http://www.interviewmagazine.com/blogs/culture/2009-04-09/nick-koenig/
for all those who don't like copying and pasting. Choice is important!
2009/04/10
2009/04/03
Lord Have Mercy
The team is all here again in Huelva, it's pretty magical, that is to say, magical things are happening.
Rafael Capo García Rodon
That's it.
I love Ten Years After, I know not everyone will, but the album WATT has taught me everything I ever needed to know about my life as an aspiring musician/pirate.
Lead singer/lead guitarists are cool, and Ten Years After has a great one.
'Gonna Run' is my personal favorite, but 'Think About The Times' is a close second.
TYA-W
Rafael Capo García Rodon
That's it.
I love Ten Years After, I know not everyone will, but the album WATT has taught me everything I ever needed to know about my life as an aspiring musician/pirate.
Lead singer/lead guitarists are cool, and Ten Years After has a great one.
'Gonna Run' is my personal favorite, but 'Think About The Times' is a close second.
TYA-W
2009/04/02
WEll Well Well
I am not a hiphop fan. I am not a rap fan. I am not sure of anything anymore. I don't care.
Here's Tupac's album that came after "All Eyez on Me", the one that most people don't have a copy of but have mix CDs, labeled with words like "Middle School Dance Party".
It's pretty pretty good. Why would I lie to you? AMG gives it 5 stars, I didn't know that.
2P-MATW
Here's Tupac's album that came after "All Eyez on Me", the one that most people don't have a copy of but have mix CDs, labeled with words like "Middle School Dance Party".
It's pretty pretty good. Why would I lie to you? AMG gives it 5 stars, I didn't know that.
2P-MATW
2009/04/01
Working Out
Basketball is the best form of meditation available as things currently stand in this industrial hovel in the dirtball dirty south of Spain. Slovenia is producing 3/4's at an astonishing pace. I have noone to talk to about Tom Tolbert blowing dunks on the Magic nor Bill Walton having a conversation with Greg Oden after three swishers and a gravity bong built by Nate.
The Kinks wanted to make a movie, and why not? The idea was that they could base it loosely on real events, and somehow incorporate Australia. You can read about it anywhere but here. So, by that logic, they made a soundtrack to the movie before they could secure the funds for shooting the darn thing. The "concept" album that emerged has some elements to it that I am highly fond of; they turn the drums up and let loose on a few tracks as well as including horns in a totally distinct manner, vis-a-vis "Muswell Hillbillies" or "Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, part one"
They called it Arthur.
TK-AOTDOTBE
Graham Chapman rest in peace, 20 years that's fucking crazy.
The Kinks wanted to make a movie, and why not? The idea was that they could base it loosely on real events, and somehow incorporate Australia. You can read about it anywhere but here. So, by that logic, they made a soundtrack to the movie before they could secure the funds for shooting the darn thing. The "concept" album that emerged has some elements to it that I am highly fond of; they turn the drums up and let loose on a few tracks as well as including horns in a totally distinct manner, vis-a-vis "Muswell Hillbillies" or "Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, part one"
They called it Arthur.
TK-AOTDOTBE
Graham Chapman rest in peace, 20 years that's fucking crazy.
2009/03/31
Speaker Wire
This basically explains everything, I think.
Tom Robbins is a rollicking good time for this reader when he's under the influence of small town spanish isolation.
Listen to TAKSTAR, he actually has something to say; at least the message reads loud and clear when amplified.
Keep living, start breathing with some vigor.
2009/03/30
Morning Wake Up
I don't want to go to work. I'm petrified, sitting stone-faced in a cafeteria with headphones on.
New Jersey Nets Basketball is once again dismal and lottery bound.
Do I have wisdom teeth coming in at 22?
Berlin gaga is all exciting, I hope I can actually muster up the courage to go to work.
New Jersey Nets Basketball is once again dismal and lottery bound.
Do I have wisdom teeth coming in at 22?
Berlin gaga is all exciting, I hope I can actually muster up the courage to go to work.
