Archives: 2007 July

Archives: 2007 July

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July 31st, 2007

Psychic Children: Revealing the Intuitive Gifts and Hidden Abilities of Boys and Girls by Sylvia Brown

A childâ€™s world is comprised of extraordinary thingsâ€”vivid imaginations, imaginary friends, Zen-like naÃ¯vetÃ©, and a heightened sense of good and evil. In fact, it is now in vogue to proclaim that certain children are a direct channel to God, calling them Indigo Children or Crystal Children. But psychic Sylvia Browne knows these are merely fashionable labels. She recognizes that all children have unusual psychic gifts and abilitiesâ€”including each one of usâ€”but society has been conflicted about those gifts, at times cherishing them and often stifling them over the centuries.

Sylvia Browne writes from personal experience. After her own psychic abilities were revealed at age three, her mother tolerated but never encouraged her startling talent. Browneâ€™s own son would exhibit psychic abilities of his own as a toddler, which she fully embraced and supported. What Browne has learned over a lifetime is that psychic gifts are present at incredibly tender ages; they are, in her view, special blessings from God. Some children learn to develop them while others are pressed to ignore them. In Psychic Children she illuminates the phenomenon, issuing a call to society for more understanding and acceptance of these remarkable children.

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ps did you know amazon has a religion forum? They do, and it’s about as amazing as you’d imagine it would be.

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pee aych iz-eye, ell ell whiz-eye

July 30th, 2007

Ok, this show happened like two weeks ago, but I kept putting off saying anything about it until now. Anyway, Accent of the Future pulled a gig opening for a bunch of bands I had never heard of at Elastic, so I went and got to catch three cool dudes from Philedelphia on their summer tour.

Dave Smollen
Mincemeat or Tenspeed
Cars Will Burn

Each was a solo noise act, Dave did mic feedback through ring mods and CWB was some kind of noisy button pushing with flashing lights. Both of them were cool, but I really dug Mincemeat or Tenspeed. He just had a table of guitar pedals but managed to crank out total party jams, twisting knobs and slapping stomp switches into what sounded like guitar shredding or synth arpeggiator jamming or something like that. It was fairly mind-blowing, for me especially, it kind of rearranged my thoughts on what feedback loops and pedal noise are or could be. Check out Mechanics and the rest of the stuff on his myspace.

I bought this split LP and placed it with the rest of the vinyl I’ve purchased in the last few turntable-less years. It’s gorgeous, though, look at it:

They / some of them run Malleable Records, which is going to start putting out stuff pretty soon I guess. I picked up that compilation and it’s also really pretty, really top notch visual production, and they had a bunch of similarly styled art zines that looked really sweet… I think I was out of cash by that point. Great night overall, six bands for five bucks, can’t beat that, plus the smell of a room full of touring noise bands which is of course priceless.

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wow it’s been a while

July 27th, 2007

I have stuff I’ve been meaning to post but not right now I guess, so here’s this:

kBmoyfj16Uo

http://www.adachitomomi.com/a/video.html

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a waterfall of blood

July 16th, 2007

http://brokenpants.com/bloodwaterfall/mp3s/071507-death-metal.mp3
http://brokenpants.com/bloodwaterfall/mp3s/071507-industrial.mp3

The “industrial” one was a really sweet jam but I guess the tape ran out about three minutes in. Damn you, Yusaf (I was recording on a Cat Stevens Greatest Hits tape). Death Metal has I think the first vocals since 031307-singing-feedback.mp3, check it out if you like vocals. (update: no, 051307-long.mp3 def. has vox)

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words are very unnecessary

July 15th, 2007

Hell yeah, Piasa was so amazing last time, and obviously the others on the flyer aren’t bad either.

upcoming Chicago shows of note:

Mincemeat or Tenspeed, Dave Smolen, Cars Will Burn, Accent of the Future, Bag of Glass
Elastic
Monday, July 16th - 9pm

Tusco Terror, Sam Goldberg, Jason Soliday & Mark Solotroff
Enemy
Tuesday, July 17th - 8pm

blah blah blah JAPANTHER blah blah
at Mauled by Tigers Fest - it’s a punk type fest that’s all over town on a bunch of different days and there’re probably a bunch of cool bands but come on, Japanther

Singer, Oakeater, The Cairo Gang, Lights
Empty Bottle
Monday, July 23rd - 9:30pm

Animal Law, Jerk, Druids Of Huge, Number None
The Flower Shop
Friday, July 27th - 9pm

That last show will be sweet but I think I have to miss it to see TIMES NEW VIKING instead. They’re probably the best rock band right now, I’m mad I haven’t seen them yet so they probably outweigh four cool noise bands.

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it’s that laser blade attack

July 9th, 2007

http://brokenpants.com/bloodwaterfall/mp3s/070807-laser-blade.mp3

This just goes to prove a point, that sometimes if you haphazardly plug a bunch of pedals and walkmen into each other without really paying attention how and twist dials and touch the exposed circuit board of a walkman with your sweaty fingers, you can make funny noises.

hittin yall niggas with them ill ass prefixes, you feel me

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damn.

July 6th, 2007

A walkman with the bass turned all the way up on the eq sounds kind of wacky on tape, it really surprised me because I couldn’t hear any of that through my guitar amp. If you like the stupid bass throb at the beginning, it’s pretty much just that for four minutes, but it gets good later. Oh, I like the whole thing, call it minimalism maybe.

http://brokenpants.com/bloodwaterfall/mp3s/062807-bass.mp3

Also check out this video from ~1:00 onward, it’s really making me want to take drugs.

BTn2rtULhTI

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she’s aware of her implant

July 4th, 2007

They closed that Salvation Army at 55-whatever Clark. It sucks, that was like the closest one outside of Evanston, and it was kind of my favorite. I’m not sure why, it had the same stupid vcrs-and-nothing-else electronics selection as everywhere else in the city, but I liked it for some reason.

Here’s some cool shirts from another place:

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let me know if it’s black and bold

July 1st, 2007

I saw this movie called Paprika tonight. It’s an animated film from Japan with a silly plot and paper thin characters and blah blah. Caring about any of that stuff is missing the point, though, which is the amazing visuals - basically there’s this machine that lets people go into other people’s dreams, or something, then it goes haywire somehow, and everyone starts hallucinating and reality goes crazy for a while or something like that. The parade of appliances and toys and cartoon animals that appears again and again is the coolest friggin thing ever, I love it. Besides the great animation, I enjoyed the way they bend and blur and eventually totally disregard the line between fantasy and reality, an effect which thankfully was not ruined through over-explantion / -resolution. Overall, cool movie, see it if you get the chance.

Also on Airplay today we had this improv/noise trio called Squid Fist, who are actually really awesome. Electronics and percussion, there’s nothing like having a big pile of random metal and trash in front of you when it comes to making good clatter. Clatter rules. I have a feeling they perpetually alter the set-ups, and I haven’t listened to enough of their stuff to comment decisively on their sound, but the live set today kicked ass.

http://www.insidesmusic.com/squidfist/

Finally, check it out, I made two more of these things, and neither works right yet, but damn I love these lil dudes.

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