oh f*ck yes

the headliners are, well, not altogether exciting, but as usual, the lesser stages will be crammed with sheer awesomeness*.


[pic link to sasquatch festival site]

*e.g. FotC, Breeders, New Pornographers, The National, Steve Malkmus, Beirut, Okkervil River, Kinski, Dengue Fever, Crudo (?), Battles, Destroyer, etc. Oh, now I have to change my pants.

bluuurgh

The bathroom adjoining my room is currently all torn out because of the discovery of leaky pipes in the wall behind the sink -- whoever "built" it (and I use the term loosely) apparently did not bother to take the trouble to seal anything in the area. Mold everywhere. A pervasive chemical smell. I've been feeling dizzy & nauseous since last night. This sucks.

more: kids + music ("flying pig")

the incredible herbie hancock on sesame street, displaying the future to young'uns:



also, for good measure:

foreshadowing merzbow

"We are living in an age which has created new sounds of unimaginable variety: jet planes and atomic explosions, the noises of oscillation and the ghostly crackling in the assembly buildings of the precision industry. Big city dwellers are subject to a barrage of decibels which men of former times not only would have been unable to withstand physically, but which would have cast them into paroxysms of psychological confusion. Scientists have amplified the sounds of plant growth by millions of strengths so that they become a deafening roar. We know now that fish, deemed to be the quietest of all creatures by the romantics of the last century, exist in an environment of continual sounds. Every human being alive today is affected by this expansion of the realm of the audible. Are musicians supposed to be unaffected?"

-Joachim Berendt, from The Jazz Book, (c)1975

(from the same book: "...it was observed in the U.S. that children could be enraptured by Free Jazz. [...] They demand nothing, and so get everything.")

PSA

Dear everybody --

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If so, why not try PizzaTorrent! It's a tracker search engine with a super-smooth interface (and an unfortunate name) that's sure to get you downloading all 7 seasons of Star Trek: TNG before you can say, "Engage!"

Mr LaForge, I'll be in my ready room.

Spock out.

Ballantine's Day

A happy Valentine's Day to one & all!

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

best photo ever?