Cephallus' Journals

nathaniel snoxell? why, that's perfect iambic pentameter!

from wikipedia:

Rudimentary Peni are a British anarcho-punk band. Culling influence from many different musical genres, as well as other aspects of culture, they are known as one of the most diverse and original groups to emerge from the punk scene. Although many of their releases spoke to the sentiment of many anarcho-punks, this was only keeping with a generally misanthropic viewpoint the band's music and artwork conveyed. The band's content included subject matter ranging from Lovecraft to daily annoyances, and was never limited to purely apocalyptic or social issues. Musically, they also deviated from the accepted formulas for punk rock, and often incorporated aspects of noise rock, experimental rock, and art rock. The general atmosphere of their output is generally regarded as very bleak, depressing and hopeless, though they often make very prolific social statements.

the horrors in the museum

eyes of the dead

wednesday mix

no theme, no reason, just 10 songs i'm listening to.

01 never binding - gloria deluxe

02 too much - julie doiron

03 rasputin - luke doucet

04 frontier psychiatrist - avalanches

05 doing nothing - of montreal

06 independent woman - elbow

07 adam+eve connection - deerhoof

08 ice - the microphones

09 wise blood - headphones

10 tobiume - susumu yokota

listen here

wednesday night music

fawn - tom waits

unstability - hidenobu ito

stuck fly - tamara williamson

this is how it goes - aimee mann

green eyes - nick cave and the bad seeds

workin' on leavin' the livin' - modest mouse

yellow days under a lemon son - rheostatics

the garden - einstuerzende neubauten

sane, so sane - nick buzz

i'm free now - morphine

looking for you in me - hayden

bob - primus

blast - david garza

listen

i know i'm in a weird fuckin' frame of mind

when i listen to the cramps.

that's all i got.

put a little cadaver bone in ya

just talked to the one and only boz, boz48730, the grand ennui, otherwise known as bizzle, bozzle, bozzy bear, the earl of funk, the duke of cool, and the ayatollah of rock 'n rollah.

he's doing fine, surgery went great and he's going home tomorrow.

teaser: he promised video and pics from the hospital.

another october 10th playlist

so john killed himself six years ago today. take a deep breath and let's go, here's the playlist.

01 brian - this is the phone message i got from brian when he called to tell me john was dead. i kept it forever until my voicemail fucked up.

02 still here with me - a bass instrumental i did for john for my first october 10th mix, which was 5 years ago on the first anniversary of his death.

03 z.n.s. - one of our favorite neubauten tracks.

04 easy way out - classic song about suicide by the adicts. punk as hell.

05 st. vitus dance - at first i thought he dressed in dresses sometimes just to piss people off, then i realized he liked dressing in dresses sometimes.

06 rise above - my personal anthem. he wasn't a big fan, but fuck him. what's he going to say? he's dead.

07 somewhere over the rainbow - as sung by blixa bargeld. he would have loved this.

08 live fast die young - he almost lived to be 37. "living in hell, is there a heaven?"

09 drug me - there were reasons.

10 blood is thicker than water - we used to hang out with the thelonious monster entourage sometimes. mostly for the heroin.

11 strung out again - and again and again and again and again and again...

12 christianity is stupid - another one of our favorite tracks from negativland.

13 hook - we both had a big, big crush on pj harvey.

14 harsh stone white - so we used to go to this club called "club fuck" once in a while...

15 rotten to the core - a song he loved from one of his favorite punk bands, which happens to be a song i love from one of my favorite punk bands.

16 did you wanna die? - we used to talk about killing ourselves all the time and laugh about it. don't get me wrong, we were serious, but we laughed about it.

17 heroin - when he was on, it was his life. when he was off, he was the most beautiful man i ever knew.

songs available for listening here if you want.

soundtrack for my spaghetti western

cowboy song - bake west

code of the west - dub narcotic soundsystem

ramshackle - beck

jangling jack - nick cave and the bad seeds

sugarpie - alexander hacke

black dragon - dirty city brothers

miette - devotchka

shoot 'em up, shoot 'em down - crash test dummies

morning dew - einstuerzende neubauten

i'm not coming home anymore - hank williams

key to the highway - the local rabbits

ave maria - terem quartet

listenable here

one for bozkowski

bukowski reading "i believe in evil"

i believe in evil

because

let me tell you why

evil can do something

exceptional

now

accepted beauty

only goes on gliding

accepted beauty

here i am

accepted beauty

i died on the cross

1,980 years ago

look at me

but evil, man

evil says,

"hey motherfucker, eight ball in the side pocket"

and he'll do it

i believe

in what's happening now

i detest history

goodnight

"for a friend . . ." or something

cocteau twins - garlands

also appropriate for original 80's goths, wannabe 80's goths. and silly fanboys who accidentally fell in love with elizabeth frazer's voice when a friend gave them the cassette of iceblink luck.

ps - all good now?

monday mix

litany of woe/david garza - "derelict heretic priests, flogging thine own deceased"

junction foil ball/rheostatics - "into the slow acoustic timing"

body and soul/thelonious monster - "my life is like sideways rain swirling around in the air"

cold blooded old times/martin tielli - "the kinds of memories that turn your bones to glass"

down love's tributaries/morphine - "there's no time to think right now perhaps another day"

nothing but a nightmare/rudimentary peni - "you're too scared to face yourself so you're too scared to please yourself"

song of andrei rublyev/gloria deluxe - "we're cut from the same cloth, you and i, a cloth of solitude, a cloth of anguish, a cloth of glory"

aldebaran walz/b. fleischmann - (instrumental)

loneliness/aaron ballard - "it makes one ponder on the wiser things, so loneliness is just fine with me"

bleib/einstuerzende neubauten - "stay...the spaces between us are already big enough"

listenable here.