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does anyone know anything about this??
http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/175036?wrKey=A8EC2CDEC9B030891CD68A43FF6F1B32

"royal trux" performing twin infinitives in brooklyn???? seems... bizarre.

AUTO DA FE is the only SPK record I have and the b side is great, same raw, harsh, and angry. Once I played Walking On Dead Steps in a club, best way to clear the floor.

Haven't a lot of 90's bands been playing the best or most favored record live? I would think Royal Trux is to F@#K You for that but money.

they've already sorted it out on the ILM Royal Trux thread, seems like it's NMH and 3 other guys.

How did you guys on the east coast weather the storm? hope your records stayed dry!

eerything is a-ok here. the store stayed dry. we never even lost power in our neighborhood, just hung out and watched a lot of crappy tv. ate a lot of bagels. hoping to go out for a walk a bit today just to get out.

That's great news!

A buddy of mine plays on the Arian Sample record (re:Robyn Nice)

The cover of the Arian Sample record is what caught my attention, plain white with the name stamped in the corner. Looks cool! Do you know what the music sounds like? I heard it described as psych folk, but what does that mean anymore?

He actually sent me a copy! It's pretty spare stuff. Honestly, the guys lyrics and voice kind of turn me off on that one. It kind of sounds like Jandek, tbh, but a little bit less uh raw, I guess? I prefer the Terry lp "Rojvi" and the Jim Collins and the High Mass record, iirc.

re: Sandy--incredible winds that shook the whole place. eerie. i was a wreck all day; we have a huge tree just feet from our house. luckily the tree held fast, and all is well!

btw, eyes peeled for WFMU info/updates; hoping to go on saturday.

Glad to hear folks are safe from the storm, of course. All the photos are super freaky.

yeah, good luck east coasters! sounds like the worst is over now. my uncle got 50 inches of snow in West Virginia!

FIFTY?

I know!

i think my east coast childhood taught me that 1" of rain ~ 1' of snow right?

no WFMU. saddest of the cancellations.

no word on a reschedule either.

Listening to Arian Sample again. It's all acoustic guitar downer folk songs with electric guitar accompaniment. Heavy on atmosphere, but you can tell it was made in a hurry. I compared it to Jandek, which does seem ridiculous in retrospect. It sounds a little bit like someone making something they maybe think sounds like Jandek. Oh a synth just entered the picture...

It's definitely a huge downer, tho.

I'd liked to hear this guy, I guess I'll try slsk , I can't bring myself to spend $100+ on it when I could get this
http://mobile.collectorsfrenzy.com/gallery/290463457175.jpg
or
http://www.goldminemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/AO1.gif

Moving to Paris TX today for work and couldn't bring my record players, no records for awhile, but will be digging.

they'll sound even better when you finally get them home. maria and i drove across the country years ago and i bought tons of stuff and just looked at it in hotel rooms the whole trip. so nice when i finally got back home and could play it all.

if you were a carpenter, you could make this super cool desk
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdi46b6Szr1rtmp17o1_500.jpg

very nice

It should please almost anyone, that!

hi i robbed a guy...

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/music/rare-robert-johnson-record-turns-up-at-jerrys-records-662343/

"i will never bring my records to that guy, he's just gonna rip me off!" -every old person in pittsburgh

alternately,
"i knew that SOB underpaid me for my sinatra!"

ok YEAH darkness and grey days here in oakland + holiday-season-overwhelm = total insane-o in the brain-o. let's use this spot for being happy and excited about records!

this year, i joined the w@xidermy holiday swap, and i sent this stuff to my dude, who wanted new agey and ethno stuff:
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Nomades-Du-Niger-Musique-Des-Touareg-Musique-Des-Bororo/release/2262424
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Arm%C3%A9nie-Musique-Instrumentale/release/2253699
http://www.discogs.com/Jordan-De-La-Sierra-Gymnosphere-Song-Of-The-Rose/release/2584750
http://www.discogs.com/Charles-Lloyd-Pathless-Path/release/628411

i hope i get cool stuff in return! i told the organizer i was looking for "Spiritual jazz LP's, avant garde (but not so much garage-psych) 60's-70's LP's, BLUE NOTE LP's, 2nd tier krautrock LP's, the artsy-fartsy end of loner/acoustic gtr nonsense, and MAYBE MAYBE 45's to help me start to learn basically anything about 45's (esp soulful funky soul-funk?), but only if swappers are overloaded on 45's to give."

in retrospect, im regretting mentioning 45's.

wow you sent 4 records?! i thought it was a one-for-one type of thing. good luck!

i took a pile of records and cds in to Weirdo and got such a good deal in trade. my plan is to slowly offload. give back to the people of Cambridge. i have too much.

i think it's flexible for # and format of gifts, but i aimed to stay in the $75-150 range, as that was described to me as the norm...

Happy Holidays ilv!

WELC)OME BACK JACOB! Happy baby's first christmas!

dudes, i'm listening to the best stuff. plus home alone stoned. tomorrow is the only day off i've had in december.

dinner in two hours, which will include meeting my older daughter's boyfriend, lead singer of a local metal band. fun times.

we got to kick it w my lil niece today for xmas morning and hanging this evening w annie's fam. so fun so far!

love you guys!

I've missed you guys, been too tired to open my laptop for weeks, work has been grueling. Been listening to a lot of music on my drive to and from work, George Jones and Lefty. Nick DeCaro's Italian Graffiti was a recent discovery, such a nice record. Hope you guys enjoyed your holidays.

slept in til noon,
opened gifts with helen (comics, alan lomax edited songbook [so i can learn to play old-time music on guitar], darth vader pajamas, vintage star wars drinking glasses, lord of the rings trivia game, some t-shirts)
went out to junior's (downtown brooklyn deli/cheesecake institution) for lunch
came home and relaxed, read a book and slept for half an hour.
chinatown veggie dim sum with a couple good friends.
2nd parat of the fanny and alexander long-form tv version

bourbon

kittens

feet up at annie's grandma's place after tight roast beef dinner w her uncles and aunts and cousins in pasadena. headin down towards temecula to see an oakland friend in her home town, then to palm springs for a couple nights, where ill be able to jam these records (and god please please please get a friend-of-friend discount so i can afford to buy records in january) at the LOL ace hotel.

all in all, including langer's pastrami and a chance to hang w the cutest lil kid of all, a pretty sick lil christmas.

silent night holy shit

oh ian btw -- we went to gimme gimme yesterday in LA and were chatting the guy there (not the guy i know, i guess it was the other/actual owner?), and dude puts on DRIFTIN WAY OF LIFE and annie and i cheered and stayed through ramblin scramblin. it was a kind of dark part of the long xmas shopping day yesterday, and JJW felt like divine intervention.

Laurie and I ate wild goose last night, so freaking good. we cooked two in red wine, our friends cooked the other two in white. Tons of good wine, side dishes, dessert. Happy holidays, y'all.

gimme gimme is a great place to score country rock records but sometimes his prices are wack. i like him a lot as a dude tho.
joe is moving out there next month.

i never noticed there was an open break on the charley d and milo record.

Last day at my gf's in Albuquerque and I really don't feel like going back home or to work. We spent Christmas eve in Santa Fe, went for a walk to find something to eat and it started snowing. It's been a lovely lovely week.

Funny Discogs dealers dissing each other in their listings..

http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=2841306&ev=rb

love to see more of these if anyone's seen them...

haha that's pretty good.