Mark Time

We’ll meet at the train station. I’ll be the one with the blue flower in his buttonhole.

Wednesday, January 31, Kings, 10:30 pm: Haptickle Optrickery.
Drew and Dustin of Phon (myspace). Dan Partridge on singing saw. Me on wind instruments.

Thursday, February 1, 6-8 pm, WXDU: On the Corner.
The first of my bi-weekly jazz radio programs. This week featuring fake jazz — various forms of bastardized pseudo-jazz, what-have-you. Such as rock and rollers pretending they’re jazz players, god bless ‘em.
wxdu.org — listen online.

Sunday, February 4, 9-10 pm, WXDU: Mystery Hour.
The theme for this mystery hour will be “Machine Love.” Songs featuring machinic/technological metaphors for love and its corresponding bodily functions.

–The Ventriloquizer
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Intimacy

Now that we’ve progressed beyond the initial awkward stages of our relationship, I’d like to go into detail about what I really want from you. But not in writing. No telling where these e-mails’ll get forwarded to.

So I’ll see you this weekend in Savannah or Charlotte. Going on another mini-tour with The Nein (myspace.com/thenein).
Friday, Jan 26 - The Jynx, Savannah.
Saturday, Jan 27 - The Milestone, Charlotte.

And don’t miss this month’s Death Jazz.
Wednesday, Jan 31, Kings Barcade, 10:30: Haptickle Optrickery.
That’s Dustin Dorsey and Drew Robertson of Phon on guitars/keys/electro-effects, Dan Partridge on singing saw, and myself on horns.

And then, the night after that, I’ll begin my bi-weekly jazz program on WXDU-Durham (wxdu.org). 6-8 pm, every other Thursday, approximately. The one on the 1st will feature “Fake Jazz”. Meaning mostly bands not normally associated with jazz doing music that sounds like jazz. But isn’t. Or is, I suppose, depending on the depth of your willingness to assign the nomenclature of the real to a simulacrum. But not necessarily psych/folk/noise/improv/new-weird stuff such as the music featured in the magazine “Fake Jazz”. Maybe that’ll be another program.

Be seeing you.
Bob
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Bicycle Chains

Watch yer hindparts ’round these hereparts less’n you’re of a mind to be hooked ‘twixt a clock and a striated space. The best evasive action bein’ to jerry-rig one o’ them Immobilising Machines (of the luminiferous aether variety) they got nowadays, if not on this particular incline, then on a neighboring plane like as not only a few degrees tilted from our own, and if not nowadays as such, in the nearly future close enough to be reasonably predictable within a margin of error corresponding to a fixed rate of submolecular transience. Alternative futures havin’ characteristics not entirely unlike and in point of fact indiscernibly identical to alternative pasts, two sides of the same coin you might say but for the fact that both sides are infinite in themselves and are both heads and tails simultaneously and they’re not opposites so much as complementary metageometrical harmonies extending outward in at least 5 dimensions from the atmonic disc of immediate consciousness.

And please note that you have been placed on permanent “indefinite loyalty” status at the head office until further notice.

In other matters, it looks as if I’ll be joining the Chuck J version of the Nein for a couple of tho’downs this weekend.

January 13, The Flatiron, Greensboro, NC, 8 pm: The Nein with unknown others…

January 14, the Grey Eagle, Asheville, NC, 8 pm: The Nein with Josh Carpenter, Hey Neighbor and the Makeout Room.

http://www.myspace.com/thenein

Yours,
Crowmeat Bob
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Measurable Standards

As you wind your gramophone for the evening’s listening, you will no doubt lament the apparent deficiencies of the facsimile in its attempt to recreate a work whose reality was much deeper in its inception than its mechanical representation could ever hope to be. But it must be kept in mind that even the reality of the live performance, unfiltered by the recording process, is still a veil over the forces of Eternity that dwell beyond it. Whatever beauty, spirit, or divine principle infitrates this plane of experience still dwells in the echoes of the tin horn that seem only to lay bare the inadequacy of the medium.
Be that as it may and all things being equal, I’d be willing to wager a worthy sum that few among you, good sirs and madams, possess any wax impressions of the soulforce of the below-mentioned sound artists. So you may as well settle for the “live” representations locally available in the approaching week.
In the meanwhile, please try to conform your excursions into Eternity to those measurable standards outlined in the Employee Handbook.

Thursday, December 14, 10 pm, Kings Barcade: Tatsuya Nakatani.
Those of you who happened to catch Tatsuya with Audrey Chen at Bickett Gallery, or mayhaps at Temple Ball, last year know better than to not be there to catch his show. He’ll be doing a solo set around 10 or so and then he’ll be joined by some locals.
http://www.hhproduction.org/TATSUYA_NAKATANI_WORKS.html
Don’t say I didn’t never tip you off to nothin.

Also coming up:
Tuesday, December 12, 9 pm, Nightlight, Chapel Hill: Kolyma with Hungerflex, Femme Covert, The Pursuit of Sleep, Wes Wolfe, Ariel Bui, and Mas.
I reckon Kolyma will be on around midnight. Gonna be a busy night.
http://www.freewebs.com/nofuturefest/nightlight.htm
myspace.com/kolyma

Also coming up:
Friday, December 15, Kings: Heads on Sticks with Pearls and Brass and Dark Meat.
Thems of y’all what caught Boris at the 506 were also re-vorticized by openers Pearls and Brass, so I know where you’ll be this night.
I’ll be playing along with the Heads on Sticks, Dave Mueller’s (Strange, Birds of Avalon, Olympus Mons) mainside/sidemain project.
And of course the phenomenon that is Dark Meat.

Also coming up:
Heads on Sticks will be the house band for Oak City Nights, that live talk show, at Kings on Monday, December 18.

-Bob
Measurable Standard-Bearer
Retroactive Dynamics, Inc. (an affiliate of the Thomas Carlyle Group)
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