four evenings of fun in the metropolis of my dreams

[ateolf]

ON RETURNING:
damn, where the hell do i start? well...i'll start w/ this: NEW YORK FUCKING RULED!!!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! yes...i'm not gonna describe the trip in one post...i'll just keep posting stuff as it comes to mind throughout the next couple days...if i just did one long post no one would read it anyways...but this is important stuff, man...(or something...) and yea...so it'll all prob'ly seem very disjointed and modernistical and whatnot...or something...i hurt my feet really bad the day we got there (wed) after walking around a bunch...most of the trip i was hobbling around like a hunchback or a zombie or something (well...more like a hunchback...or an old person)...but that did not deter me one bit! no, sir! i was in New Yawk Fockin' City! and nothing could take that away from me!!!!! (aside from my leaving yesterday...) i think it was thursday i went to K-Mart and got some arch supports and Flexall for me feet...and i applied it in the bathroom of a Starbucks...it started feeling better and like friday night-saturday i was actually almost walking normally...also, coming back our flight was delayed and i didn't get home 'til 1:30 this morning...so when i woke up to go to class at 6:30, my feet were hurting really badly and i was really damned tired, so i was feeling like shit and went back to sleep...so yea...also: New York food is damned damned good stuff...

but i know what's first and foremost on everyone's minds: what cds did he get!? well, my audience, the knowledge you thrist for shall now be obtained:
No New York (comp) (it ended up being a burned cd, but it was only $20...)
Thurston Moore: Please Just Leave Me (My Paul Desmond) (i actually ended up getting two copies, w/ different packaging, but they were both less than $10 so it's not so bad...but hey, i'm a dork...)
Ruins: Pallaschtom (Japanese version w/ extra tracks...)
Ruins: Nivraym
Lee Ranaldo: Dirty Windows
Thurston Moore & Nels Cline: In-Store
Thurston Moore w/ Tom Surgal: Klangfarbenmelodie. . . and the Colorist Strikes Primitiv
Amon Tobin: Supermodified
The Fall: Early Fall
William Hooker w/ DJ Olive & Glenn Spearman: Mindfulness (this should be damned interesting...)
Thurston Moore: Lost to the City (another cd w/ William Winant and Tom Surgal...)
Jim Sauter - Don Dietrich - Thurston Moore: Barefoot in the Head
Pola X sndtrck (mostly Scott Walker...it's like his Tilt album w/out vocals...which is good, 'cuz the songs on Tilt are good until he starts singing and completly ruins them...it also has a Sonic Youth song that's not available elsewhere (as well as a Smog song...) it was my most expensive purchase at $30...and yes, worth it for that one SY song...)
William Hooker: Shamballa (half is w/ Thurston Moore, the other half is w/ Elliott Sharp...)
Glenn Branca: Symphony No. 5 (Describing Planes of an Expanding Hypersphere)
The Stooges: Peanut Butter (another burned cd...this has outtakes from the Fun House sessions...Rhino released like a (very limited) 5 or 6 cd boxed set of every single thing that was recorded while they were in the studio for Fun House...this bootleg should hold me over 'til i can find/afford that...)
The Velvet Underground: The Wild Side of the Street (live stuff from '69...it says Cale is in the band and not Yule...which would be cool 'cuz there's 2 songs from the 3rd album on here...but i don't know when Cale left so i'm not sure if that's right or not...but either way it has a 10 min version of "Run Run Run" and a 23 min version of "Sister Ray" (as well as longer versions of everything else...))
Gastr del Sol: Upgrade & Afterlife
Flying Saucer Attack: Further
Jim O'Rourke: Halfway to a Threeway
Mars: Live
Disco Inferno: The Mixing It Session (i think it was one of the last things they ever did...it was released after they broke up...it's like an ep w/ 6 songs that they did, i'm guessing for the bbc or something...they're all instrumentals and named after animals...)

yea...i went a little overboard w/ the Sonic Youth side-projects...but it's a lot of catching up that needed to be done...i almost got the newer William Hooker/Lee Ranaldo thing at the Knitting Factory (Bouquet, it's called...) but they were out...Tonic (the club) has a Soft Skull Press store in the building and there i got these books:
Lee Ranaldo: Road Movies
Online Diaries: the Lollapalooza '95 Tour Journals (yes, among others, it includes Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo)
Lee Ranaldo: Jrnls80s (lots of various writings/letters/poetry from the 80s, much while on tour...i've read through bits of it and it's really amazing writing...it's a gives a glimpse at a side of him you never thought existed...a lot of it's really depressed stuff...makes me feel guilty and voyeuristic...but then again, he did publish it...)

yes, i'm a freak...i think i'm done posting for now...much much much more to come later...

Comments

online tour diaries

[contrary.livejournal.com]

i remember when those things were online. 1995. spin@aol.com. i hung out in those parts a lot in those days. i was particularly obsessed with beck's journals. ah....beck...mmm. heh. glad you had fun DOOD.

Re: online tour diaries

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

woo! thanxxx much, d00dette...so far i've just poked around in the book a little...i really like Thurston's entries a lot...seems there was a bit of a row going on w/ Courtney Love...and in one of Thurston's things he quoted a conversation w/ her a Lee where she complained about having to listen to them dedicating songs to Mary Lou Lord and Lee was like "you mean you actually listened to us play?" (not an exact quote, but close...)