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[also because uh insomnia or something I am sorting & retagging all these files]

[also please do not do the math and tell me how damn long ago this was]

[godamnit I did the math]

will you be as stoked as I am for this treasure trove of magic? hell if I know but you should be I mean who doesn't like freely improvised noise and percussion right you're not some kind of square are you?

oh year right the link: www.insidesmusic.com/squidfist/

do a find for "gaping maw" for the show in question [there's like 150-ish audio files on that page (& yes of course I just downloaded all 1.3 days worth)]

that gig Squid Fist played at my place back then is like burned in my memory as one of the more bonkers damn I wish that was my band shows we hosted.. Bryce crawling around on the floor pushing around a pile of dirt and junk and a big knot of tape and a licensee plate and ... with his face & a mic

important info [that everyone should know and everyone should be stoked about but maybe is just for me and @awasteofredmeat.bsky.social]

1. SQUID FIST has like every show they ever played on their website

2. HOLY HOT DAMN THE SHOW THEY PLAYED AT ENEMY IN 2008 IS THERE!

A good reminder that an authoritarian in power to rage against doesn’t make great art, providing people with affordable living spaces does more to incubate cool weird fringe shit that’s internationally renowned decades later

the pulsing synth on the third one is him after playing with the benjolin for a bit stopping and saying "ok leave this here for a while"

whistling time, by SPIDERS BAND 4 track album

late afternoon today revising this cut-up and irregularly layered/looped recordings of an afternoon spent with my nephew playing with some whistling tube toys he had gotten from a couple years ago.. cranksatori.bandcamp.com/album/whistl...

you know "tour" visiting friends that live 1000 miles away and making stupid noises at/with them

very much having one of those if I had a car or means I'd hit the road today on uh.. tour.. without even shows booked kind of days

yea

not the artist's fault, hence not mentioning them by name but seriously fuck this shit: artfacts.net

a molotov cocktail is being thrown from a bottle in the dark . Alt: a molotov cocktail is being thrown from a bottle in the dark .

looking up an artist I was unfamiliar with and one of the first links was "ranked among the Top 1,000,000 globally .. best rank was in 2025, the artist's rank has improved over the last 4 years, with the most dramatic change in 2021 .. please see the career chart on the analytics page" and.. yeah.

Jazkammer came through once but if memory serves that was like 20 or so years ago.. might have been before Enemy existed tbh. He did a solo thing at Lampo in like.. 2017? Those are the only times I remember him in Chicago off the top of my head..

maybe David Russel you're thinking of? his various projects played there a bunch of times...

no.. I don't think either of them played there.. but my brain is also feeling kinda rusty this morning

(also I have a birthday coming up in a couple weeks and there are apparently like 36 copies left just saying)

Re-Make Re-Model, by Lasse Marhaug / Bruce Russell 16 track album

public service announcement: I will be here for the next hour or two: marhaug.bandcamp.com/album/re-mak... ok cool thanks bye

yeah. I'm trying to be charitable. so much these days kicks the cynicism into high gear.. sometimes I just gotta take a deep breath and say thanks for trying even if it's just to the air. I don't know I couldn't do that job. I don't know, that's not advice, that's just me telling myself

YouTube video by Tribe Tapes Emil Beaulieau - America's Greatest Living Noise Artist [VHS Excerpt]

was sent down a turntable tangent and now it's Mineola Time!
youtu.be/poc81oP_74w?...

strangest by far though, outside in the park, at one in the afternoon, under the bright summer sun... playing slow sludgy doom to an audience consisting mainly of a circle pit of face-painted kindergartners (at least till their appalled parents noticed and shooed them away)

inside a stretch limo looping around downtown Chicago... In the aisles of American Science & Surplus while folks shopped for old electronics and novelty toys.. in a half demo'd house, no plaster just the lath.. in a shop so narrow it only fit the performers, the audience in the alley outside...

<sigh>

again my jokes are lost and wasted in the family group chat

Slightly fuzzy close-up of Lego Mario riding a caterpillar, his eyes wide glowing blue on blue

scene report txts coming in and... Uh... Mario has been hitting the spice and is seeing through time again

friend of mine had a dog that looked a lot like Marcie, could have been her brother. biggest marshmallow of a dog... a hundred and twenty five pound marshmallow, with a head like a block of concrete, but a marshmallow none the less

appreciate the gesture and the hand written note, but sympathy card from the vet wasn't what I needed in the mail box today... better than the stack of election flyers but still

if I start walking now.. should be there.. I don't know, sometime in May?

really missing my cat today

a small circular portrait of David Lynch on a white background. To the right text that reads: David Lynch Morgue Receptionist

early AM insomnia watch... film was relentlessly 90s music video trying hard to be art, but worth it for this 30 seconds or so.. saved this screenshot as morgue redemptionist and I stand by that typo