in an interesting turn of events, the captains dead compound will soon, in 7 months, have a new member. thats right, my bride is expecting our second child. just when i thought i was just about done wiping ass and making vain attempts at explaing the universe, i get pulled right back in. this is all from a guy and a gal that never expected to have one, let alone two. i blame my wife! i told her that if she wasnt such a slut we wouldnt be having these little happy accidents. she laughed. no, seriously she did.
in other news, i am unfortunately going to have to start deleting a lot of older stuff. this is due to quite a few pains in my ass that refuse to stop the leeching. i am blowing through about 20 gigs a day when i should only do about 5. so, anything older than 4 months old will be going away over the next few days. there will be no way for me to recover this stuff cause i just dont have the time to download everything. its just much easier to delete the stuff.
how awesome would it be to live in a tree house?
half way through listening to former athenian phosphorescent’s pride, i got this weird vision in my head that i was sitting in some church and a through the black couds shown a light directly on me, kinda like what happened to jake in the blues brothers. pride has this really strange, but uplifting, other worldly quality that is hard to deny. there is something very church like about pride. the vocals seem to reach to the heavens, but the music seems to be from the dirt - if that makes any sense. pride is one of those special kinda records that you dont want to share with anyone, but want to preach to the masses about from the top of a mountain. not to sound overly queer, but pride left me kinda stunned. i wasnt expecting this at all and i actually sat there motionless for a few moments once it was finished. that is something that hasnt happened since my first listen to bee thousand - which happens to be my favorite record of all time. if i dont listen to another record this year that would probably be ok with me. as a reference point, i would say that pride is part graceland era paul simon, beach boys’ pet sounds and will oldham’s ease on down the road.
pride is being released on oct 23 - i believe. he’s currently doing a bunch of shows, so check his myspace page for details.
a picture of our torn up praise
daytrotter has an interview with matthhew houck, who is phosphorescent, and in typical daytrotter fashion have a couple of live tracks available.
phosphorescent myspace
i found this pumpkins bootleg the other day and found it to be kinda cool. i dont know much about it but its entitled “may we have a record contract, please.” according to some sources this is a demo collection circa 1989 which is pre gish.
1. honeyspider (alternate)
2. with you
3. egg
4. rhinoceros (alternate)
5. bye june
7. daughter
8. daydream
9. psychodelic
10. bury me
11. daydream
12. not worth asking
13. honeyspider
14. rhinoceros
15. snap
16. love (old demo)
17. c’mon
This album just came out of nowhere. I have been listening to Smashing Pumpkins for a long time but never heard any of these.
I like their earlier work better than the more recent stuff.
Thanks!
Congratulations! Regarding server load, I wonder if it would help if set your robots.txt file to disallow all indexing? Good luck.
yeah mr juice their earlier stuff is light years beyond their recent shit.
jeff, thanks and indexing is turned off but people are using something called nsplayer to stream the stuff directly through windows media. i cant seem to stop it.
congrats on another lil bit! butt-wiping equals love! also nice pumkins find!
Tracks 8 & 17 don’t seem to be working. Anyway you can re-post these?
dylan they should be working now….
17 is, 8 still isn’t.
Many congratulations. I never listened to them after Siamese Dream, and I’ve never been more excited about a record coming out as I was the day Siamese Dream came out because of how great Gish was. In fact I remember before access and internets I walked into a record store when I was 16 and asked if they had any idea when a new Smashing pumpkins record was coming out, and he had just gotten in a promo disc with the first four songs and he put it on and Cherub Rock came on and it was so fucking good I had to change my drawers. It was so unexpected and that kind of thing doesn’t happen any more because we always know when everything’s coming out. Anyhoo, it’s too bad they lost it. Some bands just can’t stay good and some bands are Sonic Youth.
everything´s fine except track 08
works for me… sometimes you have to make a few attempts before it clicks..
whsonic - here’s how to get track 8 : right click and copy shortcut, paste into browser, delete one of the forward slashes after the http: and refresh. Good luck.
gregor - thanks for a great post.