finding found sound again
Jan. 28th, 2010 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davemerrillI'm on a new schedule at work and it's taking some getting used to. I go in later and I get out later. I have a little more time during the day, but when I get home at night I'm not good for much except for eating dinner and watching the Honey Honey episode where Herr Gustav hauls out the laser gun while remarking that the things haven't been invented yet, but in cartoons anything is possible.
Drive-In Classics is going away from our cable; I would say it's sad to see them go, but in the past year or so their programming has gotten pretty lousy. Fridays are the same four or five really terrible Doris Wishman movies (nudist camp movies aren't nearly as interesting as you might think) and Saturdays their entire lineup consists of reruns of Xena and The Incredible Hulk. All day long. I mean, one of those every once in a while is OK, but all day long? Good bye, Drive-In Classics.
Found Sound this week is kinda interesting; it's tracks from a record called "English As A Second Language" which is spoken word poetry slam kinda stuff from a lot of LA punk scenemakers circa the early 1980s. I picked it up at a record show mainly for the Raymond Pettibon cover. A lot of the tracks don't hold up quite so well - there's a level of pretension that spoken-word never really gets past in my mind - but the tracks we've put up are pretty straightforward stuff. The John Trubee cut is short and funny, just like the man himself! He's the guy that wrote that deliberately crazy song and had it recorded by the song-poem company. You know, about the blind man's something being something because he's blind.
Because yesterday was Wednesday there is also an ELEMENT OF SURPRISE strip from Shain! It's all mushy and stuff.
No big plans for the weekend other than some de-cluttering. Most of the big furniture moving is over for now. I need to go out and renew my driver's license and my health card, that's on the "to do" list. I got my permanent resident card renewed and boy, that's not a good photo on there. The guy at the office was like, "Well, you're stuck with it for five years." Gotta remind myself in 2014 to go to Glamorshots!!
Drive-In Classics is going away from our cable; I would say it's sad to see them go, but in the past year or so their programming has gotten pretty lousy. Fridays are the same four or five really terrible Doris Wishman movies (nudist camp movies aren't nearly as interesting as you might think) and Saturdays their entire lineup consists of reruns of Xena and The Incredible Hulk. All day long. I mean, one of those every once in a while is OK, but all day long? Good bye, Drive-In Classics.
Found Sound this week is kinda interesting; it's tracks from a record called "English As A Second Language" which is spoken word poetry slam kinda stuff from a lot of LA punk scenemakers circa the early 1980s. I picked it up at a record show mainly for the Raymond Pettibon cover. A lot of the tracks don't hold up quite so well - there's a level of pretension that spoken-word never really gets past in my mind - but the tracks we've put up are pretty straightforward stuff. The John Trubee cut is short and funny, just like the man himself! He's the guy that wrote that deliberately crazy song and had it recorded by the song-poem company. You know, about the blind man's something being something because he's blind.
Because yesterday was Wednesday there is also an ELEMENT OF SURPRISE strip from Shain! It's all mushy and stuff.
No big plans for the weekend other than some de-cluttering. Most of the big furniture moving is over for now. I need to go out and renew my driver's license and my health card, that's on the "to do" list. I got my permanent resident card renewed and boy, that's not a good photo on there. The guy at the office was like, "Well, you're stuck with it for five years." Gotta remind myself in 2014 to go to Glamorshots!!
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Date: 2010-01-29 12:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-29 01:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-04 10:47 pm (UTC)I remember reading about these spoken word deals in one of Henry Rollins's books, apparently Harvey Kubernik was into promoting shows around LA that threw together all kinds of random New Wave-ey people. Was where Rollins did his first talking-on-stage stuff.
DFS.
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Date: 2010-02-04 11:12 pm (UTC)