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Post by nikkeisindex on Feb 11, 2021 20:37:29 GMT
Will re-read more carefully later that looks truly excellent. Sometimes I think life is just easier in Japan and harder in America. I mean I work like a fucking dog, that's fine, I actually like the people I work for OH VALENTINE'S DAY yeah ok huge fucking deal wife loves this stuff (valentine's, anniversary, birthday, christmas, fucking halloween, whatever, just make a big deal all the time - yes I love her and she's special but I'm bad at this, I just naturally default to sitting around and trying not to spend money - maybe I'm an asshole - other story). So whatever, I try. I went on foot in the snow to the local tiki distillery and grabbed $108 of drinks (6 drinks), have already 2 7"s wrapped (I'm lucky my wife likes weird music and records and considers this a gift) and roses - called the local cool expensive shop, you cannot even buy flowers there now (preorders for weekend only, wife works on 2/14) so I went to fucking WALGREENS again on foot in the snow (Chicago) and made it all the way back home and up 4 flights of stairs SPLASH! Shit is everywhere. Fucking complete nightmare. I'm just trying to 1) do the bare minimum I need to at work 2) present an imaginative and impressive Valentine's display For the first time in my life I HAVE MONEY I just don't have TIME. Heads up for youngsters out there: You can't just bank transfer your wife $300 and say "Happy VD, shut up." You have to like, DO STUFF. FUCK. Thank you for listening.
ETA: I went to the doctor yesterday, because HE TOLD ME TO. I went in and he was like.... I can't even get into this, we didn't have insurance (#USA) but now we do so he was like come back and get an check-up. I'm 45, I've been to the doctor/dentist 3 times in 15 years - I'm fortunate.
First of all he put his finger up my butt. Totally weird, didn't see it coming, I was yelling "FUCK!" and it's a pretty small place with other patients nearby. My official track record of "exit only" was harshly violated.
Also now they screen for colon cancer early, among my multiple up and down 4 flights of stairs mail etc trips I received a box, and my assignment, from a legitimate medical professional, is to POO IN THE BOX and send the box via the post office to an inspection station.
And now I'm getting 1-800 calls from the poo box company trying to get me to call them back and talk about the poo box procedure. It's 2:46 PM CST and I am way behind on stuff from 6 am (when I was up and started working).
Not looking for a solution here, my life is my own and I chart my own destiny. Just venting.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Feb 11, 2021 22:31:24 GMT
I went on foot in the snow to the local tiki distillery and grabbed $108 of drinks (6 drinks), have already 2 7"s wrapped (I'm lucky my wife likes weird music and records and considers this a gift) and rosesJesus dude, thats like 18 years worth of b-days, Xmasses, Valentines, and Emperors birthdays combined for Camp Leader. PRO-TIP: buy a packet of bikkies and any old choc and melt the choc shit onto the biscuits in the oven toaster. Then the shit looks like homemade biscuits. "Ohhh, look at all the effort you went to!" Off the hook. In the old days I wouldve made some vaguely homophobic comeback jibe like "I should hope so too young man!" but that sort of humour has been cancelled, iHomo.
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Post by Gordon, "Gordo", Forthreich on Feb 11, 2021 22:46:13 GMT
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Post by sukebegg on Feb 12, 2021 6:29:28 GMT
haha, saw Fugazi in Tokyo around mid 90's and about 15 MASSIVE american army twats turned up yelling "straight edge" and terrorising the moshpit. Considered playing the hero but these werent ordinary huge cunts, they were built like professional body builders. And they werent exactly in the mood for reasoning. Absolute brick shithouses scattering tiny J-ladies everywhere. Classy guyz! Anyway, Ian stopped midsong and said we dont start playing again until you leave. Cue silent room and a standoff that went for maybe 5 minutes but felt like 15. In the end the boofheads slinked out and justice prevailed. God only knows what the j-locals made of it all. a few years later, shared an elevator with Mckaye as he went up for his Sapporo show, just me and him. Thousand things I thought to ask him, including about that Tokyo show from a few years prior. Dude didnt exactly look up for a chat, the usual furious funless scowl, so I didnt bother him. Looking back, I wonder how responsible Fvgazi were for sucking the fun out of the 90's music scene? Loved their stuff but ffs would it kill you to lighten up, for 3 fuckign seconds? That is bizarre and shitty yet expected. And in that case, god bless Ian in that case. In the elevator, I would just start by being super apologetic and see how it goes. The 90s was all about super-sober music though from Cobain and onward ~ doom and gloom and whatnot. Apparently these days there is a reason to cancel everyone, so Ian's goodness certainly outweighs whatever I perceive him to be from distant perch...I love Jesus Lizard too, and they rank together with Fugazi as a top underground band of that Seinfeld and Friends decade, but I hear they attract some real muscleheads...oh the Evens never grabbed me but that new Coriky stuff is ace! Kinda forgot about VDay - we were supposed to be diving on the day but a small Covid outbreak here put the skids on that. Socially distanced dinner it will be!
