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Adam Kurland and Lucas Jansen
Personal Statement dam Kurland is the director of Knowing that the history of America is embroiled in Fantasy Sports (née Rotisserie) A the upcoming documentary muck, it wasn’t so much a choice to make this film as it was our American duty to “This is Not a Robbery,” the honor this world-changing almost-sport. Whether Fantasy got its start in the front Silly Little Game story of the world’s Oldest Bank Robber, a credit he shares alongside partner office of the 1963 Raiders, the mind of a Harvard sociologist, ancient Polynesian Lucas Jansen. Mr. Kurland’s music-video customs, or (and this one is probably the truest) with eleven self-described “stat- work has been featured on the MTV and crazed schmucks” in a mediocre French restaurant on New York’s upper East Side; Fuse networks. A native of Los Angeles few to none of the millions of fantasy players who make up today’s multi-billion-dollar and graduate of the USC Cinema- fantasy industry know anything about its origins, nor do they pay any respect or divi- Television program, Mr. Kurland currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. dends to its founders. Now they will. For us, fantasy is about people who take epically exciting, endlessly complicated, Directed by Adam Kurland and Lucas Jansen Directed ucas Jansen and directing furiously competitive alternative universes just as seriously (if not more seriously) as partner (and friend since they take their own everyday lives. It’s a passion that makes sense after childhoods L Mr. Kramer’s 7th-grade history class) Adam Kurland founded Red Marker spent, in our cases, pretending to be Magic, passing to ourselves as Kareem, dunk- Films in 2005, with the goal of producing ing on Nerf hoops, cheering like 30,000 fans and calling our own play by play. -
Extreme Rock from Japan
Extreme Rock From Japan Joe Paradiso MIT Media Lab Japan • Populaon = 127 million people (10’th largest) – Greater Tokyo = 30 million people (largest metro in world) – 3’rd largest GDP, 4’th largest exporter/importer • Educated, complex, and hyper mo<vated populace – OCD Paradise… • Many musicians, and the level of musicianship is high! • Japan readily absorbs western influences, but reinterprets them in its own special way… – Creavity bubbles up in crazy ways from restric<ve uniformity – Get Western idioms “wonderfully” wrong! – And does it with gusto! Nipponese Prog • Prog Rock is huge in Japan (comparavely speaking….) – And so is psych, electronica, thrash bands, Japanoise (industrial), metal, etc. • I will concentrate on Early Synth music - Symphonic Prog – Fusion/jazz - RIO (quirky) prog – Psychedelic/Space Rock – by Nature Incomplete • Ian will cover Hip Hop, Miku, etc. Early (70s) Electronics – Isao Tomta 70’s Rock Electronics - YMO • Featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto 70s Berlin-School/Floydish Rock Far East Family band • Parallel World produced by Klaus Schulze – Entering – 6:00, Saying to the Land (4:00) 70’s Progish Jazz – Stomu Yamash'ta • Supergroup “Go” • Freedom is Frightening, 5:00, Go side B Other Early 70’s Psych (Flower Travelin’ band) • Satori, pt. II, middle Early Symphonic Prog - Shingetsu 1979 • Led by Makoto Kitayama (Japanese Peter Gabriel) • Oni Early Symphonic Prog – Outer Limits (1985) 1987 2007 • The Scene Of Pale blue (Part One) – middle • Plas<c Syndrome, Consensus More Early Symphonic Prog – Mr. Sirius 1987 1990 -
Pynchon's Sound of Music
