The Nothing New

9:56AM - Monthly Music Mix - March

Le mix, c'est ici:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/1db20u

1. Aesthetic Perfection - Human (0:56)
2. Kate Bush - Constellation Of The Heart (4:48)
3. Ladytron - Light And Magic (3:36)
4. Cocteau Twins - But I'm Not (2:45)
5. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jack The Ripper (3:47)
6. Abwärts - Herzlich Willkommen Im Irrenhaus (3:04)
7. Aesthetic Perfection - I Belong To You (3:33)
8. Alice Donut - War Pigs (2:46)
9. Bow Wow Wow - The Joy of Eating Raw Flesh (3:24)
10. The Smiths - Nowhere Fast (2:37)
11. Martina Topley-Bird - Poison (Van She Mix) (4:33)
12. David J - The Dope Show (3:17)
13. Fleet Foxes - Your Protector (4:09)
14. Bryan Ferry & Jane Birkin - In Every Dream Home A Heartache (4:12)
15. Justine Electra - Killalady (4:26)
16. Mesh - Document (5:03)
17. Lowfish - Glued Smile (4:41)
18. AOS - History Repeats Itself (2:22)
19. Tori Amos - Precious Things (Alternate Mix) (4:30)
20. Fredrik - Na Na Ni (5:01)
21. Marc Almond - Bedsitter Images (4:10)

( very lazy excuse for notes about the music )

"And when I'm lying in my bed,
I think about life and I think about death,
And neither one, particularly, appeals to me.

And if the day came when I felt a natural emotion,
I'd probably get such a shock I'd probably lie
In the middle of the street and die,
I'd lie down and die..."

9:14AM - Indeed

11:53AM - Muahaha!..indeed

3:25AM - Music Mix - February 09

Yeah, yeah, a teensy bit behind schedule as usual...

The mix is here:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/9tdgb0
though it's been up for a while, so it's possible I need to re-up it, but I hope not.

1. The Faint - The Conductor (4:42)
2. Foo Fighters - All My Life (4:23)
3. Street Sweeper - Clap For The Killers (3:57)
4. Beborn Beton - The Truth (3:40)
5. Eels - Flyswatter (3:18)
6. Emiliana Torrini - Gun (5:45)
7. M83 - Up (4:27)
8. Tori Amos - Sweet Dreams (3:40)
9. Luminescent Orchestrii - Knockin' (5:23)
10. Mechanical Bride - Umbrella (4:32)
11. Spiritualized - Out Of Sight (6:11)
12. Dirty Fire Project - Lament (3:38)
13. Boards Of Canada - The Devil Is In The Details (3:53)
14. Marc Almond - Like Fur (2:58)
15. Johnny Neon - Dance On Fire (3:20)
16. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Bring It On (edit) (4:13)
17. David Bowie - Wild Is The Wind (6:02)
18. Covenant - Atlas (5:16)

( The Devil Is In The Details.... )
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"All my life I've been searching for something,
Something never comes, never leads to nothing,
Nothing satisfies but I'm getting close,
Closer to the prize at the end of the road.

All night long I dream of the day,
When it comes around then it's taken away,
Leaves me with the feeling that I fear the most,
Feel it come to life when I see your ghost.
...
Done, done, on to the next one..."

3:03AM - ha...ha?

3:31AM - QOTD

"My ambition is to live forever....so far, so good!"

1:24AM - Actual news-type post for a change

So, it's been an interesting week or two...

Each of these snippets probably deserve a separate post, but that'll probably never happen, so in bullet-point-ish form:

- Had a birthday; turned the ripe old age of *cough cough*, and felt every year of it.
Didn't have a party or make an "occasion" or it, but spent the night itself in the club, alternately DJing and getting very very drunk, which is a combination I don't usually do, being a consummate professional and all. Ha ha cough cough splutter. Good night though, if a bit weird, and I'm still working on my "mid-life/too-late/already-dead crisis", but what are ya gonna do?

