1000 Times Yes

"Everywhere around this town, they're running out of nouns"

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:39:28 -0500

That’s a line from “Nouns,” a 17-second song off the upcoming They Might Be Giants album, Nanobots.

I can’t help but think of this noun-centric convo I had with TMBG’s John Flansburgh in 2007 about the cover of The Else, which accidentally re-visited their snowmen motif from 1987:

I never thought of that link, but we do have snowmen in our past. When you’re a band that leans so heavily on nouns, at a certain point you’re just gonna start tripping over the same nouns. I guess we could write another song about a bird now.

whiney's best of 2012 mixtapes: vol. 1, 2 & 3

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:08:00 -0500

volume 1: NO LOVE [157 MB, 78:47]
new metal poptimism, old noise-rock revenge fantasies, finland’s best krautrock band, sweden’s best afro-metal band, heartbreaking bravery, max richter invents the remix, comeback kids, ghost boxers, and the world’s oldest rock critic steady riding for john zorn. stay noided!

volume 2: NO MERCY [140 MB, 78:39]
rap songs. [warning: meyhem lauren is filthy]

volume 3: NO CURFEW [150 MB, 77:36]
footwork’s giddiest hits, brostep’s meanest drops, bass music goes to cuba, house music goes to togo, laser horns, tay-step, cult jams, outlandos d’amour, barry white r.i.p.

cleaning out my closet: the top 100 records of 2012

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:20:45 -0500

1. Baroness - Yellow and Green

2. DJ Rashad - Teklife Vol. 1: Welcome to the Chi

3. Swans - The Seer

4. Action Bronson - Blue Chips

5. Future – Pluto

6. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!

7. Death Grips - NO LOVE DEEP WEB

8. White Suns - Sinews

9. Beak> - »

10. R. Kelly – Write Me Back

11. Goat - World Music

12. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music

13. Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox

14. fun. – Some Nights

15. Taylor Swift - Red

16. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction

17. Roc Marciano - Reloaded

18. Oren Ambarchi – Sagittarian Domain

19. Fushitsusha - Hikari to Nazukeyo

20. Gunplay – 601 and Snort

21. Thee Oh Sees – Putrifiers II

22. Torche – Harmonicraft

23. Mala – In Cuba

24. Traxman - Da Mind of Traxman

25. Killa Kyleon & Mouse on Tha Track – Welcome to the Fish Fry

26. Max Richter – Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons

27. Neneh Cherry & the Thing – The Cherry Thing

28. Divorce - Divorce

29. Pye Corner Audio – Sleep Games

30. Rick Ross – God Forgives, I Don’t

31. Gary Clark Jr. – Blak and Blu

32. Siinai - Olympic Games

33. Mayhem Lauren – Respect the Fly Shit

34. Willamette - Always in Postscript

35. Lindstrøm – Six Cups of Rebel/Smalhans

36. Solange – True EP

37. Deftones - Koi No Yokan

38. 2 Chainz – Based on a T.R.U. Story

39. Dustin Wong - Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads

40. Crystal Palace – Spirit Quest

41. Eagle Twin - The Feather Tipped the Serpent’s Scale

42. Kid Koala - 12-Bit Blues

43. Steve Lehman Trio – Dialect Fluorescent

44. Rob Pursey & Davey Boy Smith – Ratchet World

45. Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded

46. Thisquietarmy – Phantom Limbs

47. Horseback – Half Blood

48. Ty$ & Joe Moses – Whoop!

49. Daphni – Jialong

50. Amadou & Mariam – Folila

51. Peter Brötzmann & Jason Adasiewicz - Going All Fancy

52. Huaratron - Cryptocracy

53. Big K.R.I.T. – Live from the Underground

54. E-40 – The Block Brochure Vols. 1, 2 and 3

55. Mark Lanegan – Blues Funeral

56. Usher – Looking 4 Myself

57. Rising - To Solemn Ash

58. Bosse-de-Nage – III

59. New War – New War

60. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell – Don’t Hear It…Fear It!

