End O' the year thoughts

The 2 best musicians I've had the pleasure of listening to:
David Grier
Fucking Julian Lage.

Holy shit can both of these guys play the guitar. Is the new holy trinity Lage-Vignola-Grier?
That pretty much covers it. Of course the "old" holy (totally made up, btw) trinity of Pass-Rice-Martino still fucking kicks it. This of course doesn't cover the Godhead of Wes and Grant. And if you are ever fortunate enough to get your mitts around anything written by Joe Venuti, then you should buy it immediately. That guy was HIGH-LARIOUS.

I HATE SHRIMP

There. I said it. FUCKING HATE em. Disgusting, pre-cambrian, slimy, sandy tasting, ASSHOLES.
FUCKING HATE HATE HATE SHRIMP.
Gross, ick, eww, period.
"Hello, top of the food chain?"
"Uhh, yeah?"
"I'm the bottom. Come suck on my testicle water"
"But you're a disgusting little alien looking thingy. Why the FUCK would I even THINK about putting you in my mouth?"
"because you will always cave into your most craven, horrible self loathing proclivities?"
"oh right...that"
"then shut the fuck up and put my spindly, salty ass in your piehole."
Shrimp. Fuck you. Salt Lake CITY!!? THAT WHOLE PLACE REEKS OF DEAD BRINE SHRIMP.


There are MILLIONS of people that live in the wafting, disodorous malfeasance that is Salt Lake.
FUCKING IDIOTS.

Hand carts, indeed.
Fuck even JERUSALEM isn't on the dead sea!
All because of Shrimp.

People wouldn't put up with that shit from bi-valves.

All Hail Eric Archer

And all hail the mighty DRONE COMMANDER

http://ericarcher.net/

Everything else he makes is also sick. FUCKING SUPPORT THIS GUY.

Art piece concept.

Sheepshank redemption! Maybe only algebraic topoligists will find this humorous..
I kind of want to do it all huge. The idea is it will be a series of sheepshank knots on the same piece of string, the first knot being kind of "correct", then they get more fucked up, and finally the last knot is close to "perfect". Is this a metaphor for life, or what? A series of fucked up situations in a continuous thread until it's close to perfect. Hmm...JUST LIKE FUCKING LIFE.
God my floor is dirty..
Also I want to do this with a GI-NORMOUS piece of rope. Throw in the whole working man angle, the struggle for survival, etc. I think I have something!


Oh, I also forget to mention that the sheepshank knot could be thought of as a metaphor for how most of us tend to compartmentalize our emotions about the past and try to isolate our perception of our pasts so we have a "clean view". Maybe it's just me, but when I remember the past, I have a tendency to only recall the better aspects. I isolate my negative feelings, but I still have a linear narrative that I think I recall. Thus the idea of shortening knot as metaphor for emotional compartmentalization. Thanks a lot, Andy Goldsworthy. I know you're mixed up in this somehow.

Tako Chips from Paldo World!

My new favorite flavor of puffed snack treats: OCTOPUS. Only 0.99!!

Micheal Gira/Angels of Light-We Are Him

I know, a very stupid reason to buy a CD is the artwork. Lo and Behold, this is a fucking great album. I've since gone and done some "pokin 'round" on the internets about Michael Gira, and before this disc I didn't know a goddamn thing about him.
I've since read some wildly varying reviews about the disc, but I have to say, this shit creeps me out. This is a "value added" purchase, in that unless you hang out with a bunch of art rock people from New York, I think most "normal" people will find this recording very scary. Of course I mean this all as high praise.
This is one of those rare CDs for me that when I first listened to it, I didn't know what the hell to think; or feel. Which in my case most of the time works out to be a recording I come to cherish very much. I could say more, but I can only recommend that you go find this, buy it, and listen to it. With lines like "your eyes are your holes where you suck in your need", I'm getting a feeling this is a keeper..
Also, the last Nels Cline record with the pics of the Hadron Collider on it is fucking fantastic. As usual. Go get that motherfucker too, and listen to where modern rock REALLY is.

Shuf, Shuf!

This is probably moronic, but I just had to publicly announce my severe admiration for Rachid Taha. That motherfucker rocks. Fucking Algerians. They're kind of insane. 'Tekitoi" and "Diwan" are 2 fan-motherfucking-tastic discs. Go get them. RIGHT NOW. I mean it. RIGHT. FUCKING. NOW.