amalia rodrigues and usually just a t-shirt

maxell UR position type 1 90 mins
SIDE ONE
Blank Dogs - Leaving the Light On
Josef K - Heart of Song
Pauline Murray + Invisible Girls - Animal Crazy
Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business
Magazine - The Light Pours Out of Me
Quiet Sun - Mummy was an asteroid...
Electric Light Orchestra - 10538 Overture
Verlaines - Death and the Maiden
Modern Lovers - Dignified and Old
Television Personalities - Salvador Dali's Garden Party
Weekend - Drumbeat for Baby
Beat Happening - Black Candy
Pink Reason - Borrowed Time

the cassette format is getting to me. I've been singing while cheesemongering at work. "Leaving the Light On" is one of those songs. Pauline Murray is strange, actually new wave disco as recorded by Martin Hannett? Quiet Sun vs. ELO is really unfair, lucky I didn't put Gong on here. Prog = such a dude thing.

sooo tantilizing
Things are going pretty great, actually. Here's some evidence from Flickr. There's also pictures on there of two weddings that I went to this past summer that I didn't realize I even had on my camera until I dug it out recently and then I remembered. A few shots from Aaron's wedding in NYC and a whole lot more from the Outer Banks wedding of Sara Noffbrinson.

Lots of anniversaries have come and gone recently. Getting fired. The Virginia Tech shootings. Chris Reuther's death (which I only recently found out the truth about). I'm trying really hard not to let time slip by any more. It's good to concentrate on work and work hard for awhile, but I think I'm also using this time to make a lot of decisions.

I wish I used this thing to document stuff better, or at least keep track of very particular things that slip through my fingers every day. Documenting with me usually end up as a list though, and those are the worst posts ever.

Show = Pink Reason at Carabar with the Hue Blanc boys backing him up. New material is fast and amazing
Aspiring to = Euchre
Material thing = Dual cassette deck. Does anyone still have a tape player?
Scandal = Ohio Attorney General Dann
Addiction = Water
Film = Bring Me The Head of Diego Garcia!
Cheese = Uh... Campo de Montalban (Spanish, three kinds of milk)? Humboldt Fog (dense creamy goat cheese from California)?
Thumbs up = anything outdoors thank god
Thumbs down = Spring Cleaning
Recordings = Blank Dogs, Josef K, Skaters

Don't know if you heard, but we have 20.4 inches of snow here, and the wind was blowing it into deeper and deeper drifts yesterday afternoon and into the evening. Driving to work on Friday was kind of slidey, and then Saturday morning you couldn't see anything but white. Winter in Ohio = figuring out a way to drink coffee in the shower.

Won a major award at work, which was not a lamp shaped like a shapely leg. The award was for best customer service for the month, the prize was $50. Turns out that winning said award was a bit of a coup because there were people high up in the organization that did not want me to do well, and other other people that staked their jobs on me being able to do the job.

Aaron passed away last week and I didn't really want to deal with it. I didn't want to talk to anyone about it, which is sort of indicative of a certain kind of selfishness. Friends are supposed to talk about this amongst themselves, right? I just didn't think there was any way of "making sense" of Aaron's death, especially considering everything that he went through. I mostly feel terrible for people that were closer to him during the end. I asked Jesse if there he thought there was a reason, or something to be learned (I know, right) and he said "make sure you have health insurance, because being sick is bad enough."

Current Mood: cold
Current Music: Arthur Russell

It was my day off, so I tried to sleep in and have naughty dreams. Why do I stay up so late reading PG Wodehouse and playing computer euchre? Because it's my way of having an antiwar sit-in, I guess. Then I got up and realized that Obama is probably going to become the nominee. Went grocery shopping at the store, which seemed to be a flurry of nightmarish activity, with people from the Dublin store working everywhere. Apparently WF corporate is in town all week, which therefore means that there's going to be plenty of people telling us we're doing things wrong. Also, this entire week at work we're taking a survey of where our customers live BY USING HOME PHONE NUMBERS (cell phones don't count). This is pretty invasive, very awkward, and quite possibly the most retarded thing I've ever heard of. Unless they're looking to build a database of people over sixty or something... do you know ANYBODY with a land-line these days?