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Post by nikkeisindex on Feb 12, 2021 10:55:48 GMT
You have been in Japan for quite some time! Also you're old, good work. Fugazi in Tokyo the mid 90s - I can't even imagine. I was busy figuring out what ska was in the Midwest.
I did tons of cool stuff and I should give myself some credit. My band played with Fast Cars, got to talk to them a bit about Buzzcocks, Joy Division, etc. We played with Sheena and the Rokkets, I should have talked to them more.
This gets into the regrets column. Sparks played at some weird crappy club like Shibuya O-West and I didn't make it out - I should have. What a chance to see a bizarre legend in an incredible setting. Buzzcocks. Yes I saw them in Chicago in the 90s but was Y6000 really too much to do it again in Japan? At the time, yes. In retrospect, no.
Oh well, you can't win them all.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Feb 13, 2021 0:47:22 GMT
Fugazi in Tokyo the mid 90s - I can't even imagine. Saw a few other of my faves who came through, STEEL POLE BATHTUB, FISHBONE, HELMET, etc. That Fugazi show with the army cocks, now that I think about it, couldnt the cops have easily whisked them off in a paddy wagon for some 99% guilty Japanese-style justice and biffed the cunts in a Chuckie Ghosn-sized J-Gitmohole for a year? Or would it have been a quick call to some Major Kant at Yokusuka to avoid a "diplomatic incident"?
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Feb 13, 2021 1:01:37 GMT
the Evens never grabbed me but that new Coriky stuff is ace! Evens were such a letdown. Just batshit boring. Not sold on Coriky yet either, just need a gateway track.... Sparks played at some weird crappy club like Shibuya O-West and I didn't make it out - I should have. What a chance to see a bizarre legend in an incredible setting. Yeah you kind of blew it there. That wouldve been mad fun. Not a fan of their 70's stuff but the 80's, OMFG, still kicking myself for selling my copy of "Angst in my pants". There is NO filler on that album. The signs were there a year before for an alignment of planets on 1981's "Whomp" lp. The groove on this track, holy shitballs...
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Feb 22, 2021 0:51:40 GMT
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Post by pussycat on Mar 5, 2021 12:45:32 GMT
I’ve just discovered the music of durutti column and i love it. Always heard the name before. It sounds way different than what i thought was gonna be and not like much else i’ve ever heard. I’m listening mostly to the first 3 albums or so.
Also lots of 808 state
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Mar 5, 2021 22:45:42 GMT
Found the "Without Mercy" and "Circuses and Bread" lp's outside a rec shop years ago, being given away for free due to water damage. Scabbed the vinyl, had to ditch the jackets.
Was quite rooting the music's relaxing properties at first but, weirdly, for a boring and depressed cunt like me, it soon got a bit boring and even depressing so sold them.
