Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Wild Dogs of the Thunderbolt / 'They Cannot Lock Me Up... I Am Eternally Free...



'The album was recorded in a century old house  apparently bound for destruction.

"your bulldozers and wrecking ball can make match-sticks out of the rickety staircase and crookt/creaking floorboards---but they can't erase the recording that was made here."

As such, several sounds usually edited out of the recording process, including creaking floors, paper shuffling and outside noises, were left intact on the final album.

The most notable occurrence is that of a police car driving by with its siren blaring at the end of "Love Song for 15 Ontario"; the vehicle was later credited as a guest performer on the song.'

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Tom Waits - Pay me



"And though all roads will not lead you home my girl, 
all roads lead to the end of the world"

Friday, November 02, 2012

Your Guts are Like Mine / Polaroid


Set Fire to Flames is often considered a side project of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and the two musical ensembles share several members.

Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Dirty Three Cover Arleta





or actually, her first performance of the song. Dirty Three intersect with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at Warren Ellis.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

NY, July 2011

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"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

Mark Twain

Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Painters suspended on cables of the the Brooklyn Bridge


"Painters suspended on cables of the the Brooklyn Bridge, on October 7, 1914. (Eugene de Salignac/Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives)".


Brooklyn Bridge painters at work high above the city, on December 3, 1915. (Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives)


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