Living the Liminal

At the risk of bragging, I do take pride with the wide variety of music I have collected over the years. I know that there are people out there who greatly surpass me both in quantity and variety, but still, I like to think that I do pretty well in finding some nicely obscure bands [...]

I just finished posting on Pandagon’s Friday Random Ten and didn’t want to stop the random merriment, so for my second random ten tracks:
1. “Kiss of Life” - Peter Gabriel
2. “The Sweater” - Meryn Cadell
3. “The Friend Catcher” - The Birthday Party
4. “Steam Engine” - My Morning Jacket
5. “Above You, Below Me” - Badly Drawn [...]

Normal (well, recently established at least) scheduling is on hold as I finish work on an academic review of The Living Theatre’s production of The Brig for the journal PAJ.
In the meantime . . .
Pretty. (Make sure you scroll to the bottom for the finished product.)
Go See.
Disturbing.
Fucked Up.
Funny.
 

Willy Porter - Jesus On The Grille
Just downloaded a sweet sound cue program call Qlab, and the basic version is free and allows you to build sound cues and execute them with all sort of fades, levels and precision. You can even set hotkeys for various cues. I would have loved to have given a [...]

Just came across this cartoon by Wellington Grey, a Physics teacher in England. Check out his website at www.wellingtongrey.net .

This is a quick entry, but I wanted to point you toward two sites that offer a really great way to find new music.
1. iCompositions
This is a site that caters to home-recording artists and while it’s specifically supposed to hook into Garageband users, you’ll find a lot of compositions created with other music programs. From [...]

Thursdays are going to be an experiment in storytelling - where I’ll attempt to write a story or a novel or a series of interconnected stories that all take place in a town called Thistledown. Where is Thistledown? I’m not sure. I know that it is near a river, and not far from the ocean. [...]

Was listening to Radio Paradise and they played “Strange Boat” by the Waterboys - who never quite got the attention, at least in the US, that I think they deserved. Couldn’t find “Strange Boat,” but came across one of their few hit singles on YouTube. You know, there was a time when I actually liked [...]

I kind of pulled this weekly topic out of my ass because I wasn’t happy with any of my alliteration choices, but reading even the surface info on Wikipedia’s description of Odin makes me feel pretty good about my choice. First, I love some of the art associated with him:
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I’ve been watching the first season of Dead Like Me over the past 4-5 days and am really digging the writing and the performances. It reminds me a bit of Buffy, not because of the young woman as protagonist trying to work through life while being supernatural, but because the show creates a world for [...]