Comments on: White Noise, Back to Mono

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:00:47 +0000

For sixties girl groups, The Supremes are one of my favorites.
Check YouTube for the psychedelic ‘The Happening’ and the classic ‘Stoned Love’

By: Andrew Fedders

Andrew Fedders — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:50:30 +0000

Ah yes…Pill Spectre. He hated losing, that Pill ! Cheated at monopoly for god’s sake ! Scorpio Rising ! Ha! Now I know where Scorsese stole it from ! He uses that pop song/gangster juxtapose in one of his best, Mean Streets to brilliant effect, I must say. Gets credited in expensive undergrad cinema texts for starting the MTV concept ! HA ! It’s all back to Donald Camell again. Or is it Cut-Up ? Which Brion Gysin really stole from some Beat hanger-on New Jersey kid-poet in Tangier. Interestingly, Pill also produced some of John Lennon’s more “experimental” works; got George Harrison to extrude some noteable tunes: Ramones too, I think. And now lives in Charles Manson’s neighborhood who really was only looking for a producer who could understand him. I smell “reality show !”

By: emilio

emilio — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:44:01 +0000

If I remember Emilio just presented some alternate views. Also I think you viewed it as very experimental at the time.

I think you like the artist on the edge of success role you play. Recognized but not lionized. No?

Sorry, I didn’t have time to stop yesterday. I was coaching! BTW, I’m offering a free intros.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:08:29 +0000

Right mh, I fixed that, thanks. Alex, I was hesitant at first about blogging, I had this “Don’t leave your game in the locker room,” kind of worry that blogging would use up my writing energy. But it seems to play a role more like warmup exercise. I was also leery of letting my readers post comments, fearing flames—but I think it was Emilio who talked me into opening the gates—but I like the comments as it gives me an illusion of a social life.

SteveH, yeah, I had a basement darkroom as a boy and one in an attic in grad school. As a boy, it was an endless struggle to find light leaks, and to figure out the right temperatures and times for the various chemicals—as a grown-up I could handle that stuff, but was never quite happy with my results, always a little cloudy and blurry, I never got the point where it was seamless fun with excellent outputs.

By: mh

mh — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:08:50 +0000

I believe you may have written Ron Spector when you meant Phil Spector.

By: Justin Patrick

Justin Patrick — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:57:04 +0000

Those lit-crit types do seem to get all the attention. As if Cormac McCarthy was the first person to write about a post-apocalyptic quest, or Margaret Atwood about genetic engineering.