i dunno about the rest of you but there are (many) days where I’d rather not engage with any aspect of the real world (or for that matter, the television series, “The Real World” — whatever happened to Puck?) but I’ll still fully acknowledge my bullshit ennui comes from a position of ridiculous privilege and comfort. The all-too-brutal circumstances that are coming to bear on so many of our friends and neighbors will likely make 2017-2021 look like a trial run and with that in mind, EVERY SECOND COUNTS. You cannot afford to squander your energy mocking Grimes on social media when the fucking Tesla dealership is sitting RIGHT THERE . You also cannot afford to waste your valuable time listening to a radio program that tries to pass off a Dollar General version of The Cool Greenhouse as “one of 2024’s best” (or for the matter, a Dollar General version of Certain General). I personally think “this is what Jaqueline de Jong* trained you for” is a bit of a cliche, but when it comes to manufacturing motivation, sorry, I’m no Pat Riley.
* – “The Most Confused Souls Find Themselves One Morning Conditioned by a Little Gravity”, 1966
Claire Cronin – Not A Noise
Ed Kuepper & Jim White – The Crying Dance
Don Howland & Cheater Slicks – Endgame
Germ Lattice – Misprint Maker
Bardo Pond – In Every Dream home a Heartache
Thousandaire – One Day I’ll Finally Go Deaf
Flying Saucer Attack – Standing Stone
Devon Rex- Naster?
Blacksea Nåo Maya – Tolobasco
Dick Texas – I Wanna Be Like Jesus
SUMAC & Moor Mother – Scene 1
Hallucination – Combat Conditions
Neptune – Take It Out
Dwarfs Of East Agouza – Rats Don’t Eat Synthesizers
Fruited Planes – Amish Verde?
Lloyd McNeil – Samba For The Animals
Alex Cunningham, Sandy Ewan, Lisa Cameron and Damon Smith – Another Periphery
Low Jack – Slow Dance