silly monkey

Happy New Year!

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Whoa, dude, trippy...

embrace the random xliv

Choose your Super Villain name.

quote of the day

No one has ever, ever paid admission to see an excuse.
-- Mark Borchardt

imaginary album cover viii

...if I was on the TVT label back in the 90's

feels like sleep

texture

nature is cool, beavis

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Galactose

For maximum effect, click on image to view fullscreen. Use your arrow keys to change the colors and parameters. Turn on your favorite ambient disc, and float through the cosmos.

"Send me up a drink," jokes Major Tom. The count goes on...

buddha machine 3.0

Yes!

smörgåsbord

A smidgen of acoustic:
181. Rodrigo y Gabriela -- s/t
182. Suzanne Vega -- 99.9 F° (CD single)
183. Suzanne Vega -- Close-Up, Vol. 2 - People & Places

A helping of electric:
184. Fish -- Pigpens Birthday
185. Phantom City -- Shiva Recoil Live/Unlive
186. Black Flag -- In My Head
187. Suede -- Attitude (CD single)
188. The Smiths -- The Sound of the Smiths (2-CD edition)

A dash of electronic:
189. Emeralds -- Does It Look Like I'm Here?
190. Russell Mills/Undark -- Strange Familiar

A splash of ambient:
191. Yellow6/Absent Without Leave -- split release (two 3" discs)
192. Oren Ambarchi -- Grapes from the Estate
193. Eluvium -- when i live by the garden and the sea
194. Gorn, Levin, Marotta -- From the Caves of the Iron Mountain

A dollop of jazz:
195. Either/Orchestra -- Mood Music for Time Travelers
196. Miles Davis -- The Complete Columbia Recordings
of Miles Davis and John Coltrane (6-CD set)
197. Uri Caine Ensemble -- Mahler in Toblach
198. Uri Caine Ensemble -- Plays Mozart

And a heaping plate of Zorn:
199. John Zorn -- The Circle Maker
200. John Zorn -- Angelus Novus
201. John Zorn -- Ipsissimus
202. John Zorn -- Songs from the Hermetic Theater
203. John Zorn -- Chimeras
204. JZ/Masada Quintet featuring Joe Lovano --
Stolas: Book of Angels, Volume 12

Bon Appétit

nonsense of the day

How can the smallish rod flip under the flour?
Life toes the line without the blank breakdown.
How can the year sketch life?
Monkeys argue above my hardware.
Our estate gossips above the air.
Life mandates monkeys over an autobiography.

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stuck

thought of the day

There's a fine line between inspired and insipid.

scratching that itch

176. The Alarm -- Declaration
177. The Alarm -- Strength
178. Scott Johnson -- Rock Paper Scissors
179. Judas Priest -- Stained Class (remastered)
180. Travis & Fripp -- Live at Coventry Cathedral

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new tunes

172. eels -- Tomorrow Morning (with bonus EP)
173. Tom McRae -- The Alphabet of Hurricanes
174. hammock -- chasing after shadows...living with the ghosts
175. Peelander-Z -- P-TV-Z

spot the typo

Ah, the dead lawns of Cleveland

three for me, yippy

169. John Zorn -- Filmworks X: In the Mirror of Maya Deren
170. Iron Maiden -- The Final Frontier
171. John Coltrane -- Classic Quartet: Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings
(8-cd set)

parklife

Yerba Buena Gardens

skull island

the hottest game in the land

Rasputin's in Berkeley

used treasures

151. The Velvet Underground -- Peel Slowly and See (5-cd box set)
152. Various Artists -- Hall of Mirrors (acid/space/krautrock)
153. The Dead C -- Secret Earth
154. The Dead C -- Future Artists
155. Human Drama -- Pinups
156. Human Drama -- The World Inside
157. David Bowie -- Thursday's Child (two-disc cd single)
158. The Thorns -- The Thorns
159. Grateful Dead -- Infrared Roses
160. Mastodon -- Leviathan
161. The Church -- Starfish
162. John Zorn -- Astronome
163. John Zorn -- Xu Feng
164. John Zorn/Bar Kokhba -- Masada Chamber Ensembles
165. JZ/Jamie Saft Trio -- Astaroth: Book of Angels Volume 1
166. Midlake -- The Courage of Others
167. Donnie Darko -- Original Motion Picture Score
168. The Smokin' Fez Monkeys -- Live in Their Natural Habitat

smoke face (profile)

