i don't even know how many records i own

lately i don't feel like updating constantly so much, so expect posts fewer and farther between maybe every five days at the most.

last thursday i went to salt lake to hang out with alex after work. we bought some records and had dinner at squatters. the records i got were the mister lonely soundtrack by j. spaceman and the sun city girls, darkness on the edge of town by bruce springsteen, and two king khan records. at squatters we had this pumpkin spice beer that was so good, like pumpkin pie as a drink. alex also let me borrow a shitload of movies, mostly asian foreign films. and the other day i rented a shitload of movies from blockbuster, i have so many movies to watch it almost feels like homework.

on saturday travis and i went to salt lake again to see alex, shop for records and see choke. we originally planned to see choke today, but thought it would be better to not do anything with our sunday and see it on saturday instead. i spent so much money on food, records, movie, beers, and to close the evening we went to the hookah bar, which was really lame. the records i got on saturday were original pressings of surfin' usa by the beach boys and danzig by danzig, songs in a&e by spiritualized, tnt, standards, and it's all around you by tortoise, music tapes for clouds and tornadoes by the music tapes, and burn, piano island, burn by the blood brothers. lots of good stuff, i'm close to filling three whole shelves, i don't even know how many records i own.

it will cost $4.99

i've completed my song for the split with and so on.... it's called "woolly mammoth's common cold defense". my longest song yet, nearly twenty min. of plugged in electric acoustic guitar and sweet soothing noise. chaz is finishing up his songs and then we're going to do one together.

i'm also putting out my ep titled glitter on your cheekbones very soon, before the weekend. it's three songs i did this last spring and one new one called "computer death blues". the ep will be in an edition of 30 on cd-r, it will cost $4.99.

i love my boss rc-2 loop station

i won the ariel pink record, and paid probably too much money for it, but i'm glad to have won it anyway. grats to me. i also bought a real expensive boss loop effects pedal yesterday and again glad to have it despite the price tag. i made a song with it today called "lay with me goddess" it's my newest single that's backed with another song i made the other day called "milk and honey bath", these songs along with another single, my ep, and my 90 min. cassette will be available soon through my newly created illegitimate label, well behaved tapes. the only wb tapes release available thus far is my "in dark tunnels" single. also coming soon is a split i'm putting out with my friend chaz' project, and so on... called, elephant bones.

and for the movies update, last week i watched terminator 2. i'm on my way to being ready for terminator salvation's theatrical release. before the weekend i watched right at your door. and last night i watched teeth.

trying out this ebay thing

so i've only bid on and won one record through ebay with the account i have now, so far i've done mucho watching, very little bidding. the record i won recently was mount eerie by the microphones. i had an account a long time ago that i no longer have access to and used it to buy some rare videogames, that was years ago. anyway now it's the present and i just clicked the buy it now on a still sealed copy of love you by the beach boys. and i'm bidding on a still sealed copy of underground by ariel pink's haunted graffiti, hope i win it, it's limited to 300 copies.

i've been banned from last.fm

so i signed onto last.fm recently, it's been a long time since i've used that website and let me tell you fuck that website. first off i registered don't make me with last.fm a while ago but stopped using it because i got fed up with the music manager that i'm supposed to manage don't make me's details with and deleted don't make me from their stats or so i thought, glitchy broken shit.

so anyway i came back to just be a regular user recently and i was listening to my songs, don't make me songs and to my surprise it never got deleted don't make me was still filed away with all their music stats and the old picture i uploaded was the still the default, i remembered the old login information and went on with that account to change the picture and i just figured oh well. i continued to use my new account and tried to claim don't make me as mine with the new account, didnt work they wanted me to email them and give them reason why i should claim it, gay.

now the thing to get me banned, i was listening to rob crow's lactose adept. when i looked at my top artists there he was and as crow, rob because thats how i tag my shit, unfortunately it had this annoying and unsightly picture of the last.fm rules stating that i should retag and keep the stats clean, because thats not how your supposed to tag if your gonna be a part of last.fm, super gay. and it was posted by some ugly brazilian chick who goes by the username 'Tchuly' on some crusade to keep the stats clean, fuck her. some people look through the d's in their record collections to find bob dylan and some people look through the b's thats just how it is, who's last.fm and Tchuly to try and change that? seriously fuck them hard.

so i shoutboxed Tchuly and harrassed her a bit demanding that she take down the keep stats clean image so that the real picture of rob crow that i uploaded would become the default. i attempt to log in about and hour ago to find that i've been banned from last.fm and i bet don't make me along with a photo of my face is still on their stupid fucking website, super fucking gay.

