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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Is Your Women A Loser, Or Are They All Losers?
Sunday Mix Tape Number 158
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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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Jack Intveld - I’ll Sing Of Life
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Artist:Jack Intveld
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Track:I'll Sing of Life
“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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Eddie Callahan - False Ego (Ocean, 1976)
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Artist:Eddie Callahan
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Album:False Ego
Who is Eddie Callahan, and why are collectors paying ridiculous sums of money for his album, False Ego! That is the question which we will debate tonight here at Swan Fungus. And by “debate” I mean I’m going to copy and paste some information about Callahan from the Acid Archives, then follow it up with [...]
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KC Humphrey - For A Smile (Milliken Sound Service, 1975)
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Artist:K.C. Humphrey
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Album:For A Smile
I hope that you are enjoying this week-long exploration of some rare, private press recordings. Reader “Viagra Falls” was kind enough to send over a gigabyte of albums for me to enjoy, and now I’m passing some of his donations on to you. Because I care about you. I want you to discover new music [...]
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Alien City - Alien City (Dog Star, 1979)
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Artist:Alien City
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Originally released in a limited pressing of 500 copies, this album took five years to complete. That’s an absurd amount of time for a microscopically small, self-financed recording at any time — perhaps more so in the ’70s, when not everybody had the means of producing, pressing and distributing an album electronically like so many [...]
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Harbinger - Second Coming (AE 100, 197?)
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By now you all know of my fascination with Dave Bixby. I’ve lauded his album Ode To Quetzalcoatl copiously here. As I was talking to a collector at work many months ago about the record, he told me how he obtained his original copy, informed me about the impending (now available) reissue, and mentioned [...]
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Stephen David Heitkotter - Heitkotter (Ego, 1971)
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Artist:Stephen David Heitkotter
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Album:Heitkotter
Was it last month or two months ago when I listed the ten best private press records in America? Either way, Heitkotter made the list as an honorable mention, which is to say I would have included it had I access to MP3s of the album. My new best friend and benefactor “Viagra Falls” [...]
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 157
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Hey Swan Fungus readers! Guess who the newest registered user of this website is… Give up? It’s my mom! Ha! She didn’t even vote on the poll, but she registered to receive important inside information e-mails and have a chance to win fabulous prizes! You could too if you sign up, but I think if [...]
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Cocaine Dollars, Legal Drugs In Mexico, Video Gamers, Quick Movie Resolutions, Goldfish, Anti-Aging Pills & Rhys Chatham’s “A Crimson Grail”
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• By now you’ve read this story on every news website on the Internet: Up to 90 of US paper money has traces of cocaine present on it. That’s quite an impressive amount of blow, more than Canada (85%) and Brazil (80%), and way more than China (20%) and Japan (16%). Is it any wonder [...]
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Todd - With Love…From Me To You
This one is…it’s just awesome. Look at that cover and tell me you wouldn’t empty your wallet to hear what the hell was stored in the grooves of this record. Pure gold, right? Albums like With Love…From Me To You are why I’ve so deeply fallen in love with “real people” records. The masterminds might [...]
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DVD Review: Grails - Acid Rain
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As one of the most eclectic, trippy bands currently putting out records, Portland, Oregon’s Grails is a perfect candidates for a music DVD. The instrumental band’s jaw-dropping live shows need to be seen to believed, and their prodigious output ensures fans no shortage of great, fresh psychedelic music. During the band’s most productive period (2006-2008), [...]
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It Has Begun: Top Chef And Gail Simmons’ Tits Return To TV Tonight!
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Artist:Gail Simmons
It must be Top Chef season, because at one point today 67 of 89 people who visited this website — within one hour — searched Google for some variation of “Gail Simmons Tits,” “Gail Simmons Boobs” or “Gail Simmons Nude.” I can only imagine this number will grow tonight, as 14 of the last 20 [...]
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Swan Fungus Q2C 1174
Hey there, l337 readers! What’s up? NMU? I just got home from work, and am NIFOC thinking about how much ILF/MD. Sorry for all the confusion with the “code words,” but I’ve got to KPC, if you know what I mean. It’s not like I’ve got a P911 MOS (or even PAL/PAW/PIR) situation over here [...]
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Damon - Song Of A Gypsy
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From Hippie DJ Kit:“Damon is the artistic name of David Del Conte, a genius American gypsy musician who is responsible for one the rarest and most sought-after psychedelic album of all time. Based in Los Angeles, David Del Conte and Charlie Carey had already pursued careers in popular music for many years before deciding to [...]
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 156
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When there are thirty minutes left in your work day, and the only thought on your mind is whiskey, it's nice to know sometimes that your manager is having the same thoughts. What's even nicer is when he allows you to leave work early, under the pretense that you walk to the adjacent liquor store [...]
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Exercise, Two-Headed Cow, Job Search, Evolution & The Record Industry
I’m glad to see yesterday’s post is stirring some discussion in the comments section. It’s been a while since one of my “Top Ten” lists actually caused readers to feel one way (or another!). I guess I’m just happy that readers feel anything at all when they visit this page. Oh God, I’m so pathetic. [...]
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The Top Ten Reasons Why Woodstock Sucked
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Artist:Woodstock
Don't even get me started about last night's softball game. It was dreadful. Well, now that I've gotten myself started I suppose I can spend a paragraph writing about it. We lost, we sucked, but worst of all, the other team was a bunch of assholes. Their pitcher was the biggest fucking douchebag I've ever [...]
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Softball Recap: Los Nuevos Expos 9 - Bunch Of Guys 10
The worst feeling in the world for a ballplayer is when a team comes from behind to beat you at the last second. I'm no ballplayer — I'm a gawky Jew with below-average sports abilities — but I imagine that to be true. Even though I possess no athletic skill, that didn't stop me from [...]
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Talking About Vinyl And Web Searches
So by now you all know I’m a huge record nerd. I work in a fucking record store. I’m probably more into records than I am beers, and that says a lot. I don’t know how large my collection is because it’s spread across two states (California and New Jersey), but it’s large enough to [...]
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