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[24 Nov 2009|06:52pm] |
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MONO _ Pure as snow (trails of the winter storm) |
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Anyone seen, like or have any opinions about the band MONO?
Trying to decide whether to go and see them live. At first I was quite keen because that recent album with the orchestra is very good (Hymn to the Immortal Wind), but now I am starting to get a Keiji Haino vibe off the whole thing. No that's not fair. They aren't grievous aural assault, quite the opposite. It's just there's something a bit incongruous about Avant Guarde head banging. Plus the name is annoying.
Of course this isn't MONO. But it's so cute! :D
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[20 Nov 2009|08:58am] |
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It was an overcast day at the beach and there had been a big storm the night before, which had stripped away the sand from under all the fringing vegetation so their roots stuck out like skeletons. The water was quite mucky too...I'm hoping just an algae bloom or some topsoil from the ravaged bushes, and not some passing ocean liners cargo of shit. It didn't stink though, so that is hopeful. And the waves were fun...easy to catch, fast and not dumpers.
I love overcast days for swimming. Means I don't have to worry about getting cooked like a beet red tourist. And the whole beach was totally deserted too, which is how I like them, apart from a solitary hang glider overhead. Not even any surfers....maybe they knew something I didn't...there was a strange ominous atmosphere too. I think the sea is getting a bit annoyed with us pesky humanoids.
Then on the way home there was a freak storm of Christmas beetles at the service station. Millions of them all over the car like some horror movie and all the way back I was picking Christmas beetles out of my clothes.
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| Morrie Frenzy |
[14 Nov 2009|07:12pm] |
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sparks go go - good time wally |
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That song of theirs gave me the weirdest dream last night (Metamorphosis - track 10 冥合). I was on a cliff edge looking out over some lakes or maybe an estuary, with a man made waterfall in the middle of it that glittered like one of those 70s lava lamps. And there were these strange pink dolphin birds down on the rocks below me, then they flew up the cliff around my head and they were singing just like Morrie does in that song. The bit where his voice is all high and unearthly. It was such a happy dream. :D
Still listening to Sparks Go Go as well. They are just as insanely psychedelic as Dead End in their own way. I've realized the really special and gifted member of Sparks is the guitarist. Atsuya Tachibana. Mmmmm. Tachibanana... XD Actually Sparks are very similar to the Trouser Elephants in that they seem to have grown great with age. I can't help finding it all a bit mind bogglingly weird when Puffy turns up though.
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| Dead End - Metamorphosis |
[13 Nov 2009|09:25am] |
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I just had to say I am shocked and appalled by peoples IDIOTIC reactions to this incredible album. This is why artists give up and don't bother anymore. Because they give their hearts and souls to make pearls that end up being listened to by SWINE.
And believe me I had no particular expectations here. Generally Morrie isn't so much to my taste though I have always loved DE. But they have awed and stunned me so much with this album that I have to say something.
You know I despise the majority of Western jrock fans already but the reaction to this album honestly makes me long for some kind of APOCALYPSE.
This isn't a review, just a brief cry of disbelieving anguish before I rush out the door.
P.S. Thanks to Morgianasama for the awesome photo.
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| SPARKS GO GO |
[10 Nov 2009|06:24pm] |
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08-裸になりたい - STONE |
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Just started listening to SPARKS GO GO properly. Listening to STONE right now and it's epic! Of course I've been so hopelessly addicted to ABEX GO GO (Abe B X Sparks) for months now its not surprising I had to fall for this band too in the end. Not many pics of them out there sadly. Suppose I'll have to scan the ABEX booklet some time because it's pretty cute.
Sparks seduces you with their Sabbathisms. That is their grunty intuitive bass and guitar riffs. I'm still not over the moon about the vocals, but they are adequate, especially considering the singer plays bass as well (brilliantly). They have considerable intelligence and they aren't afraid to experiment. I can confidently say after one and a half albums that I am going to enjoy all their stuff.
Oh yeah.
Read a book about Pope Joan yesterday, written by a Greek writer, whose style could best be described as Satyrical. She is a very interesting character. A kind of learning prodigy, a Mozart of the scriptures who posed as a male monk and ended up being made Pope because she was so wise and clever. I am inspired to paint her portrait, especially as the Tarot Priestess is often known as Pope Joan...The Papess. I kind of fancy a bit of sacrilege, now I'm almost done demonizing myself.
