Thursday, December 30, 2021
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Monday, December 27, 2021
Donna the Buffalo - Seems To Want To Hurt This Time
I first heard this in the parking lot of CVS Pharmacy on East Andrew Johnson Highway at Haun Drive on an NPR affiliate station at ETSU, I think. I didn't pull out of the parking lot 'til it was over. Very important piece of music to me. Hits the spot for a full 11 minutes. Nice.
Saturday, December 25, 2021
Friday, December 24, 2021
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Fucked Up - Two Snakes (Listen Hard)
This thing really, literally delivers on a high note at the end. Fucking cello even, maybe.
Fucked Up - Paper The House - A Masterpiece of Rock & Roll ("Just a kid wonderin' where his dad went.")
Paper the house. Paper the kids. Paper the goddamn paper. This is great! This gets a critical praise hard-on the size of a French baguette. Fucked Up is anything but. What an absolute marvel of a rock and roll masterpiece. In the enduring words of Kim Deal, this thing is Gigantic!
Sunday, December 19, 2021
Friday, December 17, 2021
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Monday, December 13, 2021
Kid Francescoli - "Moon" (Official Video)
I, vested with no authority whatsoever, hereby nominate this genre of music: Electic Mist
Sunday, December 12, 2021
Before and After: My Brother
Friday, December 10, 2021
Thursday, December 9, 2021
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Monday, December 6, 2021
Preacher Marcus Lamb, who spread vaccine lies, dies after being hospitalized with Covi...
The question is, how many of brother Marcus Lamb's followers became unnecessarily sick or unnecessarily dead because of his self-rightous blather.
Arcade Fire - Arcade Fire presents Sprawl II (Directed by Vincent Morisset)
This one will never get old, which, I suppose, means that it will one day be considered timeless. I mean, how could it not? Paper dresses never go out of style. And I haven't even mentioned what lies behind the brilliant direction of this, so called, "video." The music. Jeeeeeeeesus! It seems that I'm still watching television. But, now I'm listening exponentially more intently than those days when I sat in front of the centralized furniture piece with his huge tube and ate potato chips on polyester carpet while watching Batman and Robin with a snow white cat, named Muff at 4105 Watson Road where the phone number was 8777448. What a beautiful cadence.
Sunday, December 5, 2021
Saturday, December 4, 2021
The Cure - A Forest (1980) full 12” Single
Big shout out ot sipsun8, whomever you may be for locating and posting this treaure. How did this escape me in 1980? I was doing everything right: drugs, sex, alcohol. Some way or another, I didn't lock in to the Cure until a decade later. This was/is one of Emily's favorite songs. Played it for her when she was a baby.
Friday, December 3, 2021
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Monday, November 29, 2021
Sunday, November 28, 2021
Saturday, November 27, 2021
Fiona Apple - Paper Bag (Official Video)
This was directed by none other than Paul Thomas Anderson. The venue, the Harvey House Restaurant at Union Station in Los Angeles, California. Perfect in every way. Ten out of ten.
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Sunday, November 21, 2021
Saturday, November 20, 2021
The Best of Debussy - Hypnotic Piano Music - Very Good for the Gourd - Performed by Pascal Roge
Clair de lune at 11:34. Jardine sous la pluie at 17:26.
Bill Evans - The Bill Evans Trio - Live in Switzerland (1975 Album)
Piano: Bill Evans; Bass: Eddie Gomez; Drums: Eliot Zigmund.
Friday, November 19, 2021
Chilly Gonzales & Kaiser Quartett | La Galerie de la Bibliothèque de Ver...
"famous in Paris, I'm embarrassed, cause I can't can-can."
Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey (Medley / Remastered 2012)
"The kettle's on the boil, and we're so easily called away." I used to listen to this on the school bus from elemntary school. I recall imagining that they had murdered Uncle Albert.
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Monday, November 15, 2021
Sunset (2018 Remaster)
This would be a nice addition to her Majesty's funeral, which, I fear, is fast approaching.