Pynchon’s Sound of Music Christian Hänggi Pynchon’s Sound of Music DIAPHANES PUBLISHED WITH SUPPORT BY THE SWISS NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 1ST EDITION ISBN 978-3-0358-0233-7 10.4472/9783035802337 DIESES WERK IST LIZENZIERT UNTER EINER CREATIVE COMMONS NAMENSNENNUNG 3.0 SCHWEIZ LIZENZ. LAYOUT AND PREPRESS: 2EDIT, ZURICH WWW.DIAPHANES.NET Contents Preface 7 Introduction 9 1 The Job of Sorting It All Out 17 A Brief Biography in Music 17 An Inventory of Pynchon’s Musical Techniques and Strategies 26 Pynchon on Record, Vol. 4 51 2 Lessons in Organology 53 The Harmonica 56 The Kazoo 79 The Saxophone 93 3 The Sounds of Societies to Come 121 The Age of Representation 127 The Age of Repetition 149 The Age of Composition 165 4 Analyzing the Pynchon Playlist 183 Conclusion 227 Appendix 231 Index of Musical Instruments 233 The Pynchon Playlist 239 Bibliography 289 Index of Musicians 309 Acknowledgments 315 Preface When I first read Gravity’s Rainbow, back in the days before I started to study literature more systematically, I noticed the nov- el’s many references to saxophones. Having played the instru- ment for, then, almost two decades, I thought that a novelist would not, could not, feature specialty instruments such as the C-melody sax if he did not play the horn himself. Once the saxophone had caught my attention, I noticed all sorts of uncommon references that seemed to confirm my hunch that Thomas Pynchon himself played the instrument: McClintic Sphere’s 4½ reed, the contra- bass sax of Against the Day, Gravity’s Rainbow’s Charlie Parker passage. -
Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders Booklet
THE WARNER BROS. LOSS LEADERS SERIES (1969-1980) Depending On How You Count Them, 34 Essential Various Artist Collections From Another Time We figured it was about time to pull together all of the incredible Warner Bros. Loss Leaders releases dating back to 1969 (and even a little earlier). For those who lived through the era, Warner Bros. Records was winning the sales of an entire generation by signing and supporting some of music’s most uniquely groundbreaking recording artists… during music’s most uniquely groundbreak- ing time. With an appealingly irreverent style (“targeted youth marketing,” it would be called today), WB was making lifelong fans of the kids who entered into the label’s vast catalog of art- ists via the Loss Leaders series—advertised on inner sleeves & brochures, and offering generous selections priced at $1 per LP, $2 for doubles and $3 for their sole 3-LP release, Looney Tunes And Merrie Melodies. And that was including postage. Yes… those were the days, but back then there were very few ways, outside of cut-out bins or a five-finger discount, to score bulk music as cheaply. Warners unashamedly admitted that their inten- tions were to sell more records, by introducing listeners to music they weren’t hearing on their radios, or finding in many of their (still weakly distributed) record stores. And it seemed to work… because the series continued until 1980, and the program issued approximately 34 titles, by our questionable count (detailed in later posts). But, the oldsters among us all fondly remember the multi-paged, gatefold sleeves and inviting artwork/packaging that beckoned from the inner sleeves of our favorite albums, not to mention the assorted rarities, b-sides and oddities that dotted many of the releases. -
Omega Auctions Ltd Catalogue 28 Apr 2020
Omega Auctions Ltd Catalogue 28 Apr 2020 1 REGA PLANAR 3 TURNTABLE. A Rega Planar 3 8 ASSORTED INDIE/PUNK MEMORABILIA. turntable with Pro-Ject Phono box. £200.00 - Approximately 140 items to include: a Morrissey £300.00 Suedehead cassette tape (TCPOP 1618), a ticket 2 TECHNICS. Five items to include a Technics for Joe Strummer & Mescaleros at M.E.N. in Graphic Equalizer SH-8038, a Technics Stereo 2000, The Beta Band The Three E.P.'s set of 3 Cassette Deck RS-BX707, a Technics CD Player symbol window stickers, Lou Reed Fan Club SL-PG500A CD Player, a Columbia phonograph promotional sticker, Rock 'N' Roll Comics: R.E.M., player and a Sharp CP-304 speaker. £50.00 - Freak Brothers comic, a Mercenary Skank 1982 £80.00 A4 poster, a set of Kevin Cummins Archive 1: Liverpool postcards, some promo photographs to 3 ROKSAN XERXES TURNTABLE. A Roksan include: The Wedding Present, Teenage Fanclub, Xerxes turntable with Artemis tonearm. Includes The Grids, Flaming Lips, Lemonheads, all composite parts as issued, in original Therapy?The Wildhearts, The Playn Jayn, Ween, packaging and box. £500.00 - £800.00 72 repro Stone Roses/Inspiral Carpets 4 TECHNICS SU-8099K. A Technics Stereo photographs, a Global Underground promo pack Integrated Amplifier with cables. From the (luggage tag, sweets, soap, keyring bottle opener collection of former 10CC manager and music etc.), a Michael Jackson standee, a Universal industry veteran Ric Dixon - this is possibly a Studios Bates Motel promo shower cap, a prototype or one off model, with no information on Radiohead 'Meeting People Is Easy 10 Min Clip this specific serial number available. -
