David Foster Wallace, Essays, Jacques Derrida, Magoo, Mogwai, Research on March 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: MOGWAI & MAGOO-Do The Rock Boogaloo (2002). This split CD features a song each by Magoo and Mogwai. Both songs are Black Sabbath covers, with Magoo doing “Black Sabbath” and Mogwai doing “Sweet Leaf.” This was released by Fierce Panda records and it’s clearly kind of a joke (the top of the disc says: [...]
Merilyn Simonds–”Miss You Already” (The Walrus, November 2005)
Posted in Canadian Content, Canadian Music, Death, Merilyn Simonds, Short Story, The Tragically Hip, The Walrus, Travel on March 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: THE TRAGICALLY HIP-World Container™ (2006). After delivering a number of different-sounding yet great records since their musical heyday, The Hip turned a commercial corner with this release. The producer is Bob Rock, famed for all manner of commercial pop-metal recordings, and his style is all over this disc. I don’t know how commercially successful this [...]
Franz Kafka & Coleridge Cook–The Meowmorphosis (2011) [prepub]
Posted in Angst, Boredom, Coleridge Cook, Dreams, Fears, Franz Kafka, Funny (ha ha), Funny (strange), Futility, Humiliation, Joss Whedon, Mash-up, Translation on March 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: ANGST-”The Weather’s Fine” (1988). I recently rediscovered the band Angst. They were part of the second wave of SST bands (the ones who never went anywhere and were summarily dropped with no forwarding address). I know of Angst from their song on The Blasting Concept Volume II (which I love). I decided to investigate [...]
Eric Martin and Stephen Elliott–Donald (2011)
Posted in Donald Rumsfeld, Eric Martin, Fears, History, McSweeney's, Military, Mogwai, Morality, Prison, Religion, Short Books, Stephen Elliott, Threats, Torture Porn, WMDs on March 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: MOGWAI-Ten Rapid (1997). The release of this disc hot on the heels of Young Team rather confused me, especially when trying to keep track of which discs were “real” and which ones were compilations. This one is a compilation. It’s subtitled: (Collected Recordings 1996–1997). And the fact that it has ten songs on it [...]
Mary Gaitskill–”The Other Place” (New Yorker, February 14 & 21, 2011)
Posted in All Songs Considered, Butthole Surfers, Death, Drinking, Fears, Mary Gaitskill, Mayyors, New Yorker, Pregnancy, Short Story, The Jesus Lizard, Threats, Unlikable main character, Violence on March 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: MAYYORS: 3 EPs (online only) (2008-2009). I learned about Mayyors from the NPR’s Best Metal and Outer Sounds releases of 2009 on All Songs Considered. I enjoyed Viking’s picks for 2010 quite a bit so I thought I’d investigate his previous years’ selections. I’d never heard of Mayyors before, but he makes the band [...]
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