2009/03/29
2009/03/28
Two Things
R. Kelly's "I Wish" remains atop my most played songs that I don't have in my iTunes.
Watch here, now that it is unembeddable.
Dick Cavett blogs movingly over his love affair with magic.
Watch here, now that it is unembeddable.
Dick Cavett blogs movingly over his love affair with magic.
2009/03/26
Voglio
I am in love, yes yes yes yes, love.
It's perhaps a young love, but that's ooooook.
Naivete is a friend in this day and age of cynicism.
Here's the third Make Believe LP: Going to the Bone Church
People are SLAMMING Jim Cramer, can you blame them? Populist RAGE!!!! Soon the government will have to outlaw ragehol...
MB-GTTBC
It's perhaps a young love, but that's ooooook.
Naivete is a friend in this day and age of cynicism.
Here's the third Make Believe LP: Going to the Bone Church
People are SLAMMING Jim Cramer, can you blame them? Populist RAGE!!!! Soon the government will have to outlaw ragehol...
MB-GTTBC
Some things
time is not passing slowly here in Andalucía, even if it is the tendency of the people to move like molasses on the streets. Good news is that Tocaya is back together and better than ever. Bad news is that I have to keep hearing these same shitty Spanish pop songs whenever I access internet, but headphones in a coffee shop is kind of rude, no? I'll try next time when I come in the morning here...
I can't stop listening to Bob Dylan's "Idiot Wind"; some of the lyrics aren't his best, (or are they?) but the chord progression is so awesome to jam along with. Also the organ on the version I have is absolute wrenching; I read once that there are two versions of Blood on The Tracks, one with NY session players and one with a band from Minnesota. What is it about the great lake state that produces so many fine American musicians; Zimmerman himself and Prince to name a few (I'm including Morris Day over The Hold Steady, and probably ignorant of a slathering of other top notch artists, but oh well)
I also have been listening to a lot of Nick Drake. I read his biography over last summer on a chance discovery at Raven Books in Harvard Square area up in Cambridge, Mass. His usage of so-called open tunings, and the really austere, but moving arrangements of his songs are almost as powerful as the bass lines of the random Daddy Yankee song that currently thumps on the television here in Lyceo, the wifi spot.
ND-FLL
I can't stop listening to Bob Dylan's "Idiot Wind"; some of the lyrics aren't his best, (or are they?) but the chord progression is so awesome to jam along with. Also the organ on the version I have is absolute wrenching; I read once that there are two versions of Blood on The Tracks, one with NY session players and one with a band from Minnesota. What is it about the great lake state that produces so many fine American musicians; Zimmerman himself and Prince to name a few (I'm including Morris Day over The Hold Steady, and probably ignorant of a slathering of other top notch artists, but oh well)
I also have been listening to a lot of Nick Drake. I read his biography over last summer on a chance discovery at Raven Books in Harvard Square area up in Cambridge, Mass. His usage of so-called open tunings, and the really austere, but moving arrangements of his songs are almost as powerful as the bass lines of the random Daddy Yankee song that currently thumps on the television here in Lyceo, the wifi spot.
ND-FLL
2009/03/25
Like Blagojevich
HOw long does it take for something to become "un-newsworthy"; I was reading about the Wire recently and there is a part when Mcnulty loses it because his fake story gets put in the middle of the paper instead of on the front page; so, perhaps there are degrees to one's newsworthiness.
Corruption charges tend to loom long after the initial damage has been done. Nothing seemed more farcical in the wake of a looming economic crisis than the proceedings in Springfield/Chicago Illinois with the Governor Rod.
Matters not, it matters not!
Some light reading on the topic of existence, or maybe existenz. I JUST DON'T KNOW ANYMORE!
So, a friend recently referred to the Mean as the meh, but I think everyone should take a listen to the full length that is available for streaming and decide whether or not this band is doing something really great.
