Because I am powerless to resist the diabolical will of that arch-fiend cgronlund:

List seven songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

1) Abruptum -- "Corpus In As Trahere Abincere"
2) Oxbow -- "A Winner Every Time"
3) Tony Conrad -- "Joan of Arc" *
4) Blonde Redhead -- "Spring and By Summer Fall" **
5) Skullflower -- "Black Rabbit"
6) Traveling Wilburys -- "End of the Line"
7) Kreator -- "Pleasure to Kill" ***

The rules say I'm supposed to tag seven people, but I'm rewritin' the rule book, see? In other words, do it if it feels good.... (No, not that! There are people watching, you dirty exhibitionists!)

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* Does it count if the song is over sixty minutes long?

** From the new album 23, which mfelps needs really, really badly, even if he doesn't know it yet.

*** Technically speaking, I haven't actually thrown the brand-new LP on the turntable yet, but seeing as how I listened to this album constantly during the 80s, I don't actually need to play the song to hear it. But I will soon anyway, just because I can.

A swell interview with David Tibet (head doomsayer of Current 93, whose early album DAWN is one of the scariest things I've ever heard), courtesy of alagbon.

The new Oxbow album is not what I expected at all. It's also really good, although I'm not surprised by that since Lisa C. raves about them and her taste is swank. You can see (via YouTube) what they look and sound like here.

Now that's a big burning bowl!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Another case of overthinking something that wasn't really worth that much thought.

Useful info for practicing musicians living in li'l rent boxes.

Paris fatigue.

And now, before I toddle off to watch Takashi Miike's IMPRINT and then read BLAZE, an amusing video for all you IT / geek types (mad props to ladydreamtime for pointing the way):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eIFoz-Tjf8


EDIT: It turns out the Miike movie had no closed captioning, so I'll have to watch it during the daytime... most annoying. I ended up watching BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA instead, which was largely an enormous waste of an hour and a half of my life, even if it did have a young 'n surly Warren Oates (best known to people of my generation as Sgt. Hulka from STRIPES) in it. The only good parts were the shooting matches, and those didn't get going until about 3/4 of the way through the film.... Still, these people could actually act (which is more than I can say for anybody in THE MECHANIC, which was also crippled by piss-poor editing, incredibly bad dialogue, a ridiculous plot, and mediocre cinematography -- but then again, it did have Charles Bronson, which makes up for everything, sort of), and Peckinpah actually knows how to shoot film, so it wasn't a total bummer. Definitely not the caliber of film I expected from reading all the hype-poop on the back of the dvd case at Vulcan, though.

Check out this swell article in STYLUS, about some of the artists who do album covers for metal bands. Artists featured include Larry Carroll (covers for Slayer's REIGN IN BLOOD and CHRIST ILLUSION) and Baroness guitarist / artist John Dyer Baizley, one of my favorite artists right now. (By a different designer, the Nasum GRIND FINALE cover featured in the article is one of my all-time favorite metal covers.)

Is VOLT any good? Should I grok them?

Brutal Truth live pix.

Kevin sure has gotten chunky...!

We ran a number of errands after work, including a stop at the library, where I picked up the following swell items:

BOOKS:
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Lonn Friend -- LIFE ON PLANET ROCK
Jeff Apter -- NEVER ENOUGH: THE STORY OF THE CURE
Garry Trudeau -- THE LONG ROAD HOME
Blush / Petros -- .45 DANGEROUS MINDS

CDs:
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Edith Piaf -- SOUVENIRS box set
Peter Paul and Mary -- CARRY IT ON box set

O, such treasures! And now I shall depart to begin digging into the gold pile...!

The enhanced portion of the FOUR VIOLINS cd from the Tony Conrad box set won't play properly on my PC. It will load and cycle through the credits, etc., but the actual sub-menu contents (meaning the actual videos) won't load and play. * A R G H * I guess I'll be taking said disc with me to my mother's tomorrow... maybe it will play on her PC.... (pouts)

Oh, and house_of_straw: You should be happy to know (along with many others, I'm sure) that I finally got around to gagging the cheeping chick.

Ghost in the Browser -- an interesting article on the growing problem of "drive-by malware" and other hostile attempts to hose your PC, along with what to do about it. (WARNING: FNORD: TENSHI: The article contains a lot of geekspeak.)

The more user-friendly article where I discovered said whole-grain goodness in the first place.

Gruesome crimes in Japan take on a whole new resonance after having watched SUICIDE CIRCLE last night. Seriously, though, what's up with the sudden outbreak of intense violence involving guns and swords in what has been, up to now, one of the most crime-free countries in the world? I wonder how long it will take for them to blame it on film directors like Takashi Miike....

I got goodies in the mail today -- 7" singles by Necropolis, El Jesus de Magico, and Night of Pleasure from Columbus Discount Records, four swell black metal cds from the Black Plague Records clearance sale, and -- finally! -- the Tony Conrad box set EARLY MINIMALISM (with added goodies thrown in, including a John Cale sampler cd and a mini-promo pix cards for Cale and Rhys Chatham). O, the swellness!

Of course, since I'll be spending most of the weekend doing reviews, it's questionable when I'll actually get to listen to any of this stuff....

purplerifka picked these three icons and interests and asked for an explanation. Ergo, here we go into the bold pack of lies:

( lies! )

New Korperschwache 3-inch cdr. Limited, get 'em while they're hot, blah blah blah.

The second and third installments of the OUROBOROS trilogy should be available from Crucial Blast in the next week or so, too. I've seen the finished product and they look el-swanko.

More proof that the bus fell on the wrong fucking person.

Thanks (sort of) to genericus for bringing this filthy abomination to my attention.

I am so ashamed to admit I ever liked this band. I'm going to make voodoo dolls of Jamez (complete with lice!) and Larz (smelly and with a bald head!) just so I can fucking burn them. Then I'm going let Mozi heave on the remains. Then I'm going to burn the whole stinking pile again and mail it to the band with the following love note: FUCK YOU METALLICA. YOU FUCKING SUCK. CLIFF SHOULD BE ALIVE AND YOU SHOULD ALL BE FUCKING DEAD OF ALCOHOL POISONING IN REPAYMENT FOR YOUR GODDAMN FUCKING GREED.*

Just more proof that the death of Cliff Burton was the worst thing to ever happen to heavy metal. (Well, that and Ozzfest.)

Oh, and my allergies and lack of sleep are making me a crabby fucking asshole. I'm sure nobody has noticed this, so I thought I'd bring it to your attention....

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* Not to mention the crime of turning into the shittiest band in the world. Truly, even those whiny emo bands with names like My Girlfriend Left So I Curled Up In A Fetal Position And Cried Like A Baby Until My Bandmates Beat Me With My Bass (or nu-metal bands who aren't even bright enough to spell their own names properly) have more class than Metallica now. Goddamn, I need to acquire a whole shitheap of bokor paste and dig up Cliff and feed it to him, then show him all the horrible shit the band has done in his absence, then give him a shovel to go beat them to death with. I suspect he'll be especially interested in seeking vengeance for them using "Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth)" on the horrible goddamn motherfucking waste of an album in the above link.)

Does anybody know the name of the side project recently formed by Corrupted drummer Chew and whether or not said project has released anything?