drip drop

truth in advertising

he's got class

the anti-giving tree

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reflection

bong...james bong

robot relieving himself

he's at it again

135. Electric Masada -- 50⁴
136. John Zorn -- Redbird
137. Herbie Hancock -- Head Hunters (remastered)
138. Cheap Trick -- Cheap Trick (remastered)
139. Tangerine Dream -- Sorcerer
140. Eluvium -- Talk Amongst the Trees
141. The Residents -- Meet the Residents
142. John Lurie -- African Swim and Manny & Lo
143. Traffic -- John Barleycorn Must Die (remastered)
144. Emeralds -- Emeralds
145. Brian McBride -- When The Detail Lost Its Freedom
146. Soft Machine -- Third (remastered with bonus live disc)
147. Prince -- Sign "O" The Times
148. Celtic Frost -- To Mega Therion
149. Tears For Fears -- Chronicles (first three albums)
150. Ensemble Modern Plays Frank Zappa --
Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions

the bug

black squirrel

untitled

portraits of adam west

the final frontier

professor zoom

trio

two more

133. Triptykon -- Eparistera Daimones
134. Tricky -- Nearly God

tired of swimming

dear lord...

...where did I put my weed wacker?

now reading

on the road again

sonic excursions

Musical booty from San Francisco:

112. John Zorn -- IAO
113. John Zorn -- O'o
114. John Zorn -- Madness, Love and Mysticism
115. Troyka -- s/t
116. Herbie Hancock -- Sextant
117. Brad Mehldau -- Songs: The Art of the Trio, Vol. 3
118. The Bad Plus -- These Are The Vistas
119. Adrian Belew -- side four (live)
120. King Crimson -- Live at Summit Studios, 1972
121. Larry Tuttle -- Through the Gates
122. Terry Riley/GVSU New Music Ensemble -- In C Remixed
123. SubArachnoid Space -- Delicate Membrane
124. Jonathan Coleclough & Tim Hill -- beech for john and miho
125. Pole -- 2
126. Suzanne Vega -- When Heroes Go Down (CD single)
127. Lustmord -- The Place Where The Black Stars Hang (remastered)
128. Brian Eno -- January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now

And a few online purchases that were awaiting me upon my return:

129. Sun Kil Moon -- Admiral Fell Promises (with bonus EP)
130. John Zorn -- Godard/Spillane
131. Ghostwriter -- The Continuing Adventures
of the Strange Sound Association
132. Queen -- A Night At The Opera (5.1 edition)

tree frogs

behind the waterfall

Yerba Buena Gardens

keys to the kingdom?

abandoned bumble

I spotted this guy on a walking path in Golden Gate Park--apparently he had lost his bounce.

aquatic

California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco

the colors, man, the colors

Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco

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California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco

Psst -- I'm home :)

beating the heat

Time to escape the humidity of Cleveland for a week. Yes, it's San Francisco time again! Stay cool, everyone, and I'll have plenty of photos when I return.

how they stack up

What music have I purchased in the past couple months? I'm glad that you asked. First, I've been on a Morrissey kick lately:

85. Morrissey -- The HMV/Parlophone Singles '88-'95 (3-CD set)
86. Morrissey -- There Is A Light That Never Goes Out [live] (CD single)
87. Morrissey -- You Have Killed Me (CD single)
88. Morrissey -- Maladjusted (remastered with bonus tracks)

So of course, I had to balance these discs with the anti-Morrissey:

89. Henry Rollins -- Everything
90. Henry Rollins -- Black Coffee Blues
91. Rollins Band -- A Clockwork Orange Stage

Then I started feeling a little proggy/krauty/spacey:

92. Nektar -- The Dream Nebula: best of 1971-1975
93. Klaus Schulze -- Cyborg (remastered)
94. RPWL -- World Through My Eyes
95. Various Artists -- To Cry You a Song (Jethro Tull tribute)
96. Ian Anderson -- Divinities: Twelve Dances with God
97. Peter Hammill -- Over (remastered)
98. Peter Hammill -- The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (remastered)

And then a bit of jazz:

99. Tony Williams -- Life Time
100. Miles Davis -- The Complete Concert: 1964

A dash of acoustic guitar:

101. Alex de Grassi -- Southern Exposure
102. Suzanne Vega -- Close-Up Vol. 1, Love Songs

A dollop of arty gloom:

103. Ulver -- A Quick Fix of Melancholy EP
104. Various Artists -- September Songs: the music of Kurt Weill

And finally a potpourri of pop and antipop:

105. Sugar -- Copper Blue
106. Jello Biafra -- High Priest of Harmful Matter
107. The Residents -- The King and Eye
108. Duran Duran -- Big Thing
109. Split Enz -- Dizrhythmia (remastered)
110. Primus -- Sailing the Seas of Cheese
111. Alice in Chains -- Jar of Flies

Music gluttons of the world, unite and take over. Hand it over.

happy fourth of july