Give me a 12-bit machine, I'll take out your whole crew!

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-28T17:08:00

2006-03-01T00:08:15Z

Which O.C. Character Are You? Find out @ She's Crafty

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-28T10:39:00

2006-02-28T17:40:51Z

Oh, the new Liars album is out March 21st(Drum's Not Dead). I thought that is a pic of a hamburger until I enlarged it. The album has "three cinematic versions of the album". So that's 36 videos on a seperate DVD. Ah, I hate recommending Liars to anyone, but they are so brilliant. They do the best version of ESG, E Neubauten and, currently, Sonic Youth that anyone ever did...but I only noticed that when someone pointed it out. I was seduced the first time I saw them play, blinded ever since.

I still maintain that if I had my choice to be in any two bands, it would be Liars and Fugazi, simultaneously.

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-28T02:41:00

2006-02-28T09:43:14Z

Remember Q-bert? This is what he says when he falls to his death/snakes bounce on him:

"@!*?@!"

That's what you get, opening acts for Greyskul.

guess what I don't get to see?

2006-02-22T17:25:26Z

"All Night Wrong"

Schematic Ten Year Anniversary

Sunday March 26th 2006 @ the District 35 NE 40 ST.

Elektrik Skin (Ectomorph & Sal Principato of Liquid Liquid)
Richard Devine (Schematic)
Otto Von Schirach (Schematic)
Phoenecia (Schematic)
High Priest (Sound Ink./Anti Pop)*
Dino Felipe (Schematic)
Secret Frequency Crew (Schematic)
Crunc Tesla (Tigerbeat6)
Rob Hall (Skam)
Chappy Dee (Schematic)
Plot (FM)
Salim Rafiq (Schematic)
RD (Designed Disorder)
Jacque Polynice (Schematic)
Aura (Schematic)
Karakter (Tuff Titty)

$10 (dollar per year)

YOU KNOW HOW WE DO THIS!!!

KILL'EM ALL!!!

*yet to be confirmed"

Yes, Otto Von Retard is on there, but...shit. High Priest?

Um, anyway, this is in Miami.

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-21T08:46:00

2006-02-21T15:48:42Z

Yo,

Word to my man painamplifier (née Jason). You're one day older, one day wiser, blah blah it's your birthday, bitch!!

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-20T18:24:00

2006-02-21T01:27:42Z

Here is a reason to stay on LJ

http://community.livejournal.com/jumpingpictures/profile

I...love...pictures of jumping! I love the terror/joy/coolness of the expressions on people's face. I also like pictures of people falling -- there is a potential for that here. Bouncing balls down really steep avenues is also fun, but it's hard to really appreciate that on film -- sort of like taking a picture of the Red Balloon...it's just...a Red Balloon...

Everyone jumps differently...maybe you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she jumps...I'm going to think about this.

Though people need to stop with the Kriss Kross jokes...don't do it!

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-19T17:18:00

2006-02-20T00:19:54Z

I fought the war
I fought the war, I fought the war
But the war won...
*grimey, midrange-y guitars and cymbals scream along*

Is the chorus/hook to a really, really great song, one that isn't too preachy because Emily Haines makes me happy. And Metric's Live it Out should be in your collection. Yes, even you haters.

God, I don't want to move unless I can take my balcony with me.

Oh shit, my armpits smell like fifteen sacks of assholes and cheese...but I just want to smoke on my balcony. As in light a big fire.

I think that badass black chow in my neighborhood died and came back an a motherfuckin' badass black cat!! Twice, I've seen this cat on my neighbor's rooftop -- that's about 40 feet up -- totally scaring pigeons, looking for a way to dismantle some fat pigeon heads. Those bloated, wellfed assholes cock (!) their heads in a really strange way, and I know that dude is up there. Suddenly, he saunters up...fuckin' a. I just saw him sprinting down the sidewalk. I yelled, "Badass!!!!" to him. He knows. I know. You know how we do.

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-19T12:54:00

2006-02-19T19:57:53Z

I have like one foot of snow on my car. There is an 8000 foot icicle hanging by my window.

