by magic fucking chance a random playlist out of my old server is playing right now ULTRAVOX's "hiroshima mon amour" which sounds like a mongrel child of kraftwerk and david bowie with a bad saxophone-- part terrible, part not terrible at all. i think some of it can be rescued.

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yeah man that shame is the big killer. not a sense of shame, which is the healthy notion that we're neither omnipotent nor all-knowing, but the toxic shame that sez something is wrong with your being.

that shame will find an excuse to try to kill you with whatever tools at hand. it's your age today, it will be something else another day. too many miserable overachievers spend their life trying to shake that feeling away by being the greatest little boys ever. and they never can because that's not the way. it's the same feeling that drives most addicts.

don't let the fascism of [performance = love] get in the way of you iving your life with some fundamental peace and joy. which is your human right.

puke that poison. puke it!

now with your pardon i will go enjoy an evening of wine-drinking and fantastic underachieving with the people who love me for who i am-- yes, those people. poor things! i love them too. not much else required in life, really.

well, have fun now. now!

shostakovich symphony no. 10 in e minor. it's fucking awesome.

My comment wasn't a snide remark at gmku's age, I was just observing that Steely Dan are the sort of band appreciated by people who have been around for long enough to remember who they are. You're such a bunch of over-emotional pricks. Nevermind, nothing new there.

I'm listening to a bunch of songs by Home Blitz and JT IV.

Curious way to put it, considering "Steely Dan" was originally a strap-on dildo in Burroughs' Naked Lunch...

Severian is a strap-on dildo in Burroughs' Naked Lunch...

WE KNEW THAT ALREADY.

i was listening to some jim o'rourke that sounds like a rework of pink floyd's great gig in the sky. ill explain this later.

"Ultravox is a band too fundamentally uninteresting for anybody to save". —Lester Bangs, on Brian Eno's production on some of the group's songs. :D

Yeah, it totally comes across that way.

Various - Neu Ist Zeit-Augsburg

I can empathize, Severian. I think many people can, actually! I feel like a great underachiever compared to many of my peers, often. Then other times I look back over the arc of a lifetime and I'm quite impressed with what I've been able to do, not least of which has been to make a long and productive career from a bachelor's in English and journalism! Not an easy field to make a lasting career in.

Also, I keep looking forward. At 60, I feel in many ways that I've only begun, and I intend to keep going for a long time to come. Like my golden retriever, I remain eternally optimistic.

Pixes Surfer Rosa

just as good as ever

A track by UUUUUU called ''Beauty'' from his ''Off the Xerophytic Blooming''. One of the most beautiful things to come out of a poster on this board, in my opinion. When Derek uploaded the EP on here or FB a few years ago (can't remember) I still hadn't realised what a talented musician he is, let alone his skills at recording himself so well. Totally deserving a proper release and a party to follow.

Listening to this on a cool but beautiful Friday evening getting ready to head to my daughters dance performance. Tonight I'm helping shoot video :)

wonderful ass - prince

fuck sir mix alot or any songs about rumps and other total devotion to the ass.

I think one of the today´s people´s big problem seem to be (at least in the western countries) that everybody´s must achieve something big. I don´t think I have achieved anything real big but still I think I have had interesting life as this far. And I think there is still coming interesting things into my life and that´s enough to me.

Take The Feelies Bowling (take them bowling)



it took me 35 minutes to realize that there still is a second drummer in the Feeleis

Grand Magus - The Hunt

Sometimes only power-metal will do.