Making The Nature Scene

[Kim]
Going back to these origins
The city is a natural scape
order in the details
Confusion uproar in the whole
In nature reality is selection
the tool of critical intervention
Fragmentation is the rule
Unity is not taught in school
You are an unnatural growth
On a funny sunny street
The city has forgotten you
It's symbols of the past
The meaning of its state
Its order of decay
Stand now in a column
And make the nature scene

Standing now in columns
making the nature scene
making the nature scene
waiting to make their pay
There is no resistance to
the signs along the way
standing all in columns
waiting to make their pay
making the nature scene
Waiting for the day
There is no resistance to
There is no resistance to
Salvation means to count on you
It just means to count on you
Make the nature scene

Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene

Going back to these origins
The city is a natural scape
order in the details
Confusion uproar in the whole
In nature reality is selection
the tool of critical intervention
Fragmentation is the rule
Unity is not taught in school
You are an unnatural growth
On a funny sunny street
The city has forgotten you
It's symbols of the past
The meaning of its state
Its order of decay
Stand now in a column
And make the nature scene

Standing now in columns
making the nature scene
making the nature scene
waiting to make their pay
There is no resistance to
the signs along the way
standing all in columns
waiting to make their pay
making the nature scene
Waiting for the day
There is no resistance to
There is no resistance to
Salvation means to count on you
It just means to count on you
Make the nature scene

Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene

Lost in Anothers Dream

"The idea of women empowering themselves by becoming sexual objects is backward. It seemed brilliant at one point, but it had really bad ramifications. Things lose their context so quickly."

-Kim Gordon, 2009

Vivian Girls vs. Nardwaur

Narduar vs. Mika Miko

Blame it on the Boogie

a guess at the wholeness that's way too big-d. boon

Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing

list monitors arrive with petition
iron-fisted philosophy
is your life worth a painting?
is this girl vs. boy with different symbols?
being born is power
scout leader nazi tagged as big sin
your risk chains me hostage
me i'm fighting with my head, am not ambiguous
i must look like a dork
me naked with textbook poems
spout fountain against the nazis
with weird kinds of sex symbols
in speeches that are big dance thumps
if we heard mortar shells
we'd cuss more in our songs and cut down the guitar solos (guitar solo)
so dig this big crux
organizing the boy scouts for murder is wrong
ten years beyond the big sweat point
man it was still there, ever without you coming back around, look! coming together, for just a second, a peek, a guess at the wholeness that's way too big

Stephen Wells on Knitting, Authenticity & Twoi

No, you won't get any Farrah Faucet props from me (what did she actually DO?), but there was another lesser-known loss today-- Poet/Vitriolic Music Journalist Steven Wells died. If you think music criticism is pointless and pretentious then you probably haven't read him yet. I am not saying I agreed with all of his opinions, but I will say he was almost always entertaining, bombastic and spoke his truth heroically.

Here's a link to some of his more recent writing where you will find lucid spiels on Knitting "Has youth culture gone mad?" he asks (as a REAL question!), Authenticity "Why do we insist on authenticity in show business? A basic unwillingness to accept that all culture is artificial lies at the heart of our objection to fake performances"
and --my personal favorite in recent memory--Twoi! "Twoi is what you get when you cross Oi!, a hyper-aggressive, absurdist parody of 1970s English working class youth, with twee; the horribly annoying, faux-posh, passive-aggressive distillation of Enid Blytonesque 1950s English middle classes. And it's real. Very real. I feel your fear."

His last column, sadly, is here.

Read his writing. Think about it. Then start a band that's worth writing about.

Sky Saxon & The Seeds

Remember when Sky Saxon lived in Olympia? True Story. Recognize this guy?



Spider and the Webs does a version of this song:



Cabaret Voltaire does this one:



Check it out:



And of course this is amazing, their "hit":

Got To Be There by Michael Jackson

Got To Be There by Michael Jackson is still one of my all time favorite LPs, given to me in the early 70's by my aunt Priscilla after she watched me dancing & glued to TV screen every time the Jackson 5 came on...I must have been 2 or 3, she was 14 or 15...it's a sad, sad record.

here are a few songs:











Rockin' Robin, the first song i ever loved, just listen to his voice, totally incredible:



Acapella, this is heartbreaking today:

Turboslut Broke Up

The July '09 ish of MRR also features an interview with Turboslut, an all-female (I think) hardcore band from DC who just BROKE UP. too bad every band that could possibly fit this description breaks up before they tour the west coast...to be fair, most DC bands are like this. I think the 'kids' there have a lot of pressure to get their shit together and turn careerist...or maybe that's a generalization that is unfair to apply here but seems to be part of it for a lot of groups...Joaquin just asked me if I'm still mad I never saw Gray Matter in concert! I think he's making fun of me now.

Anyhow, here is a live song from Turboslut (it's too dark to see) and maybe you'll get to hear some of their recordings if you dig (drink) deep (it's just a taste and it might not come this way again...)



P.S. Whatever happened to Chris Bald?

The Libyans-Welcome to the Neighborhood

from their interview in the July '09 issue of MRR:

LIZ (SINGER): I GOT INTO PUNK BECAUSE I DIDN'T FIT IN WITH THE MAINSTREAM AND I WANTED THEM TO LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE. THE LAST THING I WANTED TO DO WAS DRAW MORE ATTENTION TO MYSELF BY HAVING CRAZY HAIR OR CLOTHES. SO I GUESS I FIT IN WITH OTHER PUNKS WHO HAVE THIS SAME ATTITUDE. IT'S ABOUT HOW YOU LIVE, NOT HOW YOU LOOK.

The Bags-Survival

The Avengers-The American in Me

Marcia Basset

Zaimph

Telepathe-So Fine

Nite Jewel-Artificial Intelligence