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diff --git a/txt/.notemap b/txt/.notemap new file mode 100644 index 00000000..acfe44ab --- /dev/null +++ b/txt/.notemap @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +5347bbff-b124-432a-a67e-5d90fa34d0d4 books.txt +9efa92ef-a8c0-4fa6-8a2a-13315992162b music.txt +2d3c58f2-a193-4ff5-b79f-fd430f80eb64 shows.txt diff --git a/txt/books.txt b/txt/books.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7ebae70c --- /dev/null +++ b/txt/books.txt @@ -0,0 +1,171 @@ +[ 2023 ] + + 7. ★★☆ Alix E. Harrow, Starling House + 6. ★★☆ Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended + 5. ★★★ Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered + 4. ★★☆ Alyson Greaves, The Sisters of Dorley (ch. 1-15) + 3. ★☆☆ Nnedi Okorafor, Noor + 2. ★★☆ Nnedi Okorafor, Remote Control + 1. ★★☆ Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy + +[ 2022 ] + + 15. ★★★ Becky Chambers, The Long Way To a Small Angry Planet + 14. ★★★ ed. Tristan Taormino, Take Me There + 13. ★★★★ Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit + 12. ★★☆ Sybil Lamb, I've Got a Time Bomb + 11. ☆☆☆ Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness + 10. ★☆☆ Sally Rooney, Conversations With Friends + 9. ★☆☆ Sally Rooney, Normal People + 8. ★★★ Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Emperor + 7. ★★☆ ed. Gwen Benaway, Maiden, Mother, Crone + 6. ★★★ Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter + 5. ★☆☆ Madeline Miller, Circe + 4. ★★★ Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench + 3. ★★★ V. E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue + 2. ★★☆ Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman + 1. ★★★★ Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within + +[ 2021 ] + + 26. ★★☆ Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night + 25. ★★☆ Charlie Jane Anders, Six Months, Three Days, Five Others + 24. ★★☆ Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland + 23. ★★★ Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built + 22. ★★★ Susanna Clarke, Piranesi + 21. ★☆☆ Kentaro Miura, Berserk, vols. 1–3 + 20. ★☆☆ Ursula Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea + 19. ★★☆ Sayaka Murata, Earthlings + 18. ★★☆ J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit + 17. ★★☆ Octavia E. Butler, Clay's Ark + 16. ★★★ Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace + 15. ★★☆ Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry + 14. ★★☆ ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, Sisters of the Revolution + 13. ★☆☆ Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake + 12. ★★☆ Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood + 11. ★★☆ Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky + 10. ★☆☆ Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad + 9. ★★★ Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches + 8. ★★☆ Mary Robinette Kowal, The Relentless Moon + 7. ★☆☆ Connie Willis, Bellwether + 6. ★★☆ Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties + 5. ★★☆ N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became + 4. ★★★ Martha Wells, Network Effect + 3. ★★☆ Nnedi Okorafor, Binti + 2. ★★☆ Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love + 1. ★★☆ Tade Thompson, The Rosewater Redemption + +[ 2020 ] + + 19. ★★★ N. K. Jemisin, The Awakened Kingdom + 18. ★★☆ N. K. Jemisin, The Kingdom of Gods + 17. ★★☆ N. K. Jemisin, The Broken Kingdoms + 16. ★★☆ Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice + 15. ★★☆ Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles + 14. ★★☆ N. K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms + 13. ★★☆ Annalee Newitz, Autonomous + 12. ★☆☆ Tade Thompson, The Rosewater Insurrection + 11. ★★☆ Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January + 10. ★★☆ N. K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky + 9. ★★★ Kai Cheng Thom, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars + 8. ★☆☆ Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War + 7. ★★★ N. K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate + 6. ★★★ Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate + 5. ★★★ Annalee Newitz, The Future of Another Timeline + 4. ★★☆ Rivers Solomon, The Deep + 3. ★★☆ ed. Hope Nicholson, Love Beyond Body, Space & Time + 2. ★★☆ Tade Thompson, Rosewater + 1. ★★★ Meg Elison, The Book of Flora + +[ 2019 ] + + 42. ★★★ Meg Elison, The Book of Etta + 41. ★★☆ Martha Wells, Exit Strategy + 40. ★★☆ Martha Wells, Artificial Condition + 39. ★★☆ N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season + 38. ★★☆ Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol + 37. ★★☆ Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit + 36. ★★★ Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers + 35. ★★☆ Meg Elison, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife + 34. ★★☆ Martha Wells, All Systems Red + 33. ★★☆ Nnedi Okorafor, The Book of Phoenix + 32. ★★☆ JY Yang, The Red Threads of Fortune + 31. ★★☆ JY Yang, The Black Tides of Heaven + 30. ★☆☆ Rebecca Roanhorse, Trail of Lightning + 29. ★☆☆ Jo Walton, The Just City + 28. ★★★ Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire + 27. ★★☆ Mary Robinette Kowal, The Fated Sky + 26. ★★★ Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few + 25. ★★☆ Mary Robinette Kowal, The Calculating Stars + 24. ★★☆ Octavia E. Butler, Imago + 23. ★★☆ Octavia E. Butler, Kindred + 22. ★★☆ Octavia E. Butler, Adulthood Rites + 21. ★★★ Octavia E. Butler, Wild Seed + 20. ★★☆ Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents + 19. ★★☆ Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance + 18. ★★★ Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit + 17. ★★☆ Octavia E. Butler, Dawn + 16. ★★☆ Jeff VanderMeer, Authority + 15. ★★☆ Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower + 14. ★★☆ C. A. Higgins, Lightless + 13. ★☆☆ Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man + 12. ★★★ Karin Tidbeck, Amatka + 11. ★☆☆ Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera + 10. ★★☆ Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts + 9. ★★★ Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet + 8. ★★☆ Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven + 7. ★★★ Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency + 6. ★★★ Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling + 5. ★★★ Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation + 4. ★★☆ Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination + 3. ★☆☆ Samuel R. Delany, The Einstein Intersection + 2. ★★★ Octavia E. Butler, Mind of My Mind + 1. ★☆☆ Robert A. Heinlein, Waldo & Magic, Inc. + +[ 2018 ] + + 25. ★★★ Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul + 24. ★★☆ Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns + 23. ★★☆ Nathan Altice, I Am Error + 22. ★★★ Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being + 21. ★☆☆ Arthur C. Clarke, Earthlight + 20. ★★★ Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens + 19. ★☆☆ Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers + 18. ★★☆ Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem + 17. ★★☆ Robert A. Heinlein, Revolt in 2100 + 16. ★★☆ ed. Robert A. Heinlein, Tomorrow, the Stars + 15. ★★☆ Robert A. Heinlein, Assignment in Eternity + 14. ★☆☆ Robert A. Heinlein, The Rolling Stones + 13. ★★☆ Robert A. Heinlein, Starman Jones + 12. ★☆☆ Robert A. Heinlein, Space Cadet + 11. ★☆☆ Robert A. Heinlein, Farmer in the Sky + 10. ★★☆ Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets + 9. ★★☆ Robert A. Heinlein, Red Planet + 8. ★☆☆ Robert A. Heinlein, Rocket Ship Galileo + 7. ★☆☆ Robert A. Heinlein, Sixth Column + 6. ★☆☆ Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond This Horizon + 5. ★★☆ Robert A. Heinlein, Orphans of the Sky + 4. ★★☆ Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine + 3. ★★★ James Alan Gardner, Ascending + 2. ★★★ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl + 1. ★★★ Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman + +[ 2017 ] + + 1. ★★★ James Alan Gardner, Expendable + +[ ... ] + + • ★★★ Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird + • ★★★ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy + • ★★★ Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe + • ★★☆ Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything + • ★★★ Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish + • ★★☆ Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless + • ★☆☆ Eoin Colfer, And Another Thing... + • ★★★ Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale + • ★★☆ Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go + • ★★★ Philip Pullman, The Goldan Compass + • ★★★ Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife + • ★★★ Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass + • ★★★ William Goldman, The Princess Bride diff --git a/txt/diminishing-shine.txt b/txt/diminishing-shine.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f51faf20 --- /dev/null +++ b/txt/diminishing-shine.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +you gotta get yourself a cheap plair-- +you gotta get yourself a cheap pair of plastic sunglasses +or a really cheap pair of plastic wraparounds +you can get em just down the street +it's four bucks for the pair +you should stock up +you should buy three or four pairs +really, no one ever fucks with you +you put em on +and no one fucks with you +and they're cheap +it's better than-- +better than a wig +or a really stupid haircut +or a nose ring + +you get afraid on the bus? +when you ever get-- +you ever get scared on the bus? +or the subway? +you ever get afraid, and-- + +we were all really high +and I was sitting on the couch +we were all sitting on the couch +we were all really high +the TV was on and no one was talking and no one was saying a word +and no one had said a word for a long, long time +everyone was just staring at the TV set +and I got the fear +I got the fear really bad +I remember thinking, this is it, I'm going to die diff --git a/txt/music.txt b/txt/music.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..efcd8fbe --- /dev/null +++ b/txt/music.txt @@ -0,0 +1,294 @@ +The Shaggs — My Pal Foot Foot +<https://youtu.be/k5T2kaFiFgg> + +Philip Glass — Einstein on the Beach Knee Play 1 +<https://youtu.be/jeEobpQMgD4> + +osno1 — SAUSAGE (osno1 RIP vine remix) +<https://osno1.bandcamp.com/track/sausage-osno1-rip-vine-remix> + +Feist — I Feel It All +<https://youtu.be/g-1Gb2rxzlk> + +The Blow — "Come On Petunia" +<https://youtu.be/MO1HSfzK1Ns> + +Black Country, New Road — Sunglasses +<https://youtu.be/UAZhzi9cpkc> + +Mitski, Xiu Xiu — Between the Breaths +<https://youtu.be/HnhTkFl5Imw> + +Black Dresses — CREEP U +<https://youtu.be/w9RSZmltcVI> + +BACKXWASH — DONT COME TO THE WOODS +<https://youtu.be/7ZcJsWyGbOw> + +William Bonney — See Ya Later +<https://youtu.be/-uCUlvUlr9s> + +Four Tet — Hands +<https://youtu.be/ojZoQbRt1tc> + +Buffy Sainte-Marie — Darling Don't Cry + +LINGUA IGNOTA — DO YOU DOUBT ME TRAITOR +<https://youtu.be/M1ZweG__q-w> + +Lizzo — Truth Hurts +<https://youtu.be/P00HMxdsVZI> + +Hobo Johnson and The Lovemakers — Tiny Desk Concert +<https://youtu.be/A8a2EosJIbM> + +Poppy — Concrete +<https://youtu.be/WwoGhpYdebQ> + +Kim Petras — Do Me +<https://youtu.be/LShK0Yhd964> + +Kim Petras — Heart to Break +<https://youtu.be/5CPeHQHAQyo> + +Anomie — Avorter n'est pas tuer +<https://youtu.be/W1iGXRDeZf4> + +Zhaoze — Birds Contending +<https://zhaoze.bandcamp.com/album/birds-contending> + +Colin Stetson — Reborn +<https://youtu.be/MVnSFj6XQZY> + +Holly Herndon — Frontier +<https://youtu.be/rvNqNgHAEys> + +Bleachers — Tiny Desk Concert +<https://youtu.be/QCtkkX2f18M> + +Girlpool — Tiny Desk Concert +<https://youtu.be/VNM8Tg9pvDU> + +Daughters — You Won't Get What You Want +<https://daughters.bandcamp.com/album/you-wont-get-what-you-want> + +La Dispute — FULTON STREET I +<https://ladispute.bandcamp.com/track/fulton-street-i> + +KASHIWA Daisuke — Stella +<https://youtu.be/ei7cdynwRMA> + +Jeff Wayne — The Eve of the War +<https://youtu.be/6YwFvmnbj3E> + +Julia Holter — I Shall Love 2 +<https://youtu.be/k5uwPaCvbhA> + +Chromatics — Running Up That Hill +<https://youtu.be/Mgv88ZLi6LY> + +Low — Double Negative +<https://lowtheband.bandcamp.com/album/double-negative> + +Rival Consoles — Helios +<https://youtu.be/T8n-XC_2a-k> + +Tiffany — I Think We're Alone Now +<https://youtu.be/w6Q3mHyzn78> + +Pulp — Common People +<https://youtu.be/yuTMWgOduFM> + +XTC — Making Plans for Nigel +<https://youtu.be/gZjZBCZWxpg> + +New Order — Temptation +<https://youtu.be/xxDv_RTdLQo> + +Street Sects — In for a World of Hurt +<https://streetsects.bandcamp.com/track/in-for-a-world-of-hurt> + +New Order — Temptation +<https://youtu.be/xxDv_RTdLQo> + +Blondie — Heart of Glass +<https://youtu.be/fWPhhlKHM80> + +Suuns — Watch You, Watch Me +<https://suuns.bandcamp.com/track/watch-you-watch-me> + +Neckbeard Deathcamp — White Nationalism is for Basement Dwelling Losers +<https://neckbearddeathcamp.bandcamp.com/album/white-nationalism-is-for-basement-dwelling-losers> + +rook — shed blood +<https://rooksfeather.bandcamp.com/album/shed-blood> + +SOPHIE — OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES +<http://smarturl.it/SOPHIEALBUM> + +Rosetta — Utopioid +<https://theanaesthete.bandcamp.com/album/utopioid> + +Desire — Under Your Spell +<https://youtu.be/9K7rmxjk5RQ> + +Broken Social Scene — Anthems for a Seventeen-Year Old Girl +<https://youtu.be/DDqNL0js0iU> + +Shinsei Kamattechan — Yuugure no tori +<https://youtu.be/sUW4dDWiz-A> + +Petite Meller — The Flute +<https://youtu.be/BLwgeV7dXOI> + +King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard — Flying Microtonal Banana +<https://youtu.be/D0BsgJxw208> + +rook&nomie — DAYDREAM +<https://youtu.be/00TdaTffFeY> + +Spiritualized — Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space +<https://youtu.be/p47V3w4m1yg> + +Street Sects — End Position +<https://streetsects.bandcamp.com/album/end-position-2> + +Converge — The Dusk in Us +<https://convergecult.bandcamp.com/album/the-dusk-in-us> + +St. Vincent — MASSEDUCTION + +Godspeed You! Black Emperor — Undoing a Luciferian Towers +<https://godspeedyoublackemperor.bandcamp.com/track/undoing-a-luciferian-towers> + +Florist — Tiny Desk Concert +<https://youtu.be/WbyyxIZ02Zs> + +CHVRCHES — Tiny Desk Concert +<https://youtu.be/haunJARHPm4> + +Aurora — Tiny Desk Concert +<https://youtu.be/evBgLWQwAFA> + +Joy Division — Atmosphere +<https://youtu.be/1EdUjlawLJM> + +Underworld — Born Slippy +<https://youtu.be/iTFrCbQGyvM> + +Converge — I Can Tell You About Pain +<https://convergecult.bandcamp.com/album/i-can-tell-you-about-pain> + +CocoRosie — Lost Girls +<https://youtu.be/aRa-SlftLQo> + +FAUVE — Blizzard +<https://youtu.be/HMpmedi_pH4> + +FAUVE — Nuits Fauves +<https://youtu.be/cwaAppsy5yo> + +Sarin — House of Leaves +<https://sarin.bandcamp.com/track/house-of-leaves-split-w-guiltfeeder> + +Chromatics — Shadow +<https://youtu.be/IGUboLZx3Tk> + +Arcade Fire — Creature Comfort +<https://youtu.be/xzwicesJQ7E> + +Arcade Fire — Everything Now +<https://youtu.be/zC30BYR3CUk> + +Ed Schrader's Music Beat — Sermon + +Jessica Moss — Pools of Light + +Death Grips — Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix) +<https://youtu.be/JUTKTk60aGk> + +Saltland — A Common Truth + +Colin Stetson — All This I Do for Glory +<https://colinstetson.bandcamp.com/album/all-this-i-do-for-glory> + +Xiu Xiu — Forget +<https://youtu.be/ywRzfwA75pY> + +Arca — Arca + +Joni Void — Dissociation (Kyla's Song) +<http://cstrecords.com/cst125/> + +Do Make Say Think — Bound and Boundless +<http://cstrecords.com/cst120/> + +The Body Lovers / The Body Haters + +Unwound — Leaves Turn Inside You + +Xiu Xiu — Fabulous Muscles + +Xiu Xiu — A Promise + +Saltland — Light of Mercy +<http://cstrecords.com/saltland-releases-new-single-light-of-mercy/> + +Jessica Moss — Glaciers I (Pt I) +<http://cstrecords.com/cst124/> + +BNNY RBBT — Big World +<http://www.bnnyrbbt.fans> + +Woman is the Earth — Depths +<https://womanistheearth.bandcamp.com/album/depths> + +Saltland — I Only Wish This For You +<http://cstrecords.com/cst123/> + +Sun Kil Moon — Benji +<https://youtu.be/UtndQzCUEY4> + +Neil Cicierega — Mouth Moods +<http://www.neilcic.com/mouthmoods/> + +Those Who Walk Away — "First Degraded Rhythm" + "First Partially Recollected Conversation" +<http://cstrecords.com/cst122/> + +Dan Smith — Some