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Post by pussycat on Mar 5, 2021 23:54:47 GMT
It's pretty light and uplifting. was expecting more darkness i guess. I love how low the vox are mixed on the album lc.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Mar 6, 2021 0:13:54 GMT
in unrelated Music News, lollllll Albini's forii has been down since October. electricalaudio.com/forumof course, being the forius maniac I was right there logged in when it all fell apart. One woke twat named "Boombats" was shrieking at the mod to reshape the forii to fit his PC Constable Dibble sensibilities, the mod was all fffsdude then teh next thing you know *blip* entire forii is gone. My guess is the mod said to Albini ffs these cunts are annoying and Albini probably said "oh turn it off if its any trouble, there's only ever 3 pricks online there anyway" and hello, the forii enters the eternal limbo of "oh yeah, we're working reeeeeeeeeeeeeal hard to get that hateful vicious drag of a forum back online. You fuckwits"
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Post by sukebegg on Mar 15, 2021 11:34:53 GMT
Oh yeah, I remember seeing that a while ago ~ that drawing of him is a part of the kissoff. I'm surprised too that he put up with so many stoners discussing the "genius" of Mike Patton or whatever...Hilarious that it got swallowed in a spergy woke incident... Total coincidance ~ I came to share this. Bolles tells a jaw-dropping story!
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Mar 15, 2021 12:11:59 GMT
As soon as dude said "Celebrity Skin" I thought uh-oh.
ffs@albini, like he's going to "forget" methodically smashing a record to pieces and shredding the labour of love accroutments of some wee band then painstakingly returning the whole lot to sender with a vicious note.
"I have no recollection". GTFO. The only way someone's going to forget doing that is if they made a habit of it.
ps jesus fucking christ WFT are they eating?? If I ate that whole "waffle" thing my guts would be rooted for the next 3 days.
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Post by sukebegg on Mar 20, 2021 10:47:37 GMT
It is possible that he was smashing a lot of records back then. Celebrity Skin was playing the LA clubs I frequented back then, but I don't remember if I ever saw them. They really came off as a sad Janes Addiction wannabe (sorry Don ~ I love U!)...
After that massage parlor shooting in the US and that stupid pig's "He had a bad day..." comment, I cannot get this ditty out of my head:
Of course, this has been on constant rotation in the eight-CD player in my noggin' for the last few years...
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Mar 20, 2021 14:00:12 GMT
somehow have blind spots for both the Subhumans and The Dicks. Sort of MDC but a bit slower?
MDC 1st album, now that one still hits the spot.
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Post by sukebegg on Mar 21, 2021 13:43:27 GMT
uhmmmm welll...The Dicks are certainly more punk than HC ratatatat like MDC and Gary Floyd certainly has a sweet voice, so I probably listen to Sister Double Happiness more...The Dicks definitely cover a lot of the same rad-left Texas topics of cops and queerness. There's a doc I guess I will watch at some point...
The Subhumans actually have an oi-edge even though they were connected with some very rad-left political bombing back then (porn store bombing even!). They covered Menace's Screwed Up...I love the SST album and even managed to see them in San Diego in like '82. Also saw the UK Subhumans in the same venue. Loved them at the time but never feel the need to listen to them now...
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Mar 23, 2021 9:08:36 GMT
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Mar 30, 2021 23:49:16 GMT
www.discogs.com/Tomahawk-Tonic-Immobility/master/2041462Cannot stand this fuckign band. Only reason i'm posting this is I just can't get my head around how a band with the powerhouse drummer from Helmet/Battles and the guitarist from the almighty godhead JESUS LIZARD and even sometimes the mega-chunderfart bassist from my own personal 80's & 90's Gods THE COWS can all get together and sound so boringly shit. How do they fuck it up so bad? I bought the 7" from the last album on the cheap and it was just about the most forgettable record i've ever heard. Just HOW?
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Post by sukebegg on Mar 31, 2021 1:25:20 GMT
Mike Patton ruins everything
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Post by sukebegg on Apr 9, 2021 8:40:57 GMT
Serious Indie Rock Beef ~ oh me oh my!
Oh they're a bunch of white dudes...
Thems too!
And yet this song trumps them all in my brain anyhow...