I know everyone hates snow, but...if we're gonna have a winter, and we're already cold, we might as well do this shit.

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-19T01:23:00

2006-02-19T08:24:06Z

This is fucking retarded.

PS Friends don't let drunk friends shave their faces and cut their own hair.

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-16T00:56:00

2006-02-16T07:56:34Z

You think you're evil but you're not
Still sucking life from the mainstream
It's so deluded give it up
What's that you hide behind your pile of shit

COULD IT BE I HAVE GIVEN UP
Feeling blind to all important scenes

It's so deluded give it up / it's unoriginal

Find out exactly what is meant
To be abducted in-between
Another moment documents
The fading magic of what could have been...

from ad noiseam

2006-02-15T16:04:21Z

"The Ad Noiseam anniversary compilation (simply titled "Ad Noiseam 2001-2006") has been completed and will go in manufacturing very soon."

Artist: v/a
Title: "Ad Noiseam 2001-2006"
Label: Ad Noiseam
Catalog number: adn60
Format: double audio CD + DVD
Release date: April 21th, 2006

CD 1:
01. Larvae: Snowday
02. Mad E.P.: Grapepopgirl
03. Andrey Kiritchenko: Timetravel of a snail
04. Air Inspector: Sleepy
05. Exillon: Julipt
06. Lapsed: Funk Sickness (version 2
07. Dälek: Forever close my eyes (remix by Larvae)
08. Keef Baker: Nr42
09. Horchata: Luciferin
10. Antigen Shift: No Snow in Melbourne
11. Enduser & Kazumi: Genesis (remix)
12. Cordell Klier: Deconstructed leaves from Mike Hallenbeck
13. Uniform: The Correct Way to Destroy a Piano
14. Magwheels: Afghanistan
15. Morc: Venus

CD 2:
01. Cdatakill: Yesterdays
02. Lapsed & Non Non: Z Crazy Eyes
03. Bong-Ra: Jaws
04. Mothboy: Area vs Area
05. The Panacea: Mortal Sin
06. Needle Sharing: It's No Joke (Cock'n'Sucker remix)
07. Submerged: Chore Boy
08. AZ-Rotator: Hard Disk Dead
09. Curtis Chip: Ice Fission
10. Detritus: Maze Dancer
11. Tarmvred: To Be Allocated
12. Mago: Noton
13. Iszoloscope: To Exhibit Chaotic Behavior
14. Kirdec: Neo-ethnocentrisme
15. Wilt: Days of Crows 2

DVD:
01. Mothboy: C.S.R.
02. 2nd Gen: Middle Finger Context
03. Larvae: Bubastis
04. AZ-Rotator: Genolom (video edit)
05. Bong-Ra: Sp66d d6mon (666mph rmx)
06. Jason Forrest: War Photographer
07. Crno Klank: Atalodz
08. Horchata: Luciferin
09. Mago: Noton
10. Wilt: Days of Crows
11. Andrey Kiritchenko: Timetravel of a snail
12. Enduser: Wisdom (Datach'I remix)
13. Morc: Venus
14. Larvae: Solo Shoots First

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-14T02:03:00

2006-02-14T09:04:10Z

To all who have Valentine girls/bois:

If I fell in love with you,
Would you promise to be true
And help me understand?

'Cause I've been in love before
And I found that love was more
Than just holdin' hands.

If I give my heart
To you,
I must be sure
From the very start
That you
Would love me more than her.

If I trust in you
Oh, please,
Don't run and hide.
If I love you too
Oh, please,
Don't hurt my pride like her

'Cause I couldn't stand the pain
And I
Would be sad if our new love
Was in vain.

So I hope you see
That I
Would love to love you
And that she
Will cry
When she learns we are two

'Cause I couldn't stand the pain
And I
Would be sad if our new love
Was in vain.

So I hope you see
That I
Would love to love you
And that she
Will cry
When she learns we are two.
If I fell in love with you

Wait, I meant, "Fucking die, VD!!"