Now, the first Make Believe LP, I believe; Shock of Being. The first time I heard "One Zero"; I was overwhelmed with thoughts and a bit of confusion, after 50+ listens I know that this band is official. Their bass player had to learn on the fly, the drummer omits a hi-hat in favor of a stationary tambourine, while playing some snaking, quaking keyboard lines with a free hand. I could sing this band's praises for days, but instead just grab this and hear something yourself.
Personal comment of the day: I miss everybody back in the States more and more and more and more everyday; the return will be glorious, for there can be no glory without war, this is our unsavory condition.
Is it cold back in Ohio? Is it cold back East? It's unseasonably cold here in Smellva; which makes me want to head for the hills once more and sleep in a warmer, albeit smaller bed.
MB-SOB
I just broke a chair by sitting on it and concentrating, my power is growing...
Corruption charges tend to loom long after the initial damage has been done. Nothing seemed more farcical in the wake of a looming economic crisis than the proceedings in Springfield/Chicago Illinois with the Governor Rod.
Matters not, it matters not!
Some light reading on the topic of existence, or maybe existenz. I JUST DON'T KNOW ANYMORE!
So, a friend recently referred to the Mean as the meh, but I think everyone should take a listen to the full length that is available for streaming and decide whether or not this band is doing something really great.
Now, the first Make Believe LP, I believe; Shock of Being. The first time I heard "One Zero"; I was overwhelmed with thoughts and a bit of confusion, after 50+ listens I know that this band is official. Their bass player had to learn on the fly, the drummer omits a hi-hat in favor of a stationary tambourine, while playing some snaking, quaking keyboard lines with a free hand. I could sing this band's praises for days, but instead just grab this and hear something yourself.
Personal comment of the day: I miss everybody back in the States more and more and more and more everyday; the return will be glorious, for there can be no glory without war, this is our unsavory condition.
Is it cold back in Ohio? Is it cold back East? It's unseasonably cold here in Smellva; which makes me want to head for the hills once more and sleep in a warmer, albeit smaller bed.
MB-SOB
I just broke a chair by sitting on it and concentrating, my power is growing...
Gimme Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
I am always sold on a band when they can make me feel something exciting. Morphine's snaking bass-lines, eruptive saxophone and hypnotic vocals combine for a really interesting listen.
Thanks to el gato negro for this lovely possibility
M-G
Thanks to el gato negro for this lovely possibility
M-G
2009/03/24
Writhing in Agony
There might be a music video in the works for some stuff I made.
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolfe?
Ok, enough sputtering. There will be plenty of music to come in the near future as well as some PDF, printable, files of texts that are deemed of interest by yours truly. Maybe Sam Newhouse will help, maybe this is the first he's heard of it, I'll wait and see if he responds.
Tarentino's face is plastered all over Dewar's ads here in Huelva, along with Clive Owen; ok...
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolfe?
Ok, enough sputtering. There will be plenty of music to come in the near future as well as some PDF, printable, files of texts that are deemed of interest by yours truly. Maybe Sam Newhouse will help, maybe this is the first he's heard of it, I'll wait and see if he responds.
Tarentino's face is plastered all over Dewar's ads here in Huelva, along with Clive Owen; ok...
2009/03/18
Son
Let the record state, that when I had the chance to go pursue love over logic and reaso/the mundane day to day of buttfuck Spain, that I made the easiest decision of my life. Goddamn, it's been an incredible 5 day weekend; never felt more productive or happier with how I spent my time. Now I'm off to Olive Country, to seek my fortune in turning pits in to some kind of device for sustainable energy, same goes for Orange rinds in Valencia.
I just finished a butt ton of tracks, but I've got to finalize them before they can be consumed for general purposes. Two thoughts on that:
1) Knee Jerk-Reactions are never voluntary.
2) I am learning the limitations of the human vocal chords, slowly but surely.
Anyways, why not some spicy pub jazz to compliment that Kinks record that you're no doubt putting on heavy rotation? Squirrel Nut Zippers are a lovely one-hit wonder with the single "Hell" off the album "Hot": all DMX/Earl Simmons comparisons begin and end here, save for the possibility of the worst kind of mash-up.
