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zeruch, 6 days ago to random

#QoTD: "I'm Catholic in my complications and Buddhist in my aspirations." - Boy George

zeruch, 13 days ago to random

1. All Noisey From the Wankers Front.
2. Nap-hoeleon.
3. Acrapopants Now.
4. Full Hefty Diaper.
5. Tropic Blunder.
6. Operation Lunchmeat.
7. Dumbkirk.
8. Run Loudly, Run Shallow.
9. Prattleship Potrumpkin.
10. Wanker, Traitor, Bloviator, Spy.
11. From Here to Pomposity.
12. Poltroon.
13. The Turd Locker.
14. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (didn't even have to change that one)
    #TrumpWarMovie

zeruch, 14 days ago to beer

#sketchbook May 2024. Even when I'm on another leg of #zeruchontour , I try to keep a drawing practice going as best as I can. In this case a bit of a #drinkanddraw session in an absolutely spectacular boutique Hotel I found in San Luis Obispo, called The Granada. I basically broke out a few old sketchbooks and if I couldn't think of anything new to draw I started painting in very skeletal #doodles from the semi distant past. #beer by #ThereDoesNotExist brewery in SLO. #art #artistsofmastodon

zeruch, 25 days ago to art

Playing with flame #fractals is a perennial joy (and also confusing as hell, as all the tools I've tried over the years are great for exploring ideas in an open ended fashion but I've never found a really linear/'predictable' approach to using them, regardless of how much fun it is, it still feels a lot like video game "button-mashing".) #art

zeruch, 1 month ago to art

#sketchbook April 2024. Math rock guitarist wunderkind #YvetteYoung of Covet, drawn in ink. #art #drawing

zeruch, 1 month ago to usenet

"#USENET, or NetNews, is a text-only social discussions forum, or rather a set of a great many forums, called "newsgroups," carried by multiple servers around the world. Although the original developers closed down their instance in 2010, that was just one server out of hundreds, and many are still running just fine. It never went away – it's still alive, you can get on it for free, and there is a choice of client apps for most OSes to help you navigate."

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/

zeruch, 1 month ago to random

#TrevorHorn has an autobiography of sorts. It's actually a pretty decent read so far, and it confirms two things I've long thought about horn. One, he's a musically talented producer with a seemingly endless ability to make a hit song who understands how to make something sound good. And two, he's a narcissistic self-absorbed bell end and not always artist friendly. It's a reputation he seems happy to have earned.

zeruch, 1 month ago to art

#workinprogress #abstractart which started from the working title project of "thermonuclear cassette" has been something I've been obsessing over off and on for the last two plus weeks and I've rebuilt and re-obliterated it several times. I actually released a version of this as part of the #disquiet series (number 46) last week, but I'm still not happy with it. #art #mixedmedia

zeruch, 1 month ago to random

"I admit I had no idea who #MalcolmX was when I first heard it. I was 10 or 11, and it played a few times on college radio, which I was only just starting to tune into, but for which so much of the messaging in the music was alien."

This track by #KeithLeBlanc was probably the first solo track of his I ever heard, and it still is as listenable as it was in the mid 80s:

https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2024/04/05/sounds-that-have-been-made-ep-112-keith-leblanc-malcolm-x-no-sell-out/

#SugarHillRecords #OnUSound

zeruch, 1 month ago to random

RIP Keith LeBlanc, one of the greatest drummers , beat mechanics and production gods the world has barely known by name, but absolutely known by sound.

zeruch, 1 month ago to random

"#HP CEO Says They Brick #Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because of … Hackers
The company says it wants to protect you from “viruses.” Experts are skeptical."

Experts aren't the only ones. HP is trash. #PlannedObsolescence is trash. #SurveillanceCapitalism is trash.

https://www.wired.com/story/hp-ceo-ink-cartridge-hackers-dynamic-security/

zeruch, 2 months ago to random

A love letter to #HP: "They are a poster child for how to become a Kafka-grade punchline of incompetence, venality, and naked mendacity.