Then I got home and cleaned the kitchen for several hours. Made dinner, which was cumin + coriander + pepper rubbed salmon with peanut noodles, kale, and miso soup. And several high octane beers (Bison Organic Barleywine and Spaten Dopplebock). And now I'm going to watch some Truffaut. This week might very possibly suck, mainly because I feel like I'm encased in ice and would like to be thawed out now, thanks. Yesterday I did a radio show on my turntables which was kind of kluged together but actually might come across... if the person that is co-anchoring the show had any clue about what the fuck. Rules like = before you talk you should find out what's going out over the air, and you back announce songs that you've played, don't read them in order from the beginning. It was fun until about the fourth hour and then it was time for everyone to go home, and I was already AT home.

Current Music: Brazilian Girls - Pussy

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The funny thing is that despite the fact that someone mentioned "shitgaze" I've never seen these bands mentioned in the same breath together. TV Ghost and Pink Reason and Unholy Two and Psychedelic Horseshit (at the House of Pleasure) was one of my favorite shows this year. I wish that the Guinea Worms (and their new CDR 7") had made the cut, but they're neither young enough or "hip" enough, despite whatever playing with Tyvek has done for them.

This is why I live in Columbus, people. It's the best music scene in the country. There is a rich history of music (Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Jim Shepard, Mike Rep) and there are a lot of young turks willing to get it together and put it up on stage (Vegetative States et fucking al). I can see my rock with my noise, so I can have my peanut butter and chocolate. Together!

Current Music: Vegetative States

bianca brunner

When I was a kid I used to spend a large portion of my summers in the river. Becoming familiar with a river, the mud and the crawdads and the rocks and the snakes, was such a large part of my adolescence.

must do laundry
favorite things

TNV - Rip it off CD on Matador
General Tso's vegan chicken
snuggling with the cat on cold nights
being a smartass
The Lady Vanishes - Hitchcock DVD
actual photos of tour van and Dame Darcy on the beach from the last Suckdog tour
Aubrey Blue Green Algae moisturizer
MyChelle Splash! aftershave
Tyvek live @ Bourbon Street
getting to see Skaters, Lambsbread, C Spencer Yeh, Axlotl tonight
Replacements bio "All Over But the Shouting"
Gram Parsons bio "20,000 Roads"
pedal steel players, esp. Susan Alcorn, Heather Leigh Murray, and Sneaky Pete
euchre
sleep

Current Music: Skaters - Dispersed Royalty Ornaments

top rekkids 2007
Islaja - Ulual yyy (Fonal)
Times New Viking - Celebrate the Paisley Reich LP (Siltbreeze)
Pink Reason - Cleaning the Mirror CD (Siltbreeze)
Emeralds - Dirt Weed Diaries vol 2 (Maim & Disfigure), Smoke Signals cassette, Servant cassette (Wagon)
Group Doueh - Guitar Music From The Western Sahara LP (Sublime Frequencies)
Psychedelic Horseshit - Magic Flowers Droned (Siltbreeze)
the Cherry Blossoms - s/t LP (Black Velvet Fuckere, etc)
Tommy Jay - Tall Tales of Trauma (Columbus Discount reissue)
Lambsbread/Sword Heaven split 12" (Lost Treasures of the Underworld)
Circle - Sunrise (No Quarter)
Kemialliset Ystavat - s/t CD (Fonal)
Avarus - Rasvaaja (Secret Eye)
Burning Star Core - Blood Lightning (No Fun)
Magik Markers - The Voldoror Dance (LATITUDE/LOCUST MUSIC)
Various - Desperate Man Soundtrack (Dust to Digital)

still figuring it out tho... here are some small format monsters

Tyvek/Cheveu split 7" (SS)
TV Ghost - Atomic Rain 7" (Die Stasi)
El Jesus de Magico - Funeral Home Sessions 7" (Columbus Discount)
Sapat - Halycon Daze 7" (Black Velvet Fuckere)
Sic Alps - Description of the Harbor 12" (Awesome Vistas)
Necropolis - Working Man 7" (Columbus Discount)
Ghosting / Robedoor split 7" (Not Not Fun)
Robedoor / Yellow Swans split 7" (Arbor)

BOB Ft. Wes Fif - Haterz Everywhere
Tay Zonday - Chocolate Rain

Todd P from Columbus, Ohio

Last updated 4 weeks ago.

