Friday, June 6, 2008

Seizures

Some things I am working on, that are in progress - if I put these up here, maybe I'll actually finish them / follow through.

Portraits of Past NYC shows, posters, fliers.
prints.
Brief History on The Frankfurt School.
update "Take Care" - I had specific points that I haven't made yet, but I keep forgetting to add them.
Map
Essay on Love, Eros, etc.
Morrow bio & one-sheet
specific photographs.
continue genealogy study - I found out that I also have French ancestry, which you can imagine I was a little surprised, and made the last of my French jokes, and even began studying the language a bit.
(etc)
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funny thing I've noticed, is when I HAVE to be somewhere, that moment when it's passed time for me to leave is when I'm most inspired to create something new. Sometimes I give in, just for a second, to see what comes out. Generally it's something I'm way excited about and want to follow this path to see where it takes me, and this makes me late, or not go to where I was supposed to be. It's something I need to keep an eye on. Is it coincidence, am I just drawing these parallels?
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The VSS has reissued Nervous Circuits on CD, and I hope it finds a new audience. It comes with a DVD and a limited edition bonus CD. The album was way ahead of it's time, and wished I had discovered them just a few months earlier so I could have caught them on their tour. Nothing too noticeable in the re-mastering. The packaging and layout is a bit more expansive, with more photos, and a brief history of the band/album. The DVD is actually decent considering the footage is over 10 years old and from multiple generation vhs tapes. Also included on the DVD are some fliers and more photographs. The limited bonus CD includes their amazing cover of Echo and the Bunnymen's No Hands that was originally released on the double split 7" with Rye Coalition (though the remix of In Miniature is not included) as well as some other previously unreleased songs, and a live radio show they played at Santa Cruz.
The live sets, on the DVD and CD, include songs they didn't get around to recording, so even if you have all their records on vinyl, it's worth picking up. And of course, the family tree of this band is impressive: Angel Hair, Pleasure Forever, Year Future, Red Sparrows (etc).
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in response to questions about time, via Baudelaire:
"Souviens-toi que le Temps est us joueur avide
Qui gagne sans tricher å tout coup! c'est la loi!"
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