Monday, December 03, 2007
Saturday (Monday) Random 10 (but really 20) XXVI: It's so cold, my processor is running at peak efficiency!
What a crazy crazy weekend. Pizza, wings, beer, scotch, cigars, good friends, good times and Rock Band. Just awesome! And, on top of that, I got a bottle of Patron as a gift (which, as it turns out, was the drink involved in my first ever alcohol-induced blackout), along wth the Futurama movie and James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake" earlier in the week. The Futurama movie, Bender's Big Score, is a laugh-out-loud riot. So MANY quotable lines! I can't WAIT for the next 3 movies to be released.
But about Finnegan's Wake; it is, without a doubt, the single most bizarre thing I've ever attempted to read...even moreso than Mark Danielewski's "House of Leaves". Written over the span of 17 years by acclaimed, constantly drunk Irish novelist James Joyce, it consists of over 60 languages and spans the entirety of Ireland's history, describing, in relation to dreams and the night, the mythical creation of the island. But that's just one interpretation; in fact, people have been arguing since it's publication whether the book itself is about ANYTHING or if it is, in fact, readable. Here I will present to you the first page of the first chapter of the first book of Finnegan's Wake. Keep in mind, this is over 600 pages long. Oh yeah, and the entire book starts in the middle of a sentence:
It is absolutely INSANE, and I love it.
Anyways, yeah. This Random is coming late because I got out of work late on Saturday, then drove up to Albany fo' thea Par-TAY. Didn't get home until later Sunday evening, then had to go in to work at 11PM. Lots of goddamn fun.....Christ I hate December.
Fuck yo' Random, foo'!
1. Beck - One of These Days
2. Orange 9mm - Cold Snow
3. Bjork - Sonnet/Unrealities IX
4. Damien "Jr. Gong" Marley - Hey Girl
5. Portishead - Sour Times
6. Ozomatli - Vocal Artillery
7. The Beatles - Slow Down
8. Rise Against - Swing Life Away
9. Ghostface Killah - I Hear Voices
10. Stone Temple Pilots - Daisy
11. Blur - On Your Own
12. The Langley Schools Music Project - God Only Knows (Beach Boys)
13. Datsuns - Harmonic Generator
14. The White Stripes - The Air Near My Fingers
15. Weezer - Say It Ain't So
16. Tenacious D - Wonderboy
17. Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream
18. Fear Before the March of Flames - Dog-Sized Bird
19. Live - Waitress
20. The Clash - Clampdown
Pretty sweet Random this week; pretty sweet indeed. Starting with a B-side from Beck's Mutations album, then into a song by the most overlooked band in industrial music, Orange 9mm (this song is from an EP, but I highly suggest checking out thier album Driver Not Included). Following up with some weirdness by Bjork and the awesome Damian Marley (who is as prominent in Jamaica as his father was; no hyperbole) playing around with a vocoder, then going into the laid back trip-hop of Portishead and the latin R&B funk of Vocal Artillery by Ozomatli (who I only started listening to because they toured with Rage Against the Machine. Ozomatli is very, VERY different from Rage). Some old school Beatles pops up next, then a sing-along acoustic summer anthem from a band more known for thier scathing political tirades, Rise Against. Ghostface lays down a solo Wu-Banga, a track from STP's most heroin-induced record (and thier second-best; nothing they ever released could top Purple), a decent outing by Blur (off the only full length from them I actually bought...I pirated everything else), then into one of the indie records du jour of 2001, school children singing the greatest hits of the 70's. Here, The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows", which comes out fantastically. A nu garage also-ran, The Datsuns, rock mediocrally and lead into The White Stripes, who rock HARD. Then you get Weezer's second-best single ever (Undone is untouchable), THE FUCKIN' D!, then some smooth 70's lounge/jazz before going into the obtuse and hard-to-pin-down Dog-Sized Bird (is it metal? post-punk? art school faggotry?) Then a surprisingly loud track by Live (what the hell HAPPENED to them? They got famous and then all thier subsequent albums became more and more unlistenable.) before ending on a high note with The Clash. Not too many weak tracks at all...but not enough spectacular rockin' to warrant a high grade...I'll give it a B-. Better luck next time, Random!
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What a crazy crazy weekend. Pizza, wings, beer, scotch, cigars, good friends, good times and Rock Band. Just awesome! And, on top of that, I got a bottle of Patron as a gift (which, as it turns out, was the drink involved in my first ever alcohol-induced blackout), along wth the Futurama movie and James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake" earlier in the week. The Futurama movie, Bender's Big Score, is a laugh-out-loud riot. So MANY quotable lines! I can't WAIT for the next 3 movies to be released.