Pretty much the worst way you can "break up" with someone is to simply not return their phone calls or texts and then avoid them for a few weeks. Especially with me, because I will wonder what is wrong and think that maybe word got around about that time I was desperate and trimmed a toenail with my teeth. Grow the fuck up people, sometimes you forget about stuff like where your toenail trimmers are but why would you forget to break up with someone? Set a date and just end the shit, even if you can't figure out why "it's too much, or it's not enough." That's fine, sometimes people just figure out in the middle of taking a shower that hey, this relationship isn't working for me. But making me have to leave a message on your phone along the lines of "hello, I was wondering if we are still on speaking terms" so you can call me back at your next convenience?

Now I have to deal with the remainder of the winter full of awkwardness like your friends walking away from me in the middle of a conversation at karaoke and wondering where you are or are not going to be. Seriously, since when was being nice, fucking you like a champ, and taking you out to dinner every once in awhile such a heavy burden to bear?

Did not get the promotion as it went to someone else. From another store, someone who I do not know. Had a run-in with the HR person because I did not genuflect in the proper manner while doing something pretty much unrelated to her. Who would have thought that there would be so many egos at a health food store? It's called kava-kava and it's the relaxing rhizome used by Pacific islanders to treat anxiety. Also, was somehow suckered into doing demos on Friday nights where I act like a trained seal while pouring wine and waxing rhapsodic about pomegranate concentrate (four times the antioxidants) and organic Croatian fig preserve.

Depressed about not keeping up with birthdays and dropping the ball on dropping people emails or texts. Noff's kid must be in middle school by now. I didn't go back for the holidays either and now I really regret it. Bummer of a Tarheel defeat the other day too.

Current Music: mark perry - whole world's down on me

Other than making lists AND WRITING EMO POETRY I haven't really done much writing lately. It was a surprise when my Mom asked me if I had been doing any writing lately, as if it was something that was supposed to be good for me. Like setting aside receipts and thinking of mnemonic phrases so you would remember to BRING GROCERY BAGS TO THE STORE instead of cringing when they ask you for paper or plastic. And other than thinking about 2007 and making lists, I haven't been writing. I've been working a lot.

Somebody asked me today if I knew who made the DAGOBA organic chocolate bars, like are they made by Hershey's, and I told them that I though DAGOBA was where Yoda lived. I might even have done a Yoda voice. She then asked me if I was becoming a robot, by which she meant running a scanner and working at a grocery store, and I knew exactly what she meant when she said it. I sighed, and told her that I had already made plans to curl up in a room full of cats later.

I'm trying to think if I made anyone else's day, but it's hard because sometimes it's just getting people past. I also loaded someone's Xmas tree through a baler and then on top of someone's Nissan. I told the people that I knew how to run a manual baler because my parents owned a Xmas tree farm in Virginia. Turns out the daughter was a first year at UVa. A lady with a heavy Eastern European accent asked me what I usually did with my voice and I knew what she meant, immediately. I think I might be NPRing the announcements on the store intercom... all Syvia Pooljolie style. Snikta Prekosh.

I have a job, it sucks just enough that they want me to be a supervisor. I'm also seeing someone and it's crazy and fun but strangely lazy, sofas and egg sammies and dive bars. Someone else told me that they were glad to have got a chance to know me. This is a good thing because I think about people who don't live here all the time. Somebody said "I feel like you've met a lot of my people, where are your people" and I told her that my people lived somewhere else. "I could tell you about them" I said.

The link that I got most asked about in 2007 was Micrograms, the DEA Newsletter which talks about criminal methodologies to import, create, and transport illegal drugs. It also talks about new drug variants and unusual findings in the field, like chocolate crack and tweaked chemical designer drugs. Somewhere in there they talk about khat shipments to the upper midwest and the tweakers that hid their meth in a rocket, so that they could shoot it out of the trunk if they ever got pulled over.

new radio show

For all you emo kittens out there...

I did an online radio show with Tom from Lost Treasures of the Underworld, you can hear it here (large mp3 link, click and save), with lots of rare and unusual noise stuff in weird formats (lathe cuts, 7", 10"). Starts off pretty drifty, then gets a bit folky, then gets loud. There's even a very impromptu interview with Chicago's Panicsville.

