Archive for September, 2010
SEVENTEEN, now downloadable!
No, not the girls' magazine. The Japanese novella that was banned after the first printing, on pain of death!
The novella I just translated into english for your reading-and-or-Emperor-disrespecting pleasure.
The novella you can download here for free! All in one place.
Let me back up a second:
Last year, I posted my translation of Furyuu Mutan (The [...]
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mp3 post: busuchan!
artist: BUSUCHAN
album: DEFRAG MY HEART
date: 2000
The cover is a screen-grab from the Windows '98 defrag display. The "hello kitty cursor" was my actual cursor at the time.
2000 was a bummer year: nothing but hello kitty and true norwegian black metal.
But I had used up all my Black Metal riffs writing songs for the 56-song Stalin [...]
worst critic ever: the New Yorker’s Sasha Frere-Jaques
Remember that old Bill Hicks routine about how he can't NOT watch "cops" because it's so painful?
Recently that's how I feel about the New Yorker Magazine's resident reviewer of popular music, Sasha Frere Jaques.
I don't read him to find out what is good or bad (neither do his fans, I expect). I read it like [...]
mp3 post: the criminally insane project
GROUP: THE CRIMINALLY INSANE PROJECT
ALBUM: ADVANCED SLAYERPHONICS
PERSONEL: Myself and the inimitable Jason Kocol
YEAR: 2004
Ever wondered what it would be like to be Slayer, or a member or Slayer? So have we. That's why we have, after years of research, developed an experimental Device that allows YOU to hear your favorite pop songs the way that [...]
Millions of Dead Critics
I’m going to pick on rock critics.
This might seem like flogging a dead horse : I mean, who LIKES them?
But this rant isn’t art; it’s politics.
In art you try to say something original. In politics, however, you keep hitting your point until a plurality of voters agree with you and pass a law [...]
MP3 POST: 逃狂愛憎 – MP3S NOW WORKING
防人情隊 ( bouninjoutai )
2004 demo :
逃狂愛憎 (tokyo aizou )
download the whole thing here.
In 2004, I was pissed!
Man, was I pissed!
Visa problems, girl problems, social alienation, money issues. . . So I wrote Japan a fuck-you letter: a whole punk album in JAPANESE.
Ironic because a main reason for my being pissed was that my [...]