wb tapes

ok i decided on a name for my label, well behaved tapes. i like that it's the same initials of another record label that could probably sue me for it.

audio cassettes on the brain

here is an article on the subject of noise called noise techniques from the cassette mythos written by some guy named robin james in 1990. interesting read.

so i want to start my own tape/cd-r label to put out my new album and other things i've done, don't make me and others. i don't really give a shit about it being legitimate, to me you're a label if your putting music into the world all you need to do other than that is christen it with a name. i'm just not sure what that name should be yet. i was thinking make it happen tapes or recordings or whatever after the mariah carey song from the album, emotions. but i think the name is taken and i'd rather not use a name thats already claimed. i'm going to keep brainstorming on that one.

i'm going to call it 100% cotton

i think i'm going to make an album full of up with people songs and take care of our planet songs and christian songs and some syrupy love songs. probably the best album i'll ever record.

successful vegas

vegas was successful, we got 7 cars at both auctions. we ended up flying there and driving back because it was about the same cost and we got to bring one more car back with us. we stayed at sam's town hotel and casino, nice place. it had a century theatre, bowling alley, multiple restaurants and a fake outdoor that was really indoor park with a water and laser light show. we also had some time to shop on the strip, i got a pull over hoodie from h&m in the miracle mile mall. we got back around 5pm yesterday. that evening i called up travis and we went to see burn after reading with my sister, jaime and nick. burn after reading is fargo 2 in spirit, funny movie.

here today i woke up around twelve and have been listening to some records, brian wilson presents smile and smile by boris, i'm going to the mall now to buy some shoes.

it's been a good one

there many good things about today and i've been in generally good spirits too. the weather was perfectly cloudy with a smattering of rain. i got to work late this morning due to a late night playing spore but my dad was cool with it because it was in fact my birthday, and you're allowed to be late to work on your birthday, his words.

dinner was great, sushi, edamame, fuji chicken, half of a sapporo and a squatters india pale ale at the happy sumo. so filling, so good. and pie and presents, my brother jeff gave me a miley cyrus tshirt from when he went with his girls to see her at the fourth of july, stadium of fire where she performed, they all think it's real funny that i lke her music. my sister julie unaware of jeff's gift also gave me a gag gift of hannah montannna pens with a discount double feature dvd, the tell-tale heart and a wes craven's chiller, in a hannah montanna gift bag no less. jaime and nick gave me 23 dollars for my twenty third birthday and i got to open those beach boys records my mom bought for me. i cant wait to listen to all of them but it will have to wait till morning since it's late and i'm tired.

my parents and i also watched the premier of fringe tonight, i've been anticipating it since i heard about it during lost season 4, it's going to be the next best tv show after lost i'm sure.

tomorrow i'm leaving for vegas with my parents to get some cars from two of the auto auctions down there. should be fun, i'm gonna play spore the whole way there and driving cars back nets me a little extra on my next paycheck. we do the vegas thing pretty often, it's nice to get out of town once in a while.

so all in all it's been a good one, another year older.

ictoadnftl 2

another best of list.

1. beach boys/brian wilson/dennis wilson and mount eerie records came in the mail today.
2. my new computer.
3. playing spore on my new computer.
4. my birthday is tomorrow.
5. i completed recording my new album, coronal transient.
6. discovering tape.com where i can order blank cassettes, any length, multiple colors, for cheap.
7. reading alan moore's run on swamp thing, it's so good.

mountain goat

mountain goats are coming. and they and when i say they i mean he's bringing tour exclusive vinyl with him. satanic messiah, a 2x7" limited to 666 copies and a split/collaborative ep with kaki king called black pear tree, it's about the mushroom kingdom. i really hope i can get both of these releases, and pray that the satanic messiah 2x7" doesn't sell out in the four shows before the salt lake one. theres an article on pitchfork about it here.

saga of the swamp thing, part III

so i've been reading alan moore's run on swamp thing, i really like it the writing and art style are just perfect. i haven't gotten too far into it yet, it's pretty long with six volumes total. i'm at the part where swamp thing just found out that he's not alec holland but a plant creature infected with alec's consciousness, needles to say he's having a hard time dealing with it and almost gives up trying to be human. i know i said i was going to start reading swamp thing around when i started this blog, but other forms of entertainment got in the way. i'm glad i'm reading it now though, like every other alan moore comic i've read, it's really good.