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-13T15:32:00

2006-02-13T22:35:20Z

So, if I actually DJ tonight...

The problem is this: Mike Snyder is promoting the show. John Lamonica (http://www.myspace.com/carterferris) tells me that he just found out that the PA is shit. I imagine they won't even have CD decks...so if that's the case, I aint doin' it. And I'm scared to go just because I'm intimidated by John's music.

But if I am, I plan on playing Dalek, Original Hamster, The Juan Maclean, Subtitle and a bunch of what I call "mixtape" DJ music -- as in, no one is dancing so I might as well instruct and garner, "What the hell is this? This is cool, I think". The fact that someone once told me that Chemical Brothers' "Scale" is "a tight jam" keeps me hopeful in these situations. Anyway, this aint gonna happen so why am I posting? Because I want to look cool.

******************* Okay, yep, there are like 33 bands playing tonight. It's at some venue next to Port o' Call called Captain's Quarters. I guess Mike Snyder is combining two different shows. GOD I HATE THAT GUY!!!!!! Anyway, $7.

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-12T11:34:00

2006-02-12T18:34:19Z

I know this quiz is like 8,000,000 minutes old, but whatever.

You Are Stevo!

Which SLC Punk are you?
brought to you by Quizilla

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-12T01:43:00

2006-02-12T08:45:19Z

I have to write this down or I will forget

"hey dave, i might be able to get mike to put you on if you wanted to spin some trax either before, during or after. would you be interested? either way, can't wait to see you man, i've definitely wanted to hook up with you for awhile, got so many new tunes to let you hear. let me know or call me @ NUMBER
john "

John Lamonika...k, don't forget, Dave.

It's at some place next to Port o' Call...Captain's Quarters?

Anyway, now I won't have to pay the $7 to get in.

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-10T20:53:00

2006-02-11T03:54:06Z

shit...

RIP

J DILLA

1974 - 2006

Jay Dee Dead at 32

Amy Phillips reports:

James Yancey, the man known to the hip-hop world as Jay Dee and J Dilla, passed away this morning at his home in Los Angeles. He was 32 years old.

While the cause of death has yet to be confirmed, Yancey had recently suffered from kidney problems. His latest album, Donuts, released on Tuesday, was partially recorded in the hospital using a portable studio.

Jay Dee began his career as a member of the Ummah, A Tribe Called Quest's production team. He would go on to make beats for Common, Busta Rhymes, De La Soul, Pharcyde, and many others. He was a member of Slum Village, collaborated with Madlib as Jaylib, and put out several acclaimed solo albums, mixes, and singles. Pharrell Williams once called Jay Dee his favorite hip-hop producer.

Peter Adarkwah, the founder of BBE Records, which released Jay Dee’s 2001 solo album Welcome 2 Detroit, gave the following statement: "Jay was one of my favorite Hip-Hop producers of all time. His passion for music was a rare thing amongst people in the music industry. His music and presence will be sorely missed for many years to come."

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-10T19:06:00

2006-02-11T02:06:55Z

Dear company,

Thanks for the "bonus". To the 43% taxation, I just want to say

And yeah, I like eating excrement, not getting paid for it
Play the guilt, play the fear & play the anxiety
And yeah, I like eating excrement, not getting paid for it
Play the guilt, play the fear & play the anxiety

xo

Dave

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-09T13:00:00

2006-02-09T20:00:48Z

Want to know why I hate the Adbusters forum?

http://community.livejournal.com/adbusters/411424.html

Like, high school sucked. It really did, but I knew who was going to punch me in the face, and it certainly wasn't the "group" that I hung out with -- okay, and if it did happen, I knew why.

This is why we're never going anywhere as a race. We might get what we want at some point, but it will already be "wanted". Bottom line: people want to complain about everything, myself included...

I hate "ists" and "isms" and things we learn in advanced education that make us snobs and form groups to feel secure...really, I can barely trust myself. Ah, if you only read one thing, read some of those replies. It's this way all the time!