In this case I actually took the printer related to this, and dropped it from a decent height into a dumpster. The noise of shattering poor-build quality and poorer CX felt almost post-coital."

https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/a-love-letter-to-hp/

zeruch, 2 months ago to SteelyDan

"This is a 90s live gig with #VernonReid (Living Colour, Zig Zag Trio), #DennisChambers (#P-Funk, Santana, #SteelyDan), and JP Bourelly (#MilesDavis, Cassandra Wilson) and is an hour of both accessible and experimental jams of original material, as well as some very eccentric covers of The Meters‘ “Cissy Strut” and Sonny Sharrock’s “Dick Dogs”.

RIP TM Stevens.

https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2024/03/17/sounds-that-have-been-made-ep-107-vernon-reid-t-m-stevens-dennis-chambers-jp-bourelly-live-1995/

zeruch, 2 months ago to random

"I first noticed Welshman Karl Wallinger as part of the mid-80s lineup of Mike Scott’s The Waterboys...Soon after, he left to form his own band, World Party...I always come back to the title track from their debut LP as a perennial favorite. The album, cut, and video, also was the first appearance of one Sinead O’Connor.

#KarlWallinger passed away this week, at the age of 66"

https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2024/03/15/sounds-that-have-been-made-ep-106-world-party-private-revolution/

zeruch, 2 months ago to random

I never get tired of promoting the music of #ChrisWhitley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9pgYCw2YvU

zeruch, 2 months ago to random

"Annie Lennox, Wendy and Lisa Working Together on Trio Project."

I find this a genuinely exciting prospect, given the Art Pop tendencies of all participants, and their eclectic tastes, the worst thing this could be is just 'pretty good', but definitely could be something far more ambitious and resonant given the talent pool.

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/wendy-lisa-annie-lennox-band-project-1235936375/

#prince #eurythmics

zeruch, 3 months ago to random

Yet another reason to regulate and keep the hyperwealthy under scrutiny; they do creepy arse-seepage like #MarkBenioff's journo-stalking: "Before their second interview, Kerr wrote, Benioff let on that he’d been somehow keeping an eye on Kerr and her family..."During the interview, he brings up more personal details about me and my family.”"

Subject the rich to their own medicine; keep every receipt, follow every transaction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko-UC_Q9F4Y&list=OLAK5uy_n4aQ4sIQ2WHeGwCMRXHqLxhPw0Mk0ZCDc&index=2"

zeruch, 3 months ago to conservative

"Jack #Posobiec joyfully hailed the “end of democracy” at the #Conservative Political Action Conference, ...

Posobiec, who helped popularize the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory...

“Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely,” Posobiec said as the event began."

Whoever takes Jack Bozobiec seriously needs their head trepanned with a Greyhound bus.

https://newrepublic.com/post/179247/jack-posobiec-democracy-cpac-2024

#CPAC #GOP #fascism #TrumpClowns

zeruch, 3 months ago to art

#sketchbook February 2017, "Maddie Healie" from the defunct Sktchyapp. #art #drawing

zeruch, 3 months ago to random

There are plenty of pop music home covers of tunes on Youtube, but a Lee Sklar lookalike, playing a Steinberger bass with a parrot on his shoulder, napping while the bassist stoically runs through The Police track "Spirits in the Material World" caught my bemusement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlQCzWltPdw

zeruch, 3 months ago to 80s

#EgyptianLover, the paragon of hi-nrg/electro #80s dance tracks from SoCal, continues mining that same sound (which is in a resurgence of sorts) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXjCG27TqX0

zeruch, 3 months ago to random

For those that only think of the gothic disco vibes of their commercial peak, here is the complete session recorded by The #HumanLeague on 8 August 1978 for the #JohnPeel show on BBC Radio 1. It's truly #postpunk gloom (the classic track "Being Boiled" is a favorite), and yet the initial DNA of the group is there, including one cheeky as hell cover of "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling ":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mClMsqfSms

#NewWave

zeruch, 3 months ago to random

A rare live bootleg of #TalkingHeads at CBGB's in 1977: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv7GBcrGzew

#postpunk #newwave

zeruch, 3 months ago to 80s

Well, I had forgotten this happened in the #80s: #Synthesizer Medley with #HerbieHancock, #StevieWonder, #ThomasDolby and #HowardJones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-NgnympxAE

zeruch, 3 months ago to art

#art from 2020 "estresse de baixo nível que nunca tem fim" - mixed media (acrylic inks and paint, grog squeezers, gouache) on bristol paper, then digital dis/reassembly.

Available as prints. #abstractart #painting