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- All things Hydra Head - Jesu "Heartache" Ep - Herman Melville "Moby Dick" book - Interpol "Antics" album - Björk "Medulla" album - Converge "You Fail Me" album - Enslaved "Isa" album - Mayhem "Chimera" album - Frederick Turner "In the Land of the Temple Caves" book - Tim Hecker "Mirages" album - Everlovely Lightningheart live - Isis / These Arms Are Snakes US tour - Sunn0))) "White 2" album - "Curb Your Enthusiasm" Season 2 DVDs - Mare live - Xasthur "Telepathic with the Deceased" album - Leviathan "Tentacles of Whorror" album |
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1) my 2) 2004 3) top 4) ten 5) is 6) eclectic 7) and 8) absolutely 9) fucking 10) perfect |
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1) Woven Hand "Consider the Birds" 2) E Town Concrete "Made For War" 3) Mayhem "Chimera" 4) Blut Aus Nord "The Work Which Transforms God" 5) These Arms Are Snakes "Whatever the hell it's called" 6) Califone "Heron King Blues" 7) Isis "Panopticon" 8) Sear Bliss "Glory and Perdition" 9) Forgotten Tomb "Loves Burial Ground" 10) Interpol "Antics" 11) Kayo Dot "Choirs of the Eye" 12) Magyar Posse "Kings of Time" 13) Fennesz "Venice" 14) Menomena "I am the Fun Blame Monster" 15) Buried at Sea "She Lived for Others But Dies for Us" 12" 16) Piano Magic "The Troubled Sleep of Piano Magic" 17) Satyricon "Volcano" 18) Behemoth "Demigod" 19) Six Organs of Admittance "The Manifestation" 20) The Velvet Teen "Elysium" 21) Demonoid "Riders of the Apocalypse" 22) Oren Ambarchi "Grapes from the Estate" 23) Deathspell Omega "Si Monumentum Requires Circums" 24) "Lost in Translation" (movie) 25) "City of God" (movie) 26) "Arrested Development" Season 1 DVD |
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I was hoping to have time to buy a bunch of stuff that are on my list of things to buy, listen to them a bunch, decide which I like and which I only sorta like and then send in a complete list. Absent that ... If you moved to my neighborhood and walked down to the Steinway St. subway stop, no doubt you'd find a blanket spread out selling bootleg DVD's and hot mix tapes like this one: Justin's 2004 Jammy Jams - "In Fiction" - Isis from Panopticon - "05:26" - Switchblade from Switchblade - "Pigs of the Roman Empire" - Melvins + Lustmord from Pigs of the Roman Empire - "Rahina 1/Mayhem 1" - Panasonic from Kesto - "Black Little Stray" - Shannon Wright from Over the Sun - "La Stanza Bianca" - These Arms are Snakes from Oxeneers - "Hope Street" - Converge from You Fail Me - "Stop Dat" - Dizzee Rascal from Boy in Da Corner - "Something for the Mrs." - Old Man Gloom from Christmas - "IP Man" - The Ex from Turn - "Slow Drug" - PJ Harvey from Uh Huh Her And the Number One Slamma Jam of the Year - - "Tuff Babylon" - Shitmat from Killababylongcutz Ed note: 2004 was a crummy year. It's EASY to come up with a list of 10 bad things that happened this year - the 2004 US Presidential Election, the Indian Ocean tsunami, ODB dying, the continuing war in Iraq, the International CXT, this, the Boston Red Sox winning the Series, Quantegy going belly up, Darfur, the UFSCW strike result and on and on. But I'm an optimist. So rather than bitch about it being a lousy year, here's my list of 10 good things that happened in 2004: - US Congress blocks Powell's bid for media consolidation. Even better that in 2005 the White House backs away as well, so it's likely that this will die without having to go in front of Scalia, that prick. - NASA images from Saturn and Mars. I am not yet convinced that NASA is a waste of money, and these images are great. - Anyone who declared it legal to marry someone of the same sex. This may have turned to political poison, but a tactical error does not mean that those who took a stand on this were wrong. Our grandkids will be embarrassed that this was even an issue. - Ben Calabrese. Arrived at the beginning of the year and getting smoother day by day. - Anti-RNC NYC. The convention itself was painful, but for a few days, NYC was a great place to be. A zillion things going on each day, some stupid, some brilliant, and almost all fueled by hope. And Danny Glover at the Labor march was heroic. - Barak Obama takes on the comers and wins. It was great to see this guy's challengers melt away as he ascended to win the Senate. Especially great that the best guy came out ahead in an Illinois