wprb playlist: 070901
the bar kays “soul finger”
spoon “take the fifth”
the count five “theyre gonna get you”
lilys “nanny in manhattan”
belle and sebastian “legal man” [i am sure youre thinking, 'doesnt maria hate this band with a venomous passion?' oh, i still do.]
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further “surfing pointers”
iris “statements by scientists”
magazine “give me everything”
rhode island “oakland terra”
the white octave “weight”
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jenny toomey “clear cut”
eleventh dream day “ice storm”
silver jews “dallas”
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super furry animals “the turning tide”
dump “raspberry beret”
smog “ex-con”
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stereolab “the seeming and the meaning”
the delgados “under canvas under wraps” [the inside joke being that everyone know my middle name]
verbena “if i say so”
butterglory “demons and avalanches”
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the kiss offs “love you hardcore”
the family fodder “savoir faire”
the ah club “in this quiet place”
au pairs “dont lie back”
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solex “the cutter”
kleenex/liliput “a silver key can open an iron lock somewhere”
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kissyfur “good (x), feels free”

Now it seems like there’s no underground at all anymore.

in my feeble opinion of the underground, there was always some reason to react against something. now that [as far as music is concerned] independent labels behave a lot like major labels and that everythings become a business, an enterprise, whats to react against? who is my enemy now?

also, i wanted to chime in on the whole “year of the woman” thread. the great thing about growing up in the 90s was that i had sassy magazine - among the eighty gazillion glassy teen rags out there telling me that boyfriends were important, it was telling me to buy helium records.

not that sassy was all brilliant and yes, they still were as much a fashion magazine as the rest of them, but hey, it was one choice.

thinking about that, it reminded me that teenagers today dont have a choice at all. any magazine out there covers the same topics [and, as i think we've argued on here, even the 'alternative' weeklies cover the same material].

what people need is one other choice, one sassy for all the magazines out there. i mean, i think thats why cherry coke was refreshing - instead of the usual urban voices it was one of a giggly 21-year olds. its a simple idea, really, that can do a lot of good.

if i could come up with a good catchy name, i would gladly found that magazine.

late night visits from the drunk and crimson fairies are not good.

to third street and spruce to sixth to passyunk [cross washington] and a turn at marras, thats the final stretch.

9:15pm

im about to range rove with the cinema stars.

6:15pm - im very excited about this issue of skyway [the website is busted, so i wont give the url]. its the first issue where im handling the creative end of things. normally, id photograph a band for one of the articles, but doug has finally let go and allowed me to just put it all together for him.

skyway has always kept its fanzine roots and im not planning on making a clean break from tradition - for the most part, there’s just a lot of refinement going on, becoming more confident in the use of white space.

even though a lot of what i do strays from the design ideologies of the uarts department, ive keep a lot of basics in mind. i keep things on a real simple level as far as what gets put on a page [i hate seeing a lot of information in one space]. i suppose as time has moved on, ive become quite a minimalist; funny considering im always bitching about how a lot of things lack information. its not about less information, i suppose its about the right kind of information.

anyway. i couldnt have had a better time hanging out in my studio, wprb on the downstairs and bedroom stereos; on top of this, the weathers been divine - no sweaty humid days where the a/c is cranked, in fact ive had all the windows open, a lovely breeze throughout the house.

even though ive been living on my own for five years [give or take], it always feel like im living on someone else’s terms. of course, i could probably chalk that up to some sort of dissatisfaction with previous living spaces. its not to say though, that i got to design my own home, but there’s tons of potential in these walls.

and also, ive got different floors to work with - the divison of that space has allowed me to think and divide things in my own life, for good and bad.

[good: a room with a bed and music equipment, a room with records and prints/negatives/asstd photo stuff, and a room for nothing but me and my geek-ass computer stuff]

[bad: the tv is two floors away and at night, im prone to sleeping on the couch. i spend time in one room and not enough in the others. soon, perhaps, soon. ]

12:45 pm

do you think this is gotten out of hand yet? if i didnt have plans for the day [laying out the next issue of skyway], id probably build some bastardization of a tripod to make this thing stand up. i have crazy ideas, and crazy schematics.

i really should just spend the money to get some things developed at the photo lab. eventually, i will.

there seems to be a good show in town - at least, i think so because its some of my favorite local bands.

undergirl, the holy fallout, lefty’s deciever and 1929 at the khyber. if you are in the area, i wouldnt pass the show up. the experts of noise, they are.

considering that my living situation might change in the next couple of months, it would be nice to get in the local crowds before any big changes kick in.

is it just me, or do i look like a robot extra from A.I.?

9:20pm

dont worry, im going out soon.

results from the personality test [see below]

Paranoid: Low [i find error with this]

Schizoid: Low

Schizotypal: High

Antisocial: Low

Borderline: Moderate

Histrionic: High

Narcissistic: Moderate

Avoidant: High

Dependent: Moderate

Obsessive-Compulsive: High

note: the odd thing is that my studio is yellow, not pink.

i shall have to explore this further. its almost like a big, electronic studio camera.