61. Carter Tutti Void - Transverse

62. Animal Collective – Centipede Hz

63. The Alchemist – Russian Roulette

64. David Guetta – Nothing But the Beat 2.0

65. Ed Schrader’s Music Beat – Jazz Mind

66. Catheter – Southwest Doom Violence

67. The Bad Plus – Made Possible

68. Frankie Rose – Interstellar

69. Hilary Haun & Hauschka – Silfra

70. 100s – Ice Cold Perm

71. Imperial Teen – Feel the Sound

72. Caspian – Waking Season

73. Moonface - With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery

74. Meek Mill – Dreams and Nightmares

75. Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream

76. Chrome Canyon – Elemental Themes

77. Alimaailman Vasarat - Valta

78. Royal Thunder - CVI

79. Kandodo – Kandodo

80. El-P – Cancer 4 Cure

81. Starring – ABCDEFG-HIJKLMNOP-QRSTUV-WXYZ

82. Enabler – All Hail the Void

83. Mammifer/Pyramids – Mammifer/Pyramids

84. Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage

85. Fontanelle – Vitamin F

86. Hannibal Buress – Animal Furnace

87. Hangedup and Tony Conrad – Transit of Venus

88. Voices From the Lake – Voices from the Lake

89. David Daniell and Douglas McCombs - Versions

90. Daniel Menche - Guts

91. Grizzly Bear - Shields

92. Wadada Leo Smith - Ten Freedom Summers

93. Mungolian Jetset - Mungodelics

94. Fennesz – Aun

95. Jonwayne – Oodles of Doodles

96. Serengeti – The Kenny Dennis EP

97. High on Fire – De Vermiis Mysteriis

98. Many Arms – Many Arms

99. Liars – WIXIW

100. Alcest – Les Voyages de L’Ame

I love rap music. New York rapper Doug E. Fresh’s ode to...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:49:00 -0400

I love rap music.

New York rapper Doug E. Fresh’s ode to finding his “way back home” in Africa is built around a bassline borrowed from a British rock band covering an Italian composer for a movie set on the Mexican border that was only made possible by Japanese cinema.

D-Nice gets it.

andyhutchins: thefader: “YOU AIN’T WILLIE B.” ANDRE 3000...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:26:15 -0500

andyhutchins:

thefader:

“YOU AIN’T WILLIE B.”

ANDRE 3000 SHOUTS OUT LEGENDARY ATLANTA GORILLA ON HIS NEW TRACK WITH GORILLAZ AND JAMES MURPHY, “DOYATHING”

Uh. No.

Nigga talkin’ ‘bout “Aww, he don’t rap enough”
But y’all rap a lot and I’m like “Wrap it up, boy”
Ye ain’t Scarface, ye ain’t Willie D
Ye ain’t Bushwick, ye ain’t killin’ me

Don’t really know how an employed FADER writer can miss something like this this badly, but I guess not everyone goes to the trouble of meticulously transcribing lyrics so as to better catch things like a Rap-A-Lot pun that segues into naming all three Geto Boys.

Oh, wait, I know how this gets missed: Gross malpractice of journalism.

