wo ist zu hause, mama ?

five feet high and rising. Several years back a friend and I travelled by train to the funeral of an ex-work colleague who died suddenly at a nightspot in Glasgow. He was in his early twenties. A mere youngster. By this juncture I was past 40 and counting. It rained hard all the way there,

sleep dirt #2

photograph by james joern. A special vote of thanks to the mysterious Empire Hancock – Milhouse – for bringing this version of Zappa‘s “Sleep Dirt” to my attention. From The Living Composers Project: “(Françoise) Sarhan studied cello with Xavier Gagnepain at the Conservatoire National de Région de Boulogne-Billancourt from 1985-93 and aesthetics and music history

sibling whispers #7: les strokes

Switch the dial for a blistering set by The Strokes from 2002, at La Mutualité, Paris, France over on Art Decade. Posted by Mike. Complete with authentic accompanying franco-twittering to make you wish you were actually there. Nice.

butthole surfers

paging Mr. Hendrix… If Matt from Minneapolis is still out there or happens to drop in again, I hope this qualifies as “more noise, please.” I’ve added a link belatedly to the sidebar on SibLINGSHOT to your site Perceptions. Delusions but I’m out of Mountain Dew to welcome you back to pull up a chair.

rockstar games: unaesta

life is a lentil. Following a little “shooting the shit” with Emmett on SibLINGHOT‘s comments section regarding Eumir Deodato, I thought it might be apt to highlight how the video-gaming revolution has influenced music taste.One title is particular, Rockstar NYC‘s “Grand Theft Auto” series, has done more in a few years to promote Latin Fusion