longitudinal traversing

As we attempt to orient ourselves by means magnetic or astronomical, metatheistic or pataphysical, we see that the rigid hierarchy of sensation that characterizes advanced civilization has produced those vague mystifications wherein default dichotomies rise like helium from the East and descend, deflated, in the strata of the Western Lands. The oneness of binary opposition: no good without evil; no light without shadow. And lurking beneath is the so-called unity that quantum thought purports. Gone so far west and arrived east again.
So the sun rises in the east, paints the walls of our cave with the vagaries of sense, then sends our shadows fleeing back to the east while it marks a forward frontier: death; metempsychosis; resolution and dissolution; a circular line of flight. Or could it be an outward tending spiral rather than a circle? The eternal return to that place where the repetition is always different… Multiplicity over unity.

Wednesday, February 1, Kings, 10:30: Viroid Stew.
Another differing recurrence. Featuring Dave Mueller (Strange, Olympus Mons) on guitar and alto sax; Joel Rhodes (Strange) on Fender Rhodes keyboard and trumpet; Phil Martelli (Savage Nights, Dude Garden, Daddy) on electric bass; John Randall Pelosi (Kismet, The Feraliminal Lycanthropizers) on treated sax and cello; Neil Vendrick (Another Tombstone Dream, Apartments for the Dead) on sample recodifying; Mike Isenberg (Savage Knights, Kolyma, Olympus Mons) on percussion; Mortecaw Bob on horns & guitar.

Thursday, February 2, Kings: The Savage Minds with Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.
Stand tall and get down.

Wednesday, February 8, Kings: Kolyma with Skeleton Key and the Giraffes.
Rock and roll. As ugly as it ever was.
Skeleton Key were resurrected on Ipecac. skeletonkey.org
Kolyma are necrotized on CDR. myspace.com/kolyma

Saturday, February 11, Duke Coffeehouse, Durham: Kolyma with Cantwell, Gomez and Jordan and Eyes to Space.
As a benefit for Ms. Films.
cantwellgomezandjordan.com
eyestospace.com
All bands featuring femvox, for those who desire an angelic lilt in their songsmiths.
http://www.duke.edu/web/coffeehouse/

Friday, February 17, Local 506, Chapel Hill: Dexter Romweber and the New Romans with The Strugglers and Patty Hurst Shifter.
I think this is another benefit show. I’m sure it’s a good cause.

As put forth in that most eastern of western parables, the Bodhi Lebowski: “Sometimes you eat the bar and sometimes…well, sometimes the bar that can be eaten is not the true bar.”

The Ventriloquizer DL
Sacred Cowboy
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“Fleeing into the future.”

Blue Beyond

Remember that Outer Limits episode where the tumbleweeds attack Eddie Albert?
That was a pretty good one.

Wednesday, January 25, Kings Barcade, 10:30: Tripwire Trio.
An oft-repeated and highly effective congregation of dividuals: Chris Eubank on cello and vocode; Chuck Johnson on electro-acoustics; Crowmeat Bob on guitar, bass clarinet, trombone and alto sax.

Wednesday, February 1, Kings, 10:30: Viroid Stew.
Another recurring difference. Featuring Dave Mueller (Strange, Olympus Mons) on guitar and alto sax; Joel Rhodes (Strange) on Fender Rhodes keyboard and trumpet; Phil Martelli (Savage Nights, Dude Garden) on electric bass; John Randall Pelosi (Kismet, The Feraliminal Lycanthropizers) on treated sax and cello; Neil Vendrick (Another Tombstone Dream, Apartments for the Dead) on sample recodifying; Mike Isenberg (Savage Knights, Kolyma, Olympus Mons) on percussion; Cortemaw Bob on horns & guitar.

Thursday, February 2, Kings: Savage Knights with Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.
Get your dancin hoofs on, motherfuckers.

Wednesday, February 8, Kings: Kolyma with Skeleton Key and the Giraffes.
Rock and roll. It’s what the kids are all talking about.

But really The Borderland was the best. Or The Invisibles. Or maybe 100 Days of the Dragon.

-Robert
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more than kin, less than kink

Cold now, outflanked by the haggard ones. By and by we find on the periphery of association that which allows us to sleep with clear conscience. Or at least a momentarily stalwart identity — stalwart but not stratified; given to protean morphology. Though the truth of our future remains inconstant like the duplicity of an obsequious vassal. The “free” will of futural overcoming is a phantom truth like the nominal ranks of an obsolete aristocracy in the hierarchy of becoming.

Wednesday, January 18, Kings, 10:30, donation: Ian Davis & Crowmeat Bob.
Taking each from the other that which he would most willingly part withal.
Percussion vs. horns/guitar.

Wednesday, January 25, Kings, 10:30, donation: Tripwire Trio.
Betraying our marked inability to discern a hawk from a hand grenade.
We being: Chuck Johnson on electronics (SharkQuest, Pykrete, Spatula, Micro East Collective); Chris Eubank on cello and vocoder (SharkQuest, Micro East, Spatula, Defenestrator, Ugly Americans); Crowmeat Bob on horns/guit.