Tunes +<https://thedancemyth.bandcamp.com/album/some-tunes> + +Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche — Pas pire pop, I Love You So Much + +Arcade Fire — I Give You Power +<https://youtu.be/f6jma9VQEls> + +Xiu Xiu — Jenny GoGo +<https://youtu.be/WMT6MsA3ut8> + +Kero Kero Bonito — Fish Bowl +<https://youtu.be/FY-CjOJCjJE> + +Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche — Alizé et Margaret D. Midi moins le quart. Sur la plage, un palmier ensanglanté +<http://cstrecords.com/cst121/> + +G.L.O.S.S. — Trans Day of Revenge +<https://girlslivingoutsidesocietysshit.bandcamp.com/releases> + +Joy Division — Love Will Tear Us Apart +<https://youtu.be/zuuObGsB0No> + +Xiu Xiu — Honeysuckle +<https://youtu.be/hYKGR8Er4vM> + +Xiu Xiu — Ceremony +<https://youtu.be/95ms8A2XJY0> + +Xiu Xiu — I Luv the Valley Oh +<https://youtu.be/dztURk0_DOg> + +Porter Robinson & Madeon — Shelter +<https://youtu.be/fzQ6gRAEoy0> + +Julien Baker — Tiny Desk Concert +<https://youtu.be/tADWPTqR_4A> diff --git a/txt/shows.txt b/txt/shows.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2abacf5b --- /dev/null +++ b/txt/shows.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +2022-12-18 (SAT) LINGUA IGNOTA +2022-06-04 (MAI) Honeydrip, MAGELLA, BACKXWASH +2020-01-23 (La Sala Rossa) Secondsight, BIG|BRAVE +2019-12-10 (Casa del Popolo) meth, Street Sects +2019-06-22 (Casa del Popolo) Persons Unknown, Palissade, Police des Moeurs, Blu Anxiety +2019-06-22 (Bar Le Ritz) Cloakroom, Pelican +2019-06-21 (La Vitrola) Leash Aggression, CPU Rave, Vitex, Pinocchio +2019-06-20 (Casa del Popolo) Beep Test, Liar//Lier, Wetware +2019-06-18 (Casa del Popolo) Nomadic War Machine; it foot, it ears; Wendy Eisenberg +2019-06-17 (La Sala Rossa) SaskPWR, Lubomyr Melnyk, Architek Percussion (Nicole Lizée) +2019-06-08 (La Sotterenea) Eliza Kavtion, Beep Test, Dri Hiev +2019-05-03 (Turbo Haüs) Issfenn +2019-04-21 (Bar Le Ritz PDB) Claud, Hatchie, Girlpool +2018-11-14 (Turbo Haus) Juss, Street Sects +2018-07-26 (Theatre Fairmount) Uniform, Deafheaven +2018-06-14 (Casa del Popolo) Markus Floats, Mark Lowe, Carodiaro, Eliza Kavtion +2018-04-26 (Bar Le Ritz PDB) Strega, Show of Bedlam, Rosetta +2018-04-13 (La Vitrola) Eliza Kavtion, Lungbutter, Wrekmeister Harmonies +2018-03-08 (Brasserie Beaubien) Clayborne, Nightwitches, Aseethe, Vile Creature +2018-02-08 (Bar Le Ritz PDB) KGD, Efrim Manuel Menuck +2017-09-30 (La Sala Rossa) Truster, Lungbutter, Big Brave +2017-09-19 (La Vitrola) Saccharine, Xiu Xiu +2017-06-01 (Casa del Popolo) Genevieve Heistek, Saltland +2017-05-27 (l’Escogriffe) Sough, Ikaray, C H R I S T +2017-05-14 (Bar Le Ritz PDB) Mutter’d, Aim Low, Wrekmeister Harmonies +2016-09-25 (La Sala Rossa) Cloud Rat, Wolves in the Throne Room +2016-09-21 (Theatre Paradoxe) Godspeed You! Black Emperor +2016-04-08 (La Sala Rossa) Caro Diaro, Wreckage With Stick, Ought +2015-08-13 (La Vitrola) Gutser, Chemical Way, Saul Hittner, In the Name of Havoc +2015-06-10 (La Sala Rossa) Ryan Sawyer, Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld +2015-06-09 (La Sala Rossa) The Mile End Ladies String Auxiliary, Christof Migone +2015-06-08 (Casa del Popolo) C H R I S T, Jessica Moss, Big Brave +2014-01-19 (Metropolis) Godspeed You! Black Emperor +2014-01-18 (l’Olympia) Elf Power, Neutral Milk Hotel diff --git a/txt/trouble-at-jinx-hotel.txt b/txt/trouble-at-jinx-hotel.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4db28dd6 --- /dev/null +++ b/txt/trouble-at-jinx-hotel.txt @@ -0,0 +1,236 @@ +mollasses + +...