For sipping only

Won't have to be broke for much longer.
Supposed to play Fallcore in Houston this weekend.
Worried about some friends.
Forming plans for Sungod again.
Registered for music classes next semester, it's beginning finally.
Love shines through like warm sunrays through blinds, heating stripes on your goosebumped chest.
Thank you Deadwood, Boardwalk Empire, Mad Men, Entourage, Futurama, Eastbound and Down.

Going to start Rubicon and Breaking Bad soon. I've only seen the first season of BB all the way through so I'm excited to say the least.


Ennio Morricone - Controfase
http://www.mediafire.com/?osimkkdnqfr

He's one of the best composers I've heard to date, and rightfully so. If you're a fan of any of his scores(which, if you like westerns, you definitely are) you'll enjoy this. Not as jangly with the guitar work but very liberal with keys and arrangements.

5ive Style - S/T
http://www.mediafire.com/?nymnlxo2onk

Funky instrumental chicago outfit. Heard it by accident, loving it though. Good "put on" music.


Group Bombino - Guitars from Agadez Vol.2
http://www.mediafire.com/?sxnbnl1ujgm

A rhythmic upheaval from the sublime frequencies label. If you like drums, funk or poppy eastern music..this is your thing.

Mike

Eleventy

I was Waylon Smithers for Halloween. I spilled some pumpkin soup on my pants the night of, though..so I had to improvise and be Richard Gere with fake blood all over. I went to some parties, specifically some weird forest party where I got off the ground.

I hope I'm not jinxing anything by saying I'm happy with who I've been around for the past week.

This weekend should be the shit, playing FunFunFun Fest on Saturday, so lots of cool food and free beer..then an afterparty with Scream at Red7. Hatred Surge and The Impalers...yowza.

Also yesterday whilst coming down I recorded some Dead C/Charalambides free noise type stuff with Braden..which we don't get to do very often. I don't know if we'll use it for anything but we'll definitely post it online.

Speaking of music:

Reigning Sound - Too Much Guitar
http://www.mediafire.com/?jzghmqfteiz

This record is a rocker. Jangly rock riffs and killer beats. It's LOUD, so make sure you act accordingly.

Sir Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Fragments
http://www.mediafire.com/?mzq4ygngnom

SRB is a master of his instrument, ever since his days in Sun City Girls. This is another foray into his very ethnic mix of guitar styles. Dude is a master.

Otherwise I have a lot of complaints. If someone wanted to give me some money I'd much appreciate it.

Til next.

Tempourment // Sitting Duck

Non-interpersonal love is something that goes unnoticed when referring to the word "love." What do you love? I feel like I rarely see people I know glowing at the thought of something happening unless it's social. Excited, sure, but not so much with an air of aloofness(aloofness?)..sitting above all the concerns and grievances of their day-to-day. Not that this is absent, but I don't think I see it enough. This may even apply for myself, didn't Jung suggest that observations are usually turned inward? Some old fuck did, I don't remember. Once there was an impression made of me where someone kept talking about their drums and how loud they are...So I'm guessing my "love" has definitely transferred itself publicly to others' knowledge. Among others..I have a fleeting love for film. It comes and goes.

I think I refer to passion too much as a gauge of worth rather than a point in someone's development. I don't care as much about the things I used to care about, and I care about things I didn't care about before. People changing is really the thing to get used to. Lately, some people close to me have undergone drastic changes(according to themselves) and I'm seeing the glow emerge once again. I want to live parallel to those I care about, if the stuff of life is change.

Bill Frisell w/Dave Holland & Elvin Jones

http://www.mediafire.com/?znzhkizntyy

^^Good guitar/jazz record. If you don't like Elvin Jones' drumming, you can pretty much stop saying you like drums around me. While he's not as wild as he was in his Impulse days on this record(came out like 9 years ago), he definitely holds his own. Frisell's guitar work is soothing and tense. If you like acoustic guitar, jazz or any of Frisell's work on Earth's Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull, get this.

Totalitar - Luftslott EP

http://www.mediafire.com/?5nwljmomnjt

^^Just some dbeat for yaz.

Can - Soon Over Babaluma

http://www.mediafire.com/?3kmilzjgyuw

^^

Even if you don't think you like krautrock, take a listen to these grooves and say you're not stoned.

Mike

Resonance

Played a house show Friday, haven't done that in a while. Was too good.

Dabbling in rye whiskey.

Pelt - Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
http://www.mediafire.com/?jntddzigyj0

This record is an old favorite. Kind of obvious, and it's definitely no Ayahuasca but it's beautiful natural drones from Jack Rose's old band Pelt. Listen for deep inner beauty.

Mississippi Fred Mcdowell - Steakbone Slide Guitar
http://www.mediafire.com/?c1mzmdgbnn2

Fred Mcdowell has become a new favorite of mine. Giving me insight to vocals and slide guitar that I didn't think possible. If you like this album check out I Do Not Play No Rock and Roll.

I've been recording with Sungod a little bit. Just demoing/fleshing out songs. It's going better than ever and Braden's engineering has only gotten cleaner and more rich.

I'll be up and down the west coast in January, which excites me. Some awesome weather and a good time to be out on tour. I had originally planned to go to Fairbanks, Alaska in January but that surprise plan got nixed. Regardless, I will be in great weather with most of my favorite people. There is no feeling bad about that.

Feel right.

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I've been having trouble saying what I mean. It's so frustrating. You can see the reactions people are giving and gauge every misunderstand you're putting across.

I found out yesterday that no one in my family, outside of some distant-to-me cousins, has graduated from college.

My problem with communication is hindering my ability to write. I know that I have songs and stories but I can only get so far. The jumble and mess of being in a house with 4 other people makes this a constant chore. I can barely hear myself think in my room. I can feel myself breaking apart.

I need to make myself alive. I live in the past and future when relatively the only controlled period is now. There's no argument or really even reason to mention that fact. Coming to grips with the other perceptions and areas of control in my life is proving to be so difficult. I'm trying to make myself selfless. I want to be able to only receive signals and respond to what others are seeing, due to an insensitivity that i've recognized in myself. I feel like keeping things to myself and only thinking of what I think is killing my connection with my life.

Unfortunately, I think being raised in a guilt-ridden environment doesn't help much. I don't want to feel like some dying explosion, burning less and less as time goes. Absorbing less and slowly growing darker and colder...

It feels that way, but I think it's just because new things are on the horizon. In the face of change, while I cower and become brittle on the inside, I adapt and become more myself.

been listening to:
Vic Chesnutt
Thee Silver Mt. Zion....
Miles Davis(first-retirement era stuff)
Lloyd Miller
Barn Owl
Spacemen 3
Sleep