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"There is nothing like a blog to help you realize you have nothing new to say."

. . . as I draft my book proposal.
I'm visiting to Holland for the next three months.


Daily
Discuss.


1. Swans - Music Documentary 2:12
Click: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqG9s1NUZsU

"I didn't really care about the independent scene."

"If you find an audience, then that's good."
--Michael Gira, Swans

"It can be powerful if it's loud, but I don't think that's necessary. . . Sometimes it's loud, but it doesn't depend on that."

Discuss.


2. Foetus - The Sound of Progress - 1988 - 2 Parts

Foetus is abrasive as-performance-footage but he talks out of his arse a lot so there's p o n d e r a ble content in between the screaming.

Click: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhVC0F9pDe4
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJUS4mw4kJo

"You can't help but make some pre-judgment about seeing a person and saying, 'well, they've got that hairstyle so the music must sound like that,' which is something that you do in life anyway, I mean, you see someone and you usually have an immediate impression about what they might be like which may or may not be true. I mean, I know that I've been at a record store, picked up a record, which may have an interesting front cover, looked at the back cover see a bunch of fat hippies and go, well this must be a load of garbage."

"How many rock LPs does the world need."


3. Crass - CRASS Documentary
Click: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPIpputRkJU

"Crass could sell a hundred thousand records without any radio play."


4. Blixa Bargeld Interview Preview (of Einstürzende Neubauten)
Click: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5lw22jV_AM

On the new record:
"It starts quietly so you will run forward and turn up the stereo."

Discuss.