SNZ-H
My only other thought, before I run for the hills, is that class conflict might become en vogue again; like someone doing a cover of Pulp's "Common People" and not remembering that Shatner fucking KILLED IT (Ben Folds on production).
I just finished a butt ton of tracks, but I've got to finalize them before they can be consumed for general purposes. Two thoughts on that:
1) Knee Jerk-Reactions are never voluntary.
2) I am learning the limitations of the human vocal chords, slowly but surely.
Anyways, why not some spicy pub jazz to compliment that Kinks record that you're no doubt putting on heavy rotation? Squirrel Nut Zippers are a lovely one-hit wonder with the single "Hell" off the album "Hot": all DMX/Earl Simmons comparisons begin and end here, save for the possibility of the worst kind of mash-up.
SNZ-H
My only other thought, before I run for the hills, is that class conflict might become en vogue again; like someone doing a cover of Pulp's "Common People" and not remembering that Shatner fucking KILLED IT (Ben Folds on production).
2009/03/17
Smuse
I have this feeling I completely missed St. Patrick's Day; well at least the drinking portion, I was festooned in the finest green I could find last minute.
You know who looked Irish? Elliott Smith. He also had a thing for quiet, trembling melodies and the occasional gutty guitar hook that has won me over since I was introduced to his music through "The Royal Tenenbaums" scene that always makes me cry.
His last album, released posthumously, that wasn't titled "New Moon" or whatever the fuck that was, came to be known as Songs From a Basement on a Hill. It was supposedly going to be his "White" Album, that was 2006. Crazy to think that Heatmiser's Mic City Sons came out in 1994! 12 years is a serious grind when you're writing music like that guy; in reality he was really incredibly prolific. So, I'll pay tribute, one way or the other, and hope someone finds something in at least one of these tracks.
ES-FABOAH
You know who looked Irish? Elliott Smith. He also had a thing for quiet, trembling melodies and the occasional gutty guitar hook that has won me over since I was introduced to his music through "The Royal Tenenbaums" scene that always makes me cry.
His last album, released posthumously, that wasn't titled "New Moon" or whatever the fuck that was, came to be known as Songs From a Basement on a Hill. It was supposedly going to be his "White" Album, that was 2006. Crazy to think that Heatmiser's Mic City Sons came out in 1994! 12 years is a serious grind when you're writing music like that guy; in reality he was really incredibly prolific. So, I'll pay tribute, one way or the other, and hope someone finds something in at least one of these tracks.
ES-FABOAH
2009/03/16
is Jeff Lynne a rock legend?
The guy behind ELO, The Traveling Wilburys (he played bass/spent a good number of hours removing George Harrison's then-greying pubic hair from his teeth)and a handful of other projects that I don't know dick about, is producing Regina Spektor's new long-play record. Well, he's been around the block, but his production has never been something i think back too fondly of. Spektor has undeniable talent; that voice, oh my the voice, and the piano skills to compliment it all. She has changed sounds on every album; the dark, dirty "Soviet Kitsch" the foray in to pop/dreamy love songs that we call "Begin to Hope" and probably some other shit.
Ben Folds Feat. Regina Spektor-You Don't Know Me
Sumthin i read on pitchfork that made me write the above.
Ben Folds Feat. Regina Spektor-You Don't Know Me
Sumthin i read on pitchfork that made me write the above.
Farley
Ok, so there is at least one person studying/teaching abroad who has to look exactly like Chris Farley; I think I found her.
While we're on the topic, did you know the Farley family made serious bank up in Wisconsin in the pavement business.
NYT front page is blabbing about 27.5 billion for road construction crews, the country over. I wonder who gets the money in Wisconsin...
While we're on the topic, did you know the Farley family made serious bank up in Wisconsin in the pavement business.
NYT front page is blabbing about 27.5 billion for road construction crews, the country over. I wonder who gets the money in Wisconsin...
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