I’ll Be Damned, I’m Playing Some Shows
Two of them: at home this coming Sunday, June 5, at the Bug Jar in Rochester, and the next night, Monday, June 6, at Mohawk Place in Buffalo; you’ll wanna check with the venues for set times and whatnot, as I sure as hell can’t tell you. Both shows are with Manishevitz alumni Sonoi, from Chicago. Manishevitz toured with the Mountain Goats a few years ago and they were great in a kind of Televisionesque odd interesting guitar rock way; from what I’ve heard Sonoi starts there and gets kinda kinda ambient and droney with it. Me, I’ll be playing synthpop songs about Juan Manuel Fangio. Exclusively. Because that is what I do now.
Almost All the Popular Songs Are About Love
Giants of the 20th Century, anyone? Definitive, transcendent artists? You got your Picassos, your Nabokovs, your Bergmans. I like Joe Frank (wiki; web site; partial RealAudio archive).
Here’s an excerpt from a 2000 program, Karma, Part 6, that came up on the ipod the other day and, in its mordant humor, hints at the nature of his larger project. It’s also clear from this that Joe Frank has never heard Furniture Huschle.
Hello 21st Century
Your eyes do not deceive you. Long-neglected, hopelessly obsolete, Web 0.0 fivetools.com has been dragged kicking and screaming into the future. Or at the very least, into the present. That counts for something, right?
All of your old favorite content resides to the right, with all its original urlage, links preserved. (Most of them, anyway. I’m using bandcamp now to host the PPH stuff and will migrate the DiskothiQ stuff over there too eventually. Just seems easier, and better.) But now you can also subscribe (!) to a feed (!!!) and stay abreast of regularly added new content (exclamation points to infinity). So please do. Subscribe, I mean. Figuring out how to make WordPress do what I wanted it to was a pain in the ass.
