you: you are magnificent. you are gracious and gorgeous. you are. you are ambitious and your accomplishments are already beginning to shape your Future You. congratulations on making your dreams come to life.
we have new neighbors. the handyman came by today to fix a couple things and as i saw him out i met the couple who would be/are moving in upstairs. a very quick hello. a little later on, after arriving back home from running errands, i noticed a congregation of punk rockers on our porch, all of them smoking, and a moving truck. i was caught up in a phone conversation for a while, sitting in the car. i noticed they were fond of your mailbox magnet (the clown, "hey kids, wanna see my butt puppet?). i still haven't gotten nor approached a formal hello.... and now i'm in the office, in headphones for a while... so if they do come a'knockin' then i probably won't notice and they'll probably think i'm a dick. i can hear them laughing right now, actually, on a pause between songs. yawns.
but there is good news. great news, actually. 2011 has been really surprising so far, in terms of music releases. there are three excellent stand-outs already. Deerhoof vs. Evil is one. this group i just found out about Æthenor, featuring a member of my beloved Sunn O))), dropped an album called En Form For Blå, (no idea how to pronounce any of it) which is EPIC drone ambient doom metal experimental meditations. it's fucking awesome. the album art is rad too. check it out
and there's also a new Sonic Youth album, a soundtrack to a movie called Simon Werner au Disparu. it's all instrumental, dark, moody, and it absolutely ROCKS like only the Youth do.
i like that they've released it on their SYR label. both Thurston and Lee have their own indie labels but this one is strictly for the band to release their experimental works. Simon Werner au Disparu is easily the most straight-forward of any of the SYR records so far, but it retains a heavy dose of their exploratory side. rather than simply release only the material that was used as cues in the film, the band returned to the studio to cut and mix all of the elements together, creating an album that's as much sound collage as it is soundtrack as it is instrumental rock. and it works just as well in small doses, like one track at a time rather than It Must Be An Album Experience. the song above is the longest jam on the record, and it's the final track. it's also refreshing to know that this isn't some archival release like it's been on a shelf for a few years (like we waited a while for the last soundtrack they did for SYR, and it sucked). the music was recorded in February 2010 and edited in September. it feels fresh, it really does.
just like your purple t-shirt. FRESH industries!
LRV, b
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