soniferous twitterings

My glorious brethren,
We thunder southward from the Hinterland to despoil and conquer; festooning our battle-cloaks with the entrails of the vanquished; gnashing their meager hearts betwixt our incisors and consuming the blood therein. The rivers of gore will be a testament to our ruthlessness and the very Globe will cower beneath our iron fist of Doom. Our brood will bleed the cosmos dry in their inherited lust for the boundless glory of death.

For those who live to return to the fortress stronghold of Bickett, obscene banquets and gourmet orgies await. Wednesdays at 10 pm.

Dec 1: Razor Wire Safety Net + Jay Winfrey & Chris Eubank
This’ll prob’ly be a pretty mellow one — Jay W on guitar and vox, both spoken and throat-sung; Eubank (of Sharkquest, Ugly Americans, Micro East Collective, Spatula, Tripwire Trio and Defenestrator) on cello. Razor Wire will be Mike Salmon (of Proof and Cole) on guitar; Briney Donohoe on drums; Christoph Thurston on basses; Mortecaw Bob on horns/guit.

Dec 8: Jesus Christ and the Talibans
Jason Aylward (of Continent and Ladderback) on drums; Phil Moore and Wes Phillips (of Ticonderoga) on guitar and basses; Clubfoot Bob on horns and guitar.

Dec 15: stay tuned for more information.

Dec 22: Cruelbient
Featuring Dave Zahn and Matt Routh of Jazz Anew, doing electro-noise, sampling, vocal effects, suchlike. And myselves on guitar and horns.

So until we bury our axes into the thin skulls of pedigree white males, fare thee…

–The Ventriloquizor DL
Post-Industrial Teuton

raw ribs and coconut milk

Scatman, get thee beehive me.
In da combing weaks dere’ll be glarious gnawings-on in de sunderbrush of de bitter angles of our apertures.
Wattness, dat whick you can neither explick nor explunge. Curb yer appatitis and scuttle yer butt to de unwielderly ‘n’ udderwhirldly susspuriations in dis, de twirlight of our idylls and de autriumn of our ears (arears).
Re-joyce in de udder mundamnity of it all.

Sow it is spake, sew let it bleat —

Friday, Nov 19, Bickett Gallery, 10 pm: Mowing Lawns with Phon and an as-yet-to-be-determined third band (stay tuned to this frequency for more details).
Lowing Mawns is primarily the songwriting team of Mike Meyerson and Todd Emmert. Sort of the Wheeler and Woolsey of post-jazz post-angst post-noise post-Springsteen balladeering. Looks like Zeke G and Neill P from Cold Sides might be joining for this show on electroscapes. And Mike Glass of Fin Fang Foom appears to be a frequent member now, on drums. Myselves on sax, bass clarinet, guitar.

…and onto de Wednesdaze whick will remine forever illundated in our bicketted consciouslessnesses. Beginning again (re-recording) in de 10 pms of our collecktive folley (sick-lickally spreakin), reified and deifiled, we will git busy in the nearafter. The keys to. Gibbon! (mon-key bidness, dat is — ‘f it were de keys to Giblet, den we’d be Gobblins — a fowl joke to be sure, but at least we sparsed you de don-key), away alone a hop along a last the:

Nov 17: Razor Wire Safety Net + Drew Robertson & Mahlon Hoard
That’d be Drew R on gitfiddlin, Mahlon H on hornswagglin. Brian D on drumstickin. Christopher T on bassboostin. Mortecaw B on anglo-saxophistry and comb-watt-may. You gno Drew from Phon.

Nov 24: the uncertainty principle
Formation currently in flux. Ax again later. Previously advertised Jesus Christ and the Talibans will possibly be preforming on Dec 8.

Dec 1: Razor Wire Safety Net + Jay Winfrey & Chris Eubank
Hopefully we can get some good song-type-songs together in time for this one. Jay’s rendition of “Let’s Eat the Baby (Like My Gerbils Did)” the last time he joined The Net was a smash. But I’m sure he’ll serenade us with some throat-singing again as well. The ‘Bank will be on cello. CT on basses. BD on drums.

…raverrup, past Ere and Aftums, by bonny bay and scurvy sore, brinks us by a corrodius rictus of recycloquation back to How-a-Low Castalow and enmurons.

–The Ventriloquizor DL
Transient Minoritarian Relocutor
Retroactive Dynamics, Inc (an affiliate of the Thomas Carlyle Group)

Finn, again.

the last veil lifted

Lest ye bethink unto yourselves that reality herself has ground to a halt, beseiged into a subaltern stalemate by the multifarious yet somehow quotidian forces of Control; lest ye believe there to be neither salve nor potion that might abate the post-traumatic psychic undertow of that military-industrial-information complex which scars your cognitive apparatus with dissociative tension; lest ye fear that even death may not bring release from this diseased spatium through which we navigate as vessels of an impalpable spiritual matter that will find itself somehow still inextricably woven into the fabric of the phenomenal cosmos upon its release — Lest all these things — Know ye this: That there still exists at least the possibility of transcendence. Whether it is manifest only in the Realm of Ideas or whether it can be actualized in the theater of praxis seems impossible to judge at this point by such meager spirits as ourselves.