Jamie Lidell Plans American Tour

2006-02-09T18:49:18Z

A.D. Amorosi reports:
Jamie Lidell unleashes the artfully dodging demon lurking deep inside the electronic continuum. He doesn't do a whole lot of dodging, though, what with only two albums in the past five years. But when the whiskey+honey singer/beat boxer/performance artist makes a move, he makes it count. He makes like James Brown and makes it funky.

His 2005 retro-soul album Multiply, as well as his ever-stretching stage show (a multimedia extravaganza of props, costumes, masks, and a "Media Suit"), have turned him into the latest avant-pop heartthrob. And come April, he'll woo the masses on a lengthy North American tour.

In an interview last year, Lidell talked about the difference between listening to Multiply in the privacy of your own boudoir and the live experience. "It's chocolates versus cake. I like ‘em both, but the album is a morning hot chocolate. The cake is a different beast. I would never eat a layer cake in the morning. I never play in the morning. I'm not saying that I wouldn't consider a pain au chocolat in the morning. But a fancy cake...that's for when the lights go down. You get me?

Yes, we get you. You're making us hungry.

Dates:

02-25 Prague, Czech Republic - Sperm Festival #
02-26 Bucharest, Romania - Studio Martin
03-25 Miami, FL - Surfcomber Hotel (M3 Summit)
04-10 San Diego, CA - Casbah *
04-11 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour *
04-12 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall *
04-14 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge *
04-15 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey *
04-16 Vancouver, British Columbia - Plaza Nightclub *
04-19 Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theatre *
04-20 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle *
04-21 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace *
04-22 Montreal, Quebec - Theatre National *
04-24 Boston, MA - Great Scott *
04-25 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *
04-26 Brooklyn, NY - South Paw *
04-27 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church *
04-30 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field (Coachella) %
05-04 Barcelona, Spain - Teatre Lliure $

# with the Notwist, Kid606, Radian, Poo, etc.
* with Jimmy Edgar
% with Tool, Massive Attack, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bloc Party, etc.
$ with Gonzáles

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-07T01:27:00

2006-02-07T08:36:11Z

Hey, Cat Power canceled her American tour...big surprise? She is the perfect example of the-more-you-ignore-me-the-closer-I-get syndrome. But reverse those proper nouns.

Mignight Mondays equals midnight snoring. Boring, though I did see the girl known as the December stalker. I got out of there before she was drunk and stupid.

There is a gigantic U-haul parked a few doors down from my house. The odd thing is that it's been there for over a week. The odder thing is that one of the block renobs is out there every day, opening and closing the hood in an attempt to fix it. I have a few theories about this truck.

1) meth lab. Like, duh. It's huge. I'm certain you could cook up a ton of ish in there without even trying.

2) the whole apartment building is staging a vanishing act, disappearing one night...after they get the thing going.

Did I mention it's huge!? It is!!! I want something interesting to happen, and that truck is my only hope.

Otherwise, afternoon naps in the sun is my sole salvation. No coffee means lots of naps.

I haven't moved everything into my room, but it's coming. I keep weighing the options. I won't have a window to peer from, but the view is only a brick wall and pigeons, anyway.

I downloaded a bunch of stuff for my set on Wednesday...lots of Supergrass and Primal Scream. God, I'm so boring right now.

Oh, the award for the Luckiest Man on the Planet goes to...P Diddy(hole). That guy has lucked into a fortune he doesn't even remotely deserve. People have to remix him and guest star on his solo shit to make it slightly interesting. I bet he thanks God every night that B.I.G. died...and that Lil' Kim humped him. God, what a lucky bastard...he was -- not the humping. Maybe there's more to him??? I doubt it. He does "do it for the love", though. Grrrrr.

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-06T18:18:00

2006-02-07T01:18:51Z

So I'm DJ'ing again this Wednesday night at W Lounge. Yep, there you go.

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-05T18:06:00

2006-02-06T01:07:04Z

This is one of my favorite scores (Ligeti's Atmospheres. Not just the music, the score. I'm actually so in love with score preparation -- even though it's a fucking bitch most of the time. There was a year when I wrote out scores without a thought of how the music would sound, but when you sort of get the gist of composition, it all works out (i.e. voice-leading rules, counterpoint).

