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6/26/2009
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6/26/2009
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Music Waste: Point form hilites:
Hmmm. I actually went out on a couple nights. for starters. Would have rocked all night but the usual old man day job tired feet agaoraphobia excuses apply.
*HEALTHY STUDENTS---Ex Red Light Sting/WPP/Taxes doing 80's style hahd-koa. Pretty Dope.
*HARD FEELINGS- all drive, power trio, solid solid, tight bros. Al played drums with the above then moved into gitter/vocs duties. 2 sets in a row. Machine.
BCVCO- Killed it at the Anza. See previous post. 5 guys in white, a stage full of analogue synth/soundmaking gear older than you are, more patchcords than hairs on your head......wwwooooowowowowowowwwWOWOWOWowowowowowowWoooooooo
REVELSTOKE - Dead Meadow meets Hella doing Rush covers. Not shabby.
ART WASTE at Little Mountain - other than Julianne Clare's floor tile reno/intervention (interenovention?) and Robert Mearns huge portrait of Cam Reed, the rest was the usual trendy hipster mural/scribble style with obligatory blackmetal irony and surprisingly very little in the way of neon triangles. Whatever. Got tired of seeing it all over the internet last year, extra tired of seeing it now.
Pic: hard feelings at the cobalt by the ENORMOTALENTED Distrait/Noah
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6/18/2009
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Funny how time goes. You blink and a couple of months roll by and ... yeah. It's summer. Almost. A few days shy of the Solstice as I type, but all the same---some music for you hand picked from the blogosphere and yours truly's archives as the cold and wet weather gives way to the hot and sweaty.
Anyways, this is a big mix, 140mb or so, and should be enough to tide one over til later in July, as I'm getting on a jetplane soon for another stretch of rest and relaxation in Japan.
Lights camera, etc:
---------------> HIT IT.
relegated to the basements and eBay boxes of history. Solid and worth investigating.
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6/17/2009
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June 10, Wednesday
9-10pm, Soundscape Radio, doing a co-host thingy on phonography, field recording, souldtransit.nl and Seattle’s Phonographer’s Union
Listen online! Follow the headline/link.
Now streaming live in 128Kbps or 32Kbps stereo MP3.
MP3 audio archives: 128Kbps or 32Kbps.
Also, BCVCO at the Anza after. Music Waste FUCK YEAH!
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6/10/2009
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5/28/2009
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Hey folks.
So the blog got killed, and I thought better and resurrected it. A temporary reprieve, as I'm trying to figure out what to do with it. If anything, I feel like this project has done its job over the last few years, and it's time to start anew, or at least reformat it, beyond changing the template. 420-odd posts is a lot to sift through, though---I'd like to keep some old faves--- so stay tuned.
Quick update:
The piece I wrote on Jeremy Shaw's work in PHG's Moodyville exhibit is done and the co-publication with Capilano Review launches next week. Looking forward to it. After sending the final edit of the final edit of the final revised draft of the final edit, I decided to take the month of May off, and most importantly, some much-needed time away from taking on any new projects.
I've mentioned it before, but it's the freelancers curse: nevermind having a fulltime (crappy)day job, the fact that one has to make work- written, visual, etc- and deal with the constant looming guilt-spectre that tells you you're not pitching and submitting when you're not at the day job or writing or making work----damn, it can be exhausting. There's been a constant nagging feeling of "YOU'RE NOT DOING ENOUGH. EVER." for too long--- And that completely destroys your ability to relax.
You know, relaxing? Chilling out on the PS2, watching a whole season of a TV show in one afternoon, reading books, listening to records, doing nothing except for crosswords....yeah, I forgot about it too. And it's nice to be reminded.
Anyways. I'm back. For now.
The only other new update is that my trip to Japan got scuttled. Well it wasn't set in stone, but JAL had a sweet seat sale and it was all systems go and then Swine Flu/H1N1 hysteria broke out.
Nevermind dealing with that short blast of everyone in North America going
"ZOMG OH NOES I E-MAILED SOMEONE WHO KNOWS SOMEONE FROM COSTA RICO OR MEXICO OR WHERE-EVR AND NOW I'M'A CATCH TEH SWINE FLOOOOZ!!!1!!!", but Japan, the Island nation that is---how do I put it politely?-hmmmmm....a monoculture and, well an island with a siege mentality when it comes to things like respiratory illnesses (See Tuberculosis and the Spanish Flu back in the day) tied with lingering sakoku mentality as part of its heritage ----well, we'll just call it fair that they'd want to protect their interests.
M. and I both agreed that, thanks to older conservative folks in her neighbourhood grumbling about irresponsible people travelling abroad during Golden Week, Japan's national holiday time and possibly bringing back plague, that it would be best to put things off. It's one thing to deal with the "gaijin stare" but, following the H1N1 threat to Japan in the news, I realized that I didn't really want to deal with being scanned by someone in a hazmat suit at Narita Airport or wind up quarantined and twiddling my thumbs because someone two rows ahead of me sneezed. It was best to let the panic subside, let it arrive and become something tangible to deal with(and it has) and let things cool down a bit.
So, July it is, and another trip is on the horizon. Given my blogging record over the last while, expect no further posts til I start sending dispatches from there. Or who knows, I might actually feel like there's something to say.
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5/24/2009
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I'd like to note that Visa called to hassle me while I was making this post about my overdrawn balance and outstanding payment that I currently can't afford to pay off despite 50-hour workweeks at a Joe-job that pays half of what I used to make. If anyone wants to know about my blog silence as of late----I don't have the time nor inclination nor energy to keep this thing going. Matter of fact, after this mix, Updateable Mixtape may very well cease its operations entirely. We'll see, and I don't want to hear any snivelling out of you, my devoted public.
Sorry, I'm a little grouchy from being on my last 5 bucks for the last 2 months.
That said....
THE MARCH/APRIL MIXTAPE IS A GO.

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4/15/2009
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