strictly roots.
Perhaps surprisingly, two parts of my weekend (cultural consumptionwise) that resonated a great deal with one another were the Negativland documentary Sonic Outlaws and the John Fahey album “The Dance of Death and Other Plantation Favorites.” What, you may ask, ties together a mid-’90s film about the state of intellectual property and culture jamming and [...]
I’m not feeling well lately and I’m not sure why, but hopefully it involves something that will go away soon. Understand? Regardless, not feeling well allows me to indulge in some things I would otherwise feel I didn’t have time for. I’ll write for you some reviews of some of these things soon. These things [...]
Last night — went to that “Te Cafe” place on Murray Ave in Squirrel Hill. The folks there were friendly, the tea selection quite satisfying. When pressed on the subject of their “Cherry Almond Cheesecake” flavor, they conceded that really, it’s just cherry almond, and they’re not even sure who put the “cheesecake” part on [...]
Howdy! Last night’s show went off utterly hitchless and was a good time — Cinemechanica and Slingshot Dakota both were great, and the locals were super and endearing as always, and while we were all having that good time, a lot of rotten politicians were unelected. On the newspaper comics tip: “Sally Forth” is kind [...]
Today is vote day, don’t forget. I need to do all the last-minute things, like figure out where my polling place is this time around, and resign myself to the fact that I have no idea where my voter ID card is and go do the dance you do for them when you can’t find [...]
I’m at the parents’ house, and thus on a slow computer and wanting to get back to watching TV, but I can’t not talk about this thing that makes me immensely angry: read this Post-Gazette story. You know how I feel about the sort of “investigative reporting” that Marty Griffin does if you read my [...]
The Nietzsche Family Circus. It’s kind of like those Dysfunctional Family Circus comics, only instead of inserting offensive captions, it lifts Nietzsche passages for captions. An early favorite here.
Knowing the nature of Negativland’s craft, and never having seen them live before, I was a bit ambivalent going into the show Tuesday night. It seems like a live show would be inferior to their recordings just because the actual content is nearly all prefabricated and the “performance” lies simply in synthesis; at the same [...]