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Order other stuff from Tape Mountain's catalog too, it's a fine label -- including Minor Thirds goodness from Chris Piuma!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link

the sequel: ned raggett reads the orange county phone book ... with feeling, man.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 25 October 2003 01:08 (twenty years ago) link

:-)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 25 October 2003 01:09 (twenty years ago) link

ned is it really you just reading the almanac?!

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 25 October 2003 01:19 (twenty years ago) link

It is indeed really me reading the almanac.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 01:19 (twenty years ago) link

Tape Mountain is a truly wonderful thing and this sounds like yet another stride in quality for them: hurrah, Ned!

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 25 October 2003 01:21 (twenty years ago) link

i just told ned i am going to a todd edwards/akufen style remix of this for the next ilx comp.

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 25 October 2003 01:22 (twenty years ago) link

ned raggett - "almanac pg. 38 (omnipotent baby Heavens!to murgatroid mix)"

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 25 October 2003 01:23 (twenty years ago) link

Why does the image seem to imply you'll be reading a Chinese takeaway menu?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 25 October 2003 01:24 (twenty years ago) link

exactly how much of the almanac? cover to cover?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Saturday, 25 October 2003 01:27 (twenty years ago) link

Selected portions.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 01:39 (twenty years ago) link

yeah he'd have to be the micro machines guy to fit the whole thing onto one disc.

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 25 October 2003 01:40 (twenty years ago) link

this is, without a doubt, the greatest thing i have ever seen.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 25 October 2003 01:41 (twenty years ago) link

ned, how did you decide what portions to read??

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 25 October 2003 01:42 (twenty years ago) link

Random. I just flipped through and found something odd or weird. That's why I talk about rodeo winners and Laos.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 01:43 (twenty years ago) link

Ordering mine now. I can't wait to have kids and bequeath this unique item to them in my will, as they will do for their children, and so on...

― adaml (adaml), Saturday, 25 October 2003 01:58 (twenty years ago) link

FUCKING BEST ALBUM OF 2003! I've had a copy for a while now -- it is sublime. It is really everything you could ever imagine an album called Ned Raggett Reads The Almanac would be, and somehow MORE.

Note: The follow-up will be Ned Raggett: ?.

Go and order: http://www.tapemountain.com/ and you should order my album while you're there too, it's also not that bad at all. And some Raunchy Young Lepers and some Celesteville. You could buy all that and still spend less than $10, it's fucking brilliant.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 25 October 2003 02:12 (twenty years ago) link

Apparently there's a minor glitch with the ordering button that's about to be fixed, so just a quick heads up!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 02:16 (twenty years ago) link

(I'm getting in touch with Jake to fix it. Drop an e-mail to jake att tapemountain dot com or IM me and it'll all be solved.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 25 October 2003 02:18 (twenty years ago) link

Okay, fixed! Order away!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 02:20 (twenty years ago) link

(Sorry, that was Ned Raggett: Pi.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 25 October 2003 02:23 (twenty years ago) link

It is? Oh dear. Hm. I could try it...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 02:23 (twenty years ago) link

the next ILX comp should consist of only remixes of this album.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Saturday, 25 October 2003 02:30 (twenty years ago) link

Jess and I were already joking about that in chat! Oh my.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 02:34 (twenty years ago) link

This album will change the way you think about cookies.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 25 October 2003 02:38 (twenty years ago) link

And I've also celebrated by actually UPDATING THE PHOTO ON MY HOME PAGE!

Thus.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 03:30 (twenty years ago) link

(Sorry, that was Ned Raggett: Pi.)

Hitmewiththedigits.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 25 October 2003 04:04 (twenty years ago) link

i just know that this is the best 2.35 i've ever spent

― ron (ron), Saturday, 25 October 2003 04:40 (twenty years ago) link

I'm serious, the only thing better than Ned reading from the Almanac will be Ned cooing pi in your ear for an hour.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 25 October 2003 04:59 (twenty years ago) link

Somehow I think there's a connection here...

Amazon.com now offering full-text searching for over 120,000 books?! (23 new answers)

― Skottie, Saturday, 25 October 2003 05:27 (twenty years ago) link

o man i gotta get this ;-)

btw: whats The Almanac?

― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 25 October 2003 08:46 (twenty years ago) link

Ned! Why didn't you say anything? An extract must appear on the next comp!

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 25 October 2003 09:16 (twenty years ago) link

It actually wasn't a total secret -- I'd mentioned it idly once or twice before on the board and Tape Mountain has been listing it as a coming attraction on their webpage. But Mr. Piuma decided to have fun with it *as* a secret and I figured I'd play along. :-) As for an extract, personally I'm fonder of the remix idea! I want Jess, TOMBOT, Dan, whoever else to just go in there and trash things.

It's not the almanac, just an almanac. But 'the almanac' sounds better.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 12:48 (twenty years ago) link

Grays...Sports...Almanac?

i'd like to hear this!