The Real Frank Zappa Book Contents
The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa with Peter Occhiogrosso eVersion 3.0 - click for copyright info and scan notes THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO GAIL, THE KIDS, STEPHEN HAWKING AND KO-KO. F.Z. August 23, 1988 06:39:37 Contents INTRODUCTION -- Book? What Book? 1 How Weird Am I, Anyway? 2 There Goes the Neighborhood 3 An Alternative to College 4 Are We Having a Good Time Yet? 5 The Log Cabin 6 Send In the Clowns 7 Drool, Britannia 8 All About Music 9 A Chapter for My Dad 10 The One You've Been Waiting For 11 Sticks & Stones 12 America Drinks and Goes Marching 13 All About Schmucks 14 Marriage (as a Dada Concept) 15 "Porn Wars" 16 Church and State 17 Practical Conservatism 18 Failure 19 The Last Word Introduction Book? What Book? I don't want to write a book, but I'm going to do it anyway, because Peter Occhiogrosso is going to help me. He is a writer. He likes books -- he even reads them. I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy. The way we're going to do it is, Peter will come to California and spend a few weeks recording answers to 'fascinating questions,' then the tapes will be transcribed. Peter will edit them, put them on floppy discs, send them back to me, I will edit them again, and that result will be sent to Ann Patty at Poseidon Press, and she will make it come out to be 'A BOOK.' One of the reasons for doing this is the proliferation of stupid books (in several languages) which purport to be About Me . -
Gonzo Weekly #155
Subscribe to Gonzo Weekly http://eepurl.com/r-VTD Subscribe to Gonzo Daily http://eepurl.com/OvPez Gonzo Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/287744711294595/ Gonzo Weekly on Twitter https://twitter.com/gonzoweekly Gonzo Multimedia (UK) http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/ Gonzo Multimedia (USA) http://www.gonzomultimedia.com/ 3 Dear Friends, Welcome to another issue of this singular periodical. I know that I say it every week, but it never ceases to amaze me how such a tiny band of brothers and sisters, the vast majority of whom are unpaid, manages to put out a full length magazine of such like to once again publicly thank my editorial quality every single week of the year. Before team particularly Doug, John, Corinna and I continue with this week’s musings I would Jessica, although it really goes against the 4 grain to single anyone out of such a hard who read this magazine. Some of you will, working and productive team. no doubt, be shocked by this revelation. DeMille is a fairly gung ho Republican One of my favourite authors is an American whose ethos would seem to be quite far thriller writer called Nelson DeMille who removed from the anarchist ethos of what I may not be familiar to many of the people write for this magazine, and indeed, how I live my life. But he does write cracking stories! Probably my favourite of his books is one called Word of Honour which tells a very interesting and morally intriguing tale. The main protagonist is a wealthy businessman who, at some time during the late 1980s, is on his way to work. -
Epiphanies L(Lll-T!{6 F,',!"L : ARTSTSI Ffiiii,Ffi
