Archive of May 2005


Tue 31 May

Little Gray Books

—Just looking around you right now, how many couches would you guess are in this room?

—Ah, at least eight, and possibly as many as four hundred.

—It’s very important that you be as accurate as possible.

—Eight.


Mon 16 May

It’s a Fact!

Listening to Philip Glass’s Einstein On the Beach while napping will result in a seriously fucked-up sleeping experience. Go ahead and try it yourself!


Mon 9 May

Eurghhhh

I was awoken today from the inevitable post-2-cups-of-coffee-and-one-night-of-utter-sleeplessness 2-hour crash (I set the alarm myself; aren’t I responsible!) By Anata’s ‘Entropy Within’ off of Under a Stone With No Inscription. This is the true test of a record’s worth, that the normal visceral bowel-twisting GAAAHHH NO, SLEEP and sheer disorientation was mixed up with Man, this song is really groovy. I wonder who this is? and even in that state the sensation of a perpetual itch of mine—that being the desire for chunky, no-holds-barred death metal with serious groove and batterment issues and minimal melodic trappings—being indisputably scratched.