Democratic primary. - Spitzer. #1 elected official in the US. - Campaign work by volunteers against Bush. We lost, but there were still tens of thousands of people who decided not to sit around. This was a life-changing thing for lots of people. - Hawking refutes black hole theory. Very inspiring for a bunch of reasons. Main one is this: in a year when dishonest critics of evolution were packing small town school boards with party-line drones, a brilliant scientist is willing to admit his own theory is untenable. Science moves forward as a result. Hawking is awesome. - Motor Trend names the Prius as the 2004 Car of the Year. I don't love Toyota or Motor Trend or even cars, but this is consumer technology research doing the right thing. |
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In chronological order: - Kurt Ballou giving me a great deal on his old Pro Tools rig and forever changing the way I record music - spending quality time with Andrew Schneider recording Cave In demos and bitching about the music industry until the wee hours of the morning - Cave In being dropped from RCA and walking away from it with a small bit of change - skateboarding and somehow NOT getting seriously injured in the process - collaborating with Kevin Shurtleff of Scissorfight on my new solo recordings - finding some good people to work on releasing the New Idea Society album that my friend Mike and I labored on for almost an entire three years of our lives - working on the Verge-In / Virgin / however-the-hell-you-spell-it project at God City Studio - Cave In / Converge U.S. tour - seeing Isis play live for the first time in almost three years to a sold out crowd in Boston - recording some tunes with Tracy Wilson for an album she has in the works under the name Ringfinger |
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MY TOP TEN LIST FOR 2004 10) Oxbow acoustic duo's rendition of GIRL on WFMU 9) www.skullgame.com 8) Hate, hate and yet even more hate 7) walking again (versus not) 6) my cock 5) cash 4) Interpol (the band, not the agency) 3) Being a Negro. On drugs. 2) Fistfighting and my biggest deal in 2004 1) Murder thank you. thank you very much. |
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2004 Top 15, no order: - Domori Chocolate! 75% cocao couvertures for flourless cakes www.domori.com - Frii guitar - cracks and frets fixed, new bridge saddle, lowered action (circa 1958 F-hole jazz style handmade acoustic guitar from Umeå, Sweden, owned and played for 30 + years) - Brian Wilson, "Smile" - Conifer, s/t - Ornette Coleman Quartet at Masonic Auditorium, San Francisco - Sparks at The Independent, San Francisco. He still has his high range (!) - The Black Rider at ACT San Francisco - György Ligeti, Le Grand Macabre at San Francisco Opera - Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia - Crayfish party with old family friends, Stockholm, Sweden - Homemade Lemon Drops: lemons fresh from the tree, Stolichnaya vodka, Cointreau, sugar. mmm. - Martin D-18 guitar: new bridge saddle and Fishman pickup, heavier (medium) gage John Pearse strings (new to me and great), and playing only this 1977 acoustic steel string on tour in October, including stopping at Martin factory in Nazareth, PA and confirming they still have my original owner warranty. - Elisabeth - Big Sur, California. One part: naked in natural spring hot baths outside at 2am on the ocean cliff. - Our badass cats |
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- KHANATE touring NORWAY and getting ABRUPTUM comparison comments from GORGOROTH / ORCUSTUS members in Bergen - SUNN O))) all activities & collaborations - LEVIATHAN "Tentacles of Whorror" - Deathprod box - HATEFOREST & DRUDKH vinyl - XASTHUR discovery - scoring BURZUM "Aske" on wax after 11 years of searching - Travis Bean guitar and SUNN O))) Model T amplification - WOLF EYES stealing a gift rhubarb pie from Anderson at Empty Bottle in Chicago, thus earning the nickname WOLF PIES - Kevin Drumm & John Wiesse live aktions - book: reading "1000 years of Solitude" by Marquez for the first time |