cleaning out my closet: the top 100 records of 2011

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:15:00 -0500

1. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972

2. Liturgy – Aesthetica

3. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres

4. The Men - Leave Home

5. Horseback – Impale Golden Horn

6. Pistol Annies - Pistol Annies

7. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life

8. All Pigs Must Die - God Is War

9. Factory Floor – “A Wooden Box”/“R E A L L O V E”/“Two Different Ways” 12-inches

10. Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal - Chamber Music

11. Killer Mike - Pl3dge

12. EMA - Past Lives Martyred Saints

13. Ghost - Opus Eponymous

14. E-40 - Revenue Retrievin: Graveyard Shift

15. Melvins – Endless Residency 4 CD set

16. Israel Martínez - El Hombre Que Se Sofoca

17. Cultus Sabbati - The Garden Of Forking Paths

18. Escort – Escort

19. Big K.R.I.T. - Return Of 4Eva

20. Blanck Mass - Blanck Mass

21. Burning Tree - Stinger

22. Danny Brown - XXX

23. Gui Borrato – III

24. Korn – The Path Of Totality

25. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

26. Mouse On The Track - Swagga Fresh Freddie

27. Hubble – Hubble Drums

28. Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler/The Dream

29. Big Business – Quadringle EP

30. Nicholas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise

31. Drake – Take Care

32. Boris - Attention Please

33. Colin Stetson – Live At ATP 2011

34. The Dirtbombs – Party Store

35. Grails – Deep Politics

36. Don Trip & Starlito – Stepbrothers

37. Deaf Center – Owl Splinters

38. Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto – summvs

39. Drive: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

40. Glenn Jones - The Wanting

41. Sick Llama – Fuor Coffins

42. Oh No + Alchemist + Roc Marciano – Greneberg EP

43. Mark Deutrom – The Value Of Decay

44. Psychic Paramount – II

45. DJ Rashad - Just A Taste, Vol. 1

46. Hauschka - Salon Des Amateurs

47. Lady Gaga – Born This Way

48. Gunplay – Inglorious Bastard

49. Group Doueh – Zayna Jumma

50. Soft Moon – Total Decay EP

51. Dayton Family – Charges Of Indictment

52. Grayceon – All We Destroy

53. Kool G Rap – Riches, Royalty & Respect

54. Winter Family – Red Sugar

55. Beyoncé – 4

56. Death Grips – Exmilitary

57. Elzhi – Elmatic

58. Mick Barr – Coiled Malescence

59. Driphouse – Root71

60. The Field – Looping State Of Mind

61. Bruce Lamont – Feral Songs For The Epic Decline

62. The Advisory Circle – As The Crow Flies

63. Terakraft – Aratan N Azawad

64. Mountains – Air Museum

65. DJ Quik – The Book Of David

66. Remember Remember – The Quickening

67. Cam’ron & Vado – Gunz & Butter

68. Mika Vaino – Life (…It Eats You Up)

69. Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part 2

70. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

71. Jay-Z and Kanye West – Watch The Throne

72. Lloyd - King Of Hearts

73. Juicy J & Lex Luger – Rubba Band Business

74. Tity Boi – Codiene Cowboy

75. Yob - Atma

76. Shinji Masuko – Woven Music

77. S.C.U.M. – Again Into Eyes

78. Juv – Juv

79. White Suns – Waking In The Reservoir

80. Rabbits – Lower Forms

81. Tyler, The Creator – Goblin

82. Windmills By The Ocean – II

83. Subrosa – No Help For The Mighty Ones

84. Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson - Horpma

85. Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica

86. Mark Fell - Periodic Orbit Of Dynamic System Related To A Knot

87. Das Racist – Relax

88. Pechenga – Helt Borte

89. Tombs – Path Of Totality

90. Craft - Void

91. The Necks - Mindset

92. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake

93. Red Horse – Red Horse

94. Wolves In the Throne Room – Celestial Lineage

95. Golden Retriever – Emergent Layer

96. Encoffination - O’ Hell, Shine In Thy Whited Sepulchres

97. Beauclerk – Beauclerk

98. KEN Mode - Venerable

99. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 – From Africa With Fury: Rise

100. Matthew Cooper – Some Days Are Better Than Others

whiney's best of 2011 mixtapes: vol. 1, 2 & 3

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:10:00 -0500

volume 1: THE HITS [145 MB, 79:42]
str8 mersh, lol indie rock, brit-brit, k-pop youtube rips, contrarian stanning for major label country records, trendy 80s revisionism that will age terribly, that drive song even your dumbest friends posted to facebook, footwork, minimal techno, disco orchestras, factory records aspirations and the requisite thee oh sees song

volume 2: ALL RAP EVERYTHING [144 MB, 78:32]
gun sounds, posse cuts, #swag, ceos, tumblr rap, an iced out ghost, will ferrell samples on everything, bounce, three artists i saw at the gathering of the juggalos

volume 3: THE DUNGEON [151 MB, 79:55]
evil beatles covers, no-wave rap, blackened hardcore, insert liturgy argument here, quotey-finger metal, pigfuck, sludgepop, ex-melvins, current melvins, library music, drone, drone, drone and one dead salamander

nogtown and b-boys: four holiday events

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:37:00 -0500

Wednesday, Dec 14, 2011
I have the world’s largest collection of Christmas rap. Tonight I square off against inestimable talent booker Chris White of Tiger Mountain Presents.

