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Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:50:00 -0800

For the semester. But I’ll be back here when it’s done.

Commonalities.

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:00:45 -0800

Seems like neo-indie rockers, experimental noise artists, and Osama Bin Laden are the only people still releasing cassette tapes. From what I’ve heard, Bin Laden’s new one is supposed to be super harsh — and super limited edition!

In any case...

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:07:03 -0800

In any case...:

Given as a gift, Merriweather Post Pavilion will likely help cool kids and their parents bond, and that is important.

Christie’s Cuts Costs as Art Market Slows

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:27:00 -0800

Christie’s Cuts Costs as Art Market Slows

Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:23:04 -0800

Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves

"Cheer up: Canada's in good shape."

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:09:00 -0800

"Cheer up: Canada's in good shape.":

Let’s see what they say in ”the second quarter of this year.”

"Speak not of revolution until you are willing to eat rats to survive."

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:43:00 -0800

“Speak not of revolution until you are willing to eat rats to survive.”

- The Last Poets - When the Revolution Comes (via sexartandpolitics)

In other words, revolution comes from a middle-class sense of entitlement.

(via standardgrey)

Mostly true, it seems.

postpunk: Scratch Acid - The Greatest Gift For pgwp.

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:49:58 -0800

postpunk:

Scratch Acid - The Greatest Gift

For pgwp.

towerofsleep: For megasloth. (via barthel:lalitree:) Cheers.

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:44:11 -0800

towerofsleep:

For megasloth.

(via barthel:lalitree:)

Cheers.

I didn't realize.

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:54:44 -0800

I didn't realize.:

George Brecht died in December.

Stephan Mathieu - Promenade

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:24:33 -0800

Stephan Mathieu - Promenade

(via echoingreasons)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:34:39 -0800

(via echoingreasons)

standardgrey: thepublics: TEENAGE WASTELAND SCENARIO #89 Baby,...

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:55:19 -0800

standardgrey:

thepublics:

TEENAGE WASTELAND SCENARIO #89

Baby, baby, DON’T WORRY, it’ll be cool, just eat up these shrooms and we’ll go trip through the forest, it’s a full moon tonight and it’s going to be totally amazing, I promise.

Ghetto blaster with Burzum, Burning Witch, Xasthur and Khanate megamix to round things out.

Sounds like a good time to me.

Um. White guys in white hoods in the woods? Might not be such a good time after all. Like the “megamix” though.

R.I.P. Ron Asheton of the Stooges

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:07:51 -0800

R.I.P. Ron Asheton of the Stooges

Photo

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:26:26 -0800

Willie Williams - Armagideon Time

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:17:48 -0800

Willie Williams - Armagideon Time

(via grimmertown)

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:25:49 -0800

(via grimmertown)

Furthermore….

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:35:19 -0800

Furthermore….

@ Luke

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:23:29 -0800

towerofsleep:

I’m all for putting this to bed and getting back to mp3s and funny pictures, but for the record: sorry about the bold type, that was a little much. You are indeed not “completely wrong” and my response was knee-jerky. Your remark that you only appreciate social or political art was kind of stunning, though — it seems to rule out a lot of stuff. I suppose you meant that even something like a formalist abstract painting can be productively thought about in terms of politics and things that matter to people, which I completely agree with. But maybe you just don’t like abstract art.

As for subjectivity, I don’t think there is much to prevent anything and everything from being art, other than somebody believing that it is. Whether it’s good or not and how you decide what the criteria are (and who it matters to) is a completely different question, and then you’re talking and thinking again. What I was driving at, though, is that a great deal of our most profound experiences occur at the level of the unsayable, and I think that level is sort of where “art” comes from, and we’re left to talk and think about it after the moment/event/encounter has passed.

Art, if anything, is a human and categorical thing. And a big part of what makes it interesting are challenges – not all of which are equally persuasive, compelling, informed, valid or whatever – to its current condition, criteria and boundaries. In that sense, even purely formal and abstract work is – and I think unavoidably – somewhat deliberative (and maybe also always discursive, too), and not simply sensation-based. Profundity is a self-aware mode of appraisal, as well, if often retrospective in form, and not a pre-linguistic experience. So maybe the experience of profundity is exactly an effect of the struggle to say the unsayable? In any case, thinking is something we also do with our bodies, and it is even sometimes fun to do, too.

artists are just people who feel the need to explain everything that they do

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:43:50 -0800

elainecorden:

[long, earnest discussion on the purpose/meaning of art, to which I contributed, redacted]

whoa whoa whoa. whoa. whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. whoa.

Everybody cool out. Put on AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck”. Repeat until youse want to crush beer cans on your forehead and/or make out for my entertainment.

I’ll think about it.