Sunday, November 14, 2021
Saturday, November 13, 2021
Thursday, November 11, 2021
Welcome to Appalachia, Joe Talbot (IDLES - WHEN THE LIGHTS COME ON (Official Audio))
Monday, November 8, 2021
The Gossamer Blouse
The breeze barely noticed piercing puffs through the tiny interspacial loose little rectangular voids in between the spidery strands but blew through anyway, encircling his erecting nipples.
Wait.
He grew up when boys weren't supposed to like cats. Weren't suppose to try on their mother's clothes. Weren't supposed to tell the truth.
Aaron (Aasshole) Rodgers
Sunday, November 7, 2021
Friday, November 5, 2021
Thursday, November 4, 2021
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Appalachian American Ennui: Cheryl Posey Sommers (July 19,1961 - August 7, 2018)
Appalachian American Ennui: Cheryl Posey Sommers (July 19,1961 - August 7, 2018): Light-footed and happy, she was with me until we decided, perhaps inadvertently, that I was no good for her anymore. She was better than ...
Nightmares
At the time they're in motion they occupy a faux reality that does a masterful job at fooling the sleeping participant into full blown adherence. As if the unfolding events are the only universe at hand. Impending doom seems to be hiding in every crack in every sidewalk travelled. These, we know, only exist in the gray matter crevasses in skulls of the sleeping victims of bad dreams. Wicked little bastards that oddly seem to leave little trace of their unfolding horrors when their gimpish supplicants awaken.
The National - This is the Last Time
The image reminds me of mercury. When I was in elementary school I remember someone bringing a vial of mercury to school. We played with it, pouring it into the little pencil-shaped concavities that were engraved in our desktops. You could drop it and it would scatter into tiny orbs which could then be coaxed back together into the collective glop.
Monday, November 1, 2021
Radiohead - Follow Me Around (Official Video)
This is a great example of a video that perfectly aligns with the music. The drone that is following the protagonist around weaves in and out of places that can only be accomplished with some kind of multi-operational staff of droners. I'm impressed. Thom York doesn't fuck around when it comes to his body of work. You can count on that.
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights (2018 Remaster)
Kate Bush wrote and recorded this in 1978 at the age of 19. I listened to it for the first time this morning. If I would have had access to this masterpiece, things might have gone differently.
Sunday, October 31, 2021
Saturday, October 30, 2021
Friday, October 29, 2021
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Monday, October 25, 2021
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Turning 60
Ten months into my 61st year, I realized that moving into advanced age has a wonderfully useful ancillary; that turning 60, in my case, automatically paired me up with the complement of 60 years of life's experience to help me navigate the new times and the great path forward, aligned on either side by the wonderous unknown.
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Sunday, October 17, 2021
Dry Cleaning - Scratchcard Lanyard (Official Video)
I can envision returning to this wonderful performance again and again for the rest of my life, like a bouncy ball being bounced against my wall, by the same bouncy ball.
Friday, October 15, 2021
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
You've Barely Touched Your Cake, Donald.
[Clutching her pearls], "You don't look well. What's wrong, my darling boy? Your skin. Looks. I don't know. Burnished. Orange. Alien."
Radiohead - Live in Gdynia, Poland (June 2017)
Masterful concert. Among the best for the coalition, called Radiohead.
Sunday, October 10, 2021
Carlos DeLuna - An Innocent Man Murdered by George W. Bush and his Texas Attorney General, Jim Mattox. Three Murderers, One Innocent Man Executed. Fact.
Monday, September 20, 2021
Private First Class Lesley L. Matheson, U.S. Army
That's a portraiture of my Great [Maternal] Uncle, Pvt. 1st Class Lesley L. Matheson, U.S. Army, 50th Engineer Combat Battalion, which hangs prominently on my home office wall. He was killed by the Imperial Japanese Army in battle on October 25, 1944 while fighting in the Pacific theatre in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, which was the first time the Japanese pilots used kamikazi tactics. Uncle Lesley's Service Number is 34500566. He was buried at sea.
His ghostly image.
