(chris’s) blog

Available here (192kbps MP3, 176 MB, 2:06) is the Senescent Spectacle #55, featuring music from Sub Pop’s Death Vessel, as well as the new releases from Dungen, Secret Machines, and AIDS Wolf. Here’s the complete playlist:

I saw independent music giants My Bloody Valentine Tuesday night at the Concourse at the San Francisco Design Center in San Francisco. I didn’t get any good photos but I’ve included some I’ve found on the Internet of the show, as well as a copy of the bootleg zipped in MP3 format. It was amazing!

Download bootleg (.zip file containing MP3s, 150MB) (taken from Waves & Wires)

A new issue of ANTI is out. “ANTI Magazine aims to showcase outstanding visual content as an online magazine and also through future exhibitions all around the world.” They are open for submission into their next issue under the theme, “69.”

Our band, The Standard Tribesmen, played a show at the Delta of Venus in Davis, CA last Sunday. Here’s a C- quality recording I made on a handheld cassette recorder of one song:

Google for the news about a possible break for LPFM radio stations.

Here’s a small MP3 of the subbing I did on KDVS last night. Check it out if you agree that all sound waves should be treated equally.

I started recording and writing music again. The static/noise/fuzz is intentional/welcomed:

untitled 1.mp3 (128kbps MP3, 1.4mb, 1:26)

Comments not especially welcome; it’s not a mind-blowing track.

I’ve posted another MP3 of my sound collage radio show at senescentspectacle.blogspot.com.

I recorded a simple tune with my friend Wes:

I was half-expecting you there,
I thought maybe you’d changed your hair

You came in looking like a mess,
In that God-awful, ugly dress

And it wasn’t until I had to leave,
That you thought of something to say to me

You said, ” Maybe we could have a time,
With some records and a thing of boxed wine.”

And I said, ” Sure.”

MP3: mirror_boy.mp3, 0:55, 860 KB

Anybody interested in doing some music collaboration online? Add-on or modify these music tracks I made over the last week and send it back! Contact me if you want the original 4-track tape.

AT&T Commercial-Aspiring Track
Snow Track
Shoegaze Rhythm
Atari Jam

cool adidas!
Originally uploaded by muthusalami

Today I woke to my alarm. My bed was comfortable and the outside air that seeped in was cool and refreshing, and soft somehow. In a most classic fashion, I threw my arms up in a yawn, shaking off my sleepiness.

My mind felt unusually vacant, and I felt free. I immediately considered the numerous joyful ways I could spend today. In the shower, I tried my best to think of nothing at all, and let the feeling linger.

Now I wait, with no plan at all, curious of what will happen today. Another delightful August day.

Unrelated, I listened to an excellent short story by Ray Bradbury, originally aired on the radio show “X-Minus One” in 1956. I’ve made it available as a MP3 download for your enjoyment: click here to stream or download (~5MB, 4:41, MP3 VBR ~160kbps).