seven below > ghost.
47+ minutes of goodiddlyhosumptousness right there folks. i should have been there... oh well, maybe c'ville.
0:00 - seven below
8:10 - jam begins
10:45 - spacey dissonance buildup
12:00 - calmed down grooving jam
14:15 - upbeat melodic trey
17:35 - hose
21:40 - cool it down style jamming
23:00 - ambient style jam
24:30 - ghost
28:20 - cool it down style jamming
30:40 - seven below teases
31:10 - jam picks up; kinda funky
34:40 - power chord jam
36:55 - atonal drone buildup; mike bombs
39:40 - big hose
45:40 - cooldown
2009/11/29
2009/10/30
confession.
i'm a phishhead. i'm fucking ecstatic right now and i'm not even at fest8!
the bunny is a huge part of it, and not entirely in the manner you might normally believe. sure they play phish, but only at certain times: live sets and archive shows. that is it. the other hundred plus hours is everything-but-phish. at this moment one of the archive shows is on and i'm having my mind blown away, again, by classic versions of tweezer and ghost that i know well! it's a radio show, right? hmmm...
the first set starts in 3.5 hours from now. i wonder what they'll start with? it's the phishiversal question right now...that and what album will be played on halloween. as of this writing there are 8 albums left and they are each the names of 8 separate camps on site: genesis (the lamb lies down on broadway), david bowie (hunky dory), jimi hendrix (electric ladyland), king crimson (lark's tongues in aspic), mgmt (oracular spectacular), prince (purple rain), radiohead (kid a) and rolling stones (exile on main street).
out of this list i would much rather hear the radiohead.
feed the bunny.
this could very well be the best radio station anywhere from october 29 through november 2!
seriously.
Labels: f8
2009/08/30
loss
such an ugly word, loss. i can't think of many words ending in 'oss' that are good: gloss, moss (the kate variety) and that's about it. yesterday was the first real test of the campaign, manchester united at old trafford. it's big. it can be intimidating. for some reason many of its attendees like to sing a song that makes them look/sound like assholes regarding wenger. for some reason we were considered the favourites, even though we were without fabregas of all people...madness was around the bend.
the first half saw little of any worth from either team. the only thing we saw a lot of was yellow cards. the refereeing was so poor that i refuse to learn the referees name. steven fletcher deserved at least 2 in the first half alone, to go along with his 2 controversial penalty worth actions: tackling arshavin in the box and handball in the process. quite the player, arshavin didn't bother hounding the ref for the no calls and 24 seconds later sent a cannon of a beauty into the upper corner to give arsenal a 1-0 lead. did manu even get a shot on target that half?
the second half started with a bit more liveliness. 15 minutes in and wayne rooney 1-upped eduardo in the dive for a penalty claim. yes, almunia did touch rooney...after rooney had already left his feat and started his flailing diving motion. rooney didn't even have possession of the ball as he had previously kicked the ball out of bounds.
of course, rooney makes his penalty and the score is 1-1. we almost took the lead on a van persie free kick but it clanged off the cross bar to safety. a minute later a easy foul was called and manu had a close free kick near the corner. giggs sent in a cross to the wrong team and diaby headed it right into his own net. damn....i've yet to read anybody elses words that can begin to describe the look of horror on his face or what was going through the collective gooner mind. manu up 2-1 with 25 minutes to go.
diaby almost got it back a minute later but sent the shot just wide after some nice dribbling/moving through the united defense. eboues dive for a yellow didnt help so wenger subbed him off for bendtner and arshavin was tired/out-of-shape so in came ramsey and eduardo came in for denilson as we needed attackers at this point.
5 minutes of stoppage time. that is a fair bit. ferguson and the old trafford peoples did nit like that number. with about 90 seconds left we had a goal called back, correctly, due to offsides on gallas. wenger kicked as a water bottle in the arsenal technical area in frustration and was summarily sent off the pitch for this infraction, with considerably less than 1 minute left.
the following minute will go down in infamy due to the iconic image of wenger standing in the stands above the tenchnical area with his arms widespread being abused by the fans immediately behind him and their incessant offensive song. is this enough?
who were the better team that day?