- Got a tooth taken out; at least, the remaining stub of a tooth that's been literally rotting in my head for way too long, and causing me no end of pain and discomfort for months.
It's good to finally be rid of it, but cost more money than I like to spend on keeping my body in one piece (go zombie vampires R US!), and while the gum is healing ok it still hurts like a motherfucker occasionally, but had to be done. Ouch.

- Went to Edinburgh; badly needed a few days out of Dublin and all that it entails, and don't really need much of an excuse to visit what is so far my favourite city in the world, where I managed to relax a bit, sort a few things out in my head, stay in a swanky hotel for (relatively) cheap, take in some gorgeous scenery and architecture, get my creative juices flowing a bit again, and spend some time in the excellent and "delightful" company of alasca78. Long overdue, and I think my feet are getting itchy again already.

- Another Dominion-related dream recently - no Siouxsie Sioux this time, but it did feature a special guest appearance by Blixa Bargeld, who (in my dream) was one of the coolest and funniest people you could ever hope to meet. In the dream, Dominion looked more a top secret military aircraft hangar crossed with The Pulp in Duisberg (*the* coolest club I've ever been in), which was strange. The only actual "incident" of the dream that I can remember is Blixa making a request for The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud, a band that I don't (consciously) remember having even listened to in years and was 99% certain that I didn't even *have any...but after a few minutes searching I found a solitary track, which I played and which turned out to be Blixa's favourite track by them.
Stick that in your Freud and smoke it. 0_o

- Spent way too much money (see above re: dentistry and Edinburgh, among other things); usually I'm pretty frugal, sometimes to the point of being downright tight-fisted, but actually felt ok about spending some money on myself for a change and enjoying being able to do things with it. I'm not out on the street now or anything like that, but May has so far made a considerable dent in my finances, but that's ok, it's been worth every penny so far.

- Hmm...I think there were a couple of other things, but right now they'll keep, and I hope to manage to make this sort of post a bit more regularly (instead of trying to have everything "just so" in my head before I even start typing).

So, as a wise man once said..."Goodnight....whatever you are"

This will never end 'cos I want more,
More, give me more, give me more.
This will never end 'cos I want more,
More, give me more, give me more...

If I had a heart I could love you,
If I had a voice I would sing...
After the night when I wake up,
I'd see what tomorrow brings...

Dangling feet from window frame
Will I ever ever reach the floor...?

6:30AM - Another year older, and deeper in...emo, probably

Very understated birthday, this year, even by my standards - I don't think my heart was really in it, but thanks anyway to the peeps who brightened it up in various ways.

In probably related news, that "all-systems total physical collapse" that I've been working on so steadily for all these years seems to be digging its heels in, yet another reason for not feeling overjoyed at the aging process. I had a vague goal that *this* summer I'd get vaguely "fit" again but right now I'm going to settle for "more human".

Hmmm...also, I'm starting to wonder if I should start using LJ again *seriously*, or stop altogether - seems like these days I'm totally lacking in any supply of news, whimsy or urge for disclosure that'd make it worthwhile for anyone.

3:22PM - Some Bank Holiday humour

Not that this would apply to anyone on my LJ friends-page, of course...

In other news, I think I'm finally coming out of hibernation, so...huzzah.

10:55PM - Sigh

1:20AM - Monthly Music Mix - January

mister_endon - january_09

Catching up, catching up...

The mix is here:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ndgn9x

1. Henry Rollins - The world is full of motherfuckers... (0:06)
2. Lynx And Ram - Our Bodies Are Real (3:53)
3. Qntal - Ad Mortem Festinamus (6:09)
4. Lykke Li - Complaint Department (4:32)
5. Marsheaux - Pop Corn (4:14)
6. Nitzer Ebb - Getting Closer (Black Strobe EBM Homage) (6:09)
7. Autechre - Maetl (6:32)
8. Fad Gadget - For Whom the Bells Toll (5:16)
9. The Tuss - Synthacon 9 (6:15)
10. The Smiths - Oscillate Wildly (3:28)
11. Above The Law - Freedom Of Speech (4:16)
12. Blur - Sing (6:01)
13. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika) (3:32)
14. Leonard Cohen - The Partisan (3:19)
15. Zornik - Sonne (4:08)
16. Somadrone - Phrase and Fable (4:09)
17. Acclimate - Daughters, Mothers, Fathers (0:58)
18. Camouflage - The Perfect Key (5:32)

( The world is full of motherfuckers... )

2:02AM - A dream - Siouxsie Sioux in Dominion???