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 25 October 2003 12:52 (twenty years ago) link

oh and i will definitely be remixing you

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 25 October 2003 12:52 (twenty years ago) link

:-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 12:54 (twenty years ago) link

i will download it ;)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 25 October 2003 12:55 (twenty years ago) link

:-( Now at last I see how the artists are hurt by piracy! I abjure mp3s henceforth.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 12:57 (twenty years ago) link

fear not, $3 coming your way!

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 25 October 2003 13:00 (twenty years ago) link

that's more than most bands make off a CD sale right?

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 25 October 2003 13:00 (twenty years ago) link

yes, unless they sell direct (i will buy this and remix it also. how...how meta!!)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 25 October 2003 13:02 (twenty years ago) link

It is! Though actually the money goes to Jake o' Tape Mountain, who is a worthy soul. There's no real contract or anything here! I've known the guy since 1995, this is a handshake deal if ever there was one. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 13:02 (twenty years ago) link

Actually I just realized that for obvious reasons I can't review this anywhere! Uh, anyone want to do the honors?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 14:31 (twenty years ago) link

haha ned i will happily review it on nylpm

it will be a double review with alvin lucier's "i am sitting in a room"

i suspect the net effect is largely the same

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 25 October 2003 15:46 (twenty years ago) link

Rah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 15:49 (twenty years ago) link

I am hungover and this concept is tripping me out. Go Ned!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 25 October 2003 16:19 (twenty years ago) link

it will be a double review with alvin lucier's "i am sitting in a room"

someone should write a book tracing the history of pop music between this and montell jordan's "this is how we do it"

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 25 October 2003 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

Order placed! I look forward to listening to this and being enlightened in the most pleasant way possible.

― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 25 October 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link

Ned's almanac reading is making my cat act all freaky like he's having a seizure! Usually only Kraftwerk does that to him.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Saturday, 25 October 2003 16:36 (twenty years ago) link

Mystic.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 16:43 (twenty years ago) link

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It would be like the Blur/Oasis wars all over again. But then that would make me Damon Albarn. :-(

Sure, but at least, you would be prettier than Damon....and with swishier hair.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 17:28 (twenty years ago) link

Wait, you never met Dr. Pain? This is what you get for not visiting Portland!)

Dr. Pain? Curses! I wouldn't mind meeting him. That name brings up some interesting visions.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 17:29 (twenty years ago) link

Besides, I think the Gallaghers have sideburns.

Which is attached to that mighty monobrow. Tis better than going bald, though.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

"Sideburns attached to a monobrow" is giving me NeanderFEAR.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

Nick, remember that Dr. Pain was 11 years old at the time.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

Never mind. Robbing the cradle is not my idea of a great time.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 18:02 (twenty years ago) link

"Sideburns attached to a monobrow" is giving me NeanderFEAR.

True FEAR is the thought of Liam wrapped in leopard skin

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 18:04 (twenty years ago) link

ok this just came in the mail and my favorite is the cookie part! (and the end of the toothpaste part... 63?? that makes no sense!!)

also in the liner notes, it appears to have a corrected typo of "authority" and this bastard version is how i imagine cartman would spell it

― ron (ron), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 05:20 (twenty years ago) link

I've also received my copy in the mail. I'm yet to examine it properly though.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 06:12 (twenty years ago) link

Jake points out that the correction fluid for the mimeograph (that the liner notes were printed on) gets him high.

So he abstains, and you end up with obvious corrections.

Yes, that's right, it makes him high and so he abstains. Keep that in mind when you listen to RYL...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 06:24 (twenty years ago) link

Wah. I still have yet to receive my copy! Soon, soon...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 23:18 (twenty years ago) link

but did you get the mushy bees?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 23:20 (twenty years ago) link

I am deprived on this point.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 23:24 (twenty years ago) link

good god, this is hilarious. very nice speaking voice ned.

― Chris Hungus (Chris V), Thursday, 6 November 2003 13:45 (twenty years ago) link

Why thank ya.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 November 2003 13:54 (twenty years ago) link

I'm kind of cracking up at the thread title, like anyone who's been on the group for more than a month wouldn't know INSTANTLY that a thread title that starts with "Hurrah!" isn't a Ned thread.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 November 2003 14:07 (twenty years ago) link

Well, you know, aiming for clarity and all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 November 2003 14:08 (twenty years ago) link

I'm half-tempted to go through the archives and add "Hurrah!" or "Heavens!" to the beginning of every thread you've started.