Sunday, September 19, 2021
Moonshine Whiskey and Lead Poisoning
The use of automobile radiators containing lead-soldered parts in the illicit distillation of alcohol (i.e., "moonshine") is an important source of lead poisoning among persons in some rural Alabama counties. From March 5 through October 26, 1991, eight persons were diagnosed with elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) at a local hospital and were reported to the notifiable disease surveillance system maintained by the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH). None of these patients had known histories of occupational or other potential sources of lead exposure, but all reported recent histories of moonshine ingestion. This report summarizes the results of an investigation of these cases conducted by the ADPH during December 1991.
A case-patient was defined as any person aged greater than or equal to 17 years who presented to the hospital from January 1, 1990, through December 31, 1991, and had a BLL greater than or equal to 15 ug/dL. Laboratory records of specimens submitted for blood lead determination, and medical records were reviewed at the hospital. In addition to the eight patients reported to the ADPH, review of laboratory records identified one patient with a BLL of 35 ug/dL during November 1990.
Patients ranged in age from 28 to 64 years (median: 33 years); five were female. Five patients resided in the county in which the hospital is located, and four lived in adjacent counties.
All nine patients had been evaluated for alcohol-related medical conditions at the hospital. Manifestations included generalized tonic-clonic seizures (six), microcytic anemia (five) (hematocrit mean: 32.1%), encephalopathy (two), upper extremity weakness (one), and abdominal colic (one). BLLs ranged from 16 ug/dL to 259 ug/dL (median: 67 ug/dL).
Seven patients required hospitalization for 48 hours or longer (range: 2-18 days). Three of these received chelation therapy; initial BLLs were 67, 228, and 259 ug/dL. One patient, whose BLL was 67 ug/dL, died during hospitalization from alcohol-withdrawal syndrome complicated by aspiration pneumonia.
Patients reported moonshine ingestion ranging from 0.2 L per day to 1.5 L per day. No specimens of moonshine consumed by the patients were available for analysis. However, the lead contents of specimens of moonshine confiscated from two radiator-containing stills in the county in 1991 were 7400 ug/L and 9700 ug/L, compared with nondetectable amounts (less than 1.0 ug/L) in municipal water from the county. Consumption of 0.5 L per day of moonshine containing 9700 ug/L lead would result in a steady state BLL of approximately 190 ug/dL. *
Reported by: T Dix, S Walker, MD, Crenshaw County Hospital, Luverne; D Cosby, Alabama Alcohol Beverage Control, Andalusia; CH Woernle, MD, State Epidemiologist, Alabama Dept of Public Health. Div of Field Epidemiology, Epidemiology Program Office; Lead Poisoning Prevention Br, Div of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, National Center for Environmental Health and Injury Control, CDC.
Appalachian American Ennui: I Used to Call Her Mommy
Appalachian American Ennui: I Used to Call Her Mommy: On cold mornings I helped my grandmother feed the yawning mouth of a Warm Morning stove with shiny black lump-coal. The smell was ine...
Saturday, September 18, 2021
Friday, September 17, 2021
Thursday, September 16, 2021
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Paul Smith's Garage
Monday, September 13, 2021
Hania Rani – Live from Studio S2
I have to believe that if all the politicians, all the haters, myself included, all the autocrats, dictators, prosecutors, judges, public defenders, private defenders, human-resource managers, assistant managers, mid-level managers, county executives, mayors, police chiefs, sheriffs, governors, and presidents of all stripes, would benefit their followers tremendously, gently, and optimistically, by listening to Hana Rani for thirty minutes before they go about their respective days, that are invariably populated within Elinor Wylie's "lathered packs," and "reeking herds."
Sunday, September 12, 2021
Barton Fink
Duck Creek Accident
Saturday, September 11, 2021
Appalachian American Ennui: Grizzly Bear "Yet Again" By Emily Kai Bock [Offici...
Appalachian American Ennui: Grizzly Bear "Yet Again" By Emily Kai Bock [Offici...: She reminds me of Cheryl Posey, who died in 2018.
