Random Living

Silentist Show

posters for the deathday, silentist and thrones show at the smell arrived today.

show info:

September, 30 2008

Thrones
Silentist
Geromino
Deathday Party

at The Smell
247 South Main Street, Los Angeles

A Ghost In The House

My favorite time of the year is almost upon us!

Virtual Mix Tape 3

Side A:
1. Echo & The Bunnymen - Nocturnal Me
2. Disco Inferno - Waking Up
3. Velvet Underground - I Found A Reason
4. The Beatles - Julia
5. Arvo Part - Fratres

Side B:
1. Microstoria - Fakeshift
2. Kraftwerk - Ananas Symphonie
3. Bert Jansch - So Long (Been On the Road So Long)
4. The Tornados - Red Roses And A Sky Of Blue
5. The Tornados - Popeye Twist
6. Scott Walker - Always Coming Back to You
7. Jesus and Mary Chain - Bo Diddley is Jesus

Photograph taken at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France in December of 2004.

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Places for the future: Barcelona

Places for the future: Kreuzberg

Berlin

1991: The Year Punk Broke

I purchased this on VHS back in 1992 at chain store called Music Plus that was down the street from my parents' house. At the time I was 11 years old and only had three or four tapes, Sonic Youth's Goo, Nirvana's Bleach and Ramonesmania. None of them even belonged to me, I had permanently "borrowed" them from an uncle. All three bands were featured in the film.

At the time all I had was those tapes, a sony walkman and a Mike McGill deck. I think I aquired a stratocaster shortly after.

Santa Ana Ghosts + Flowers

Model Maker


Courthouse Construction


Santa Ana Cafe and See's Candies

These are random photographs of Santa Ana in the old times.

Virtual 7" | Improvisations

Improvisations | Virtual 7"

I'm cleaning out the vaults before I start putting up new material.

These improvisations were recorded straight to a RadioShack cassette recorder in December of 2004 right before I left to England and France.

They were a result of nervous breakdown.

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Virtual Mix Tape 2

Virtual Mix Tape 2

Side A
1. Sparks - This town isn't big enough for the both of us
2. Jay Reatard - Let it all go
3. Moondog - Lullaby (2 West 46th Street)
4. Thin Lizzy - Sitamoia
5. The Zombies - Leave me be
6. The Shangri-Las - What's a girl supposed to do
7. Orange Juice - Moscow
8. Liars - Pure Unevil
9. Loveliscrushing - Plume
10. Why? - Dirty Glass
11. Ariel Pink - Shaven

Side B
1. Elliot Smith - Needle in the hay
2. John Leyton - Johnny remember me
3. The Beach Boys - Vega-Tables
4. Pink Floyd - Scarecrow
5. Eric Burden & The Animals - Sky Pilot
6. Buddy Rich Vs Max Roach - Figure Eights
7. Daniel Johnston - Devil Town
8. Rocket From The Tombs - Final Solution
9. Low - Shots & Ladders

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Vegan Experiments

Brown Rice, Cuban Black Beans, Magic Mushrooms and Asparagus

Virtual Mix Tape 1

Virtual Mix Tape 1

Side A
1. Joe Meek - I Hear a New World
2. Willie Colón & Hector Lavoe - Aguanile
3. Jay Reatard - My Shadow
4. Del Shannon - Runaway
5. Big Star - Big Black Car
6. Screaming Lord Sutch - She's Falling in Love with the Monster Man
7. The Monks - Oh, How to do now
8. The Magnetic Fields - Absolutely Cuckoo
9. Mew - Drown
10. John Fahey - Requiem for Mississippi John Hurt

Side B
1. The Tornados - Telstar
2. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
3. Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
4. Babatunde Olatunji - Akiwowo
5. Roy Orbison - Crying
6. Elvis Presley - Blue Moon
7. Nat King Cole - Nature Boy
8. The Beach Boys - Caroline No
9. OMD - Stanlow

This is one of those tapes that you start making for someone but never give to them. I started working on it back in January and have since modified the tracklisting. The mix tape originally contained the songs "try me" by James Brown and "I've been loving too long" by Otis Redding, which I have since removed.

Shortly after making this tape, my friend Vince asked me to make him a Brian Eno tape and a shoegaze tape. Since then I have been making mix tapes monthly.

I will be posting these monthly, but for now...

You can download the January mix tape here.

My Birthday in Santa Cruz

EP I | Moaning The Death Blues

Moaning The Death Blues | EP I

These performances were committed to hard disc between July and October of 2005, since then they have been sitting on a wooden shelf collecting dust. Though they are incomplete, I am putting them out because i don't have any intentions of finishing them. For the most part, these were improvisations or basic ideas for songs. They're rough but that seems to be what i'm enjoying about them

You can download them here.

This is the first EP in a series of three, EPs II and II will be posted within the next few weeks.

In a room with a red t-shirt, grandfathers and cuckoos.

sequences from different channels.

sometimes i misguide myself...
but ultimately, it gets me to the truth.
i need to start keeping a journal.

there's a van heading to the northwest with an acoustic guitar in it.
they're a singing the sonnets of your doom.

list of things i need to remember:

i like cameras but forget to take pictures.
the seasons all change and i can't keep up.
still hear ghosts near the window.
but we all made nice.
can't keep a job in the winter.
my hands shake too much.

i am obsessive,
i've got no restraint,
you break hearts like you change underwear.

the rain gave birth to the sparrow.
you gave birth to a stillborn.
a man that is dying isn't very becoming at all.

a shotgun house in a ghost town.
in a room full of clocks.
there's a trumpet and an old bass drum.

you found another lover.
i bought another record.
i act like a whore cause you've turned to a bore.

should i move to the bay and play my guitar?
is the water cold under the bridge in the night?

he left mother russia when it was destroyed.
now he drinks all day cause he's unemployed.

you smoke to feel nothing.
but the worst thing of all...
you numb yourself dead when i'm most alive.

he's driving cross country to photograph ghosts.
but i'm afraid the place where they rome already burned down.

you sing songs in the car as we head south.
the wind pushes your palms up towards the sky.
when you hear toy pianos.
you march and crash cymbals.
where hearts can feel something and die in delight.


there are twelve different alex's in a year.
go figure.

i had several life altering epiphanies tonight,
i might be ahead by a day.
















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