What's the beat of politics I don't know mine are derelict
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Apr 9, 2021 9:02:12 GMT
Is this like an Oasis vs Blur feud of totally shit pommy bands? Punky stuff very rarely lights my fire these days Have become an old git who is shit at discovering new music. In fact, here's all the new bands this century (year pertains to first release) that have entered my stiffy wheelhouse; 2000 Hot Snakes, A Frames, Sunn 2001 Reigning Sound, Fistula 2002 Part Chimp, Buried At Sea 2003 2004 King Khan & BBQ Show, Hey Colossus 2005 Lamps, Indian, Torche, Slomatics, Pissed Jeans, Blind Shake 2006 LivefastDie, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Bongripper 2007 Austerity Program 2008 UV Race 2009 2010 Conan 2011 Whores 2012 2013 Life Stinks, Spray Paint 2014 Watery Love, Disrotted 2015 Chrch, Sumac 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 NOTHING in the last 6 years. Quelle fucking pathetique.
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Apr 11, 2021 12:19:56 GMT
Popped into the Jezz record store and the old owner fella was holding court with a couple of his sycophantic old git customers, you know the sort, sucking up to the vendor for no discernible reason what-so-fucking ever.
Owner bloke was trumpeting on about "180,000 yen" and "300,000" yen Blue Note 1st pressings. As per fucking usual. One of these days I would like to say to him "they're only worth what silly old mugs like you are willing to pay for them." A hairline scratch on the fucking thing and what happens? It goes back to being a $20 record? Anal cunts.
Then he went on about wives not knowing the value of the records or some shit, which might sound a bit obtuse but it is actually very goddamn motherfuckign pertinent to the discussion cos wives have no idea what this shit is worth and when the old gits cark it the widow dont give a fuck about any "Blue Note 1st pressing" bullshit, you old mothballing blowhard, that bish won't think twice about taking your $3,000 LP's down to Book Off and trading them in for 10 cents each. Then the records get put out in the $1 bin and scabs like me come in and buy them and flog them online for, what, $20 bucks each? FFS. RIP silly old blowhard cuntz.
ps not like the old coot can even aurally tell the difference between 1st pressings or what-the-fuck-ever pressings.............. the old fucker is as deaf as a fucking post!
Shirts full of shit.
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Post by sukebegg on Apr 12, 2021 1:44:57 GMT
I think there is way-too-long hangover from the Bubble Era* - I was into wine a bit in Japan and there was a lot of famous label chasing and equating value=quality. Lots of cool folks who weren't like that too though... What you need to do is print up about 20-30 bogus covers of this album, put them in a dusty box, bring them in and say, "My wife found this in her mom's attic, I think she used to bang around with the drummer...Any good?"
* 25 years of stagflation with the only "growth" being endless cheapo pharmacies and 100-yen shops has not killed the dream of the mythical Return of the Bubble...
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Apr 12, 2021 2:53:35 GMT
People underestimate young people. Their take, whether it be in music, or writing, or art, is the first pressing of first consciousness. Not some tired and half-desperate attempt to recapture that essence of why they started to do it in the first place.
How many goddamn bands first albums are their best ones?
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Apr 16, 2021 23:22:17 GMT
Fucking stupid 4EverGunston ship! This thing was supposed to come out in March! I pre-ordered the fucker in December ffs! #1st_world_problems
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Post by fuckface on Apr 16, 2021 23:48:14 GMT
if only you was as enlightened as me to grab a copy in the early'80s...oh well...
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Apr 17, 2021 3:39:19 GMT
if only you was as enlightened as me to grab a copy in the early'80s...oh well... OHHHHHHHHHH, so excuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me for not wagging kindy to saunter down to the shops in my leathers and shades to buy the first Stooges LP on the day it came out, Mr too-kool-4-skool. I've had the stupid Gordons cd for a hipster-points acquiring length of time I will have you know, PLUS, bonus punk points, I've never listened to the cd since I dubbed it to cassette tape BOOM chacka lacka
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Post by fuckface on Apr 17, 2021 20:48:09 GMT
ha ha, if you don't wanna be wound up, don't give me the key. sucker
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Post by Dr I.Shartdaley on Apr 23, 2021 23:59:27 GMT
Wish me luck for today, freaks.
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