Posted in Books about music, Chuck BB, Concept Albums, Death, Demons, Fantasy, Graphic Novel, Possessed, Primus, Rick Spears, Short Books, Supernatural, Threats, Violence, YA Books on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: POSSESSED-Seven Churches (1985).
Back in high school I was really into heavy metal. And I got into something of a contest to find the heaviest, scariest metal bands around. (To counter the guy in class who was into Stryper, naturally). Well, I think I hit the jackpot with this album.
Larry in Possessed
This is brutally fast [...]
Posted in Cancer as plot device, David Foster Wallace, Funny (ha ha), Funny (strange), Infinite Summer, Marriage (Happy), Mystery, Neurotics, Nénette et Boni, Short Story, Sonora Review, Threats, Tindersticks on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: TINDERSTICKS-Nénette et Boni [soundtrack] (1996).
After releasing two albums of atmospheric brilliance, Tindersticks were called upon to score the music for the film Nénette et Boni.
And this disc answers the question of whether it is Stuart Staples’ voice that is the driving force behind the band. And the answer is, indeed not. This disc is [...]
Posted in Adventure, Anthony Doerr, Chris Adrian, Chris Bachelder, Consumerism, Corporate skewering, Death, End of the World, Gay/Lesbian, Heidi Julavits, J. Erin Sweeney, Jim Shepard, McSweeney's, Natural Disasters, Plague, Salvador Plascencia, Sesshu Foster, Sheila Heti, Short Story, Technology, The Future, Threats, Tindersticks, Wells Tower on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: TINDERSTICKS-Tindersticks [the red one] (1993).
Tindersticks are a fascinating band. The first distinctive thing about them is Stuart Staples’ voice: a deep rich bass that he uses almost like a whisper. The second thing you notice is the music. It’s an orchestral/chamber pop collection of dark rockers with fantastic moodiness to it. And then you [...]
Posted in Demons, Drinking, Infinite Summer, Maile Meloy, Marriage Trouble, Missoula Montana, Pregnancy, Sex, Short Story, Threats, Work, Yuck! on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: BEN FOLDS-Stems and Seeds (2009).
I enjoyed Way to Normal, although not as much as previous Ben Folds CDs. I was listening to Pandora Radio at work and I heard a version of one of the songs from Way to Normal, but it listed it as coming from Stems and Seeds, which I hadn’t heard [...]
Posted in Anachronisms, History, Jem Cohen, Jessica Anthony, Marriage Trouble, McSweeney's, Neurotics, Short Films, Silver Mt. Zion, Sonic Youth, Threats, Violence, Wikipedia on September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: SONIC YOUTH-SYR 6 Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (2005).
This CD sees Sonic Youth playing an instrumental background to three silent films from Stan Brakhage. It reminds me of the Jem Cohen DVD in which A Silver Mt Zion play the music for the silent Cohen film.
Now obviously, we don’t see the films on the CD. In [...]
Posted in Adventure, Books about music, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Canadian Content, Canadian Music, Cibo Matto, Contests, Death, Drinking, Fantasy, Free Kitten, Funky Web Sites, Funny (strange), Gay/Lesbian, Ikue Mori, Magic, Robots, Romance, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Sex & Violence, Sex Bob-omb, Short Books, Sonic Youth, Supernatural, Threats, Video Games, YA Books on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: SONIC YOUTH-SYR 5: Sonic Youth Featuring Kim Gordon/DJ Olive/Ikue Mori (2000).
The fifth SYR disc is rather different from the others in that the only SY member is Kim. This is a sort of side project for Kim, Ikue Mori and DJ Olive. They’ve played shows together as well.
This disc is also different because it [...]