Labels: arsenal
2009/08/27
overheard earlier today:
"there will always be winners and losers, but when the top earners make hundreds of millions a year and those at the bottom can't see a doctor something is inherently flawed..."
Labels: flawed
2009/08/22
today is the beginning of the end.
actually, that should read last saturday...i'm in the future baby! last weekend the english premier league started back up and dc united finally stopped their free-fall out of the playoff places.
did i mention that phish played what many of us feel is their worst show ever?
arsenal has raced into the season obliterating everton away 6-1, 2-0 @ celtic in the 1st leg of champions league qualifying and 4-1 to portsmouth. 12 goals in 3 games while allowing 2. i'll take these stats. normally i would wait to wax poetically on how arsenal will win it all this year until they have at least played one of the top teams and that will happen next weekend! i'm assuming we will beat celtic in leg 2 this week. the following 2 games will be at the manchester clubs. i'm hoping for at least 4 points.
over the last 6-8 weeks dc united has fallen down and skidded its knee. we have slipped from 1st in the division to 4th and barely clinging on to a playoff place. there are, what, 6-7 games left? we can't be playing with our points now... up tonight is la galaxy with a certain mister david beckham in tow. oh joy.
there are many ways to ruin a phish show. the two easiest ways are, in order, bad playing and bad song choices. i witnessed the most egregious offender of the latter last weekend at merriweather post pavillion. i can deal with a first full of new songs even if it includes what has to be one of their all time worst songs, time turns elastic. first sets are meant for the band to finish loosening up to unleash the nasty in set 2 and it appeared as if that is exactly what was going to happen when set 2 started off with tweezer. at around the 10th minute the jam started to turn the corner into what i can only hope most/all true phishheads are really there for. ten seconds later trey decided instead to stop and play taste. now, i am not a hater of taste and i find it perfectly acceptable in a set2 scenario if it is say between the biggies...kind of a breather. to purposefully kill a tweezer to start taste is just criminal. ok, trey must be saving energy for something else. next song = alaska. ok, this song is just pathetically boring. let me lie...now they are just being cruel and seriously starting to piss people off! 46 days was a rather uninspiring choice but at least it has potential for the jam and this one did. the jam out of 46 days was my one lone non-low point. i can't even call it a highpoint everything else was so low. going through the motion versions of oh sweet nothin and harry hood killed off the last remnants of a horrible set. the obligatory tweeprise didnt even have mike bombs...yeah, we're still laughing.
wtf?
2009/08/07
david v goliath.
tomorrow we get real madrid at fedex field. unless injured, ronaldo, kaka, benzema, alonso, etc will all play a part. i admit it will be cool to see these guys in action, even a friendly. i still hope we win though; i want to see olsen put in a crunching tackle so i can see him wince and cry. of course olsen would get booked for it, but isnt it worth it? is this mean spirited on my part to wish these things? if not there are plenty more things i can wish for...
ear candy.
i like the music coming out this year. i can't keep up with it as fast as most. i estimate that i am about 25 days behind...or something...anyways. take this yo la tengo 'popular songs'. i'm having my first listen as i type this. nice...very nice. this postmarks 'memoirs at the end of the world' is groovy in that 1960s lounge cum 007 theme music kind of way. the years 'years' has a few anthemic bursts, sonic youths 'the eternal' fills my noise void and the american dollars 'ambient one' wafts me to sleep with its gentle tinkle. and that's just from the last month!
i'm sure there is someone out there saying "no, that was released 2 months ago" then exhales loudly turning away with hands on hips...
i don't know how anyone can truly keep up with everything that is out there, and volume is overwhelming for a part-timer like me. of course, a lot of it is junk. no offense anyone, but it really is crap. hey "lofi"-ers - i can appreciate the efforts/talents in getting a good group dynamic and mix utilizing under 4 channels. i do. my hobby is audio engineering/recording. but it gets to a point when you are going overboard trying to push the limits and it comes out almost non listenable. please, think of our ears. you are not neutral milk hotel. you are not recording 2009s 'in the aeroplane over the sea'.
