Swan Fungus reader / contributor Ben still has swine flu. Here’s hoping him a speedy recovery so that I we can read all about how much Sufjan Stevens SUCKED at ATP this year.Two Boots Night Tripper pizza, you make every meal feel like an orgasm. I’m trying to cut back on my pizza/cheeseburger intake these [...]
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Well, my All Tomorrow’s Parties correspondent, Ben, seems to have come down with a case of swine flu. No joke. I remember last year at ATP people were complaining about bed bugs at Kutsher’s, but this year apparently it’s the swine flu that will leave many with harrowing memories of their adventures in upstate New [...]
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Lovingly donated by Viagra Falls“…Side 2 is where the real surprises come in. “Stand” (the Sly and The Family Stone hit) charges forth with a crude driving fuzzed riff, ending with some psychy warbled reverse guitar. More psychy basement guitar envelopes the forlorn “Traveling Man”, an excellent rural kind of ballad. The bluesy “Personal Boogie” [...]
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It has been a very strange — sometimes fun, sometimes agonizing — week. I don’t really have much else to say. Here’s your Sunday Mix Tape.RULES for uninitiated noobs: With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the [...]
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• I'm not a museum or gallery person. I have never found myself at all intrigued by a new local or national art exhibit. Obviously I have an appreciation for art, but the process of walking through buildings looking at things hanging from walls can be rather boring. Records (PS1), 1987-2009 on the other hand, [...]
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Today was a rather long and cruel one. It was very hard to focus on work, though I did complete several tasks that needed to be done. Concentration has not been easy for the past few days. In fact, it became a lot harder yesterday after my long day of solo travel down to San [...]
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On day three without Nicci I decided to drive to San Diego. Even though I didn’t get to bed at a normal hour, I had already mapped out my day. I did not want to disrupt my preconceived plans for today, even when I awoke early this morning (read: before the sun rose) and could [...]
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I woke up Thursday morning, the day of the big “date”, with a sore throat. I tried not to think much of it, but I quickly hurried to pack a small bag with a change of clothes, and hopped in my car to begin my drive home to Jersey. When I got to my mother’s [...]
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I had just broken up with my high school/college girlfriend, and I was new on the dating scene. The only problem was, I went to a college roughly the same size as my high school. Once your peers knew you had a busted relationship, you were pretty much off limits to everyone on campus. I [...]
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So, Nicci has been gone for about twelve hours now. I had to wake up at 6am to take her to the airport. I went for a short run in Runyon Canyon, then went into work for the day. I’m very tired now, and it’s only 8:15. I put in some calls to the regulars [...]
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This is a very pretty, very obscure (it’s not even mentioned in the Lysergia/Acid Archives book) folk album from a songwriter who lived in Cheshire, Connecticut. It was released in 1976, and definitely leans towards the downer/loner side of folk music. I would make comparisons to Nick Drake and Jackson C. Frank, but Lochner has [...]
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Nicci leaves for Alabama very early tomorrow morning, so I’ve got to get this posted quickly and start preparing for a short night of sleep and a long day of work tomorrow. Blah. This is gonna suck.RULES for uninitiated noobs: With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be [...]
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Happy “Caturday,” cat lovers. This adorable fuzzball took a foot-long arrow in the head for you!I feel like shit today. I ate horribly last night and drank too much. What’s worse, I woke up this morning with a slight tingling/achy sensation in the back of my throat, so now I’m convinced I’ll be dead of [...]
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Another week has ended. Now you go out and drink. I’ll drink too, but a little less than you because even though it’s a holiday weekend, I still have to work tomorrow and Sunday. When is Labor Day? Was that today or is it Monday? I guess it doesn’t really matter. I worked today and [...]
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A co-worker dropped off a copy of this documentary for me to watch at my leisure, and since I work in an independent record store I think I can offer a slightly more unique response to it than your average audience member. To put it succinctly, this is a film about record stores being shuttered [...]
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Early Lines in St. Louis, MO 2004.Any music lover can attest to the fact that one of life’s great rewards is the discovery of an artist or sound that takes the wind out of you. For me, my introduction to Early Lines was more like a ceaseless series of kicks to the body. Their 2nd [...]
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“I don’t know about food at all, really.”Last week, Nicci presented me a list of the ten places she wanted to eat before she leaves for almost two months. By the way, if I haven’t already mentioned, she booked a really good acting gig recently, and she’s going to be spending 6 weeks in Alabama. [...]
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Apparently Judy McGuire is out as The Frisky’s CNN correspondent. Now some Jew named Simcha is the girl who writes the relationship advice columns which are syndicated on CNN’s website. For months, I greedily devoured McGuire’s columns, because her ideas were so inane they deserved in-depth responses decrying her utter stupidity. Now we’ve got this [...]
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Tomorrow we’ll return to our regularly scheduled updates. You know, rants, interviews, lists and stuff. Antics. Antics too. We’ll get started with some good shit tomorrow. Until then, enjoy your Sunday mix tape.RULES for uninitiated noobs: With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods [...]
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“Yes-influenced basement progressive from high school kid multi-instrumentalist?” Um…yes!?Thanks to Swan Fungus reader “Viagra Falls” for this contribution. Today completes our week-long foray into the world of private press releases. We started with “Todd,” a teenager writing intensely heartfelt love songs, and are ending the week with Jack Intveld, another teenager who was obsessed
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