09.30.08
Posted in goings on at 7:20 am by electricvishnu
i would like to say shana tova to all my monotheistic brothers and sisters out there who are not necessarily down with the bearded one [as well as a happy end of ramadan if that's more your bag.] so the idea of the new year is refreshing: five seven six nine to some – and the coming two thousand nine by other counts . . . vikings of the turnpike, will exist by 2009 [no iTunes date yet, but stay tuned]
we already have a few super-secret acoustic studio versions to be released alongside the album proper.
tentative track listing:
“green bottles + elevators”
“wicked retaded chowda heads”
“broken strings”
“[the yet to be named reggae song, in some circles and rectangles known as 'we might be']”
“1564″
“southern exposure”
“three-sixty”
“just for show”
“embassy”
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09.27.08
Posted in words about non-words, words about words at 2:38 pm by electricvishnu
upon conversating via the ol’ buddy chat with a librarian (no, not this librarian) it came to our sudden realization that there exists a one-to-one mapping of thomas pynchon novels to weezer albums that are analogous in quality, tone, and critical reception:
(in randomized order)
the crying of lot 49 – weezer [blue album]
it’s that “accessible” word – they’re both quite short – catchy – people dig them on first read and might not ever return for the really good stuff below the surface
mason & dixon – weezer [red album]
cuomo and pynchon both begin to get a little conscious of their age – they both edge toward the nostalgic at some points
against the day – weezer [green album]
on the sugary-sweetness side – pynchon’s most hopeful book – amazing first time read/listen for both
gravity’s rainbow – pinkerton
the classics
v. – maladroit
some sweet spots – gone fishin’ – and stories of the whole sick crew
vineland – make believe
california is an entirely deranged place, no?
talk amongst yourselves . . .
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09.23.08
Posted in snapshots at 11:15 pm by electricvishnu
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09.21.08
Posted in hot jams, supposedly moving snapshots at 11:52 pm by electricvishnu
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BHo3XK5d5M]
strangers wasted – “just for show” live from mulcahy’s pub
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09.20.08
Posted in hot jams, words about non-words at 9:43 am by electricvishnu
roger clyne and the peacemakers = something from a cormac mccarthy novel – in its more classical and romantisized form
mars volta are a later mccarthy novel – with all their wide open tumbleweed desert spaces – but with more thunder rumble than gringo trouble to the west. it’s that same novel brought to film form in some stanley kubrick / david lynch collaboration.
and jónsi birgisson is billy corgan in middle earth.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmVkxKKVyrM]
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Posted in words about non-words at 9:25 am by electricvishnu
. . . and it’s thousands of miles away
[in earth distance and spirit]
from the pounding, the blasts, and the screeches of a mexi-prog-rock explosion.
the mars volta show is a jazz club that exists somewhere in that nook between the second and third circles of hell. [not a bad thing at all]
but as i step off the train [i'm the only stopper] -
this ain’t such a bad place
the sprinklers make their rounds
as the last chance train moves northward
and the first night you need
the long johns
is
never
as you expected it.
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09.13.08
Posted in hot jams at 12:20 am by electricvishnu
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ONS7xTG2jY]
rcpm – “tell yer momma”
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09.10.08
Posted in goings on at 4:36 pm by electricvishnu
finetuned@thefinegrind[featuringsupersecretspecialgueststonight]
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09.09.08
Posted in goings on at 11:15 pm by electricvishnu
in just under four hours this mofo is going to get crankin’
if, after the few weeks or month(s) or so that it takes to rev itself into it’s particular and fantastic frenzy, it does create a black hole that envelops all that we have come to know and love as existence [that would totally suck wouldn't it?], then i guess it’s been an awfully swell time around these parts; it’s been certainly super knowing ya: peace out? repent?
however, dr. hawking seems to disbelieve that whole killer black hole swallows the knowable universe prediction. and he’s sorta badass.
“large hadron collider: best- and worst-case scenarios” – a. madrigal
so you shouldn’t stop paying amex just yet . . . save the cheap bub for [election day / the next russian quasi-bellicose international maneuver / uncle fidel's goodbye fireworks / some other endtimes prologue]
shsheeeeeshow
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Posted in goings on, words about words at 7:13 am by electricvishnu
the republicans didn’t like to talk about too much dick this year.
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