Brandon Burke

At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O’Brien

I was Chris Sabo for Halloween in 2010. Period goggles, vintage batting jersey: the whole bit. Fave reaction was a complete stranger at the very beginning of the night, maybe 6pm, at a restaurant where we were meeting our friends. Saw me from across the room, stood up and yelled, "SABO!"

Thank you. I was so taken with that photograph, I missed the link!

Hi. This seems unlikely. Those tapes would sound awful unless there was an engineer available to (first thread the tapes onto the decks, then) ride the faders for the duration of each track per a specific, time-based set of instructions. How did your listening experience work?

Fun that you had an interaction with Joel while he was there. I waited in like behind Nick Collison at Target once. Turns out those guys are pretty tall

Underappreciated cinematography. László Kovács (DP) also shot Easy Rider; Five Easy Pieces; King of Marvin Gardens; Paper Moon; Scorsese’s New York, New York; etc.

Amazing, thanks. Had a 70/30 chance of being the case. This thing is clearly meticulously researched but he isn’t afraid to dispense with fact in pursuit of a good tangent so I figured I ought to check in

Page 259, paragraph 2, in William T. Vollmann’s Europe Central (2005): “An essay I found in the library basement cites his "Far and Wide My Country Stretches" (1958) as being the first film to use the Kinopanorama system of the wide curved screen, complete with nine tracks of stereophonic sound (and we're glancingly informed that the countervailing American system used only seven). Unfortunately, the difficulty in getting the three projectors to overlap precisely proved to be most annoying, and so, the Great Soviet Encyclopedia informs us, Kinopanorama came to be used increasingly less frequently after 1963.”

Thought of you @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social when I happened upon this paragraph in Europe Central just now. Ended having to look it up because so much in here is embellished for dramatic (or comic) effect. The Kino checks out, apparently. Does the sound stuff?

Stoked. Gotta finish this first but that’s next

‘Live in Würzburg’ (3-disc set)

Brunch gigs are the best. I fondly recall seeing Shellac at a Belgian waffle breakfast at like 8:00am outside a barn in Columbia, MO

I’ve had this and Hyena in my head for, whatever, 12 days now. Beyond being great songs, they bring to mind Pete Buck jerkily sashaying across the stage with renewed vigor. Fun era.

Record shopping at Amoeba SF in 2015

IKWYM. This guy’s 14 now and starts high school in a week

I'm so glad that I revisited this a couple holiday seasons ago. First go around, I was underwhelmed bc I'd likely just finished either GR or V. and wanted *meat* in the way you want more bonkers Coltrane if that's all you know. Letting it come to me at its own pace this time was a real treat

Don’t forget Philadelphia, Atlanta, LA

There’s only one thing to do now. Say hello to whomever discovers this thread in 2045!

Only thing we could come up with was some combination of the band that laid down the 1964 Turning Point session (Bley, Gilmore, Motian, Peacock) augmented by subs, as needed 🤷‍♂️

I just asked someone the same question

Amazing. I still have the same promo CD of Weld that we played in store at the time. Never seen that Arc single before. Then again, those were probably created for radio rather than retail

Did you make that graphic or did WB actually issue promotional CDs for Arc? Either way, that’s fabulous

Self-titled album by Throwing Muses. (4AD Records, UK, 1986)

Love it. We seem to always find our way back to that one over here. Spent a lot of time with this one over the winter too. Had eluded me all these years owing to no domestic (US) release. Finally saw one at the right time.

Hey, that’s fun. My last time, with the full band anyway, was in KC in the late 90’s. Kids, relocations and other things have gotten in the way since. Always appreciated the recalibration effect their shows have had on me. You come home like, “OK…ok…”

Good one, right? I can’t possibly file every Lyrichord over here - not enough room - but that’s a keeper for sure

Yep. The Tekiela book, which I had to reference when we first moved here bc I hadn’t seen one either, says woodchuck but everyone I know in town says groundhog.

We moved away from ATX 3 years ago and still talk about HEB. I'll never forget waiting outside for over and hour to get into the Mueller location during the multi-day, COVID-era ice storm where the staff (bless them) was essentially performing high-risk emergency management. With grace, I'll add.

Wow, this is great. Greg Cohen is an ideal bassist for something like this too

Maybe? Name sounds familiar but memory is fuzzy. And I’m on my 4th city now since leaving KC/Lawrence in 2002. Where would I have met Bill?

Pennylane was a good shop. Music Exchange too, obviously. I worked at multiple Streetside locations (103rd & State Line, Metcalf, Lawrence) in the early 90’s

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