à l'hôtel jinx... + +thierry amar; flüffy erskine; norsola johnson; kate lawrence; +jennifer ménard; mike moya; sam shalabi; scott lregrande chernoff... +chris brokaw; bruce cawdron; david michael curry; lisa gamble; efrim +menuck; michel meunier; js truchy; thalia zedek... à l'hôtel jinx. + +lucky 13: siren's song. la la la, amerika. Saint Christopher's +blues. sign of judgment. Lynn Canyon wedding song. coda. You Can't +Win. trouble in mind. las niñas. Miss Peach's Pawnshop. buffaloed +at Wounded Knee/the weeping winds. no love lost. songs from the +basement. + +trouble at jinx hotel. these cursed recordings began in late winter +2003 at the hotel2tango in montréal. it was a bitter sunday in +march. the world was on the brink of war in old mesopotamia, and +we were all of us sick with the influenza. headaches. fevers. wrecked +guts and water on the lungs. coughing like crazy. everyone with a +base case of the shakes. the hotel wass cold and its ghosts were +unhappy. electricity was being weird. lights flickered and all the +microphones crackled with live current. little blue sparks dancing +through the studio rooms. amplifiers were picking up strange radio +frequencies and the piano, which couldn't hold a tune to save its +own life, was behaving like a cantankerous old man. our cats and +dogs were nervous and excited, a-jitter the way animals get whenever +catastrope looms. we started with a 16-track tape machine, three +spools of 1/4" analog audio tape, and a lucky thirteen little songs +hanging in our heads. but when the 16-track busted and broke down +a few days later, we moved to 2" tape on a 24-track machine and +began anew with our fingers crossed. then the 24-track showed the +first symptoms of its own terrible illness. so we did what we could +with digital audio tape while our trusty friend and technician, +garfield lamb, nursed the equipment back to some semblance of health. +then we transfered the digital recordings to 2" tape and went to +work again... waiting to see what the gods would do next. they +toyed with us for a while before unleashing their full fury: the +24-track, seizing mid-song one evening, ate a reel of tape and sent +it spewing around the studio in little pieces, a scene as cruel as +confetti at a funeral. garfield somehow managed to splice the tape +together again. but our nerves were now in tatters too, scattered +all over the hotel floor. when we finally finished tracking this +music in the summer of 2003, the cats and dogs didn't look any less +worried than when we'd begun. of course, they sensed the disaster +we would soon see for ourselves: as we started mixing the very next +night, a faulty lamp at the studio short-circuited and the tape +machine caught on fire. a freak electrical accident. there was an +asterisk of light; then a dragon-tail of smoke coiling across the +room; then there was a darkness; and then the 24-track quietly died. +the animals, cowering in corners, whined, *why didn't you fucking +fools jump ship at the first sign of the storm*? that's when we +drifted away from the jinxed hotel... floating until we found safe +harbour in a studio we could borrow for a few days - one whose own +resident dogs, zoro and ciska, greeted us with idiot grins and the +contented looks of drunken sailors on calm seas. mixing was finished +in a kind of delirious distress at MixArt in notre-dame-de-grace, +montréal, autumn 2003. these lucky thirteen. dieu merci. slgc. *new +year's eve* 2003. + +siren's song. instrumental. + +la la la, amerika. amerika is crawling with cops tonight as we put +our fists through the windows of the world i know you're broken and +you're down at the mouth but you're pouting like a punished little +girl when darkness calls night falls oh mother where are the children +you've orphaned all over the Earth we're frightened and sickened +and poverty-stricken and waiting for you to send word when darkness +calls the sky falls we're tired mother and we're poor we're wretched +at your teeming shore we're homeless and tossed by the storm looking +for the light at your golden door when darkness calls night falls. + +flüffy: marching drum, percussion & choir; norsola: cello & voice; +kate: violin; jennifer: voice; moya: Crumar organ; dmc: viola & +choir; gamble: choir; efrim: choir; js: upright bass; thalia: voice; +scott: acoustic guitars & vocals; scott recorded the air-raid siren +and bombs on the nightly news when baghdad was attacked by the +united states and great britain in march 2003; words & music by +scott chernoff, as stolen from the inscription on the statue of +liberty: *give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning +to breathe the wretched