Thursday, Dec 15, 2011
More Christmas rap for Puja Patel’s “I Got Ho’s” happy hour. I go on mad early because there’s real DJs on the bill.

Friday, Dec 16, 2011
The penultimate show for Brooklyn’s own Parts & Labor. I will be joining the band to help out with a few songs off our 2006 album, Stay Afraid. Knitting Factory @ 8pm w/ Pterodactyl and Hunters.

Sunday, January 1, 2012
The inaugural performance of the “avant-brunch” series. 60 tickets only! Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Stay tuned.

trivial pursuits

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:04:14 -0400

@1000TimesYes: I know its corny to shit on Pitchfork, but I’m in absolute fucking hysterics over their new “board game reviewer.”

“Yet there’s something thrilling about shaking a fistful of dice. The clatter of the bones against felt or tabletop is a visceral pleasure. And there’s that breathless moment when everything settles and you’re reading the results. “

@1000TimesYes: The ecstatic joy of climbing a ladder to the unknowable heavens, only to be thwarted by a shameful slide down a chute.

@1000TimesYes: The sublime burst of sound of a Pop-A-Matic Trouble bubble, like the shock of being expelled from the womb, truly a primal experience, that.

@1000TimesYes: A land literally made of candy. You wander breathlessly, anticipating the sugary-yet-bitter release of Molasses Swamp.

@maxsidman: The barely missed attempt at feeding the ravenous hippo, only to leave it languishing unfulfilled, still so hungry, hungry.

@PopJew: The mouse that evades the trap, a white whale to your carefully crafted tower of fragility.

@jeremymeyers: How like life, when seven wooden squares present themselves, a Q with no U. How like life, and love

@kuujjuaq: Thus the titular exclamation “Sorry!” adopts a surprising depth of meaning, ranging from glee to spite to the ache of sympathy

@jtramsay: Consider Pictionary, in which we try to bridge the gulf between sign, signifier and signified.

@bisongator: Yes, yet as children we knew war reduced a man. A tribute to our fathers, maybe, each sunk vessel, every utterence of “battleship.”

@shallowrewards: I turn to my featureless pink wife, recognizing her for the first time; the wheel of LIFE ticks on, like an Autechre B-side.

@cureforbedbugs: The “Risk” is, of course, no real risk for hegemonic transnational corporatists moving laterally through globalized space.

@tsmallon: Forceps gripped betwixt fingers damp, I embrace the God complex; all hinges on the Operation. A Merzbowian BZZT tolls the end.

@warmandpunchy: “Does he have a beard?” “Are her eyes blue?” The questions your opponent asks are windows into their body-aesthetic values.

@schoonier: In those pants, a melange of insects bustles hither and thither, building a new community, a symbol of humanity’s will.

@unbornwhiskey: But have you ever thought that Monopoly actually critiques the system it exemplifies?

TONIGHT: 07.20.10Big Business, Torche, Helms Aleew/ DJ...

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:04:00 -0400

TONIGHT: 07.20.10
Big Business, Torche, Helms Alee
w/ DJ 1000TimesYes
Music Hall Of Williamsburg
8pm, $15

Big Business, Torche and Helms Alee are three of my favoritest bands in the whole wide world, as all of ‘em embody that joyful, euphoric, cloud-punching, goosebumpy, post-Lysol joy-sludge that I live and breathe on… prolly what I imagine Lady Gaga would call the “edge of glory,” right? As a naturally negative and misanthropic person, their uplifting melodies have been wildly influential for me, working like a drug. I am ecstatic to have the whoppertunity to spin records in between their sets. Here’s hoping I don’t fuck it up.

