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Cormac McCarthy! Jack London! Per Petterson!

I just did some recordings with a drone machine and 8Step. Very satisfying. Enjoy!

I had an old gf who lived in the oldest standing inhabited house in our town (built in the late 1600's or early 1700's as I recall). All kinds of weird shit happened in that house including people getting forcibly pushed. Her dad removed all the doors save front and back since they had 11 kids. They just kind of learned to live with it and nothing too terribly crazy or serious happened but I did have to spend one Halloween there and did my laundry in the basement. Creepy to say the least.

Happy birthday Mere!

What Are You Listening To? Living Color-Vivid (vinyl)

Daryl Hall-Sacred Songs and Robert Fripp-Exposure (they go together on purpose...practically the same project)

Swans-To Be Kind (on vinyl)

My family did everything they could to discourage me. Partly maybe because my grandfather was a concert clarinetist and knew how hard it was but I'm one stubborn son of a gun and now they all bug me for tickets and stories, etc. Makes me laugh.

Dead in the Manger-Cessation, Enslaved-In Times and Leviathan-Scar Sighted

A Forest of Stars-Beware the Sword...

Man, I am totally digging Swans. Thanks for the recommendations gang!!!

Yeah, pretty cool stuff. She's working on a new album.

Blodhemn-H7 (Killer black metal from Norway)

Listening to Philip Glass-Songs from Liquid Days. You can avoid this one. Pretty fluffy and meh.

^^^^That's pretty effin' metal. Or Ragnar Lodbruk, not sure .

Some would consider it more punk than metal but I have pieces of the wall of CBGB's "dressing room" the night before they tore it all down. The Dictators (with Blondie opening!) were the last band to play before it closed.

Swans-Children of God and Various Failures (thanks for the tips gang!)

Ancient Rites-Laguz

Led Zed-Physical Graffitti reissue (if for nothing other than Kashmir. These reissues are usually bullshit imo)

Got handed three Leviathan albums by a buddy so they're up next.

Thanks for the recommendations! Very helpful.

Any recommendation where I should start with Swans? I've always wanted to check their stuff out. Thanks!

So the Glass Low symphony turns out is based on Bowie's Low and is really great. How Now/Strung Out is a live solo organ/violin recording and is...good but weird. Listening to Terje Rypdal's violin concerto right now but this kept me busy most of the day-