BURNING STAR CORE - I WANNA MAKE A SUPERSONIC WOMAN OUT OF YOU (NO-FI 10")
ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB - MCR BLAST PT 1 (ALT.VINYL LATHE CUT 7")
HOTOTOGISU - TRACK FROM ROBED IN VERDIGRIS (NASHAZPHONE LP)
ELISA AMBROGIO & KARL BAUER - YANKEE SPIRIT HYGEINE (SPIRIT OF ORR 7")
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AXOLOTL - INNER VOICES/NERVE DAMAGE (ARBOR 7" SPLIT W/INCA ORE)
FURSAXA - TRACK FROM MANDRAKE (ECLIPSE LP)
ROBEDOOR - ROVING SHAMAN (NOT NOT FUN 7" SPLIT W/GHOSTINGS)
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INTERVIEW WITH ANDY ORTMANN FROM PANICSVILLE
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PANICSVILLE - 2 SONGS (ROCOCO 8" SPLIT W/PRURIENT)
CHARLIE DRAHEIM - CHOSE TO LOSE (BLOODLUST 7")
ENVENOMIST - RISING (BLOODLUST 7")
BIRDS OF DELAY (AA LATHE CUT 7")
TIGHT MEAT DUO - CREAMING THE GUTTERPUNK (ALT.VINYL LATHE CUT 7")
RUDOLPH GREY (W/RASHIED ALI) IMPLOSION 73 (NEW ALLIANCE 7")

plenty of hilarious screw-ups (I screw up the date of Ohio Noisefest and totally cut Andy off), but it sounds great. Faves = the Axolotl tracks, gotta get that one.

Anyone wants to get this for me, please feel free.

I mean, they're only $165.

black metal fashion spread

still awake, it's ridiculous who am i these days. today? did not much other than cook microwave canned soup and watch bad TV. well, i went for a walk in the woods today out at slate run metro park it was amazingly quiet no ducks lots of frogs, got intercepted by a cell phone call on a trail in the middle of nowhere by my moms, still picked up talked to her, she needs to know

tried to make her laugh i could tell she was tired and feeling old

what's up with me? cowardice = afraid to be who i am. and just write it all down. other than that it's loneliness and escapism, television and doing dishes, grad school applications, will deconstruct for food

i haven't even told you about the wedding in NYC (amazing) and the subsequent trips to poughkeepsie and pittsburgh, ask away if you're interested

currently reading = "a canticle for liebowitz" and a lot of tin-tin books, amazing detail on herge, on both really. obsessed with captain haddock's curses, have you read tin-tin?

hotel rooms at the north carolina beach in a couple weeks, wish i had a date and it wasn't a fart party (benjy, jesse, joey and me in a motor inn). i miss my peoples, online and in real life, former coworkers, ex-neighbors, even ex-girlfriends

beautiful blue-eyed Ohio girls on trampolines, i wish they would call me. i need people i can call, and i promise we just can go get indian food and watch fellini movies if you want, maybe la strada? the white sheik is the romantic one, we won't watch that if that makes you uncomfortable.

jobwise? if only i'd paid more attention to bendte fagge and got trained on illustrator and freehand better, whoops i shot myself in the foot careerwise

pate got married, he called and i called him, everything went off without a "hitch" but he was mad the appropriate beer coozies weren't there on time, only appropriate for a beach wedding

why am i still up, it doesn't make sense

tonight at bourbon street was the japanese avant-prog band "the ruins" which was just the drummer playing along with tapes and singing crazed zuehl prog, also local dudes the unholy two who were great, and the providence r.i. free-conga band "made in mexico" who did "kid creole and the coconuts" nowave style... had a bloody mary with them all at 11:00 PM at the blue danube and it was wonderful

then after the bands went back and did karaoke, it was "electric avenue" by guyanese eddy grant which is a political song (can't get food for the kid good god) and then "rumors" by the timex social club, did a monologue about false people (you know who you are) during the 8 measure break

i'll bet they'll even be rumors running around on judgement day

good night, good morning

Current Music: Pärson Sound

spam manifesto
Got this spam today, made me think.

I think that they meant obsolete? Obsolescent is a viable word though...

