Wednesday, February 28, 2007

THESE LINES ARE BORROWED FOR YOUR USE # 2

1) "How come I still feel young & stupid?I look different":Edmund Berrigan
2) "All that emptiness, all those butterflies marshalled into an army of peace": Matthew Zapruder
3)"Discovery invites the collapse of something high": Julie Doxsee
4) "Oh holy crust. Oh… choirs lift ": Adam Chiles
5) "Ironclad your nerves. Should a spirit hassle the hackberry cast it out": Carolyn Hembree
6) "Jon Bon Jovi is Classic deadbeat showingUp — occasionally —In Order — to beat — up His motherVersion — “to fully” —":Michael Magee
7) "Those were my best days,wind-swept sea-flashes, brief glitter of glitter": Christian Hawkey
8) "The exit was fabulous—can we part again?": James Meetze
9) "Threatening rows of perfect teeth": K. Silem Mohammad

SPARKLEHORSE


"Spiral down those hateful dears between our skins and burning spheres
oh yeah here come the painbirds oh yeah"
TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

THESE LINES ARE BORROWED FOR YOUR USE # 1

1) "Feelings are not poems":John Yau
2)"Isolation shot of a man playing his heart out": Barrett Watten
3)"Be my anxious moment. Only Better": Michael Schiavo
4)"I might do better spilling tea":Lily Brown
5) "We're not going to hell. Not with the rubber band, anway":Mathias Svalina
6) "I cannot describe the sound splash down the wall of your childhood bedroom":Rachel Simon
7)"And something the color of worry isn't spit into my quiet":Graham Foust
8)"Less and less people are humming Howling Wolf like less & less people are learning to fix the typewriter":Noah Eli Gordon

Saturday, February 24, 2007

GEETARISTS

"Take it. You might have to ask for it later.": Jamie Alexander Russell

Yes, I read Rolling Stone. I even have a subscription. Shortpantsromance called me to ask which guitarists were my favorites, my picks for the geetar, sooo here it is (in no particular order):

1) Doug Martsch: Built to Spill
2)Mick Ronson: Spider from Mars
3)Anton Newcombe: Brian Jonestown Massacre
4)J. Mascis: Dinosaur Jr.
5)Peter Hook: Joy Division
6)Kevin Shields: My Bloody Valentine
7) Curt Kirkwood: Meat Puppets
8)Keith Levene:Public Image Limited
9)Johnny Marr: The Smiths
10)Elliott Smith
11)Alex Minoff: Weird War/Scene Creamers
12)Will Sergeant: Echo and the Bunnymen
13) Thurston Moore: Sonic Youth
14) Lou Reed: Velvet Underground
15) James Williamson: The Stooges
16) Gregg Ginn:Black Flag
17) Johnny Ramone: Ramones
18)Jon Spencer:Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
19)Marc Bolan:T Rex

Anyone I should add? Lemme know.

Friday, February 23, 2007

Lucas Sayler

As Shiite and Sunni factions have turned much of Iraq into a sectarian battlefield,
As Video of a dozen or more rats scurrying around a closed KFC/Taco Bell restaurant in New York City's Greenwich Village early Friday morning prompted shrieks from onlookers and fodder for the morning television talk shows,
As Britney Spears' decision to check into rehab could help her in court as she to tries to retain custody of her two young children with estranged husband Kevin Federline,
As Their 24th victory of the season, surpassing last season's total under Larry Brown, moved the Knicks within three games of the Magic and idle Miami, the final two teams in the current Eastern Conference playoff field,
As A fishing crew in New Zealand has caught a colossal squid that could weigh a half-ton and prove to be the biggest specimen ever landed,

Lucas Sayler Horosky was born, an almost six pound rock and roll animal, February 2oth, 2007 at 424 pm.

This is for Lucas Sayler or as Ms. Browning calls him Lucas "Slayer" Horosky.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Glamour Boots

"I repress other useless attachments. Chances of survival are one out of ten.": Barrett Watten

This precipitation is sleet snow and the heavy metal of not wanting to speak to anyone. Maybe a donut, chocolate, the sounds of tires spinning, a breather, a mouthful.

