our propensity for propinquity

As the season begins its long still weary cold crawl into the frozen solitude of winter, we adamantly pursue the path we have laid for ourselves with a mad indomitable righteousness beyond morality whereby we might achieve some preternatural communion with those predecessors whose defeat still dwells in our homes, our land, and our bones. That defeat made no less bitter by its inevitability, no less painful in its haste, no less regretful in the prosperity of reconstruction and the promise of a better world.

Wednesday, Nov 2, Kings: no Health Jazz tonight.

Wednesday, Nov 9, Kings: Dexter Romweber and the New Romans with King Coleman and the Creepy T’s.
This is the one you’ve been waiting for. It’s going to be a rip-roaring time.
I imagine Dex’s band will open, sometime around 10 or so.
myspace.com\kingcoleman

Sunday, Nov 13, The Werehouse, Winston-Salem: O.N.E. with Paper Legs and Shark with Wings.
ONE is organizized by Michael Thomas Jackson (www.microearth.com/jackson). I think it stands for Out Now Elsewhere.
The Werehouse abides.
www.thewerehouse.com

Wednesday, Nov 16, Kings Barcade: guitar frenzy.
Organized by myself and Drew Robertson. A 6-8 member ensemble of guitarists.

Bee seeing you,
Ventriloquator DL
retroactivedynamics.com

The Infallibility of Der Mude Tod

When we all meet in the neverafter — the erewhon of our syllogistic fallacies, our sybaritic fantasies, and our polysyllabic superfluosities — we will discover those implacable truths that evade the machinic couplings of that stalwart and compulsory Reason, He whose Arch Purpose stands opposed to life in all its cryptic mystery.

But until then, we will continue with our patriotic “normallacy”. *

Or, as Jimmie Dale sung, “Til then I guess we’ll just stand around.”

Wednesday, October 26, Kings, 10 pm: Apartments for the Dead.
Michael Columbia had to cancel because of vehicle trouble. Sorry.
AftD will be Brian Donohoe (Strange, Razor Wire Safety Net, Shadow of a Great Name), John Randall Pelosi (Kismet, Anubis Leisure Society Orchestra, The Feraliminal Lycanthropizers) and Dr. Robert.
We will build apartments in the land of the dead for all the little fragments of language that persist there.

Wednesday, November 2, Kings: no Health Jazz tonight. Kings has another show previously booked.

Wednesday, November 9, Kings, 10 pm: Dexter Romweber and the New Romans with King Coleman and the Creepy T’s.
This one ought to be a hoot and a holler.
And it will render all listeners incontinent and incognizant, and everything in-between.
You who don’t live under a rock know who Dex is. The New Romans are Dave Schmitt on drums, Mike Walters (Jett Rink) on keys, Kevin Dixon (Zen Frisbee, “And then There was Rock”) on guitar, Anthony (the best bass player in Chapel Hill) on electric bass, Chuck on percussion, and Crowmeat Bob on alto sax and bass clarinet.
King Coleman sounds like a force to be reckoned with: myspace.com/kingcoleman
If you like Blowfly, you might want to check him out.

Sunday, November 13, The Werehouse, Winston-Salem, $5, 9 pm: O.N.E. with Paper Legs and Shark with Wings.
ONE is Michael Thomas Jackson’s baby (www.microearth.com/jackson). I think it stands for Out Now Elsewhere. Not sure who all is joining this preformance besides myselves.
The Werehouse is a great place.
www.thewerehouse.com

Be scrying you in futurity,

-The Ventriloquizzical DL
retroactivedynamics.com
“Building you a better yesterday.”

* “Normallacy,” used by Tom Brokaw in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 plane attacks of aught-one: “We are all hoping for a speedy return to normallacy.”
This is either an intentional or unconscious divulgement — a conjunction of “normal” and “fallacy,” i.e. “a speedy return to the fallacy.” Little did we know how speedy it would be.

The Golden Age

Sweet nostalgia for that lost decade of our youth — a stasis-inducing trip down mediocrity lane where wistful longing overtakes our faculties under the thin veil of self-conscious irony.

Wednesday, October 19, Kings: There will be no Dr. Robert’s 80’s Dance Party tonight because Kings has a previously scheduled conflict.

Wednesday, October 26, Kings: 80’s Dance Party featuring Apartments for the Dead and Michael Columbia.
Come and hear all your favorites, covering the spectrum from Naked Eyes to Rockwell.
Michael Columbia: http://www.galapagos4.com/mc/tacb.htm
Aparments for the Dead will be Randy Pelosi, Brian Donohoe and Crowmeat Bono.

Wednesday, November 2, Kings: No Dr. Robert’s 80’s Health Party this night, either. You’ll have to listen to Night Ranger and Duran Duran on your own time. At home. Alone.