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One factor I don't see mentioned much is the sheer
lack of stability in your medium. A modern movie-maker
could probably make a pretty good film with DW
Griffith's equipment, but you folks are dwelling in the
very maelstrom of Permanent Technological Revolution.

And that's a really cool place, but man, it's just not
a good place to build monuments. Now I live in the
same world you live in, I hope I've demonstrated that I
face a lot of the same problems you face.

Believe me there are few things deader or more
obsolescent than a science fiction novel that predicts
the future when the future has passed it by.

another long list of records, namedropping, and whining
Saturday was Times New Viking and Deadsea playing the Sword Heaven CD release party. Very strange vibe, like no one knew where to stand. A sort of grumpy Times New Viking played maybe two new songs but the interesting thing is the way Jared has reworked some of the old songs. Took out everything but the riff, built everything up, and then put the riff back in. I guess that's what touring does to ya. New keyboard riffs, however, are not forthcoming for some reason. Deadsea were a lot of fun, they brought the smoke machine and the blistering technical riffage and confused a lot of people. I was way-way-way-sted. Sword Heaven were fine, but I kept getting distracted by the distracted crowd. Honestly I only really felt comfortable at the afterparty. Even though Brooke was there, I don't even really care that much. I get the feeling she doesn't care anymore either, as she chose to be indifferent rather than ignore me when I saw her Friday night.

Saw Jakob and Sus at Bourbon Street Sunday. Jakob Olausson was amazing, it's been a long time since I've been moved by a performance, actually burst into tears during "Queen Bee." He recognized me from last time, didn't seem bothered by the paltry turnout because he got to play with Mike Rep. Rep was amazing, very animated, did songs that he's probably never done live. After the show I got THAT FEELING about music and wanted to tell someone but I couldn't get anyone on the phone to tell them.

Then, karaoke night people started filing in. I did "Solitary Man" because I couldn't be bothered to find something else. Sus did that Bjork song "It's So Quiet" in her weird Danish accent with screams. Jakob and Adam did "Cripple Creek" and then two other people did Band songs, Robert who runs the gay bar next door did "The Night They Drove Dixie Down" very soulful and got a great response.

I don't know about this town anymore. My life has become ridiculous. I am gaining weight. I just found out a good friend is pregnant and getting married but not in that order. I feel like the curse that came down on me this summer has destroyed my luck. I tried to play records tonight at Used Kids but it was an utter debacle, I had to bring my own mixer,and carry 2 boxes of records up flights of stairs. As payment I took the Flipper "Sex Bomb" 45. Watched Legend of the Liquid Sword and was AMAZED. Watched Training Day and really enjoyed it. Checked out the Bourne Identity and dug it.

just a few notes

Q: Columbus is kind of a small town in a lot of ways. You're sort of fooled into thinking that you can get away with stuff but eventually it comes around and bites you in the ass.

A: Yeah, I've already had that happen to me. One time we went over to this guy's house that Rich knows, this older gay guy and he's really into drugs, and were smoking some crack. Later on that night we went out and Jared was like, do you want a beer and I said, no thanks, I've been smoking crack so I'm set. And then I was getting calls from Tom Lax who was like people are talking all over Columbus about how you're a crackhead.

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Remember that scene in 24 Hour Party people where Tony smokes a joint (of "top gear") on the roof and God mentions that it's probably time for a Vini Reilly comeback?

Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls (July 1980) were AT LEAST two years ahead of their time. ELECTRICAL RHYTHMS ARE COUNTING AT YOU. If you dig that shimmery production sound with the gated drums you will either be outraged or delighted by last year's Lansing-Dreiden record on Kemado... it's either a total rip-off or a careful tribute.

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My new karaoke song is "The Passenger" because I can do deadpan Berlin baritone easy. But I have to work on my growls and shit.

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who wants to be / a president or king (and the only person to answer in the affirmative is the trickster, the coyote)

Current Music: Guided by Voices - Crying Your Knife Away

a dry recap
CDR night-out on Friday, saw some bands. Smoked out Mike Rep. Avoided people. Did not succumb to the usual Carabar Clausterphobia.

CDR BBQ on Saturday, saw some people, had fun, managed to maintain intoxication levels without going overboard. Got a ride home that was not a "ride home" but I'm more than fine with that considering.