refuse of your teeming shore send these the +homeless tempest-tossed to me i lift my lamp beside the golden +door*. + +Saint Christopher's blues. the locusts are in the jimson Shit Creek +is on the rise and you're out wrecking eternity this town looks +like a prison in September's crimson sky when i should be loving +you perfectly you're such a pretty little mess with your Saint +Christopher blues and that doomed little look in your eye the weight +of the world rests all upon your tiny shoes but June why are you +so terrified give me the locust and the flood i'm a Fool for Love +but i'm kneeling in Shit Creek tonight. + +thierry: upright & electric bass; flüffy: marching drum; kate: +violin; jennifer: voice; moya: piano & Crumar organ; bruce: drums; +gramble: scrap metal; scott: electric guitar & vocals. words & music +by scott chernoff. + +sign of judgment. yes sign of judgment yes sign of judgment yes +sign of judgment time ain't long i don't like old Satan none of his +tempting charms cheats you at your Jesus now and roll you in his +arms yes sign of judgment yes sign of judgment yes sign of judgment +time ain't long i don't like old Satan nothing he say or do tell +one lie to hurt us all and two to make it true yes sign of judgment +yes sign of judgment yes sign of judgment time ain't long. + +norsola: cello; jennifer: voice; efrim: electric guitar & harmonium; +js: upright bass; thalia: voice; scott: acoustic guitar & vocals. +words & music by kid prince moore (traditional). + +Lynn Canyon wedding song. well i never cared very much for the west +except for you there who i loved the best now please take me back +east i wrote your name in silver and green where Love and Hate Play +with Fate and History now please take me back east oh please take +me back east we came to the Canyon across the calm and the wild +from Mountain to Mountain and Island to aisle i came for Abel you +came for Cain and we danced on the tables between the cradle and +the grave and i never cared very much for the west but i will be +there in my Sunday best if you will wear your red wedding dress +then please take me back east oh please take me back east. + +flüffy: saw; jennifer: voice; moya: piano & Crumar organ; dmc: viola +& saw; js: upright bass & voice; scott: acoustic guitar & vocals. +words & music by scott chernoff. + +coda. instrumental. + +flüffy: metal heating duct; michel: banjo; dog & voice drone recorded +by julian evans on video tape at Lynn Canyon 2002; mixed by scott +& harris newman in montréal 2003. + +You Can't Win. you with your railroad bones and you with your +golden-spiked skin you with the wind in your clothes and your hat +like a house caving in oh man You Can't Win oh man You Can't Win +oh man You Can't Win when the Angel of Light is at the window with +the Sanctimonious Kid when you're down and out from Sacramento on +the New York City skids oh man You Can't Win oh man You Can't Win +oh man You Can't Win when the East River is groaning all below the +Williamsburg Bridge when airplanes are exploding in the skyline's +falling limbs oh man You Can't Win oh man You Can't Win oh man You +Can't Win when the Swans are at your throat with their busted burning +wings when they squeal and scream and moan at every last ship that +comes in oh man You Can't Win oh man You Can't Win oh man You Can't +Win. + +flüffy: chor; norsola: choir; jennifer: voice; moya: electric guitars +& Crumar organ; sam: oud; bruce: drums & marimba; dmc: choir; +gramble: scrap metal & choir; efrim: electric guitar & choir; js: +choir; thalia: choir; scott: electric & acoustic guitars, vocals. +words & music by scott chernoff, on the road from sacramento to +nyc. september 11 2001, while reading jack black's 1926 hobo memoir +*You Can't Win* and listening to the music of michael gira.. + +trouble in mind. trouble in mind i'm blue but i won't be blue all +the way you know that sun is gonna shine on me someday i'm gonna +lay my head on some lonesome railroad line and let that big +motherfucking engine nullify my mind trouble in mind i'm blue but +i won't be blue all the way you