Friday, September 10, 2021
Parasite - The Academy Award Winning Masterpiece About the South Korean Wealth Gap
Appalachian Treasure Unearthed
Friday, September 3, 2021
Latest Project - The Basement
I used a mint chocolate kit kat as a color theme for my basement, sans sandy cookie striations. Kona Brown and varying shades of tealish mint green. Now and then I can find a discounted gallon of this color. It never matches, but that's okay. It's the basement. Besides, so long as I don't comingle the different mixtures on the same plane, I'm okay. Besides, I really don't give a fuck. If I paint one side of a cube with one shade, and another side with another, you can't event catch it. When I bought this place 27 years ago, there was a dirt floor in the basement with dehumidifiers running 24/7. Now, she's "dry as a hot prairie wind." Bone dry. The freehand chimney art is from the cover of a Frank Black album, entitled "Oddball." I like it because it's creepy. I painted the left eye larger than the distant right eye. I know a man who suffers from this same kind of affliction. Very attractive.
Monday, August 30, 2021
The Raccoon in the Woods: Appalachian Impermanence
Friday, August 27, 2021
Thursday, August 26, 2021
Beautyberry
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Monday, August 23, 2021
Elliot Smith - Waltz #2 (XO)
It's sooo sweet to stumble upon a new song of this caliber. I got turned on to it last night as I watched a documentary about the life and times of Elliot Smith. "I'm never going to know you now, but I'm going to love you anyhow."
Saturday, August 21, 2021
Robert Moore, Crime Reporter - Citizen Tribune
Friday, August 20, 2021
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Sunday, August 15, 2021
Global Warming and Climate Change Logo - Siberian Wildfires 2021 - An Ominous Image
Saturday, August 14, 2021
Places Named After Numbers, by Frank Black
"Beyond below above, a gravity that slumbers
at the center of, places named after numbers,
a different kind of love.
(Chorus)
She was right,
she was right there,
she was right there all the time,
collapsing all the way.
And though it seems far from here,
light beams disappear,
into her blackend hair,
I wonder if they reappear.
She was right,
she was right there,
she was right there all the time,
collapsing all the way."
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
After and Before, Proof Positive that Less is So Much More.
Sunday, July 25, 2021
The John Cowan Carving
Friday, July 9, 2021
Monday, July 5, 2021
Appalachian American Ennui: Feist - How Come You Never Go There
Appalachian American Ennui: Feist - How Come You Never Go There: Belated discovery of a new artist, who sings and even dances her way into the emotional sweet spot of this aesthete. Her name is Leslie F...
Thursday, July 1, 2021
Friday, June 25, 2021
The Academic Womb from which Radiohead Emerged, Changing Rock & Roll Music Forever
The Abingdon School, Oxfordshire, England
Ground Zero, where the confluence of talent began its tradition; namely, Thom Yorke, Jonny and Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, and Philip Selway.
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Sunday, June 20, 2021
Appalachian American Ennui Nearing its Worst: The Disappearance of Summer Wells
When something like this occurs, metaphorically, it's the equivalent of pulling the fitted sheet off of an old decrepit mattress in some cheap motel and marveling at the residual filth, stained by the worst of humanity. All on God's watch.
This is just up the road in Hawkins County. Just this side of hell.
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Inmate 483233: (1967 - 2021)
Inmate 483233 didn't commit crimes, he committed a series diabolical attrocities. When I learned that he was recently stabbed to death by a fellow inmate I thought I'd be heartened by the de facto justice. But I wasn't. It was insufficient.
His murderous, unimaginable, torturous acts in May of 2012 in Grassy Fork just down the road in Cocke County ushered in my complete abandonment of any residual belief in god. An ironic gift from this horror of a human, carbon-based composite. I refuse to ever utter his name. This rocked my world, folks. Changed me forever. Left me embarrassed that I ever believed in the existence of god.
Monday, June 14, 2021
Sunday, June 13, 2021
Paul during his 2021 trip out west
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Sunday, May 30, 2021
Monday, May 24, 2021
Sunday, May 23, 2021
Saturday, May 22, 2021
Radiohead - Pyramid Song / Everything in Its right Place (with lyrics)
This dual audiotory experience occupies the tip of the pinnacle of the peak of the zenith of all things music. It's just that good.
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Great cover of Walking on the Moon, by one of my favorite bands, the Police. This is a great song about falling in love.
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NPR did a piece called "This I Believe" a few years back. Listeners were invited to recite their core beliefs about anything...
