Just a drink?

Hola!

Nothing much to report. Went to the Back Nine at the behest of JB last night... found out that renovations=high prices (appetizers? or financial investments?). And $7.25 for a glass of Stella Artois? I'll be drinking alone at home, thank you. Sure there'll be a few tears... but the neighbours don't mind.

Here's a quote from an interview w/ David Cronenberg (Uncut Jan06/pg80):

Cronenberg: We no longer are physically responding genetically to pressures of the environment. That has completely derailed the mechanisms Darwin outlined....

Interviewer: But the primal impulses remain?

Cronenberg: The primal impulses remain, and that's the paradox.

Here's something you should try if you like music and not thinking too hard: Pandora

Finally today's track is from David Grubbs. He is probably best known as half of w/ Jim O'Rourke, but he's been involved with a number of underheard yet influential bands... starting with Squirrel Bait, a youthful hardcore band whose membership also included 2 future members of Slint. He moved on to Bastro with SB bassist Clark Johnson and help from future Tortoise member and Chicago producer John McIntire. He has eight solo records since Gastr Del Sol's split... they polarize between avant-gardist minimalist composition and more song-based, folk style recordings. This track is from his 2000 offering The Spectrum Between


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