Before anyone gets too excited, this was actually a weird dream I had last night (well, when I say last night, I only slept from around 6 to 10 a.m., but whatever), and I don't dream very often these days (or at least if I do, I don't remember it), so I thought I'd share:

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I was DJing in Dominion, as per usual, doing the early set before there was really anybody in, playing my usual "early" set of mostly old-school goth, downtempo electro, random "non-clubby" stuff that I just want to hear loud, etc. Nothing strange there. One of the last tracks I played in that set was "Red Light" by Siouxsie & The Banshees, again nothing strange there, I've played that track in the club more than once.

So, one of the guest DJs comes up to the decks and takes over for his set...anyway, he starts *his* set with a Siouxsie track, "Cities In Dust". This is a great track, and I love it, but there's such a thing as hearing it too often, and considering I'd just played some Siouxsie 10 minutes before I thought it odd. Maybe he'd been out for a smoke and didn't realise, maybe he didn't care - whatever, at this point I'd been DJing for nearly 2 hours and wanted a cigarette anyway, so I went outside to have one.

When I come back downstairs into the club, I pass by someone who looks vaguely familiar...I say "vaguely" because my first reaction was "Shit! That's not...no, it couldn't be...but who do I know who looks *exactly* like...?" And it was, indeed, Siouxsie herself, sitting in the club, chatting away to a few people who she'd obviously come in with, all first-time visitors to the club as far as I could tell.
So far, so weird.
Then...the next song the guest DJ (who we'll call "P") puts on is *another* Siouxsie track, this time "Happy House" - another great song, but yet another song that's been played to death by many DJs in Dominion over the years (including myself, if I'm honest).

So, I go over behind the decks and say to P: "Hey, what gives, droogy?" or words to that effect...we end up having a conversation where he points out that he's noticed our "special visitor": "Jesus, look, *Siouxsie fucking Sioux* is in our club, don't you think we should acknowledge that fact and play her music?"
I then reply with something to the effect that, yes, it's great that she's in our club, and it certainly doesn't hurt if we make a musical nod in her direction, but *also* that a) we've already played a disproportionate amount of Siouxsie for one night, b) the other punters in the club might get a bit sick of the lack of variety, and c) maybe, just maybe, Siouxsie herself doesn't actually *want* to hear her own music, maybe she's out in a club to hear something new or different or possibly just "take the night off" from "being Siouxsie", and maybe she just wants to be left alone, or chat to her friends, or listen to stompy EBM/industrial and dance her socks off.
Somehow, me saying all this seems to take a long time, as we seem to be listening to half of Siouxsie's back catalogue as it goes on, or snippets of dozens of songs, I can't quite remember.

Then...P glances over my shoulder in a significant way....and it turns out that Siouxsie's been standing behind me for presumably the whole conversation, and now has an indecipherable expression on her face....

At this point, it *would* be nice to say that turned to me and said something like "I totally agree with what you just said, why don't more people get that?", and that we bonded instantly, and I spent the rest of the night intermittently chatting and drinking with her and her friends, and listening to crazy stories, and getting backstage passes to all her gigs (somehow including both future *and* past concerts)...but that didn't happen, not even in my dream.

What *actually* happened is that she reached past me, picked up the request sheet, and wrote something on it. Then she turned back to me, with a look on her face as if to say "You see? Now do you get it?", and showed me the request sheet....

and just before I could see what she'd written, *that's* the point where I woke up. 0_o

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Like I said, I don't remember my dreams very often, so I wanted to make a record of this one before I forgot it, as it seemed like it *should* be pertinent to...something.
And there's one or two relatively "obvious" interpretations of it that I could make, but I'm keeping them to myself for now. In the meantime, any comments or enlightening remarks are welcome, as always.

Of course, it could have "just" been a dream, and stupid random stuff in my head, and not mean anything at all....