But about Finnegan's Wake; it is, without a doubt, the single most bizarre thing I've ever attempted to read...even moreso than Mark Danielewski's "House of Leaves". Written over the span of 17 years by acclaimed, constantly drunk Irish novelist James Joyce, it consists of over 60 languages and spans the entirety of Ireland's history, describing, in relation to dreams and the night, the mythical creation of the island. But that's just one interpretation; in fact, people have been arguing since it's publication whether the book itself is about ANYTHING or if it is, in fact, readable. Here I will present to you the first page of the first chapter of the first book of Finnegan's Wake. Keep in mind, this is over 600 pages long. Oh yeah, and the entire book starts in the middle of a sentence:
| riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend | 1 |
| of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to | 2 |
| Howth Castle and Environs. | 3 |
| Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen- | 4 |
| core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy | 5 |
| isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor | 6 |
| had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse | 7 |
| to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper | 8 |
| all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to | 9 |
| tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a | 10 |
| kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in | 11 |
| vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a | 12 |
| peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory | 13 |
| end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface. | 14 |
| The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner- | 15 |
| ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur- | 16 |
| nuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later | 17 |
| on life down through all christian minstrelsy. The great fall of the | 18 |
| offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan, | 19 |
| erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends | 20 |
| an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes: | 21 |
| and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park | 22 |
| where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since dev- | 23 |
| linsfirst loved livvy. |
It is absolutely INSANE, and I love it.
Anyways, yeah. This Random is coming late because I got out of work late on Saturday, then drove up to Albany fo' thea Par-TAY. Didn't get home until later Sunday evening, then had to go in to work at 11PM. Lots of goddamn fun.....Christ I hate December.
Fuck yo' Random, foo'!
1. Beck - One of These Days
2. Orange 9mm - Cold Snow
3. Bjork - Sonnet/Unrealities IX
4. Damien "Jr. Gong" Marley - Hey Girl
5. Portishead - Sour Times
6. Ozomatli - Vocal Artillery
7. The Beatles - Slow Down
8. Rise Against - Swing Life Away
9. Ghostface Killah - I Hear Voices
10. Stone Temple Pilots - Daisy
11. Blur - On Your Own
12. The Langley Schools Music Project - God Only Knows (Beach Boys)
13. Datsuns - Harmonic Generator
14. The White Stripes - The Air Near My Fingers
15. Weezer - Say It Ain't So
16. Tenacious D - Wonderboy
17. Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream
18. Fear Before the March of Flames - Dog-Sized Bird
19. Live - Waitress
20. The Clash - Clampdown
Pretty sweet Random this week; pretty sweet indeed. Starting with a B-side from Beck's Mutations album, then into a song by the most overlooked band in industrial music, Orange 9mm (this song is from an EP, but I highly suggest checking out thier album Driver Not Included). Following up with some weirdness by Bjork and the awesome Damian Marley (who is as prominent in Jamaica as his father was; no hyperbole) playing around with a vocoder, then going into the laid back trip-hop of Portishead and the latin R&B funk of Vocal Artillery by Ozomatli (who I only started listening to because they toured with Rage Against the Machine. Ozomatli is very, VERY different from Rage). Some old school Beatles pops up next, then a sing-along acoustic summer anthem from a band more known for thier scathing political tirades, Rise Against. Ghostface lays down a solo Wu-Banga, a track from STP's most heroin-induced record (and thier second-best; nothing they ever released could top Purple), a decent outing by Blur (off the only full length from them I actually bought...I pirated everything else), then into one of the indie records du jour of 2001, school children singing the greatest hits of the 70's. Here, The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows", which comes out fantastically. A nu garage also-ran, The Datsuns, rock mediocrally and lead into The White Stripes, who rock HARD. Then you get Weezer's second-best single ever (Undone is untouchable), THE FUCKIN' D!, then some smooth 70's lounge/jazz before going into the obtuse and hard-to-pin-down Dog-Sized Bird (is it metal? post-punk? art school faggotry?) Then a surprisingly loud track by Live (what the hell HAPPENED to them? They got famous and then all thier subsequent albums became more and more unlistenable.) before ending on a high note with The Clash. Not too many weak tracks at all...but not enough spectacular rockin' to warrant a high grade...I'll give it a B-. Better luck next time, Random!
