the case for the defence

“I love this blog not just for the editor’s musical taste (which is exemplary), but also for his artful presentation of the material. Rather than post entire albums (which I don’t approve of), he instead zeroes in on a particular song or two and offers it along with anecdotal text which is as smart as

communiqué #27: more riz for your sunday spliff

illustration by Boris Artzybasheff: 25 May 1899 – 16 July 1965. Somewhat tiring of this, quite frankly, I have these few words to impart:DMCA ballbreakers and ambulance chasers; suck my F@CKIN’ cock.Suffer one more paragraph of mine to be deleted, and I’ll toast you and your litter of rats. If you wish to see ‘product’

bomis prendin: seconds too late

Further to an earlier piece here on Richmond’s Karen Cooper Complex, travel directly to WFMU to avail yourself of Jason Sigal’s concise overview on the experimental scene which existed in Virginia and Washington DC between 1970 and 1981. As archived on the previously lauded FMA, DC’s Bomis Prendin was born of a “mutating collective” originally

communiqué #26: hard of hearing

Friends. Roamings. Siblings.While I am inclined to believe the recent dearth of commentary might just as readily be a symptom of sheer tedium – that interest has waned, as it inevitably must – I have been alerted from a distant quarter that certain comments were not registering as expected.That there may, in fact, be an

communiqué #25: balancing act

walk this way… take #2 Well. I received another DMCA takedown notification last night. The first in several long, quiet months. This time with a major difference. I logged into the dashboard to be greeted directly with a dispatch from Blogger Support: ” As a result, we have reset the post(s) to “draft” status. (If

sibling whispers: mir uncovered

Originally hurtling into orbit via Big B over on Art Decade, and appearing here, Memphis cosmic crew Jetty Webb remain shrouded in mystery if not space debris. But wait. Delving deep into the static of dead space, sibling NØ has uncovered more. Repair to Digital Meltd0wn to put endless speculation to rest in a recently

fritz goro; gargantuan

chicago, 1954.ghet•to |ˌgɛtəʊ|noun ( pl. –tos or –toes)a part of a city, esp. a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups.• historical the Jewish quarter in a city : the Warsaw Ghetto.• an isolated or segregated group or area : the relative security of the gay ghetto. verb ( –toes, –toed) [ trans.

whose bad ?

the lengths some people will go to to pull out of an upcoming gig or two would put evenMark E. Smith to shame. Too bad.

communiqué #24: a word of caution regarding money grabbing $hits

normal service disabled, mister ib. The good news, clearly, is that DivShare has reset my monthly download limit. Allegedly, there was an issue with their database on 16th June; coincidentally the same day they collected $12 on my account. Rather inconveniently, all linked files up on their server were locked over a two day period.

bum deal; the emperor’s new clothes

do drop inn, shelby, mississippi. photograph by bill steber.Sunday broke this morning on a bum note. Firstly, at 5:45 AM, there beat a tattoo of insistent knocking on my front door. I assume it was acquaintances of those unneighbourly neighbours directly above. I say assume, merely because I did not vacate the sanctuary of my

if thy right eye offends thee…

illustration by ib. Siblings. Your silence is deafening.No commentary on any new post in the last ten days and counting. Despite some healthy incoming traffic.I am almost tempted to check that I haven’t inadvertently disabled a function or two in the settings somewhere.Indeed, were it not for those statistics helpfully thrown into focus via StatCounter

apostle of the strung-out

Figure 3-29.–Correct way to take out a kink in wire rope. kink |kɪŋk|noun a sharp twist or curve in something that is otherwise straight : a kink in the road.• figurative a flaw or obstacle in a plan, operation, etc. : though the system is making some headway, there are still some kinks to iron

communiqué #23: flatline

Apologies, brothers and sisters. We have a CPR crisis. Due to an oversight on my part, we have reached bandwith capacity on our server for this month drastically ahead of schedule. Of course, the good news is that our audience is constantly expanding. The bad news, conversely, is that a number of files – including

sibling whispers #23: rockin’ with jerry lee

Quite possibly the finest review of the Killer in the raw I have come across; Jon’s invocation of a night in the company of Jerry Lee in Little Nashville Opry in Nashville, Indiana – over on Poetry is for Assholes – perfectly conjures the Old Testament evangelism of bearing witness to serpents writhing straight up

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gravest hit

Erick Lee Purkhiser: October 21st, 1946 – February 4th, 2009. Sadly, a fellow blogger alerted me to the news that Lux Interior bit the bullet yesterday in a hospital in Glendale, California as the result of an existing heart condition. Sorry, Ivy. ▼ RONNIE COOK & THE GAYLADS: GOO GOO MUCK from “Goo Goo Muck

an unaccountably false economy

beware of false profits.And trumped up balance sheets. The money-lenders conjure them up out the darkness only to justify their bonus. In spite of those recent bail-outs and very public censure, the practice of collecting obscenely huge bonuses appears to continue quite unabated.detail, “the money-lenders“ by quentin metsys, c. 1515.

communiqué #21: devil’s advocate

image forwarded from sara smith.I am unsure whether the recent sender of images of the suffering being endured in Gaza is seeking to redress the balance after my posting a photograph from the Holocaust, or is doing so merely in an attempt to educate me in outrages I am already painfully aware of. I suspect

pissing in the wind

a rant, or just a little necessary agitation ? :“Somethingis rotten in the state of *@!!… downright fishy even. Someone has stopped taking their medication, and that someone isn’t me. Well. Let’s up the ante a little. Several months back, some chickenshit anoraknoid was all a quiver at the prospect of debate on what exactly

communiqué #20: more server issues

what the f@ck… Technical issues, it seems, continue to persist; a myriad plague of “invalid key” errors; incomplete (or non transferring) downloads; and sundry assorted glitches. I am uncertain whether this is exclusively the fault of MediaFire, which appeared to have sustained a “temporary outage” yesterday. Allegedly, the official line is that those problems have