ready for the house, part II

my jandek record, ready for the house came in the mail today, i'm listening to it now.

mount eerie

we attended the mount eerie show at kilby court in salt lake last night after having dinner and beers at squatters and getting free tickets for buying records at slowtrain. the show was generally uncomfortable pre phil taking the stage due to the kind of environment present at his shows, ugly clothing and the air of pretense, i hate phil elverum's fans. also speaking to a person who sings to you through your speakers all the time is always a little awkward, i asked him if he had the fog movies with him and he didn't, said said he forgot and theres a big box of them at home and that i should buy one online. instead i bought rope or guillotine by another band on his label, the spectacle and a tshirt after the show was over, i think it is the first shirt he has made available as mount eerie and is a tour exclusive.

i started enjoying the show more after phil began his set, though there was this couple who thought it was ok to stand in the middle of a room full of people sitting. anyone behind them couldn't see the show and it didn't help that this girls ass was huge, this blocked the view for a number of people there including me. after a few songs i moved out of the way. he played some songs off his friends band, thanksgiving's record, welcome nowhere. he called that part of the show the thanksgiving tribute band, funny guy. then he went on to play his own material shrouded in fog, most of the songs were new and are presumably going to end up on his "colossal sounding new album" in 2009, wind's poem.

i hope the new records that i ordered from his website arrive soon, my jesu split with battles of mice finally came yesterday, so that was cool. 

computer games

i haven't played my xbox 360 for a while, it's the only gaming system i own and i have three games, mass effect, gta IV, and operation darkness. i beat mass effect, it was awesome, one of the best games i ever played. i got through a good portion of gta IV, and i'm taking operation darkness at my leisure. i played it for a while the other night, it's a turn based strategy rpg and a more cerebral game than the other two. i cant play it straight through like mass effect, it would take me forever and i'll get too distracted by other games. 

now that i have my own fancy new computer i need to get spore. it's coming out oh so soon, on the 7th, i didn't know that until i saw the review on gamespy. i've been anticipating playing spore for sometime now.

ready for the house

tomorrow we head to salt lake for the mount eerie show, it's just the thing to kick off my favorite month. i'm hoping phil's going to have some of those boring fog movies with him, thats about the only thing of his available that i don't have and i really want it.

i just finished getting everything all situated on my new laptop computer, made the recovery disks, transferred all my personal files including all those mp3s i've been downloading, customized all my settings, backed up everything, and even bought a lap desk because my legs always hurt if i sit with a laptop on my lap for too long. so yeah i dig the new os, vista is pretty nice.

i'll also mention i ordered another record, one by a guy i've never heard before, jandek. supposedly he influenced a number of lo fi artists, like the mountain goats and smog, so i think i'm going to like him. the record is called ready for the house, a repressing of his first record, it was made in like '79 or something. the guy has way too many albums and all of them except the one i ordered are no longer available on vinyl. there is a website that has all the known info on jandek called guide to jandek, theres not much known about him he's a pretty mysterious guy.

new computer

my dad helped me buy a new computer. spent $500 on a sony vaio laptop, he payed for the rest. i'm pretty excited about this.

long live the new flesh i'm a lead farmer, motherfucker!

i watched videodrome sunday night. david cronenberg's movies are perfect. i also saw tropic thunder with my uncle yesterday. i think we are in a golden age of comedies right now.

how labour day weekend started

my aunt diana and uncle norm rolled into town for the weekend, it's been fun having them around. i went shopping with my aunt, mom, and sisters yesterday while my uncle, dad, and brother went to a byu football game, and yeah i would rather shop with a bunch of women then go to a football game. also it was cool of my aunt to buy me a couple records for my upcoming birthday. later we had dinner at p.f. chang's.

on friday travis and i went to the provo fye to browse their record selection, they put them in boxes now, they have that many. travis payed so much money for the white album by the beatles and i bought on avery island by neutral milk hotel, i'm listening to it now. after fye we went to a show at this bar in provo called abg's.

my friend joe is in the band that performed, he asked me to try and make it this time and i did. they're called the split reactions. travis bought us an apricot ale each, those beers are really good. the rest of the beers were free thanks to joe receiving free drink tickets for playing. margaret who is also in the band showed up with her friend allie who i've never met before, she only just moved here recently. and so this was the company at our table. the first band to play was a local band called the alligators. they played their set of sugary pop songs and you couldn't hear them sing and despite this i thought they were really good. the split reactions did their thing second and played well. i also got to see a few friends i haven't seen for a while, it was nice to be remembered and welcomed.