*eats a home made egg tart*
YUM!
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| PTA Hikari no Network |
[06 Nov 2009|08:25am] |
Might as well embed stuff while I still can, seeing as Obummer seems to be planning to destroy the internet. This is PTA Hikari no Network from the Unicorn reunion dvd, including Abe B doing the techno Mishima. This user has quite a lot of it uploaded though no RR is no Dead unfortunately. No doubt he'll get taken out soon enough anyway.
BIG storm last night. Lots of lightening and the loudest thunder I have ever heard. It literally made the ground shake. I always get headaches in the lead up to electrical storms. So I know they are coming even before it clouds over. It's like the pressure in my head is building up to unbearable levels, and then its such a relief when it finally breaks.
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| Anaïs Nin |
[29 Oct 2009|07:30pm] |
"I await the phantom lover...the one who haunts all women, the one I dream of, who stands behind every man, with a finger and head shaking...'Not him, he is not the one.' Forbidding me each time to love."
Anaïs Nin
Under A Glass Bell
Read this the other day and was awed and ensorcelled. (Yes that's a word idiot spell check, look it up). It is the most gorgeous, dreamy, ornate and wise collection of short stories. She is stylistically brilliant and has a unique degree of self knowing. I am hunting out all her books now, though typically I can only find her erotica in the local library. I'd like a copy of her diaries because I read them a long time ago, and they were very inspiring. I love the way she always makes me feel so much better about being a freak.
Here is a quote I found online from her diary:
"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book (*Lady Chatterley*, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death.” -from *The Diary of Anais Nin* (Volume One) by Anaïs Nin
Isn't it so spookily true. I often feel like I am living in some weird Zombie movie, and that I am surrounded by a legion of undead. Mind you I am not so sure I am living either. It's a constant battle to stay awake, and sometimes somnambulism does seem like the infinitely preferable option.
Anyway I found a copy of Lady Chatterley in the opshop today. *snorts*
Hopefully that will do the trick.
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| royal tramps |
[25 Oct 2009|12:04pm] |
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splendid elekashi best of |
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Sorting kitty pics and came across this one from a few years ago. I really should get that Royal Tramp poster out and put it back up. It's a good one for scaring the demongs.
Devil is going well. Gave her a snake friend this morning and now I am looking for the right kitty companion. That will bring the total number of eyes in the picture to 15, which is also the number of the card. It's quite a lot of eyes for one picture.
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| The Hell of Mirrors |
[23 Oct 2009|05:59pm] |
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This is a story by Edogawa Rampo that I read today. It was strangely synchronous with what I had been drawing all morning, but he is very much that kind of writer. I had been wanting to read his stories for ages, because of course he is big favourite of O Kens. And he is very good, and very creepy. Just the thing for drawing Devils and I should thank him for inspiring a most monumental card. Edogawa and the trouser elephant shounen. XD
I am awed by this drawing I have done, truly. It's so good I should be very happy but all I can manage is a kind of drained lethargy. Like some part of me has been sucked up by it. It IS me it has to be said, which is where the mirror comes in, and when I am not dead with tiredness I am duly demonized.
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[20 Oct 2009|08:50am] |
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Abe Yoshiharu - Balloons on Canvas |
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Watching the meteoric rise of the Oz dollar with anticipation. :D
When it gets to 90 yen I am going to pounce on all the Abe solo I can find on Amazon. Because I haven't changed my mind about him AT ALL. He is the most astonishing musician and singer I have encountered. This song, Balloons on Canvas, track 3 of 4th Leaf, is totally incredible. The warmth of his vocals is unbelievable. I have never heard so much heart projected in any voice. I have given up reviewing, but it's very very difficult to keep quiet about this album. Says something that even though I have a perfectly good I Tunes rip of it, I still need to own the hard copy. I have listened to nothing else since I got it, more than a month ago. (two months?)
Scaring myself with my Devil drawings. Do I need to protect myself in some way from my own work? It doesn't seem so because with each one I am feeling bouncier. Better out on paper than lurking inside it would seem.
Oh and while I am spouting the Jungian jargon, it seems to me that computers are also synchronicity magnifiers. And specifically the internet. Everyone I encounter, everything I read online, it all seems to contain significant and relevant messages for me that they/it couldn't possibly know consciously. Even the dick spam is an oracle. >.>
I think it's something to do with how totally random it all is. And how much emotional energy people invest in it.
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