Epiphanies l(lLL-T!{6 F,',!"l : ARTSTSI ffiiii,ffi E HATEUHIT Yamatsuka Eye's artwork for the Eat Srrit ,Vorbe ,ttusrc cassette (cilca 1988) It was exactlythe sort of thingthat 15 year olds aren't musicianship,fidelity, funkiness, lyrical content, closerto the middle.They weren't well known,but at grew supposedto hear: Eat Shit NoiseMusic. Late night rhythmicprowess, historical relevance, etc had no least those cats had decentdistribution! | collegeradio had introducedme to Japan'svirtuoso businesshere. This was stuff so uglyonly a motheror curious.What other soundslived in the undergrowth, bassand drumsduo, Ruins, and my questfor material close relativecould love it, and thus I quicklyfound off the map,in placesyou needan obscurecatalogue by the groupwas sendingme down increasingly myselfin the family. to locate? unusualpaths. Eat Shlt was my best lead- a bootleg Forthis was the first musicthat I could reallycall my With its no-fiXerox artwork and poorlytyped tracklist, cassetteof Japanesegroups compiled by RRRecords, own. Reachingliterally across the globe,the most Eat Shlt was a refreshingreminder that you didn't and availablevia theirmail order catalogue. Ruins unmarketablesounds had locatedthe rightears and need moneyto make musicor get it heard."All song wereon the tracklistand the pricewas cheap. transmutedinto personaltreasure. Nobody was telling [sic] swipedfrom existingphonograph records, used The cassettearrived suspiciously fast, just two days me howto listen or what to listenfor. I had discovered withoutpermission," the liner notes boasted.Of after I'd postedmy cheque.I tore openthe package, it unaidedby recommendation,radio play or a course,nobody minded this bootlegger.RRRecords armedmy tape deck, and crankedthe volume.What I journalist'sreview. -
The Rondo Hatton Report Vol Ix December 21, 2011
THE RONDO HATTON REPORT VOL IX DECEMBER 21, 2011 IN THIS ISSUE As the winter solstice marks the end of Zappadan , our ninth edition rolls out a selection of old friends and new prepared to confess all for your celebratory pleasure. Still not enough of you stepping up to the plate , but the intake is broad enough to prove that we're a catholic church . So if you like what you see here -- and even more if you don't -- take some time out over your holy-daze to let us know how it is where you come from. 'Cos that's the way we like it. As always, the texts are supplied as a single pdf file. Those wishing to fondle & fetish a paper version can download and print texts at their leisure; conservers of the carbon footprint can view online. Thanks to all who contributed this time. Content is alphabetic by author . Views are the opinion of the writer and the responsibility of the reader. You is what you am . Anyone wishing to correspond with a contributor may do so through the 'SUBMIT' page, and messages will be duly forwarded. You are encouraged to do so: please let the authors know that you appreciate their efforts - it will make them happy. Hopla! CONTENTS 1. HATS OFF TO DWEEZIL? / Jim BEUGH 2. LINGUA FRANKA PART V / Arjun von CAEMMERER 3. I AM A FRANK ZAPPA FAN / Joe CRAWFORD 4. VINYL HYGIENE DILEMMA / Andy HOLLINDEN 5. WHAM BAM THANK YOU SHAZAM / Simon PRENTIS 6. LARRY TAUGHT ME TO GO MERRY-GO-ROUND / John RILEY 7. -
In Search of Japanoise Globalizing Underground Music
16 In Search of Japanoise Globalizing Underground Music David Novak In 1990, I had just returned from a year of teaching English in Japan, so I was surprised when I came back to college in Ohio and started to hear about “Jap- anese Noise Music.” Some cut out the “music” idea altogether and called it all “Japanese Noise,” and others just compressed it to “Japanoise.” The name was supposed to identify a specic Japanese type of “Noise,” which was already a pretty vague genre name. Some friends added that its top artists mostly came from the Kansai region and the cities Osaka and Kyoto where I’d been living. I’d run into some noisy punk rock and experimental music in little under- ground record stores and small clubs around Japan … but Japanoise? I had never heard of it until I was back in the United States, when the Boredoms’ LP Soul Discharge found its way to the college radio station where I was a DJ, and tapped into the emerging independent music scene. At the time, the ow of underground cassettes, CDs, and vinyl into the station was increasing on a daily level. But dropping the needle on Soul Discharge released the most spectacularly dissonant racket I’d ever heard, tog- gling through a spectrum of styles and sounds. Sometimes Boredoms sounded like a hardcore band, sometimes a random Dada cutup of popular culture: it was desperately heavy but also funny as hell. You couldn’t possibly take it seriously, but, at the same time, it demanded your full attention. -
