The Itch

I am getting interested in roaming artists.
I am not artistic, nor can I roam freely with 2 kids in tow, but perhaps I can do a paper on the likes of

Yamashita Kiyoshi



or Tanaka Isson

Vox Populi

If it hasn't been done, an in-depth social science research project should be done on the reams of comments (no pun intended) on porno video sites.

The voice of the people. I bet something interesting could be elicited.

Music You Should Download Part 1

Yeah it's not legal, but everyone should have:

1. Coil discog
2. Funk compilations by Rock Savage
3. Tdazik album collection
4. Ministry's first album that sounds like bad Brit pop
5. Neil Young- Trans
6. Frank Zappa discog (he would roll in his grave. sorry Frank)
7. Ehtiopian Jazz
8. MC Solar. (French sounds good when rapped)
9. Harry Belafonte records
10. Art Blakey

I recommend www.isohunt.com

FreeShit.Com

I have had visions of this idea in several forms

1) Colelct old postcards and photographs. People log on and sign up for 1 free mailing. Cost of postage could be covered by adds or links to T shirt sales

2) Take it one step further. Collect random shit. Hotel Napkins, chopstick holders, funeral home keychains, you name it. People sign up and pay a set fee for a random care package. Consider it a fluxus recycling project. This we could set up with volunteer mailers stationed throughout the world. I assume we would have to draft some guidelines to ensure that people weren't getting packages of poop. It has definitely art potential. I really like to think about it. I recently send my friend in Florida a shochu cap, a torn dollar bill and paper chopstick holders that say "Nice to MEAT"
That was it.
It is a true statement of who I am.
This could easily go global

Rediscovering COIL

Thanks to Isohunt and, previsouly Demonoid, I have been able to rediscover one of the greatest unknown bands around, COIL.

I only ever owned the Love's Secret Domain album, which was their closest work to almost crossover into the techno/house scene. While it's probably the most well travelled door into the world of COIL, it is by far, not the most representative.

You can read all about COIL and how they were gay, and their views on "magick" etc etc all over at Wikipedia

I just have to say how awesome it is that this band started way back in 1982, right around when poor Neil Young tried out synthesizers on Trans, and just kept on going. Banging out insedecribable tracks oft labled as gothic, industrial, experiemental, darkwave, ritual or simply electronica, but never really falling into any category, even up until the band's abrupt end in 2004.

In this day and age, it's hard to a) remain original, b) remain afloat and c) avoid the full body numbness of daily life. I have to commend COIL for staying "out there" and keeping it real in the world of aural madness for the rest of us who listen, but can only imagine what it was like to make this music.

See some of their live stuff on youtube

Personal favorite albums at this point in time:

Queens of the Circulating Library
The Ape of Naples
Musick to Play in the Dark (Remixes)

Book Reviews in Haiku

This one came to me the other day as I read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" on the toilet.
I haven't finsihed the book yet buy my tentative review is:

Motorcycle man's
existentialist ramblings.
Best fix that tappet.


There are several companies that specialize in summarizing the latest hits into 5 to 10 page lists of bullet points, for the busy executive crowd. With the rise of Twitter, the haiku is the perfect format, now, for book reviews. Let's take it one step further.

The "art" will take some work, but shit, maybe people would send us free books to review in haiku. Get a site running and that could be one of the zillion "site of the day" type sites that flit across the world's collective conscious via StumbleUpon, DiggIt etc.

too cheap to buy the site, so I will leave my idea in Fluxus for now