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geinoh yamashirogumi // steven trull

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Stephen Trull and Zack Sternwalker prove that two wrongs do make a right in "You're Dust." So, while your mom and 2nd grade teacher were wrong, that doesn't mean they were right.

Two right angles make a goal post, almost. Wreck your car, take the bus - you'll thank me in the morning. Noo Journal 11 is way cool. I have a print version that Mike gave me and you can't have it. Sorry.

I have two stories up at this new online zine thing my buds are doing. It's like, fiction...

hauschka // guy pettit

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Guy Pettit "Archive Your Mistakes" in the brand new Noo Weekly.

Gag me with a spoon.

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philip glass // mark leidner

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Enjoyed this piece of literature by Mark Leidner.

Check out my new ebook, MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE via Pangur Ban Party.

Was gonna put up a new issue of hahaclever but hanging with Mike Young & his gf tonight and thus unable to do so because I was doing stuff earlier today and so I'm sorry or something. It's been a long time. Anyway.

I've decided to stop talking so much and just blog more music for book-reading-time more often.

Here goes something.

karl jenkins & mike ratledge // adriano celectano & luigi serafini

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This is a pretty strange/awesome synth-noodling album by two guys who played with Soft Machine. It's quite obscure and took me a while to find online. It's pretty low-key most of the time and I think you'll find it enjoyable for reading rainbow time, or really, anytime.

The song "Prisencolinensinainciusol" was a big hit in Italy. The composer - Italian singer, songwriter, comedian, actor, film director and TV host Adriano Celentano - said the song is about "incommunica...

hash jar tempo // saša stanišić

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Hash Jar Tempo was Roy Montgomery, who's from New Zealand, and the American band Bardo Pond. This album is called Well Oiled.

It's a great sort of droney-improv-stoner-rock-everything-is-awesome-and-dramatic kind of thing. The band name is a play on Ash Ra Temple, a group of late-great Krautrockers, which lends them some cred to begin with. The whole thing was recorded in a jam session.

Really liked this piece, "The Man With Two Heads" by Saša Stanišić over at Gigantic...

charlemagne palestine // georges bataille

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I read to this at least once or twice a week. It's just one track. I love it a whole lot.

Charlemagne Palestine is a genius. He usually performs surrounded by stuffed animals because when he was a child he thought they protected him from evil or something.

I've been working on an essay that involves him. I hope it makes it into McSweeney's someday and then you will all understand how great he is and how important children's toys are to how we comprehend the world.

I don...

atom™ // janey smith

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This album from German electronic artist Uwe Schmidt reminds me a little of Stockhausen, if Stockhausen had been around to hear the proliferation of auto-tuners and like, glitchy cellphone interference on a set of headphones.

I was rereading Jarry's Supermale to it the other day and it was quite enjoyable. I guess it could be distracting if you speak German but you probably don't.

Apparently, Schmidt is the father of electrolatino, electrogospel, and aciton (acid-reggae...

white rainbow // trinie dalton

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This album is totally incredible. Best reading album of 2009. Just kidding. I don't know. Who cares. It's very good though. White Rainbow is a newish band from Portland. They have other albums, but I've only heard this one, several times. I love it.

I first listened to the album on my flight back to Oakland while reading Sweet Tomb by Trinie Dalton, this awesome little book that I bought for my girlfriend at Domy Books in Austin, one of my favorite bookstores ever...

christmas music that doesn't totally suck // best of the best of the best lists of 2009

Since I hate Christmas music (generally), I decided to make a mix of that which I do like.
I excluded a lot of 'classics' on this, like punk novelties and Bing, etc., because I don't like them.


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Blake Butler's 25 Important Books of the 00s
Believe the hype.


Brian Foley's 25 Important Books of Poetry of the 00s
That's a mouthful.


Shane Jones's Top Fives of 2009
Will probably be deleted soon.


Christopher Higgs's Top Twenty Albums of 2009
Hella tight.

sack & blumm // gus visco

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I snagged this album via Chris Higgs' ridiculously awesome blog Bright Stupid Confetti, which, if you haven't seen it before, do yourself a massive favor and start following it. Or maybe you should do me a massive favor and start stalking Chris Higgs and try to find out where he finds all this awesome stuff and then let me know about it. That would be sweet. Chris updates his blog every Wednesday.

This Sack & Blumm album, brand new this year, is really something else....