Sunday someone apologized for being a dick on Saturday, an event I did not remember. I called the ride home and thanked her for the ride home. I walked back to my car and got an omelette at the 'Dube and while looking at the bar thought to myself "I recognize that bald spot" and it WAS Lou Poster. I offered to help him move his heavy stuff in a van. He took me up on the offer and bought me a beer. Talked to my parents, ordered some chinese food. Watched a bit of "Mean Streets" and went to karaoke entirely too early and felt like schlub. Sang "The Passenger" and got some compliments and another beer from Lou Poster. Avoided people. Went home, watched the rest of "Mean Streets" and tried to sleep. Could not sleep.

Fuck, I know I need to deal with some issues in my life but I'm getting the feeling that I want to leave town again. Escape. Flee. FUCK THIS BURG I'M SPLITTING ON THE FIRST THING AMTRAK HAS OUT OF HERE.

Wedding in NYC 9/21/07 is a go. Staying at the Pod.

things i have discovered about interviews
Transcribing shit from audio files is really, really hard and it takes a long time.

Lately I've been creating files from my little pocket recorder by plugging directly into the back of my computer, fixing the levels in the file, and then playing them as Quicktime. Then listening to it and writing it down on a pad so that I can type it up. Writing down what is being said (albeit not very literally) is a fucking pain in the ass that PROVES that I have some form of ADD.

Transcribing is good because sometimes I will find anything to do other than actually do it. Which usually means tidying up. I would rather do dishes, frankly.

I think that the reason that it was really hard at the start is because I can hear myself asking stupid questions that I said I wouldn't ask because I'm nervous and not listening to what the person is saying. I guess listening to my voice over and over is the part that will make me better at this interviewing thing, or at least faster at getting what I want out of these people. There are pages and pages of small type in some back issues of Tuba Frenzy. The "listening quiz" for Tono Bungay... jeesus christ.

I've also discovered that it's a lot easier figuring out what the person is saying on the tapes when English is their native tongue.

Current Music: Raccoo-oo-oon - Mud Mound 7"

Cleveland Parish Hall 8/18/07

Pictures from a road trip to Cleveland with Lambsbread peoples Cathy and Shane to get lost, get a really good corned beef sandwich, interview Emeralds, see some pretty cool bands (Scarcity of Tanks, Tusco Terror, Fat Worm of Error, Ben Goldman, and Emeralds) at a pretty cool venue, the Parish Hall. And then have someone else drive home while I listened to Neil Young in the back seat.

Cathy took a bunch of the pictures and Cleve-o was a pretty chill place. Well, it was now that I sorta know where I'm going once I get there...

Did a radio show with Tom Derwent of Lost Treasures of the Underworld records yesterday. It turned out OK but it took a looong time. This was just the beginning, hopefully next time I'll get to dip into Derwent's extensive collection of limited edition noise instead of just flying by the seat of my pants.

After the radio show finally compressed to mp3 I grabbed falafel and fries at Buckeye Donuts and a beer at Larry's where we ran into Ron House! Then Bourbon Street where I helped an all-girl punk band from Athens that had broken down on a very very scary part of 315. It's just speeding cars running down elevated concrete ramps with no shoulder, the cops that stopped to help them were apparently rock musicians too?

You can download the show here by right clicking and saving as. I think its a 64.4 megabyte file, 128 kbps mp3.

august 16 th 2007

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the cherry blossoms - the mighty mississippi (black velvetfuckere LP 2007)
ghost - moungod air cave (now sound 7" 1995)
yahowha 13 - fire in the sky (savage sons of yahowha)
sapat - hycyon daze/mystikal stupors (tonguetied and staid 7" 2006)
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avarus - matti marahinkina ormylat (sound soundz 7" 2005)
ghq - live in seattle (notnotfun 7" 2007)
john fahey - the mill pond drowns hope (2X7")
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group doueh - wasa wasa (sublime frequencies 2007)
sic alps - pleasures and treasures
jim shepard - exile on brown street (siltbreeze)
dead c - power (fallujah mix) (badabing 7")
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necropolis - song for the working man (CDR 7" 2007)
shiny beast - lodestar (boner 7")
bob bannister - naptha flames (twisted village LP 1994)

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