The influence that krautrock has had on the music of the last 40 years has not yet been properly quantified or codified; to this day it remains a vague taxonomy of sounds, categories and phonic components that serve as a modern day venn diagram for discourse on underground music. Hip-hop, post-punk, house, noise, techno,
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This poem first appeared in a chapbook entitled Tornado Alley. William S. Burroughs For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts – thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison – thanks for Indians to
If indulging in a massive meal large enough to feed the whole human history of asceticism isn’t quite enough; if you need to cultivate another sensual pleasure to really drive home the orgy of taste; if you are any lover of music whatsoever; or, if your family and conversation partners would make better company
“Close the doors, you uninitiated,” begins the ancient commentary (Derveni papyrus) on a poem ascribed to Orfeus. Discovered in 1962, it is said to be Europe’s oldest manuscript. The fragments, as we see, begin with a deterrent. But what reader would stop there? The transgression itself–the walking through the doors–creates the room, the sense
One of my favorite new blogs, HipHlawg, posted a telling cross analysis on drug confessionals and gender expectation in Los Angeles and New York based crack rap. The sacrifices many women make for their male counterparts in trafficking illuminate an often neglected and insidious side of the drug war story. The author traces an
It all seemed a bizarre mystery; a label owner and source of the project (Paul Reynolds), who didn’t want to talk about the Patrick Gleeson's San Francisco Express recording, musicians who didn’t quite remember it, and a neglected soundscape that stood out as solidly original and experimental for its time. time
Mi Revalueshanery Fren, Linton Kwesi Johnson‘s latest collection of dub-tongued, impossible-to-read-without-reading-aloud poems, draws from his forty year career, which began in London when he organized a Black Panther poetry workshop. From his earliest to most recent poems, words, which require the oral participation of the reader, are themselves participant in a revolutionary program–of giving
In the last hundred or so pages of Infinite Jest, Don Gately, a big, lovable ex-drug-addict living at the Ennet Halfway House, finds himself in a really difficult position. He has just been shot in the shoulder. He is at the hospital, where doctors keep materializing all serpent-like asking if he wants any drugs
Carlos Reygadas' "Silent Light" is not a film that centers on the religion of the Mennonites in Mexico, but it is a religious film that treats of miracles: the everyday miracles of love, harvest, and repentance.