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Top Ten of 2004 1) Getting married in Multnomah County, Oregon. 2) Drinking a beer at sunset at Devil's Tower, Wyoming 3) Wilco "A Ghost is Born" 4) Deerhoof "Milkman" 5) Drive by Truckers "Dirty South" 6) Oxbow / These Arms Are Snakes / Isis at Great American Music Hall 7) Rediscovering my Caspar Brotzmann Massaker and Dog Faced Hermans albums 8) News of the Son Volt reunion 9) Melvins / Lustmord "Pigs of the Roman Empire" 10) Six weeks of hot sauce and parking lots Bottom Ten of 2004 1) The Defense of Marriage Act 2) Red state voters 3) My ongoing lifestyle of debt and poverty 4) Reading music magazines or watching MTV 5) My ongoing paranoia of van theft/breakdown 6) Trying to drink 27 drinks in 27 hours on my 27th birthday (made it to 24) 7) John from Since By Man accomplishing this feat a week later without dry heaving or trying to punch his bandmates 8) That one band that just got signed to a major label after playing 4 shows who sound like Texas is the Reason mixed with At the Drive In with hardcore breakdowns that has the fashionable singer with the asymetrical moppy haircut who screams and the guy on guitar with the endorsments who does melodic back up vocals and a fan based comprised of about 90% 15 year old girls. 9) The Canadian border at Blaine, Washington 10) Fox News and Clear Channel |
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1) Interpol "Antics" 2) All Tommorow's Parties 3) Aereogramme "Seclusion" 4) Jesu "Heartache" 5) Boredoms "Sea Drum" 6) Pinback "Summer In Abaddon" 7) Twilight Singers "She Loves You" / live in LA and Boston 8) Curiosa Tour 9) "Gozu" Directed by Tikashi Miike 10) "Twentynine Palms" Directed by Bruno Dumont |
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Some things I liked about 2004 by Bryant Clifford Meyer in random order: - listening to and seeing interpol, the boredoms, sonic youth, neurosis, aereogramme - listening to smile by brian wilson then running into him in a shopping center and being terrified to approach him because he looked so whacked out. - festivus! - trying to play at all tomorrow's parties, coachella, curioso thing, belgium festival. - us tour with these arms are snakes etc. best tour ever, man. - travels to Japan and Ireland - the red sox and patriots. (hey, i lived in boston for 9 years, i can't help it...) - voting against bush (and he can only be president for 4 more years, never again after that. ever.) - winter in los angeles. (it's nice, i like.) |
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In no order ... 1) "Napoleon Dynamite." 2) The NWOBHM. 3) My new Judas Priest tattoo. 4) Moving in with my girlfriend, Sarah. 5) Playing ATP and touring Europe with Peli'. 6) People buying and actually LIKING Tusk's records. 7) Trevor passing out from pot smoke in Amsterdam. 8) New Year's in London with Jodie and his foul-mouthed cohorts. 9) Getting to play with and hang with Isis, These Arms, Jesu, Capricorns, and many other bands dear to me. 10) Finally getting the Zeppelin box set. |
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1) headbuttthedarkness "112004" (lives took) 2) Mono "Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined" (Temporary Residence Ltd.) 3) Challenger "Give People What They Want in Lethal Doses" (Jade Tree) 4) Tarentel "We Move Through Weather" (Temporary Residence Ltd.) 5) Fly Pan Am "N'ecoutez Pas" (Constellation) 6) Roy "Big City Sin and Small Town Redemption" (Fuelled by Ramen) 7) Breather Resist "Charmer" (Jade Tree) 8) Tim Hecker "Mirages" (Alien8) 9) Wolf and Cub split 7" with whoever the other band is, I can't read their fucking name (doesn't seem to be a label name, either) 10) Neurosis "The Eye of Every Storm" (Neurot) 11) Cave In live 12) Growing live and "Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light" (Kranky) 13) The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-la-la Band live 14) The out-of-state work conference where Laurent got so drunk that he sang kareoke for forty year old women and then had to be hospitalized for alchohol poisoning the next morning 15) Melvins with Jello Biafra live 16) Converge "You Fail Me" (Deathwish) 17) Dean Roberts "And the Black Moths Play the Grand Cinema" (reissue on Staubgold - best reissue of the year!) 18) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly DVD (second best reissue of the year!) 19) Pixies live 20) Jakob, No Funeral, and Dakota/Dakota show at the Subterranean - best sets I've seen by all those bands. Great fucking show. 21) Aaron Turner wandering around the Metro with his guitar strapped on for the full two hours preceeding our Chicago show with Isis & their subsequent performance [their album "Panopticon" (Robotic Empire) was pretty hot, too - esp. track 3) 22) Apparently Aaron thinks I ought to add Leatherface "Dog Disco" (BYO) to my top ten list. So here it is (disclosure: I haven't heard this album) "There are some bad people on the rise/ they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives" - Morrissey (who, incidentally, released the number one most disappointing album of the year. Kudos!) |
