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no matter how progressive Cromwell seems to be by Tudor standards, he's still a man of his time. despite the great writing, this fact remains overpowered by the savant, street-smart orphan archetype. making him a blurry character despite the hordes of descriptions about him. this dislodges him from the narrative making it disjointed. a very well done book, as I keep saying, and yet something about it snails my pace.

Tweez was finally released in July 1989, almost two years after it was recorded. To celebrate, the band had an album release show in Chicago, at a Thai restaurant called Bangkok Bangkok. Opening the show was Walford’s friends’ new band, a trio of bass, guitar, drum machine, and maniacal frontman making their debut as the Jesus Lizard.

why do many Spiderland fans not like Tweez? what does calling Tweez "not my Slint" even mean? stupid ass take. of course heard in succession, it can be a jarring shift. but then why are you listening to the two albums in succession? i think Tweez captures the musical unconscious of Slint just as much as their opus.

Thinking of Slint’s Tweez-era material as perhaps un-metal or anti-metal goes a long way toward making sense of their early sound.

Nobody from that era who saw those two (David Pajo and Britt Walford) knew what to do. The guys from the Descendents were flabbergasted. Scratch Acid? Flabbergasted. Everybody from the generation before us who would see those guys play couldn't believe it. Period. Shocked. Jaws open. Trust me.

a search for some explanation for Spiderland in the absence of more Spiderland.

it is extremely well-written! but I am being so slow.

It does not really bother me that half the adults in the Western world also love blue, or that every dozen years or so someone feels compelled to write a book about it. I feel confident enough of the specificity and strength of my relation to it to share.

of course you do, white american woman! UwU

awful but i persist

thomas cromwell is such a starboy. I'm not sure I enjoy reading about glorious little orphaned savants anymore. cool book so far tho.

He Thomas, also Tomos, Tommaso and Thomas Cromwell, withdraws his past selves into his present body and edges back to where he was before. His single shadow slides against the wall. Which of the Thomases saw the blow coming? There are moments when a memory moves right through you. You shy, you duck, you run; or else the past takes your fist and actuates it. Suppose you have a knife? That's how murder happens.

just stay inside forever
it will do this, It swears
nothing worth being conscious for
It made plans today.
didn’t work, big surprise...

Think of it: There is no causation for suicide. It
simply is. It walks between us like a ghost. It hides
between the tables of the axis; it eludes us. We
don’t see it, but it is always with us. It is all of our
fathers, and all of our mothers, and everyone we’ve
ever loved. It is everywhere, but disconnected.
Loose of the moorings. No feet on the ground.
Floating over the earth.

you are everyone you hate
and it is ruining your life.
shutup Dan

this is all so Nagarjuna coded.

apparently i hate myself

AAAAAA I DON'T WANT THIS BOOK TO END!!!!

obviously this book isn't about any of that, and i love these people, but i keep getting irked with their utter unawareness of or disregard for or disinterest in England's violent colonial past while romanticising the 'mysticism' it lost that it had in those imperialist times. like gtfoh. maybe it's just me and my global south sensibilities finally feeling too saturated with the rampant englishness of this book.

after regressing into a catatonic state after a night of doing too much MDMA, John Balance said: 'I once regressed to BIRD MIND and only squarked and chirriped for three worrying days [sic],’ he recalled. ‘I was away with the birds.’

"Coil's Love's Secret Domain as the psychedelic gazetteer of england's hidden reverse.."

pale queens mighty in sorrow

so-called ‘Industrial’ music became dance music. I can't dance to save my life but I've got nothing against dance music – Sly & The Family Stone are one of my favourite groups – but I never understood why people started dancing. So I came out with Swastikas For Noddy, while other people shaved their heads, put on serious glasses and bought sequencers.

made me lol.

We see our music as sound sculptures unhindered by preconceived ideas, where any sound may be used whether natural or manmade, untreated or treated electronically, and motivated only by aesthetic considerations.

Sleazy's father Derman...eventually becoming a knight of the realm i read this and I immediately thought that Sleazy's father became a knight in an artistic, knight errant sense because why not?...until I remembered that he was English and they're weird like that. he was anointed a literal knight. smh.

here with another goosebumpy grindcore black metal album recommendation: Anaal Nathrakh's In the Constellation of the Black Widow. edifying is the only word i can think of to describe it. i have been listening to it on my 500 rupees (5 dollars) earphones and now my ears hurt, so don't do that. but it's worth it anyway.

The objective of harsh vocals and vocal distortions is not the mechanisation of the human, but the distortion or deletion of the human's traditional manifestation.

Attila Csihar’s use of overtone / throat singing through out Mayhem’s album Esoteric Warfare, indicate that this distortion of the signal can at
the same time hint at a second, hidden reality that lies behind the one readily accessible. The consequent next step in informational distortion is outright negation, the eradication of the (arbitrary) symbolic aspect of communication.