The odd part is how simple most of my music sounds as compared to the score. The same could be said about this work, though it's all relative. The flurry of action on paper translates to long -- though active -- gestures, very similar to some of Debussy's larger works (Ligeti actually gives a nod to Debussy at two points in Atmospheres). I wish I had a better scan of the piano lines. It's a pretty basic "contemporary" score, thought his sounds are anything but ordinary.

Anyway, this is one of several Ligeti works that Kubrick stole and used in 2001. I want to talk about how Kubrick was a total monster* and fucked up the context of several really famous experimental works, but I can't listen to the slurping of soup...I hear five feet away from me...right...now.

*I only consider Kubrick a monster because of his theft and rape of this music. I enjoy many of his films.

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-03T17:26:00

2006-02-04T00:27:40Z

The potential to play a really great show might be in Lapsed/non non's future. I'm not saying anything yet, but...yeah.

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-01T23:46:00

2006-02-02T07:02:08Z

Pointless...pointless.

Door guy at brewvies: So, you like electronica or...(referring to my Meat Beat Manifesto T-shirt)

Me: yeah, I do like...

Door guy at brewvies: because it's kind of my specialty.

Me and Jason: (inwardly sighing, but still polite) Oh?

Door guy at brewvies: What are you into?

Me: (thinking of someone not too obscure so maybe we can find some common ground) Well, I like Kid 606...

Door guy at brewvies: Nah, I'm not into that alternative shit, that Kid Koala/606 crap.

Me and Jason: (holding back, sighing, shaking heads) What? Kid Koala sounds nothing like Kid 606, though.

Door guy at brewvies: What else?

Me: I dunno, (still trying to think on a broad scale) Autechre.

Door guy at brewvies: I don't like that either

Me: Well...what are you into?

Door guy at brewvies: (thinking that he's about to stump us) I dunno, do you like Fischerspooner?

Me: (I don't absolutely hate them) Nope.

Door guy at brewvies: See, I know a lot of people like Aphex Twin, and I don't like *I blocked this out, but it was about his loathing of Aphex Twin*. And I think Autechre just wants to be like Aphex Twin.

Me: This conversation is over.

And we turned our heads, and we walked away. I felt like puking. I mean, i stayed there for a second, but...why does someone want to be like that? That's rhetorical. And we weren't fronting, but we should have.

Seriously, I can't get over that guy. I don't give a shit about "oh, he knows nothing". He's the fucker out there buying records. He's the population, out there buying records. He's the closed-minded felching sonuvabitch out there at *insert crappy event that I won't mention, as it's not even worthy of a mention*, actually thinking the musical merits of Fischerspooner (who, again, I don't absolutely hate) deserve serious accolades. The next person who does it is getting yelled at, at least. I can't take it anymore.

And I don't fucking care if he likes them. But do I have a sign on me lately that says "Please rip on everything I like. I won't do anything about it. Yes, it's fine to insult everything I like. I'm a perfect stranger, yeah, piack a fight with me". Well fuck you, you, you, you, you, you and especially you -- I think if this guy knew how mad we actually were, he would have never shown up to work. This isn't an isolated incident. Like what cause does someone have to just pop on, uninvited, and crash on someone? Didn't your mother teach you that if you have nothing nice to say... ??? I mean, especially when someone just said they liked something, a lot? If I keep caring about everything and don't lock myself away, I'm going to go nuts and end up burning things. I'm going to retrain my brain to only think inward -- though I will always care about those I love.

This just made me, really sad.

hihi_superflat @ 2006-02-01T09:17:00

2006-02-01T16:22:28Z

The Books play Salt Lake on ~~March~~April 12th. I would advise everyone to see them in action. There is lots of multi-media and singing and cello and processes and more processes...

~~I am, however, going to have to book it back from Denver to make it. Well, not really.~~ Anyway, do not miss it. I'll find out where, like, soon and stuff.