know that sun is gonna shine on me +someday. + +jennifer: voice; sam: electric guitars; chris: electric guitar; +scott: acoustic guitar & vocals. words & music traditional, as +learned from a 1960s recording by sam lightnin' hopkins. + +las niñas. instrumental. + +andrew mayrs recorded his baby daughter illimani crying while banging +on a piano in kitsilano, vancouver 2003; screaming children recorded +by scott at rue roy, montréal 2003. mixed by scott & harris newman +in montréal 2003. + +Miss Peach's Pawnshop. i bought this cross on the island of St. +Thomas because i wanted jesus on my chest i got this tattoo in New +Orleans and this one in the Orient for my honeymoon and i got this +scar somewhere far far away i was drunk as hell and i tried to walk +home and my hands were broken and i found this prayer in the back +of a magazine i know it's ripped but it came like this it came like +this i bought this song at Miss Peach's Pawn with this old overcoat +and a gold-plated wristwatch and i found this prayer in the back +of a magazine i know it's ripped but it came like this it came like +this it came like this it came like this. + +norsola: cello; kate: violin; jennifer: voice; moya: electric guitar, +piano & Crumar organ; dmc: viola; js: upright bass; scott: acoustic +guitar & vocals. words by hilary peach & scott chernoff; music by +scott chernoff. this is a bastard adaptation of peach's poem *Tattoo* +from her album, *Poems Only Dogs Can Hear*. + +buffaloed at Wounded Knee/the weeping winds. instrumental. (for +l.p. & a.i.m. and a pox on mean-spirited sons of bitches everywhere). + +flüffy: saws; dmc: saws. + +no love lost. good-bye old friend it's time to go this is the end +of all that we know when you worship in the house of burden i worship +in the house of blame as you learn to let your spirit burn i yearn +to be a flame to be a flame and there's no love no love lost as +there is the righteous there is the wrong and there is the night +which is betrayed by the dawn and there's no love no love lost as +there is the sinner there is the god and there is the singer profaned +by the song and there's no love no love lost there's no love no +love lost. + +thierry: electric bass; flüffy: bowed piano & saws; jennifer: voice; +moya: piano; michel: banjo; thalia: voice; scott: acoustic guitar, +bowed piano & vocals. words & music by scott chernoff. + +songs from the basement. there's a song for hatred and a song for +love a song for betrayal and a song for trust there's a song for +what's fated a song for dumb luck a song for what's sacred and one +for what's fucked there's a song which is prayed a song which is +cussed these songs from the basement which play unto us. + +norsola: cello; kate: violin; jennifer: voice; sam: electric guitars; +bruce: marimba & cymbals; dmc: viola; efrim: harmonium; garfield +lamb: knife; scott: acoustic guitar & vocals. words & music by scott +chernoff. mixed by howard bilerman at the hotel... ...after the +storm had all blown by... + +recorded by howard bilerman, efrim & scott at mom & pop sounds in +the hotel2tango, mile end, montréal 2003. except where noted, +everything was mixed by howard bilerman & molasses at MixArt in +notre-dame-de-grace, montréal 2003. mastered by harris newman in +little italy, montréal 2003 & 2004. all songs c&p SOCAN 2004, except +*sign of judgment* & *trouble in mind* which are in the public +domain. hilary peach's poem *Tattoo*, which inspired *Miss Peach's +Pawnshop*, is c&p hilary peach 2003. all music arranged by molasses, +design and hand-lettering by slgc ink. in tokyo. photography by dmc +& norsola. layout by slgc ink. with assistance by sean o'hara. all +love to those who helped: sohara & gary at alien8 recordings; howard +bilerman; cada del popolo; don & ian at constellation; eric craven; +julian evans; michael feuerstack; aidan girt; lea grahovac; taras +grescoe; garfield lamb; tim mahony; andrew mayrs, vally mendoza & +illimani mendoza-mayrs; boris & nicolas at MixArt; harris newman, +*who is never wrong*; hilary peach; sugar & smokey; and all the +cars and dogs... xoxo... |