Still going with this format until I figure out something else. Think I can make it monthly.

• Still trying not to be a dick

  It’s…not easy. When you’ve got nothing else going on, I mean.

• Being an Artist, man

  Love this post of lost Kids in the Hall sketches. Am I kinda like this guy without the success (and work involving tits)? At times. Should I include more tits? Maybe, I’ve got nothing against them. Literally, it has been awhile. Look, it’s just you and me here. No one else reads this blog. I’m just trying to keep myself from going insane.

• How serious is art supposed to be anyway

  I have has this post about Kenny G lying around and you can think all about all that stuff if you inclined. I tend to go back and forth, from thinking people are depriving themselves if they don’t subject themselves to Le High Avant, to wanting to deprive myself of it at least most of the time. But what I really wanted to point out is the Japanese counting comedian I mentioned a few weeks ago in connection with Serious Joke Art Poetry Piece 1-100 by Charles Bernstein has a Japanese Serious Art conterpart, Shigeru Matusi. He sounds like Sekai No Nabeatsu with a straight face combined with Yip Yip aliens from Sesame Street. How Serious is he? I have no idea. I dropped out of art school for reason. (Not really.) My parents aren’t rich enough for me to really care, I guess? I don’t fit in. I got messed-up problems. I’m working on it.

  Ken also seems to have started a footwear trend.

• The Twitters

  Did I sound too harsh about the twitters? I like it fine. Facebook is what it is too. I’m still trying to take down one stupid asshole just to impress a girl who does not give a shit anymore and there’s always collateral damage when I do it. Or it would if anyone else read this blog. You get it. I just can’t help myself when I get going. Sorry. Pretty dumb. Over it now.

• HearJapan

  HearJapan deserves it’s own post. I’ve gotten a few things from them and there’s nothing good about losing a legit source of music. I’m a little critical of how the site worked, but dealing with these Japanese record companies is apparently (needlessly) complicated and with no American companies re-releasing stuff anymore you’ve got to give anyone credit for trying.

• WFMU and jobs part II

  I don’t mean to crap on the WFMU movie at all. It might be an effective recruitment tool, it just wouldn’t recruit me. I just went there one day cause I was between jobs and my band had broken up so I was just listening to the station all day anyway. I was way cooler than I imagined in a lot of ways. In other ways, it was mostly stuffing envelopes, but I met a lot of really cool people. I met Joe Strummer. No one that is more famous than Joe Strummer matters to me. If I cared about fame and money, why would I work so hard for such a hardcore non-profit anti-commercial establishment, overwhelmingly dedicated to the obscure?

  I was kinda mad that no one could help me get another job up there because I wanted to stay in North Jersey. But I was a complete drunken wreck except when I was at the station, it probably saved my life. I can’t blame anyone for noticing how unreliable I was in real life. I’ve quit every job I had without notice except for my current (toilet-cleaning) one which is way I’ve been holding on to it. (I do other stuff beside clean toilets, it’s general maintenance.) I’m just stating facts. I don’t think even the worst parts of the job are that horrible compared to 7.5 hours a day on a register is what I’m saying.

  I do also live with my family at the moment. That’s another story all together. There are some people who say you can’t really live a full, independent life while living with your parents. Those people are right. There’s no excuse for this bullshit. But when I move and I apply for some new jobs, they are gonna care that I actually kept a job for a few years, right? Before this I had no chance. WaWa does not care that I volunteered at WFMU. ShopRite does not care. Maybe if this movie gets big online they might though. Could be good for me then, I just don’t see WaWa managers donating money to the station because of that. I don’t think it makes it real for people who don’t care already. I hope I’m wrong, I want them to fix that roof. That is ridiculous.

• Internet finds and mixes

  IMHMIX re-post series continues. They get a little weird, don’t they. These mixes from 5 years ago followed a strict set of rules except when they didn’t and I haven’t been able to top them. They aren’t anything like my 8tracks mixes which each have a theme. It’s anti-theme, anti-comfort. I like the Mixcloud format which is closer to the original CD experience than allowing people to download a zip file. Plus, some people seemed to mind that. Some of the tracks were taken from myspace or limited releases.

  Speaking of discomfort, I was looking for a Pizzicato Five song on youtube and the closest I could find was this intro piece. On the record it’s Love’s Prelude/Love’s Theme, really one song over two tracks. Weird they didn’t post the main part of the song, right? Well, it’s lot weirder that most of the other songs in this persons account are some white power bullshit! Whatever fucked up connection there could possibly be between these two things in this person’s mind do not exist in my mind, for the record. I’m not about racial awareness, if anything I’m about racist awareness. You need to be aware how racist you are and (important step) stop doing that bullshit.

  Anyway,
  This post on MetalSucks about great metal covers reminded me of something I’ve been looking for years now: Cibo Matto’s version of Welcome to the Jungle. And I found it in this mixcloud mix. More of a show, and a great show it is. Some great crossfades in there, I never even try to do that. I like to just match up raw ends.

  I was also found CM’s cover of Stevie Wonder’s I wish, but it’s not as good as I remember. I saw them in either Philly or NYC during this tour and it was the same setlist but remember it being more uptempo, closer like the original. But maybe I was just enjoying the show. They were really great live at that point (in my memory) and I knew I would probably be disappointed, but it’s still pretty satisfying to track down.

  If there wasn’t a 5th IMHMIX to post I could quit the internet. Alas.

  *(It also reminded me what I was listening to even weeks after Nevermind had topped the charts: the Wayne's World soundtrack.)

  Also, I googled Charles Bernstein earlier in this post and came up with this. Different guy. But I don’t think I ever used Grooveshark before this week. Random.

• RIP Susan Tyrell, Queen of the Sixth Dimension

  I was not familiar with her work outside of one of my all-time favorite weirdfilms, The Forbidden Zone. (I only recommend the original b&w version) This article sums up her career and health problems. If nothing else, an excellent inspiration to try to keep up with the health insurance bill. Yes, some people pay for cable, I pay for health insurance.

• Music downloading debate

  Nothin’ new here.

• Hello Project alums livin’ life

  Kago Ai had her baby, and Yuko is suddenly married and pregnant now. Congrats to them. I really like these people I used to spend a lot of time on. It’s not about the brand. Expect no followups!

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