Labels: the precious
2009/07/31
so that's what sound feels like...
i thought i knew what to expect from my bloody valentine. the band, not the movie(s). i had never seen them but i was familiar with their music and i had heard the warnings/advice about seeing them live. excitement had been building for a few days/weeks leading up to this. wow... my back feels better now. that's odd, i thought my spleen was on the other side?
Labels: spinal pudding
2009/07/26
pre-season in bunches.
over the next 7 days we will play 4 games: mon 27 szombathelyi, wed 29 hannover 96, sat 1 atletico madrid and sun 2 rangers. this should give us a good look at the full squad, checking for fitness, forging partnerships and playing with formations. atvo will see lots of use this week...
since pre-season sits in the middle of "transfer window" there are rumors and rumors of rumors. we are "monitoring" huntelaar/martins/chamakh/hangeland, fiorentina wants eboue, ac milan wants bendtner, man city wants toure and random french club may want sylvestre. anyone else?
personally, sell/give away sylvestre. hold off on the rest...for now.
ok, now that that's out of the way we will need to figure out the defense and it should be sooner rather than latter. we currently have (cb) toure, gallas, senderos, djourou, vermaelen, sometimes song, sylvestre (lb) clichy, gibbs, traore (rb) sagna, eboue. rb and lb positions pretty much sort themselves out. will traore go out on loan again? we need to keep eboue as cover for sagna, duh. cb...here are the facts: gallas is now on his last year in contract; he's pushing 32. toure and gallas pairing just doesn't work. senderos wants out. we want sylvestre out. (puts on obvious glasses) hmmm...we either extend gallas' contract or we move him out while we can still get something for him.
crap. we can't reduce the cb core to just toure, djourou, vermaelen, sometimes song? can we? no. remember that toure, eboue and sometimes song will be gone in jan and feb for the african nations cup (anc).
(weird sensation coming from over my shoulder) there he is...just staring at me; sylvestre. it's like the geico commercials of the money stack/eyes with the techno music. (shudders)
we could strip down to the core above and get another cb, like hangeland. but that still leaves us very thin back there during anc. do we promote from reserves?
Labels: arsenal, sometimes song
2009/07/24
random record of the day (henceforth known as rrotd):
death cab for cutie - narrow stairs
Labels: rrotd
((stretches out arms and cracks knuckles))
transfer window opened on june 1. flamini left a gaping hole in our midfield a year ago. we are now in our 3rd transfer window since flamini's departure and we still haven't replaced him. we like to "monitor" players. we send out scouts to watch and study players so when the transfer window opens and such a player might become available we have all the facts to consider before we spend our horded precious gold.
we were "monitoring" the situation with xabi alonso last summer. granted, it wasn't all on us... we started "monitoring" felipe melo even before the confederations cup started this summer; instead we decided to finally make an approach only after his club increased his price and played us like a fiddle to get an even higher price from juventus. we started "monitoring" lorik cana last summer. cana just signed for 5m to sunderland. fucking sunderland.
we're too busy fucking "monitoring" these players, who fill a obvious need we have, to actually put in a bid to try to sign them! now now, i know you're saying that there are still 36 days left in the window and anything can happen: arshavin jan 2008, diarra aug 2007, etc, and i agree. wenger could pull out a rabbit from his hat and bring in toulalan or m. diarra and we would all applaud him for his astute purchasing...
it's the principal of the thing man. we get left strung out there watching all these guys go flying around and it's like we're having an out of body experience where we see ourselves on the periphery staring off into the sunset with our clipboard of facts and we are unable to do anything about it.
monitoring, it's whats for dinner.
