The top one is LEVIATHAN the documentary. I had a digital copy before. Let’s see if this works.
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Update: I ripped the Typology theme out, which was very sad, and stuck in a minimal theme called Clutterless. It is very basic, but I kind of like it. It will hold in place for now, until I have time to do a deep dive. So, reader, if you’ve just come back and are wondering why everything looks different, that’s why. It seems that Meks Typology update (and all the thousand plug-ins and weird things it loads in) plus an ever-jankier Jetpack conflicted all to fuck and kept breaking everything. I will miss all the bells and whistles, but I will not miss having to actually think about the back end of this website.
Comments closedSo, my WordPress install grinds exceedingly slow. Jetpack breaks every time I update the plug-in, to the point where I’ve had to go into FTP and basically scoop all its shit out by hand. Because when it breaks, it takes out the entire site, including WordPress admin. So now, whenever it tells me it has an update, I have to deactivate and delete Jetpack, and then re-install it clean. Which has also stopped working, because it now turns off social sharing even after I turn it on. And since my theme updated, the WordPress blog posting page believes I want the headline to be in block caps, and won’t show me lower case letters when I type them.
Do you remember when this shit was supposed to be simple?
There are no fixes for any of this stuff. What I’m going to have to do is look for a new theme I like, install it, remove all traces of the old one and see if it a) fixes the previous issues 2) creates exciting new ones.
The one thing it won’t fix is the WordPress grinding slowly, as that’s what the current iterations of WordPress just seem to do. LTD has had a slow backend since I started it.
So, reader, if you see this site cough and choke and convulse a bit over the next few days, that’s why. Luckily, you’re the only reader.
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The beginning of my mission to own as much material by Phurpa on CD as exists. Because if you’re going to go dark you should be accompanied by rumbling Russian ritual drone music, right? (I have another three or four discs en route.)
You can find their base page on Bandcamp, but they’ve been released on other labels too.
One CommentWhatever happened to Fiel Garvie? I loved this song. It’s called “I Didn’t Say.” That teasing, devious vocal and the music like a melancholy band in the rain playing outside the funeral of your first unrequited love.
(Oh, post titles might be weird for a while, because WordPress is suddenly only displaying the title in the posting window in block caps, no matter what I’m actually typing. V weird.)
But yes. Fiel Garvie. Where did they go? They gave us this.
How am I not going to listen to Nordic dark ambient by someone called Gaetir The Mountainkeeper? I mean, come on.
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I’ve been thinking and writing to this all night. Another wondrous conjuration by Temple Ov Saturn. G’night.
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I’ve been fascinated by the SHIPWRECK RADIO recordings by Nurse With Wound since I discovered them on their Bandcamp page.
Shipwreck Radio is a series of albums by Nurse With Wound documenting their residency in Lofoten, Norway during June and July 2004. Invited to stay in the unofficial capital, fishing village Svolvær, Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter were commissioned to produce 3 radio broadcasts per week for local station Lofotradioen of music constructed from whatever they heard or could find around the island. The project was instigated by Anne Hilde Neset and Rob Young of The Wire and by Kunst I Nordland, an organisation committed to bringing contemporary art to county of Nordland[.
The duo created 24 broadcasts in total, each of either 15 or 30 minutes duration. Each broadcast was preceded by a jingle of a male voice saying “Velkommen Til Utvær” followed by a female voice saying the English translation “Welcome To Utvær”, Utvær being the most remote island in Lofoten, with no permanent residents but 2 lighthouse keepers on hand.
If you’ve got any experience at all with radiophonic sound design or crunchy electroacoustic ambient music, these are among the most accessible entries in the Nurse With Wound catalogue. It’s like putting two mad scientists in charge of The Shipping Forecast. They’re all available for streaming and paid digital download on Bandcamp, but I wanted the objects too, and that’s how I became a crate-digger on Discogs
One CommentI do still have a little bucket list. Like, I’d like to try and do a monthly black and white book. I miss the prevalence of black and white comics. They mostly went away in the comics-shop market, and I think that’s sad. And weird, given that one of the most popular monthly comics in the world, THE WALKING DEAD, is black and white.
I’d do 24-page black-and-white guts — that’s three signatures — 20 pages of comics and space for endpapers and design elements. Wrapped in a cover of a thicker stock. Which would be printed in colour, but I’d have the colour limited in some way. Limited palette, or monochrome art with colour design elements.
I know nobody who would draw or buy that sort of thing. Which is why it will stay on the bucket list until I die. But it’s one of the things I like to think about.
Everything got very samey, didn’t it?
Apropos of nothing, except perhaps that it’s not “samey,” I happened to read a comic called DEAD KINGS, and the writer is Steve Orlando and he’s stretching and giving a sense of what he can really do, and the artist is Matthew Dow Smith and god damn did that guy get good.
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