Wednesday, November 9, Kings: 80’s Death Party featuring Dexter Romweber and the New Romans and King Coleman and the Creepy T’s.
Covering a wide range of your fondly-remembered favorites, including Laura Brannigan and Bonnie Tyler. (see her classic video here: http://www.devilducky.com/media/27260/)
myspace.com\kingcoleman

If only we could truly re-live the 80’s. But we’ll just have to settle for elaborate re-creations to fill the voids of our “adult” lives. Be sure to wear your leg-warmers.

-The Ventriloquizer DL
retroactivedynamics.com

real jake

Friends, neighbors, concerned parents:
Retroactive Dynamics is pleased to introduce our new, improved Jake formula. This miracle solution can aid in all varieties of ailment, including but not limited to rashes, sores, tumors, kidney stones, ingrown toenails, warts, infections, coughs, sinus problems, memory loss, paralysis, herpes, rheumatism, fever, liver spots, cramps, diarrhea, cirrhosis, phthisis, hemorrhaging, anemia, depression, menengitis, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, hypothermia, blindness, syphilis, psychosis, pneumonia, vitiligo, swelling, colitis, astigmatism, brain stem cleavage, avuncular exudation, laconic narconomiconolepsy, invasive diaphoresis, lacunic Azathothism, jejunogastric intussusception, brain pan leakage, consanguinous infestation, peristaltic inhibition, gangrenous Nephesch, Apostolic aggravation, atrophied Chokmah, and asymptotic derangement.
Ask for the family fun size at your local druggist.

Wednesday, October 12, Kings Barcade, 10 pm, donation: Savage Nights.
Including but not limited to Phil Martelli on electric bass, Mike Isenberg on drums, John Hubbard on tenor sax, Peter Lamb on tenor sax and Cortemaw Jake on alto sax, bass clarinet and guitar.

Saturday, October 15, Local 506, 8 pm $10: Dexter Romweber and the New Romans with Countdown Quartet and Roman Candle and two Local Songwriters’ Roundtables.
A benefit for folks what used to be living in New Orleans. Admission includes N.O.-style food. Roundtables begin at 8 and include lots of jake folks (see local506.com). Bands begin at 10:30.

Sunday, October 16, Nighlight, Chapel Hill, 10 pm or so: Catachresis with Lozenge and Cry & Swell.
Catachresis will be me and Rob Koegler and one or two others, pending confirmation and health screening.
mylozenge.com
http://nightlight.dyss.net/index.php
And Jake does come in lozenge form, too, if you were wondering.

Wednesday, October 19, Kings: no Health Jazz on this night. But that’s no excuse not to take your Jake.

Stay healthy (with New Jake),
The Ventriloquizer DL
Nosologician General
retroactivedynamics.com

Sonic Intrusion

Lend an ear to this mutant bicuspid exchange between stem-cleaved psychic cousins Crowmeat Bob and Creepy Crawlfish Johnson, known to friends as Flash Gordon’s Ape. Known to the IRS and NSA as Robert Pence and John Aguero. It was recorded in a hunting lodge in the mountains of Virginia, direct to 8-track cassette (a degaussed Frampton Comes Alive!). Seriously. Part of the “Ticonderoga” sessions.

“Siamese Twin Guitar Special” by Flash Gordon’s Ape (mp3).

Right click and save target to put it on your memex.

the bees’ knees

The magic bullet wends its unchartable path through the history of technology with a furtive and fractured grace. It is the eye of the camera, the triangulation of mechanism/information/power wreaking its sudden vengeance on anomalous transgressors.
It is the ear cancer from cell phones, the brain cancer from laptops.
A meta-conscious force of history, an artificial phantasm of sentience that feeds on the repressed psychic undertow of a million souls who’ve been subjected to the machine — the anti-hive mind of control, the single suicide state that mutates through various democratic or autocratic semblances.
The very idea of paranoia is no longer possible because it is no longer possible for there not to be a conspiracy. It surely doesn’t need to be conscious of itself to exist. But if you can’t feel it in your bones now like a bad storm coming, then perhaps you are among the blissfully fortunate.

Wednesday, October 5, King’s: no Midweek Mayhem on this night because King’s already had another show booked. But it looks like a good one.

Friday, October 7, Slim’s, Raleigh: Kolyma.
We will give a face to your greatest fear.
myspace.com/kolyma
227 S Wilmington St, downtown Raleigh.

Sunday, October 9, Orange County Social Club parking lot, Carrboro: Dexter Romweber and the New Romans with The Moaners, Kerbloki, and Fake Swedish.
The whole thing starts at four. Delicious BBQ. I think we’ll play around 7. Could be a pip.

Wednesday, October 12, King’s Barcade: Savage Knights.
Bring your dancing shoes. Or, if you don’t have legs, bring your dancing gloves and wrap your stumps up good for some heavy hoppin’.
That’s of course Phil Martelli on electric bass, Mike Isenberg on drums, John Hubbard on tenor sax, possibly Peter Lamb on tenor sax and clarinet, and Crowmeat “Bob” on alto sax, guitar and bass clarinet.

No need to watch your back. They won’t even have to sneak up on you.

–The Ventriloquizer DL
Straw Boss
retroactivedynamics.com