In honor of the occasion, I will be spinning only music that dwells in similarly triumphant, mountaintop-standing, heaven-gazing melodies, crossing the boundaries of punk, metal, mersh, dance music, hip-hop and noise. This means Hüsker Dü, Robyn, Tim Hecker, Fuck Buttons, Baroness, Big Country, Three 6 Mafia, Peter Gabriel, Goldfrapp, T.I.’s “What You Know,” the slowed-down Bieber song—basically the optimistic, stay-high-igh-igh shit I would pay any of these bands hard American money to cover. I will probably be the the first dude to play an ABBA song to a bunch of bearded Hydra Head fans. So, here come the waterworks!

This is all a preview of a Podcast I’m cooking up for the FatCat Records blog once my turntable gets fixed, so you’ll be able to take this little burst of sunshine home with you soon. I have no idea where the DJ booth is at MHOW, but if you find I feel free to say hi. I’ll have books and hugs.

Dear media professionals, Thank you for clogging my Twitter feed...

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:50:00 -0400

Dear media professionals,

Thank you for clogging my Twitter feed with breathless dispatches from Pitchfork Festival all weekend. I know its very important for you to weigh in on how awesome Zola Jesus or Yuck were in a sun-beaten, 90 degree field when these bands play nice, air-conditioned clubs all the time in New York and Chicago to absolutely no fanfare.

Honestly, I love Pitchfork Fest. I went in 2008 and had an amazing time. The record fair, poster exhibitions and local food really give it a sense of community. It’s a great thing. But, man, I wish media outlets would maybe take their microscopic eye off P4k’s inner workings and provide me with an actual narrative beyond “[Band] killed it! On to see [other band]!”

Probably because there is no narrative beyond “music critics wanted a weekend in Chicago and now have to justify the write-off.” I mean, hey, I like Shabazz Palaces as much as the next guy, but be a fucking grown-up and enjoy the show. I don’t need to see a 200-post photo gallery just because you wanted to share a Hot Doug with EMA and expense it to the company.

Actually, maybe the Odd Future thing would be interesting to hear about. So far the only coverage of it with any depth or insight has been from Jim DeRogatis, and you’d be hard-pressed to call his “satanic panic” schtick fair or balanced. I thought this DeRo line was particularly great: “This blog has contacted about half of the main-stage acts at the festival for comment about sharing a stage with Odd Future, but none have responded.” I can’t figure out if that means the bands don’t think his argument is worth their time; or that contemporary indie rockers are so chickenshit that they won’t make a completely valid point about sexism if it means risking burning a bridge with XL/Windish/Pfork/etc….

My favorite part of the year I went to Pitchfork Festival was watching the critics, publicists and musician-hangers-on in the “VIP” section. Everyone in “VIP” was handed a playing card which entitled you to a free Chipotle burrito. Local businesses from one of the best food cities in America had set up a cheap food court that had no shortage of good things. But snaking down the grass, there was a half-hour line of “very important people” waiting to get a free, terrible handout.

There’s a weird anxiety about “being in the right place” that most critics and editors share. And Pitchfork Festival is definitely the right place. But just because you’re in the right place, doesn’t mean I need to hear about the dimensions of the room, how it’s lit and who covered a Fugazi song as if it was Neil Armstrong landing on the fucking moon.

“Tell me something I don’t know. Tell me something I can use.” —Chicago’s own Ministry

[photos via Fourthisto]

just wanted to call firsties on this

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:36:21 -0400

just wanted to call firsties on this

my notes from the odd future sxsw show

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:16:57 -0400

my notes from the odd future sxsw show

An informative video that this event needs…ISSUE PROJECT...

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:42:44 -0400

An informative video that this event needs…

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM / NYC
THU 4.21 @ 8:00PM –Jana Winderen’s Scuttling around in the shallows ($12/$10 Members) In Scuttling around in the shallows, Jane Winderen continues her investigation into the sound of shrimp, exploring how the smallest creatures of the ocean use sound for communication, orientation, and feeding. Hydrophones—originally a military development—are repurposed, inadvertently producing unexpected qualities not informed by their original design. Winderen uses these hydrophones to create immersive sonic environments, something far from the original intention of these surveillance devices.

the 33 shows i saw at sxsw 2011, ranked

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:18:48 -0400

honestly, this is as useful as whatever coverage you did.

