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In the year 2009 I have been listening to these records

June 4th, 2009

Okay so I thought it would be good to do a rap session on the persistent new jams of 2009 thus far. Here they are in no real order. None of these uploads are mine; none of the videos linked necessarily correlate to the records. Support bands and labels who do good work, blah blah.

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Gary Numan “Radio One Sessions”

Somehow nobody told me to check out Gary Numan until Adam played this in the car while he and I and Elaine were on the way to the last day of HBML and to see Ariel Pink in Boston. We listened to this almost every day at work in April.

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List of things that happened around the time I attained a state of total invincibility

May 28th, 2009

saba

Earlier this week me and the crew were just about asleep on the roof across the way from Matthewson when I sort of sat up and started vibing a little and had to come back home “to do work”; not sure what exactly I had in mind, but when I got to the house and my teeth were brushed and I was watching the sunrise from my own personal zone, I it meant that I started writing this update for my internet blog.

“Blogs: Neither an Email nor a Zine”

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“Uh huh.” “Can a gansett.” “Sure, $2.50.”

March 16th, 2009

I feel like I blogged in this once to say that I don’t update it so much when I’m doing a good job of working on other things; that’s true 50% of the time and this is one of those times.

The short story is that I now live in Providence. The long story is written on all kinds of walls and surfaces between here and Philadelphia and as far up as Johnson VT; you can ask me about it if you run into me.

Readout of the basics follows.
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I am moving to Providence, RI

February 13th, 2009

More on this as it develops.

Twenty seven Internet dreams

January 30th, 2009

Here are some things for you to click on.

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I listened to these records in the year 2008

January 8th, 2009

Following Nate Davis’s example from last year, here’s my year ending list of favorite records. These aren’t all necessarily fresh releases, just records I heard for the first time this year and then jammed a ton. Links for these downloads are all from Google; missing ones I just didn’t bother looking for.

Skaters

#1: It was the Year of The Skaters

The Skaters - Dark Rye Bread
The Skaters - Physicalities of the Sensibilities of Ingrediential Stairways
Pacific Rat Temple Band - Tan Kim (Boa Paradise)
90210 - s/t
James Ferraro - Marble Surf
Vodka Soap - Un Chand Pyramidelier
Nirvana - Body of Consciousness/Uguiya to Jeep by Iguana Greenwave
Teotihuacan - Live Smokeshows from Inside the Ciguri Cave Hazed Diamonds with Windswept Hair

After three or four years of ambivalence toward the Skaters family, something severe ticked over in my mind sometime in February and I fell for them bigtime. The eight releases listed above constituted a basement work/neighborhood walk/long drive/crushing dawn routine that I probably ran almost a hundred times last year. The Pacific Rat Temple Band (vivid slow-marching torchlit underground worship sessions) and the 90210 (E.L.P. hanging out and playing toy instruments over an episode of Night Rider on the other side of the wall and KILLING IT) discs both easily saw three times more play than anything else during this horrendous year, a year in my many basements that very definitively belonged to James Ferraro.

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New movie starring Tom Cruise as the Iraqi journalist who leads a failed plot to throw two shoes at the departing president of the United States

December 15th, 2008

Bonjour from inside of the holiday echo chamber, from which I wanted to post a short notice with December updates. If you live in Northeastern Pennsylvania and want to hang out, get at me, I usually get extremely bored around 10pm. If you don’t live here but might want to email with me for a day or two, my email address is still tom//at//dogchirp//com.
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Somewhere at his first confession a second grader kneels and says, “Fuck the ‘before’ shit, father, let’s get with the now.”

November 28th, 2008

This is mostly an entry because I realized that I started doing the thing I do where I don’t update this and I worry and think about it, and then three months pass without me documenting anything.

I’m not numbering this one because I feel like the cycle of my leaving camp -> going to VSC -> trying to work there -> getting home and being like “????” is over. Now I have a whole new set of things to be like “????” about (strange fires in Providence, moving to New York very soon, new total life stupidity/fugues that weren’t visible or predictable when this past numbered set began in September), so once things stabilize enough that I have an okay idea of where I’ll be from week to week, I’ll restart the numbered entry system on a schedule again.

The short “Lately” recap —>New York = I got to hang out with Emily, babysit Pearl, rode over the Williamsburg bridge for the first time, played dominoes and ate burritos and watched Ruthless People with Leah, dinner/bar with Katie and Alex, meteor shower thing with camp team, wrote a lot of emails.

In Boston = I went to the Stairwell team’s show at BU, talked to Ben, watched the new Bond, ate Redbone’s, sushi and Girardelli squares, almost played Earthopoly with Sus, drove home with Patrick super late.

Home so far = Haven’t been in the basement yet, but today nearly finished a long-outstanding painting, did the firstish round of mailouts re: darcone triangle to stores, slept a ton, played chess in real life once, played chess on the computer a lot of times.

Current plan = Back in New York by next weekend. This morning I am going to the craft store with my dad for a black friday sale. More substantial update or whatever soon.

I woke up in Brooklyn egg-eyed listening for far gongs 2008 #5

November 13th, 2008

Ultimate slow/fast week. I’ll post my good Obama being president joke later. As of right now, it sure looks like I’m moving to New York. If you have a job lead for me, get in touch.

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I laundered every small room I’ve lived in in my river and accidentally ruined several important collections I forgot to take out first #4

November 3rd, 2008

Past life

I added the Black Dove paintings to the site. Otherwise this is a boring blog marking time entry if there ever was one. Here’s what’s up.

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