Saturday, February 10, 2007

For Morgan "Madonna" Lucas Schuldt

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ( a bit early). LOVE , YOUR DEVOTED LESTER SHUE...

Friday, February 9, 2007

The Restless Density

"This cat is too hot to tango": Taylor Mead

Was it a split lip? And the typical values for a resting, healthy adult human are approximately 120 mmHg systolic and 80 mmHg diastolic which meant the reading light faced the curtains. The radiator was speaking in a language I did not understand. I called once, twice, "three" the movie where a millionaire and his wife are shipwrecked after a yachting accident with their former servant, Manuel. I resemble nothing so much as a sentence hacked out of speech, a reproduction of the axe within reach. that was a quote. The quotes were left next to the hurray for the former servant, Manuel! The brutality was nothing new the haggle for dark threats was a burning poof. I lovey love you.

Sunday, February 4, 2007

The League of National Footballers

"Hello you, hello me, hello people we used to be": Kinks

*An estimated 1,000 people have been killed throughout Iraq in the past week due to gunbattles, drive-by shootings and bomb attacks

*as rescue teams search through wreckage Saturday in Lady Lake, where at least seven people were killed by a tornadoes;

*and 18 endangered young whooping cranes that were led south from Wisconsin last fall as part of a project to create a second migratory flock of the birds were killed in storms in Florida;

*Defense Secretary Gates says there is no plan to start a war with Iran;

*Scientists release a 21-page report strongly linking humans to climate change;

*Girls jumping rope chant "one less, one less," in TV commercials for the new cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil;

*Steve Jobs is hoping to elbow into the crowded smart phone market with Apple's new iPhone;

*The woman who claims to be James Brown's fourth wife wants half of the singer's estate and to be allowed back into the South Carolina home she was locked out of soon after his death;

*President Bush's 2008 budget will call for the largest increase in three decades in Pell grants, which are awarded to low-income students and do not have to be paid back;

*Four New Orleans police officers charged with murder in shootings that took place in the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina will not face the death penalty if they are convicted;

*He is called "Super Tonio," and at a whopping birth weight of 14.5 pounds, the little fellow is causing a sensation in the Mexican resort of Cancun.

And then some chicken wings....

Saturday, February 3, 2007

LONG LIVE LAWRENCE


One need only listen................

Thursday, February 1, 2007

Affective Dispositions

Please you it might not, but I will let you know who it has been on the nightstand and in the headphones.

NIGHTSTAND

1) Dean Young: Embryoyo
2) Charles Bernstein: Girly Man
3) Joshua Clover: Totality for Kids

and poems by: Rachel M. Simon, Sommer Browning, Noah Eli Gordon, Mathias Svalina, Michael Schiavo, Piotr Gwiazda, Adam Chiles, Graham Foust and Morgan Schuldt. Inexhaustible.

HEADPHONES: Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

Kevin Barnes, aka Georgie Fruit, lead singer and songwriter of the gayest parade of all the Elephant Six bands, Of Montreal has returned with a new album that doesnt yearn so much to break your heart as it does want to break your heart but with a glammy synthpop hammer. O.M. should have been named of the lo-fi, of the quirky, of the psychedlic, of the hyperactive, of the humorous, of the emotional, of characters and fictions, and now of the synthesizer. Their last album Satanic Panic introduced us to a new sugar high sadness of glam that cosmically dances you into heavy lids and desperately seeking more bass line and any other lines that might reconcile yourself to. But make no mistake, Hissing Fauna is an album about a breakup, the dissolution of a relationship, a narrative of putting a partnership to an end. I'm reminded of Marvin Gaye's HERE MY DEAR if Marvin had traded his soulsex throat for a bouncy vocal of a caroller which isn't to say that Mr. Barnes Neal Sedakaesque vocals aren't charming, if not down right appealing. Salacious, even. Go to him. You won't be let down.