But we do know that you won’t find it here — we can only offer you a different form of emotional trauma that may or may not distract you from the abstract global apparatus of Doom. We are the one-eyed undertakers blowing our futile horns.

But perhaps, with careful surfing of the luck plane, along the way we will cultivate some joy in our indomitable pursuit of a differentiated cosmos.

Und so –
Sunday, Nov 14, The Cave, Chapel Hill: Mowing Lawns with I believe Eerie Choir.
I am but a paltry side man given to occasional vainglorious outbursts in this song-oriented ensemble. Looks like this will be the “late” show at the Cave. Mike Meyerson and Todd Emmert are the main songwriters. You of course remember Todd from the band Lil Virgin Sacrifice.

Und at Bickett Galleria, Raleigh, Wednesdaze, 10 pm:

Nov 10: Squalid Fold
With Ezekiel Graves (Cold Sides); Robert Biggers (Cold Sides); Neill Prewitt (Cold Sides); Crowmeat Bob (Cold Sides). Other side projects of these fellers include Audubon Park, The Nein, Three Stigmata, White Octave, stuff like that.
This will be electronicky jamming with groovy live drums and effects-laden vox.

Nov 17: Razor Wire Safety Net + Drew Robertson & Mahlon Hoard
Drew of Phon on guitar drones. Mahlon on tenor and soprano saxes. Brian Donohoe on drum. Christopher Thurston on bass. Slowfeet Bob on other junk.

Nov 24: Jesus Christ and the Talibans
Jason Aylward of Continent and Ladderback on drum. Probably Phil Moore and Wes Phillips of Ticonderoga on guitar and bass, not necessarily respectively. Slawfeet Bob on horns/guit.

Let us leave you with these info-morsels until passeth another day of rest and our subsequent Wednesday night prayer meeting can reconvene.

–The Ventriloquizer DL
Regional Director of Global Market Enhancement Programming and Hive Mind Induction
Retroactive Dynamics, Inc. (an affiliate of the Thomas Carlyle Group)

shutters of the evening fall and we yearn the long return

Here in this murky swamp of our collective consternation, we await the last gasp of democracy. St. Judian spirits abide as the belly of the beast begins its auto-digestion process.

Meantime, the dromocratic underdoings continue unabated, febrile and perhaps even divorced entirely from reasonable motivation. Witness:

Saturday, Nov 6, Local 506, Chapel Hill: The eNtet (with Jett Rink, Spectac and the Moaners – I’m guessing we’ll play first with JR as the featured ensemble)
I believe this will be part of a WXYC benefit. Which is a darn good idear if you ax me, seein’ as how my auto tape deck is all kinds of skewered and it’s often such a relief to journey toward Chapel Hill and catch some good music rather than futilely casting obscenities into the aetherial void due to radio road rage in Raleigh.
The eNtet is an Ian Davis baby, sort of the Rhoda to the Micro East Collective’s Mary Tyler Moore Show. Or maybe the Lou Grant. But not Phyllis.
Not sure who’s in the line-up this time, but possible suspects include Chris Eubank on cello, Ian Davis on drums, David Menestres on double bass, Jason Bivins on guitar, David Fox on keys, Slowfeet Bob on horns, Todd Hershberger on bassoon and Carrie Shull on oboe (though I believe those last two dividuals are supposed to be on tour — trashing hotel rooms with Pulsoptional –sometime in the neighborhood of soon, so they could be AWOL).

Okay, on to the dromocratic proceedings at Bickett Gallery, Wednesday nights, 10:15 sharp:

Nov 3: Razor Wire Safety Net + Kirk Ross
Kirk on guitar. Here’s like a 5-year-old bio of his band, Lud, that I found in a quick google perusal: http://www.idnmusic.com/bands/lud.html. We might also be joined by Mark Simonsen on vibes, who, as those of you lucky enough to be at Bickett last Wednesday know, is a bang-up mallet-man. RWSN is Christopher Thurston on basses, Brian Donohoe on drums and Slew-Mo Elbo on horns and guitar.
We will drink a toast to the end of the reign of the Bushes. At least until Jeb becomes president. If W “wins”, we just drink. St. Bernardian spirits will abide. (Thanks to George Herriman for that line.)

Nov 10: Squalid Fold
Ezekiel Graves on sample recoding, maybe guitar. Neill Prewitt on vox, keys, possibly bass. Robert Biggers on drums and maybe other noise-making tools, who knows. Crawmote Bob on horns, guitar. I don’t feel like writing all their projects down right now; I’ll do it next week.

Nov 17: Razor Wire Safety Net + Drew Robertson & Mahlon Hoard
Drew of Phon on guitar, keys, table-top guit, electro-drones. Mahlon on soprano and tenor saxes.

Nov 24: Jesus Christ and the Talibans
Jason Aylward of Continent and Ladderback on drums (he came up with our band name). Probably Phil Moore and Wes Phillips of Ticonderoga on guitar and bass, perhaps interchangeably so.

Okay, folks. It’s up to you, now.

–Robert C Pence
Beekeeper General
Retroactive Dynamics, Inc. (an affiliate of the Thomas Carlyle Group)
“The faster information technology gets, the closer we are to the future.”

(alternate quote from the Firesign Theater: “Living in today’s industrial future is a lot like having bees live inside your head.”)