1. Letlive.
2. Yelawolf
3. Altaar
4. Bruce Lamont
5. Low
6. Batillus
7. Big KRIT
8. Liturgy
9. Yob
10. Ken Mode
11. Mistah FAB
12. Shabazz Palaces
13. Magrudergrind
14. Errors
15. Buck 65
16. Grayceon
17. Quintron & Miss Pussycat
18. Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (Billboard debacle)
19. Cough
20. Curren$y
21. Moe Green
22. Trae The Truth
23. Wormrot
24. Fishbone
25. Cheap Time
26. Shit & Shine
27. Pop. 1280
28. Kylesa
29. Umberto
30. Droop-E
31. Deaf Center
32. Ultrageist
33. Herman Dune

"No disrespect to anybody that’s doing mixtapes but these are documented, these are..."

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:06:42 -0500

“No disrespect to anybody that’s doing mixtapes but these are documented, these are soundscanned with a barcode and they’re in the history books. I get paid on every last one of them. Including the bonus tracks, that’s well over 80 songs per year. So at 11 songs per album that’s eight albums in one year. Real albums, all brand new fresh songs. No recycled shit, no remixed shit. None of that… I’m not mad at those who do mixtapes. I’ll probably do one [one day]… But I’m just saying that I choose to not do them. I choose to put out a real album and I don’t waste no time. The grit don’t quit… My shit is documentate-ed. It’s like a pension plan for the future.”

- E-40 on releasing four albums with the span of 13 months. Rappers take note. [via hiphopdx]

"i don’t have anything against it, myself. but the poignant beauty of ordinary humanity - the..."

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:22:23 -0500

“

i don’t have anything against it, myself. but the poignant beauty of ordinary humanity - the bathetic infatuation with clumsy frailty and endearing failure, as communicated by amateurish blankness and infantile affectation - has been exploited to death for decades by indie and post-indie and would-be-indie everything. in movies like juno and thumbsucker, on indie prints and greeting cards featuring awkward line drawings of birds (currently on sale in a bunch tiny shops on 5h in park slope), in back issues of mcsweeney’s, in album after pitchfork-approved album of wounded & comforting soft sweater teatime glockenspiel music listened to, most likely, by someone you know and love. it’s by no means an ineffective artistic stance: it works, communicates, gets a feeling across. but it’s also so far beyond played that it’s become a sickening zombie sham, a horrible cloud of kitsch that sucks the life out of everything it touches.

this hyundai ad is just the they live moment - the point at which the whole world gets to try on the glasses and see what’s really been going down.

”

- ilx poster contenderizer on pomplamoose

re: tonight's Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All show

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:23:00 -0500

via Don DeLillo:

Several days later Murray asked me about a tourist attraction known as the most photographed barn in America. We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through the rolling fields. Soon the signs started appearing. THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA. We counted five signs before we reached the site. There were 40 cars and a tour bus in the makeshift lot. We walked along a cowpath to the slightly elevated spot set aside for viewing and photographing. All the people had cameras; some had tripods, telephoto lenses, filter kits. A man in a booth sold postcards and slides — pictures of the barn taken from the elevated spot. We stood near a grove of trees and watched the photographers. Murray maintained a prolonged silence, occasionally scrawling some notes in a little book.

“No one sees the barn,” he said finally.

A long silence followed.

“Once you’ve seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.”

He fell silent once more. People with cameras left the elevated site, replaced by others.

We’re not here to capture an image, we’re here to maintain one. Every photograph reinforces the aura. Can you feel it, Jack? An accumulation of nameless energies.”

There was an extended silence. The man in the booth sold postcards and slides.

“Being here is a kind of spiritual surrender. We see only what the others see. The thousands who were here in the past, those who will come in the future. We’ve agreed to be part of a collective perception. It literally colors our vision. A religious experience in a way, like all tourism.”

Another silence ensued.

“They are taking pictures of taking pictures,” he said.

It’s out! Click here for tracklisting, liner notes and...

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:46:00 -0400

It’s out! Click here for tracklisting, liner notes and free download!

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 05:00:35 -0400