one of the most intense , musically diverse, and unique bands ever.
and with Stuart Staples.. one of the most distinctive vocalist. ..you’ll ever hear…bar none.
I got hooked on their “2nd” LP..from 95′..
(ck..”travelling light”..”my sister”..”she’s gone”..).
a world and vision of their own..nice to be able to partake of same.
enjoy.

“Did a Taylor ever make real money?”

A page out of Buckminster Fuller’s journal, on display at the The Whitney museum in NYC, part of an exhibition documenting the genius of Fuller :: Starting With The Universe

here ya go..
Joe Ely.
Genius.
saw him years ago when he opened for The Clash..
Not so far removed..
a hero to Joe Strummer, and a fine fucking Outlaw Musician,
and Lyricist..
“yeah me and Billy the Kid,
we never did get along,
I didn’t like the way he cocked his hat..
and he wore his gun all wrong..”
and then it’s downhill for […]

Brought to you by the McCain campaign.

Real interesting moment in this campaign right now. Here you have this Obama guy hopping around the globe, looking more like America’s President than ’still’ President Bush, while at the same time there’s John McCain, back at home twiddling his thumbs in slightly less impressive photo-ops.
If Americans vote on awesomeness (which they […]

from 1995..a seeminly strange pairing…
but as Capt. Beefheart once said:
“right,right…just dig it”

Ms. Smith has a striking new release out. It’s called The Coral Sea and stands as audio documentation of two separate live performances she did in collaboration with My Bloody Valentine guitarist Kevin Shields. Named and inspired from Smith’s 1996 book The Coral Sea, the performances served as tributes to the late artist […]

Sean Tevis is from Kansas who decided he was done being represented by a crazy state rep, an anti-abortion, anti-evolution, pro-censorship, pro-surveillance, anti-gay incumbent.  So he decided he’d run against him to take him out.  He’s running a sweet internet campaign right now to basically raise enough money on the internet to swamp his oppenents.  […]

I went and saw this film the day it came out, on a lark really. I had been outside the US the previous month and consequently missed any marketing of the film. But it looked neat, I enjoy animation, and had time to kill… the perfect storm.
And what a film it was. […]

The somewhat recently passed Terence McKenna..
lays down a few a few thoughts to help inspire your day,
if not your life.