12:47AM - Monthly Music Mix - December 08

Sigh, the catching up didn't happen quite as well as planned, but at least I'm on to *this year* now. Woo hoo, watch me go with the speedy efficiency and such.

The mix is here:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/29uqh0

Not quite sure what's up with notapattern at the moment (_wirehead_- any update?) but for now, Sendspace will do.

1. Tori Amos - Big Wheel (3:18)
2. The Glove - Mouth To Mouth (5:36)
3. Helium Vola - Fama Tuba (4:34)
4. Ken Boothe - Artibella (2:11)
5. Tricky - You Don't Wanna (5:26)
6. Schoolly D - Livin' In The Jungle (3:36)
7. Hercules and Love Affair - Blind (Radio edit) (6:18)
8. DeVision - The Far Side Of The Moon (4:33)
9. Death In Vegas - Natja (3:50)
10. Leonard Cohen - Story Of Isaac (3:31)
11. Deus - Everybody's Weird (4:52)
12. Throwing Muses - Shimmer (3:14)
13. The Smiths - Sweet And Tender Hooligan (3:35)
14. Subhumans - Pigman (2:29)
15. Somadrone - Cover Of Night (4:49)
16. John Cale - Reading from 'Melanethon' (Swedenborg) (7:02)
17. Tom Waits - Underground (1:58)
18. The Afghan Whigs - Faded (8:17)

No blah, for the same reasons as "minimal blah" last time. But more so this time around.
Any queries or comments welcomed as always.

11:09PM - Meme thingamabob

Yoinked from lorddeworde

1. Can you cook?
2. What was your dream growing up?
3. What talent do you wish you had?
4. Favorite place?
5. Favorite vegetable?
6. What was the last book you read?
7. What zodiac sign are you ?
8. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings?
9. Worst Habit?
10. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
11. What is your favorite sport?
12. Negative or Optimistic attitude?
13. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14. Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15. Tell me one weird fact about you:
16. Do you have any pets?
17. Do you know how to do the macarena?
18. What time is it where you are now?
19. Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22. What color eyes do you have?
23. Ever been arrested?
24. Bottle or Draft?
25. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it?
26. What kind of bubble gum do you prefer to chew?
27. What 's your favorite bar to hang at?
28. Do you believe in ghosts?
29. Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
30. Do you swear a lot?
31. Biggest pet peeve?
32. In one word, how would you describe yourself?
33. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?

6:18PM - Monthly Music Mix - November 08

Not quite finalised on notapattern yet, but in the meantime, and for the rest of my f-list,
here's the link:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XBIBMS0M

1. The Human League - Gordon's Gin (2:56)
2. G.D. Luxxe - Reasons (4:31)
3. Absolute Body Control - 5 Minutes (3:41)
4. Autechre - Kalpol Intro (3:30)
5. Daniel Cavanagh - How Fortunate The Man With None (7:05)
6. Hector Zazou & Siouxsie Sioux - The Lighthouse (3:40)
7. Collide - Obsession (Version 2.0) (5:01)
8. Amanda Palmer - Guitar Hero (4:50)
9. I-F - Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass (4:07)
10. Plaid - New Family (5:19)
11. Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People (4:22)
12. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow (5:37)
13. Frames - Revelate (3:47)
14. Broadcast - I Found The F (2:21)
15. FPU - Ocean Drive (Tiga's White Linen Vox) (3:58)
16. Memory Boy - (There Is No) Electricity (3:50)
17. Wolfsheim - Anyway (3:25)
18. U.N.K.L.E. - In A State (6:59)

( bleep )

"Stay awake all night, but never see the stars,
And sleep all day, on a chain link bed of nails.

Steer clear of the sun, pancake, sandpaper skin,
They have no reflections, drink blood but pierce no veins.

Exagerrate the scar tissue, wounds that never heal,
Takes hours of preparation, to get that wasted look.

Faded - collapsing new people, watch them - collapsing.
Dated - collapsing new people, watch them - collapsing."

1:14PM - Monthly Music Mix - October 08 download

Just for anyone else wanting to actually *hear* the mixes rather than just read me waffling on about them:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V2LCXDGS

Link stays active for 21 days or so, apparently.

