Saturday, January 28, 2012

"Doom just welds the floatation tank shut"--Drew Daniel on Morton Feldman, bongwater and blood

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Drew's 2003 manifesto places Doom Metal firmly and unselfconsciously in the 20th century avant-garde. It defines the canon of Satanic Mi...

Old Writing III: "we all want to feel like that woman: protected and reassured"

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Or, Why All 9/11 Art is Bad. For some reason nobody seemed to have been willing to say this at the time. "Because it's so obviously...

Old Writing II: "anyway, screw Keats"

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Ostensibly a review of two old feminist art punk bands, one celebrated and one forgotten, both amazing, this contains the line 'Their mo...

Old Writing I: "Two things early metal bands did not have in common with James Taylor"

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Probably the most scabrous thing I ever published in a family newspaper. Ostensibly a review of the second High on Fire album, I use it as a...
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Monday, February 21, 2011

How Multiculturalism is Destroying Our Society

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Reached into the freezer and grabbed something that looked like potstickers. Microwaved them, got out the Sriracha and put some sesame oil a...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

The Big Dig (Smithsonian Institution Blues)

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Listening to Captain Beefheart's Lick My Decals Off, wondering if music has been battening down its hatches since 1970. The delicious bl...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

Hell, man, what kind of weeds does God grow?

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What kind of music is it? Hell, man, what kind of weeds does God grow? Let's just shut up, you and me both; let's just shut up and l...