Labels: arsenal, spies like us
2009/07/22
if i've learned anything in the past 4 days, i have a bad memory.
what's that you say? write things down? i'm trying to actively concentrate on not writing down random, and non-random, on pieces of paper weather they be post-its or notepads or scrap paper. it's not even a concerted"green" (god i hate that term) effort, it's just a habit i'm trying to break. i mean, who needs this mountain of numerous pieces of various sized paper in unnatural colors with only somewhat legible scribblings hurriedly scrawled on? you can never find the one you really need anyways as it's probably fallen off and drifted away into oblivion or you find the one that you have no idea how it is still relevant as it was transcribed into cuneiform those many millenia ago... is all that effort really worth it? meh, historians may say otherwise.
Labels: library of alexandria
i'm waiting to come down with plauge.
it's only logical; in the last week the dog had the flu and jen got ringworm. now i'm betting on when the big hangnail in the sky will turn me into a zombie.
bbbbrrrrraaaaaaaiiiiiiiinnnnssssssss
Labels: brains
an arsenal injury? no, you're kidding...
it wouldn't be a season of the english premier league (screw you barclays) without a injured arsenal player. oh, that's right, it's still fuckin' pre-season. d'oh. supposedly diaby is responsible for nasri's fractured right fibula. that it happened during the first day of the austrian pre-season camp is not a good sign. of course, wenger is optimistic that nasri could be back in only 6 weeks or so. i'm not holding my breath.
do we purchase cover?
Labels: arsenal
laketrout december 26 2000 @ wetlands is now on archive.
don't let the unknown mini-disc source scare you off...this sounds good. late 2000 - that should tell you volumes all ready. not puny cliff notes of a reader digest story volumes, i'm talking war and peace or encyclopedia britannica sized volumes.
Labels: laketrout
2009/07/19
roundup from yesterday.
arsenals pre-season match against barnet ended in a 2-2 draw. arshavin and barazite scored for the gunners while rosicky captained the squad in the first half. it was great to see rosicky out on the pitch for the first time in over 18 months following his knee injury and i hope to see him many more times!
adebayor finally completed his move to manchester city. personally, i dont think we need to buy a replacement striker...yet. with van persie, bendtner, eduardo, vela, and even arshavin and walcott i feel like we have enough. of course, you can never predict when the injury bug will hit, and it will - especially at arsenal! i hope we use the money to finally cement down a hard-nosed central midfielder. we were linked with felipe melo a few weeks ago before he sealed his move to juventus. available options: mamadou diarra, jeremy toulalan, lorik cana and miguel veloso.
dcunited won last night in a rather emphatic fashion after putting in a rather pedestrian effort in the first half and despite quite possibly one of the most outwardly appearing biased and unfair refereeing performances i have had the horror to see. i honestly believe that the only reason the ref gave us that penalty was that he thought that when his performance was reviewed later by mls they would have fired him for not giving the penalty - it was that blatant. the 3 goals we scored in quick succession in the first 15 minutes of the second half really knocked the wind out of colorados sails and they never recovered.
the players seemed especially grateful to the fans, more so than normal, and applauded us after the game.
2009/07/18
bij will be playing free at the wind up space every sunday in august in baltimore with special guests and different various musical projects every week. if i only lived 3 hours closer...
Labels: bij
arsenals first pre-season match is of course against barnet today. there are many anxious/eager eyes on rosicky and the new boy, vermaelen.
Labels: arsenal
colorado v dcunited tonight. excellent.
while it's a double header with the washington freedom, i just cant see myself going early to catch it. we need to win to keep us up at the top of division.
are you going?
Labels: dcunited
laketrout may 5 2000 @ wetlands is now on archive. many thanks to rich steele for his help in making this recording sound good.
the opening jam> little things> #5, the jam> luvean> holding and the closing lmsy> stigmata> hypnotized> come to daddy are personal highlights.
damn hackers.
luvean.net died a couple of years ago and i never got off my ass to do anything about it. oh sure, i had ideas...motivation though, that's the rub! i won't narrow myself this time to just one thing though. why wear blinders? ok, not blinders but you get the point - i hope. this way i keep my eyes on you more.
Labels: hello world