5:02AM - Monthly Music Mix - October 08

Edit: Now available to everyone and his dog (for the next few weeks at least): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V2LCXDGS

Lots of really good stuff in this mix, if I do say so myself...though as per usual I had it sitting around ready to go for weeks before I managed to write up this spiel, so, yeah, I'm crap, no news there.

1. Martina Topley Bird - Phoenix (3:47)
2. Colony 5 - My World (3:40)
3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Ballad Of Robert Moore And Betty Coltrane (3:34)
4. Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Tamacun (3:25)
5. Children On Stun - Twisted (4:27)
6. The Cure - A Forest (Damian Lertora version) (3:41)
7. DJ Shadow - Xx Transmission 2 (1:29)
8. Antimatter - Black Sun (5:21)
9. Collide - Deep (2Deep Remix) (5:05)
10. Chequerboard - Ornithopter (5:15)
11. DeVision - Flavour Of The Week (3:51)
12. Curve - I Feel Love (4:35)
13. Throwing Muses - Flood (3:14)
14. Hector Zazou - Youth (feat Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard) (5:34)
15. Happyland - Life In A Loop (4:44)
16. Afghan Whigs - Night By Candlelight (3:35)
17. Hannah Fury - Scarborough Fair (4:42)
18. The Black Heart Procession - Tropics Of Love (4:56)
19. Faderhead - Exit Ghost (4:59)

Slightly new format for the track listing too, as I finally stopped forgetting (or perhaps "remembered" might be another word for it), that I can generate a HTML playlist from Winamp in about 5 *seconds* rather than copying and pasting individual file names for 5 minutes. D'oh.

( on with the cabaret )

I certainly don't dislike writing up these blurbs for my listening habits, but it's becoming increasingly apparent that I'm very lazy at it, and it's the constant factor in delaying these mixes...so I think for the next couple of mixes, I'll keep the info short and sweet till I get caught up again. Last.fm is where I get a lot of the stuff that isn't anecdotal or in some way personal, so you can fill in the gaps yourself for a while. ;p

3:07PM - Can you do it? Yes, you did.

Happy Inauguration Day, Americans.

As a t-shirt with today's date that I saw today put it:
"The Last Day Of Bush" - huzzah!

Oh, and hey? Do us folks in the Old World a favour, try not to screw things up so much this time, eh? ;P

4:48AM - Vampire Zombie...Vambie!

Haven't posted in a while, and the mixes have been lagging woefully, but I had to just post this, mostly for my own entertainment:



from http://www.the-isb.com/ (Chris's Invincible Super-Blog)
And it's from a review of Marvel Zombies 3 #4, if you really need to know, and as the man says: "This right here is everything you need to know about Marvel Zombies 3"

Awesomely bad or just awesome?

5:53AM - Monthly Music Mix - September 08

Now up on notapattern, *very* shortly to be followed by October...
Better extremely late than nearly never, eh?

1 - Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
2 - Radiohead - Idioteque
3 - Hector Zazou - Eye Spy (with Lucrezia Von Berger)
4 - I Am Kloot - Hey Little Bird
5 - DJ Shadow - Organ Donor
6 - Ladyhawke - Professional Suicide
7 - Mirwais - Disco Science
8 - Reaktor - A Question Of Time
9 - Revolting Cocks - Caliente_Dark Entries
10 - Jessica Vale - Night In Sarajevo
11 - Whipping Boy - Tripped
12 - Screaming Trees - Working Class Hero
13 - Blur - Clover Over Dover
14 - Eels - Not Ready Yet
15 - Laika - Uneasy
16 - Tori Amos - Wednesday
17 - Miss Kittin - Allergic
18 - Human League - Being Boiled
19 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - As I Sat Sadly By Her Side

( don't call it a comeback.... )

"There's a world outside, and I know 'cos I've heard talk,
In my sweetest dream, I would go out for a walk...
But I don't think I'm ready yet,
I'm not feeling up to it now,
I'm just not that steady yet,
And I don't need you telling me how..."