Thursday, February 2, Kings: Savage Nights with Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.
Sharon and her Kings will bring tha serious funk. The Noble Savages will bring tha slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

Wednesday, February 8, Kings: Kolyma with Skeleton Key and some other band.
Yep, it’s the same Skeleton Key from back in the day. There in your memory lock’d. They’re on Ipecac now. And perhaps more importantly have the bass player from the Lounge Lizards.(skeletonkey.org)
Foul deeds will rise from Kolyma.

The Ventriloquizer DL
retroactivedynamics.com
“All your sins remembered.”

Censory Perception

The intermittences of perception you may be experiencing of late are part of a reasonably harmless new study being undertaken by the Picnoleptic Functionality Network in conjunction with the Retroactive Dynamics, Inc., Corps of Social Engineers. Rather than continuing to rely on ingrained and largely voluntary mechanisms of societal denial, our scientists feel that measures should be taken to ensure that specifically targeted selective processing occur in all subjects to allow for more productive work flow.

Possible other side effects include a hypertrophic pineal gland, impressions of parallel realities, a defamiliarized self-image, and a craving for pure Mormon blood transfusions.

Tuesday, Jan 10, Kings, donation: Tom Waits’ Big Time with Fight the Bull.
We had planned to start at 9, but that nice write-up in the Independent said 10, so we might compromise and start closer to 10, depending on the breaks. Let’s say 9:30.
Do yourself a favor and come see this out-of-print Tom Waits concert film if you haven’t already. If you have seen it already, then I have no doubt you’ll attend, because you know the truth.
Fight the Bull are tight, groovy and modernistic. They’ll play after the flick. (fightthebull.net)

Wednesday, Jan 11, Kings, donation, 10:30 pm: Artificial Inseminary School.
With ex-Raleighite gone Brooklyn Nick Shriver (now Edward Bear) on baritone sax, Mike Isenberg on drums, and Crowmeat Bob on guitfiddle and horns.

Saturday, Jan 14, The Werehouse, Winston-Salem: Savage Nights, Kolyma, O.N.E., Junis Beefmonth.
Well worth the drive, no doubt about it.

Wednesday, Jan 18, Kings, donation, 10:30: Ian Davis & Crowmeat Bob.
Reckon we’ll be conversin’ on the dual natures of time and being as they manifest themselves sonically. And, for me, it will be another study on the effects of gradual inebriation on time perception.

The Ventriloquizer DL
retroactivedynamics.com
“We can’t wait for yesterday.”

regular gradation

Senior Research Facility Staff Personnel and Members of the Board:
We have begun the primary induction phase of the Psychic Network Decoding Contrivance. The most important revelation of Phase One is that the magnetic intensity of the earth’s field is the primary obstacle hindering our ability to differentiate individuated thought patterns from general background noise. And our task is certainly not made any easier by the frequent and unpredictable magnetic dip alterations due to underground nuclear “testing”. However, we have managed to receive and decode syntactical information from subjects in controlled, isolated conditions where the magnetic dip could be artificially maintained.
Once we come up with a viable method for differentiating the desired code from a random flux, we will have begun Phase Two.

The coming weeks’ homologous series:

Wednesday, January 4, 20-ought-6 (the Year of the Shotgun), Kings Barcade, donations requested, 10 pm: Unprovoked.
Three dancers. Two string trios. (3×3; 9 — numero-mystical significance not unnoticed)
The hoofers will be Renay Aumiller, Cara Clark and Ashlee Ramsey. The string scrapers will be Rick Lassiter and Christopher Thurston on double basses, Anne Polesnak and Chris Eubank on cellos, and Claire Hollins and Daniel Hart on violins. And myselves on bass clarinet and conduction.
This will be one long piece. We will begin when we have a quorum of spectators.

Tuesday, January 10, Kings, donations, 9 pm, Fight the Bull and Tom Waits’ Big Time.
We’ll be showing the great Tom Waits concert film Big Time at 9 pm for Kings movie night. Then modjazz cats from Richmond, Fight the Bull, will grace us with some killer sounds.
Check out their music clips: fightthebull.net

Wednesday, January 11, Kings, 10 pm or so: Artificial Inseminary School.
The long-awaited reunion. Ed Bear (formerly Nick Shriver) on baritone sax w/fx; Mike Isenberg on percussion & maybe organ; Crowmeat Bob on horns & guitar.

Saturday, January 14, Werehouse, Winston-Salem, Savage Nights, Kolyma, O.N.E., Junis Beefmonth.
The village of Winston-Salem cowers in fear as Savage Nights and Kolyma prepare their descent. ONE is Michael Thomas Jackson (http://www.microearth.com/jackson/), a multi-talented sound-maker. Junis Beefmonth is some variety of collective involving residents at the Werehouse. Should be something else. http://thewerehouse.com/

Courses on thought-jamming and compartmentalization to prevent psychic network decoding for agents of the Company will commence at the above dates and locations.

The Ventriloquizer DL
Regional Marketing Disinhibitor
retroactivedynamics.com