“ When I saw how the head separated from the body, and each separately rattled into its crate, I understood— not in my mind, but my whole being— that no theory of the good sense of Progress, and What Is, can justify this crime, and that if all the people in the world, on whatever theory, from the beginning of the world, should find it necessary— I still knew that it was not necessary but bad. Therefore the judge of what is good and necessary is not what people do and say, and not Progress, but I in my own heart.
Leo Tolstoy, Confession
EL ORÅCULO DEL SAN GENNARO
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SUMMON ST. JANUARIUS
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Yep, I’m on tour—- four weeks with the ambient assault team ECSTATIC SUNSHINE. It’s been what? 2 years since I touched both coasts? Feels kinda like my first tour ever— I haven’t really kicked it with the post-Tom brave new world of “underground” music, all the new bands are different, and the audiences, too, right? I mean, this might sound melodramatic or insecure or something but it has crossed my mind many times in the last year: is there still a place for me here? “Here” being the world of shows, I guess. You know what I mean.
4/18 = BROOKLYN NY @ MARKET HOTEL w/ HIGH PLACES, ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
4/20 = BARD COLLEGE @ SMOG w/ HIGH PLACES, ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
4/21 = SOMERVILLE MA @ PA’S LOUNGE w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
4/22 = BUFFALO NY @ SOUNDLAB w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
4/23 = DETROIT MI @ SCRUMMAGE w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE, FUTURE ISLANDS
4/25 = APPLETON WI @ LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
4/26 = CHICAGO IL @ SOUTH UNION ARTS w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
4/27 = MINNEAPOLIS @ TRIPLE ROCK w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
4/28 = SAINT LOUIS MO @ LEMP ARTS w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
4/29 = TBA
4/30 = DENVER CO @ RHINOCEROPOLIS w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE, PICTURE PLANE, TEMPLES
5/2 = BOISE @ 406 O’FARREL ST w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
5/3 = PORTLAND OR @ BACKSPACE w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
5/5 = SAN FRANCISCO CA @ ATA w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE, WALT DISNEY, NAKED ON THE VAGUE
5/6 = OAKLAND CA @ MAMA BUZZ CAFE w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
5/7 = LOS ANGELES CA @ THE ECHO w/ BARR, ECSTATIC SUNSHINE, ABE VIGODA
5/8 = PHOENIX AZ @ MODIFIED ARTS w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
5/9 = ALBUQUERQUE NM @ HIGH MAYHEM w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
5/10 = LUBBOCK TX @ KTXT w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
5/11 = AUSTIN TX @ THE MOHAWK w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
5/12 = DALLAS TX @ KETTLE ART w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
5/13 = FAYETTEVILLE AR @ KXUA w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
5/14 = KNOXVILLE TN @ PILOT LIGHT w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
5/15 = ATHENS GA @ CALEDONIA LOUNGE w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
5/16 = TBA
5/17 = WASHINGTON DC @ COMET’S PING PONG w/ ECSTATIC SUNSHINE, TICKELY FEATHER
Haha, so parse that if you wanna come hang out with me. Or like google it up, other sites maybe wrote it more legibly.
I’m planning on playing my cathartic new “Welcome to Camp Echo” set every night, an aural IRFing located at the intersection of Burial, Burzum, and Ba’al timor.orga sms
So I signed up for twitter a long-ass time ago and did it for like a week or two and then I was all like “uh ok but why?” and I stopped.
But then at some point last night—- after the two average-looking ivy leaguers began a 30min+ exploration of first and second base against 3 feet from where I was sitting and chatting with ES & High Places, but before I realized that the reason one of the security guards kept “lu-lu-lu”ing whenever I walked past was because he thought I was Muslim— I though “oh shit THIS is what Twitter was invented for— live tourblargh!#asdfasdfd!!11”
I mean, Warren’s team seem to take it seriously, right?
Anyway: here.
Yeah so let’s see how this goes eh? I should probably google it up right now and find out if anybody else has tourblargh!asdfasdfd!!11ed like this before but I bet you will just email me and tell me after you read this if there’s anything to tell.
write em all, let god sort em out
war of different wizards pt 2
The desecrators want to speak to their fellow countrymen and suspect that they won’t be heard unless they use something people are already familiar with as a jumping-off point. They are impatient, anxious about a rising tide of wasteful/toxic media that confuses and divides, and they feel personally offended by the inane products of companies locked in a tunnelvision pursuit of wealth. They see productivity and greed marching hand in hand and begin to consider producing something wholly original as being a luxury that will have to wait until the field is cleared of clutter and garbage. They aspire not to create but to destroy.
The biters are even more impatient and anxious but they think acknowledging these feelings is weak. Instead they channel the anxiety into a spirit of competition (reaction formation). They are either part of an organization or aspire to be, so they are able to remove themselves from the act of creation. They do not see the difference between desecrating something and imitating it. Their acts of creation are guided primarily by “models” and anything which is too difficult to define or measure is expunged from the process. Focusing on the experience of an individual during the act of creating is seen as extreme underachieving— one must focus on composites of hypothetical individuals. Groups create for groups, but ultimately everything in this world must be experienced on the individual level, which makes biter art worthless except as a momentary distraction or a point of reference. And so the biters must work faster and harder, must seize upon the right models before their competitors do, must be ready with another product as soon as their previous one is wadded up and tossed in the bin.
The more the biters bite, the more the desecrators desecrate, and vice versa as each side uses the other’s output as inspiration/excuse to diminish their expectations of originality even further, until all movies are remakes, all songs are covers, all concerts are recitals, biters begin to bite their own bittens, and distinguishing desecrators from their sworn enemies requires more effort than it would take to actually make something unencumbered and original on one’s own…
Perhaps the lesson to be learned is that making art should be left to psychos and visionaries instead of being a way for big cliques of little bourgee bastards to avoid doing manual labor. Maybe we have already decided this on some of level of the collective unconcious… maybe that’s the reason fakeass artists can’t sell as many millions CDs as they could ten years ago and their bosses are shitting all those bricks.
“ They gave him two jars full of flies. One of the jars they overfed, the other jar they underfed. The one they overfed flourished for a while, then all the flies died from overpopulation. The one they underfed had most of the flies survive all year. I guess there’s a message in there somewhere. Evidently that experiment had a big impact on Jerry.
Layne Staley
4.2
I adore ______ism, don’t get me wrong, but ______ism is just a ruler. It’s a great ruler— far more accurate than most other rulers, for sure, and I would never want to build anything without having it close at hand…
But see, that’s kinda the thing—- when it’s time to really build, you have to put ______ism down. You have to put down the ruler so you can pick up other tools, the hammer and the nails and all that. I mean, you save the measurements you’ve taken, write them down and keep them in mind— especially when drawing up any specific plans. But it’s pretty much impossible to build anything grand if you get too focused on your ruler and start thinking it’s the only tool you need.