Gonzo Weekly #170
Subscribe to Gonzo Weekly http://eepurl.com/r-VTD Subscribe to Gonzo Daily http://eepurl.com/OvPez Gonzo Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/287744711294595/ Gonzo Weekly on Twitter https://twitter.com/gonzoweekly Gonzo Multimedia (UK) http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/ Gonzo Multimedia (USA) http://www.gonzomultimedia.com/ 3 the "mature" approach will actually translate as another cut to services or benefits aiming to make those bloody people like me shake themselves down, pick themselves up, and play a straight bat (or some other cricketing metaphor that presently escapes me). But I digress. Or rather, I don't because mental health is one of the more important aspects of this weekend's editorial thingy. Last weekend I carried on my practise of recent weeks and watched a film that I really should have seen a year or so before. This time it was Love and Mercy the Brian Wilson biopic. Now Brian Wilson's career polarises people on all sorts of levels. And this movie continues this habit of polarisation, and this time the subject of the polarisation comes in the contentious form of Dr Eugene Landy. Over to those jolly nice fellows at Wikipedia. Dear Friends, "Eugene Ellsworth "Gene" Landy (November 26, This week our lord and master David Cameron 1934 – March 22, 2006) was an American became the first Prime Minister in history to psychologist and psychotherapist best known for his address mental health in a public speech. Alongside unconventional 24-hour therapy as well as ethical an almost £1billion investment in mental health violations concerning his treatment of Beach Boys services across the UK, he also claimed that he co-founder Brian Wilson in the 1980s. -
Boo-Hooray Catalog #8: Music Boo-Hooray Catalog #8
Boo-Hooray Catalog #8: Music Boo-Hooray Catalog #8 Music Boo-Hooray is proud to present our eighth antiquarian catalog, dedicated to music artifacts and ephemera. Included in the catalog is unique artwork by Tomata Du Plenty of The Screamers, several incredible items documenting music fan culture including handmade sleeves for jazz 45s, and rare paste-ups from reggae’s entrance into North America. Readers will also find the handmade press kit for the early Björk band, KUKL, several incredible hip-hop posters, and much more. For over a decade, we have been committed to the organization, stabilization, and preservation of cultural narratives through archival placement. Today, we continue and expand our mission through the sale of individual items and smaller collections. We encourage visitors to browse our extensive inventory of rare books, ephemera, archives and collections and look forward to inviting you back to our gallery in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Catalog prepared by Evan Neuhausen, Archivist & Rare Book Cataloger and Daylon Orr, Executive Director & Rare Book Specialist; with Beth Rudig, Director of Archives. Photography by Ben Papaleo, Evan, and Daylon. Layout by Evan. Please direct all inquiries to Daylon ([email protected]). Terms: Usual. Not onerous. All items subject to prior sale. Payment may be made via check, credit card, wire transfer or PayPal. Institutions may be billed accordingly. Shipping is additional and will be billed at cost. Returns will be accepted for any reason within a week of receipt. Please provide advance notice of the return. Table of Contents 31. [Patti Smith] Hey Joe (Version) b/w Piss Factory ..................