(Of course, this might be asking for you to go through and retitle all of my threads to "DAN PERRY IS AN ASSHAT" but what's life without a few risks?)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 November 2003 14:11 (twenty years ago) link

See, adding 'Hurrah!' to 'Terrorist Action 11/9/2001 - Thread 8' is a bit gauche.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 November 2003 14:13 (twenty years ago) link

OMG the attendant fallout!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 November 2003 14:14 (twenty years ago) link

You know, now that I'm listening to an actual copy of this thing, I understand all the cookie jokes now. I had forgotten I had done that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 03:04 (twenty years ago) link

I LOVE THE COOKIE TRACK. I want you to know that you had me cracking up with laughter and looking like a general weirdo while I was driving home from school late this afternoon and listening to the CD that I just got today. I am addicted to this. You have a very, very, very lovely voice, dear Ned. Very lovely. It *is* a "booming baritone with jolly inflections", isn't it? And I love the personal touches that Jake from Tape Mountain put to the order and to the packaging, and Charlotte's liner notes are precious and rock. And I will have you know that once I feel the need to listen to something else (which might happen sometime in the future *laughs*), I will listen to the Minor Thirds release I *also* ordered. I love the booklet that came with it. And I love the extra-special touches on the non-playing face of this CD.

If all Tape Mountain releases are this amazingly cool to own, I might just have to order more from the catalog. As for now, however, I'll remain addicted to the whole Ned Raggett Reading the Almanac thing. :) (No need to be scared, hon.)

― Pancakes For Breakfast! (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 03:20 (twenty years ago) link

My sister thinks that you're a corporate rocker shilling for a big record company because you talked about this album on your Oasis list! I wish I was making this up.

― Nicolars The Insult Comic Librarian (Nicole), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 03:21 (twenty years ago) link

Well, Tape Mountain is staffed solely by The Man, so clearly she must be right.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 03:27 (twenty years ago) link

Jake is the new Tommy Mottola -- I guess that makes you Mariah.

― Nicolars The Insult Comic Librarian (Nicole), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 03:31 (twenty years ago) link

Hmm. I have better hair for a start.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 03:32 (twenty years ago) link

You don't cover one side of your face with it, for starters.

― Nicolars The Insult Comic Librarian (Nicole), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 03:33 (twenty years ago) link

Neither do I display my rainbow-colored bikini butt to all. Though I have a feeling either Chris Hungus or Crudderz will do something about that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 03:34 (twenty years ago) link

dear mr raggett, i thought about using your narration of the definition of 'twilight' as the backing to a groovy house track, but i think now i'll just cut up snippets of your voice to make dick jokes. sincerely, dude

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 10:46 (twenty years ago) link

Dang!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 14:01 (twenty years ago) link

Yes?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 14:01 (twenty years ago) link

http://image.muzi.com/icon_c/20141_001_a.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 14:03 (twenty years ago) link

WHAT THE HELL WHERE DID YOU GET MY YEARBOOK PHOTO??????

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 14:04 (twenty years ago) link

I wish that PayPal didn't hate me so I could order this. :(

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 14:05 (twenty years ago) link

Looking good for a man your age, Dan!

NA, ask Sarah nicely and maybe she'll order it for you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 14:06 (twenty years ago) link

It is our anniversary next week...

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 14:07 (twenty years ago) link

And what better for a celebration of love than me talking about the top rodeo winners of the last twenty years?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 14:08 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

The FBI wants you to wary of people with almanacs. Report them immediately!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 16 January 2004 01:13 (twenty years ago) link

Man!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 01:15 (twenty years ago) link

Ha! Why didn't I put these two pieces of information together before! It's so clear now. Ned Raggett: Eskimo Spy.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 16 January 2004 01:28 (twenty years ago) link

STAND BY FOR ACTION!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 01:32 (twenty years ago) link

(Was the kid in that movie the most obnoxious Japanese imp of the lot? I think so.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 01:33 (twenty years ago) link

I'm trying to remember which movie that was -- Fugative Alien? The girl who came up with "Cornjob" was pretty obnoxious, and -- man, I really haven't watched most of the other Gameras that often...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 16 January 2004 01:35 (twenty years ago) link

I'm trying to remember which movie that was -- Fugative Alien?

Godzilla vs. Megalon

"HEY LOOK I FOUND SOME FUNNY RED CLAY!"

And of course Jet Jaguar.

The girl who came up with "Cornjob" was pretty obnoxious

This is true. All too true.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 01:37 (twenty years ago) link

We're going to ride our bi-cy-cles...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 16 January 2004 01:40 (twenty years ago) link

ARG

"My glasses always slide like this when I'm happy!" (or whatever the line was).

The kids in Prince of Space were sorta dopey by comparison -- and Invasion of the Neptune Men even more so.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 01:41 (twenty years ago) link

I HAVEN'T SEEN THOSE.

By the way, when you come to PDX you had best have on you a dubbed copy of "Pumaman" with you as a present. (Or a DVD/computer file, that would be even better!)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 16 January 2004 01:48 (twenty years ago) link

Noted for reference, sweet lad.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 01:49 (twenty years ago) link

I love it when you talk vaguely dirty -- smudged, shall we say? -- I love it when you talk smudged to me.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 16 January 2004 01:50 (twenty years ago) link

Oh baby etc.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 01:51 (twenty years ago) link

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