This Week, I Have Mostly Been Listening To...

Fuck The Universe - Craft (Carnal/Southern Lord)
Wah Your Face Off - Residual Echoes (Holy Mountain)
Lammergeier - Simon Wickham Smith & Richard Youngs (VHF)
Kontamination - Haemoth (Southern Lord)
Things We Like - Jack Bruce (Polydor)
Supercollider - Cavity (Hydrahead)
Triste - Oren Ambarchi (Southern Lord)
Live At Yr Cosmic Mind - Sweet'n'Honey (Drag City)
A Young Mans Song - Frumious Bandersnatch (Big Beat)
Now, Diabolical - Satyricon (Roadrunner)
Live - Mwandishi Herbie Hancock (Bootleg)
Asceticists 2006 - Whitehouse (Susan Lawly)
Blue Cloud - David Redford Triad (Holy Mountain)
Advent - Richard Youngs (Jagjaguwar)
Alpaca Lips - Rainer (Glitterhouse)
Christendom Perished - Mord (Southern Lord)
Armageddon - The Maze (Sundazed)
Spiritualized - Eternal Elysium (I Used To Fuck People Like You In Prison)*
Thunder On A Clear Day - Twentieth Century Zoo (Sundazed)
Carolina Blues Man - Pink Anderson (Prestige)

*Best name for a record label ever? Very possibly

Wrecking Ball Mind

Pictures of Robert Johnson are as rare as hens teeth, only a couple still existing to my knowledge, but even thinner on the ground are photos of Blind Drunk Fuckwit, one of the worlds very few exponents of 8-string bottleneck resonator banjouki necropornblues, captured here in a rare moment of clarity (or mid-wank if you prefer) by the wonderful eye of Claire D...

Train Travel In Cumbria Looks Like Fun...

The Wisdom Of Aylett

I'm not a big fan of post-modernism, and I was going to incoherently rant on about why. The I found this rather good interview with one of my favourite perverters of the english language, Steve Aylett, from Front Wheel Drive and decided to nick that instead cos he sums up my feelings on the matter in a far more eloquent manner than I:

"I'm not so much bothered by the matter of literary postmodernism, than by postmodernist notions as they're used in real life -- where people carry those ideas over into the world, thinking that the words are the same thing as the object they label (that the map is the territory, contrary to Robert Anton Wilson's urging) and that the objects and facts can be shuffled and reorganised in the same way that their labels can be; including actual people. A lot of times this is harmless: if you give a muddy brick to a student of postmodernism and tell him it's the beer you just bought him, he should accept it with thanks. But human beings have a tendency to turn just about any philosophy into a justification for the manipulation of others, usually by re-labelling people as objects or lower-order creatures, which can then be furnaced or disposed of in any old way. But postmodernism doesn't even have to be subverted to those ends -- it's the arch-philosophy of re-labelling and can be used to smooth the way for any atrocity or neglect, any sort of evasion of the real results of your actions. Look at the news and see hundreds of examples of this."

Modern Toss - A True Portrait Of Our Times

Wonderful. An attitude to work and life I can totally identify with. Go to the website, and buy them all then laugh until you puke yr lungs out.