Who lives here?

New piece/thing/what in PANK out now.

No turn there, I think, just a brief bit of concentration running vertical-wise.

More soon (Unsaid). Listening for now:

Gucci Mane: Burrpoint 3D
Rick Ross (??x2)
Wild Nothing: Gemini
Ipod on Random= Only Ones. Emeralds. Die Bohren and Der Club of Gore. Gucci Mane.

Ready to work on some longer things once Exams are done. A week + 2 days to go and waiting to go at 3 longer stories already begun/novel stuff.

More exam reading:

Althusser
S. Hall
R. Williams
F. Nietsche
Robinson Jeffers (ugh)
Maryanne Moore (morals + mortality. a finishing school unto herself.)
Hart Crane

Some Mer Water

Actress, Splazsh
Eddie Bo, In the Pocket
Abner Jay, One Man Band
Roky Erickson, I Have Always Been Here Before
Mount Kimbie, Maybes EP
Sleigh Bells, Treats

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

Speak Spell

New strangeness out in Witness. More things forthcoming.

Listening:

Scratch Acid, Greatest Gift
AFX, Chosen Lords
Masta Killa, No Said Date (first half is brilliant, not so much the rest)
Pierre Fournier, Six Bach Cello Suites
Timber Timbre, s/t
Simone White, I'm the Man
Bill Withers, Just as I Am
Leonard Cohen, Live Songs
Mixes by Linger & Quiet
Demdike Stare, Symbiosis

Sunk Then

William Backhaus: Beethoven, Complete Piano Sonatas

Annie Fischer: Beethoven, Complete Piano Sonatas

Bill Fay: From the Bottom of an Old Grandfather Clock

Atlas Sound: Rough Trade EP

Replacements: Let it Be

VA: Watch How the People Dancing (Honest Jon's)

VA: Marvellous Boy (Honest Jon's

VA: Pomegranates, Music

Faust: IV

VA: Boogaloo Pow Pow

Return of Return

Listening (Winter Noise):

Kevin Drumm, Imperial Horizon + Imperial Distortion

Yellow Swans, Live During War Crimes #3 (looking forward to hearing "Going Places" on Type Records)

Yellow Swans/John Wiese, Portable Dunes

Grouper/Roy Montgomery, Split

Grouper, Cover the Windows and the Walls

Wayne Shorter, Juju

Grant Green, Idle Moments

Ella Fitzgerald, Sing the Rodgers and Hart Song Book

Jorge Ben, Samba Esquema Novo

Esthete Cardosa, Cancao do Amor Demais

Joao Gilberto, Joao Gilberto

Arthur Jones, Scorpio (BYG)

Sam Rivers, Contrasts

Snow everywhere. Then water everywhere. Trying to catch up on work.

Ah

Somehow discovered Bradford Cox's (Deerhunter) Micromixes (all 22 of them) and so have been making my way through those. So far, they're excellent (22-17). I am now in love with the Fleetwoods. Am awaiting the future triumphs of the Phillies over the much-despised Yankees.

Reading Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. This book has been responsible for my last two (of three) headaches, though I've actually enjoyed reading it.

Read, Eat, Write

Taking notes and listening to Bill May's self-titled album (1970). The orchestration sounds a bit like Scott Walker's, though it's not nearly as strange. Still, there's drama drama drama.

Watched Oldboy. Not sure what I think about it. Read Manohla Dargis's review, which is particularly scathing, and while I'm not sure that OB is a totem par examplar of cultural emptiness and pulp style, I'm not sure that I enjoyed it all that much. Tough film to like, like most Tartan releases.

Got the galleys for a forthcoming story in Witness, which is exciting. Can't wait until December.

Read two fantastic articles:

1. Padgett Powell in New York Times Magazine

2. Brock Clarke on the recent John Cheever biography and why it doesn't matter in the slightest.

Winter boots are here (picture soon?). Have sno sealed them. Now just waiting for winter.