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.