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Albums: 1) JAKOB "Cale:Drew" 1) AUTOLUX "Future Perfect" 2) JESU s/t 3) PIG DESTROYER "Terrifier" 4) NEUROSIS "Eye of Every Storm" 5) DARKTHRONE "Sardonic Wrath" 6) CONVERGE "You Fail Me" 7) SUICIDE NOTE "Too Sick to Dance..Forever Fucked" 8) BREATHER RESIST "Charmer" and the Suicide Note / Breather Resist split Lp! 9) KAYO DOT "Choirs of the Eye" 10) BATTLES all their damn EP'S Best Live Shows/ Live bands 2004: Keelhaul in Cleveland, Khanate in San Fran/ L.A., Interpol, Battles, Kayo Dot, Breather Resist in Louiseville, Jesu in U.K especially Glasgow, Knut in Geneva, Cave In, Mono, Mastodon, Hot Snakes, Fantômas, Growing / Orthrelm, These Arms / Isis / Sweet Cobra show. |
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Hits of 2004: - Jesu "Heartache" - Neurosis "The Eye of Every Storm" - Isis "Panopticon" - Sunn0))) "White2" - Sonic Youth "Sonic Nurse" - Hot Snakes "Audit in Progress" - Growing "Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light" - Gonzales "Piano Solo" - meeting Mick "Mad Fisherman" Harris in person (@ the Scorn show in Fribourg) - Nick Oliveri joining Brant Bjork onstage to perform Kyuss' "Gardenia" - having most of our favourite experimentalists reprocess Knut music - new album recorded in a single week-end - Killswitch Engage "The End of Heartache" (and feeling no shame) - Keane "Hopes and Fears" (and feeling...) - Sixtoo "Chewing on Glass and other Miracle Cures" - Madvillain "Madvillainy" - Mike Ladd "Nostalgialator" - Viktor Vaughn "Venomous Villain" - cLOUDDEAD "Ten" - DŠlek "Absence" - Daedelus "Exquisite Corpse" (advance) - Elliott Smith "From a Basement on the Hill" - Gravenhurst "Black Holes in the Sand" - Comets on Fire "Blue Cathedral" - Nasum "Shift" - Enslaved "Isa" - Hella "The Devil Isn't Red" - "Song of the Silent Land" Constellation comp - Jeff Buckley "Grace" reissue Live kicks: Lightning Bolt, Slayer, Zeke, Circle, Charlemagne Palestine, Sonic Youth, Bohren und der Club of Gore, Dälek, Mike Ladd, Meshuggah with 8-string guitars (messing with my bowels) Misses of 2004: - November 2nd, USA - Brando, Russ Meyer, John Peel and Dimebag RIP - Manic Street Preachers "Lifeblood" |
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- Khanate all / live - Sunn0))) "White2" / live - Thrones live - Telefon Tel Aviv "Map of What Is Effortless" - Enslaved "Isa" - Satyricon "Volcano" - Harvey Milk "The Kelly Sessions" - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "Abbatoir Blues" / "The Lyre of Orpheus" - Isis "Panopticon" / live - Converge "You Fail Me" / live - Mastodon "Leviathan" / live - HH/TR: Jesu, Pelican, Old Man Gloom, Mare, Harkonen / These Arms Are Snakes, 27, Big Business. . . - Björk and the massive amount of audio/video available - Múm "Summer Make Good", "Dusk Log", live - Explosions in the Sky "The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place" / live - Mono "Walking Cloud..." / live - Slowdive "Catch the Breeze" - V/A: Morr Music "Blue Skied An' Clear" - Fennesz "Venice" - Pan American "Quiet City" - Tim Hecker "Mirages" - PJ Harvey "Uh Huh Her" - Andee & Aquarius Records - "Arrested Development" Season 1 DVDs - Al Franken "Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them" - Alaska: Seward, Moose Pass, Talkeetna, Denali, Arctic Circle, Barrow, North Pole, Delta Junction, Dot Lake, Haines, Skagway, Gustavus, Boundary, Chicken. Barrow = FUCKING TREMENDOUS! - Yukon: Burwash Landing, Destruction Bay, Haines Junction, Whitehorse, Johnson's Crossing, Carmacks, Mayo, Dawson. Whitehorse = "Home of the World's Largest, Plumpest, Juciest, Roundest Head on Earth." (that belonging to a child less than 1 year in age) - Seeing the Aurora Borealis for the first time - Hasselblad 501CM NO THANKS - FW Sehnal [ 01.13.19 - 10.09.04 ] - 19 Rainy Days in Alaska - Broken Hasselblad (lens) in Alaska - Broken Hasselblad (body) in South Carolina - The now empty QPS Que M3 80 GB Hard Drive |
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