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How a Guided By Voices Song was Recorded in 1994

By the time I got there Bob was playing guitar, as usual, running through a new song with Kevin two or three times until Kevin understood the structure, which was not overly-complicated. I didn't at first fully understand what was going on, which is to say that we were in fact already recording the song, and that this was the way we often recorded songs. When Bob was satisfied that Kevin had grasped the structure, he turned to Toby and said, "Okay, let's do the vocals." Toby had in fact been recording each of the two or three run-throughs, and I should emphasize that his was a song no one besides Bob had ever heard before. Bob put on a pair of headphones, picked up the mic, and sang in one take the entire song. He may have listened back once, and then, satisfied with the performance, handed them to me, and told me to record a bass line.

I'll admit to a slight panicky feeling, especially when I listened to the song through the headphones and could barely make out the chord progression under Bob's vocal, which was hypnotizing not just for the beauty of the melody but for the weirdly plangent lyrics. Everyone was watching me (I thought). Everyone was judging me (I thought). In fact no one was watching, and no one cared, but on my first run-through I flubbed badly a couple of the transitions. Bob picked up the guitar and ran through the structure standing in front of me, in double time. I got most of it, and had another go at recording. Somehow, I got through a mostly mistake-free take, and by the end had finally figured out what I wanted to do; but we were done. I don't mean just that I was done. The song was done. And when I heard the mix that Toby played back a few minutes later, I realized: the song was perfect.

Sam Lipsyte The Ask

. I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on the energy tides of others, a walking reminder of somebody's error in judgment.

this is very difficult...unreal.

But Ms. Nash reached out with the stumps of her arms and tried to grab the officer’s leg, a memory that was perhaps the worst for him from that day

I didn't even get to the infamous 22 minute point, where Rob Lowe lets loose on the sax in the Irish bar, the seemingly universal "there's no fucking way I am finishing this" point.

Isle of the Dead

see the film that inspired shutter island

is benoit denizet-lewis's new addiction writing about tiger woods?

it certainly seems so.

thisny post story is the 43,583rd time he's written / commented/ been quoted etc about the guy.

OK BDL WE GET IT WE GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sometimes the comments are the best

ON johnny damon:

Why turn down a $14 million two-year contract and end up with a one-year $8 million deal that involves leaving the World Series champs, in New York, and moving to Detroit?

sodium fox

After Sarah Winchester's husband died of tuberculosis, a spiritualist told her that she was being haunted by angry shooting victims, who had taken her husband in revenge. She was told to move West, build a house and keep on building rooms to confuse the ghosts and keep them at bay. Amazingly, with a burden of guilt worthy of Lady Macbeth, she did it. She bought the house in San Jose and took on its renovation as a restless, creative and unending task for her literal salvation, a way of living that seemed like another compelling symbol to Mr. Blake: what it means to be an artist

Not only does this mean a much more intimate setting, it also means that every seat in the house provides its occupying fan with a fantastic view of the game. There is a single ring of courtside seats, four open suites on each long side of the court, four luxury boxes lofted behind one basket and a bar area (also raised about 30 feet above floor level) behind the other.

VIA : deadspin

nice old prince footage

rehearsal from 1984

perforated cities (sounds like am M83 album title)

About a million homes have been abandoned, and the government is demolishing them as fast as it can. Left behind are “perforated cities,” with huge random chunks of wasteland. Europe hasn’t seen cityscapes like this since the bombing of the second world war.

Swansea Love Story

been glued to this.

unreal.

nice valentine's day mix from questlove

QUESTLOVE

Roseanne

A fashion appreciation

remind me to go here

That's right, the fries are inside of the sandwich, which is served in a tiny plastic bag to make sure the steak juice and corn kernels don’t drip all over the place.

i've been waiting for this for a while.

Was it the "Dark Side of the Moon" shorts that did it?

DIE ANTWOORD is FAKE. (in a complex way) I looked at some of the guy's earlier music vids, where he was trying to ape eminem kinda, and OK so he did music before, but nothing there suggested he could pull off such an extremely powerful and homely creation.

I Don't Know - Epic Soundtrack...

twitterer to follow if you like food. (you probably know this)

http://twitter.com/robertsietsema

Packers Fan Announces He Will Return To Drinking For Another Season

VBS does LIBERIA

So, you get a situation in which Rahm Emanuel uses the word “retarded.” He uses the word “retarded” like a whole bunch of other people have used, and still compulsively use, and do not think about using the word “retarded.” And then Sarah Palin gets to be the voice of sensitivity to the disabled. And fuck whether or not Sarah Palin’s policies are actually good for the disabled – they’re not, in fact; if she even had anything coherent enough to qualify as a “policy” it would be a systematic evisceration of the sort of social support networks that many disabled people need, because what she actually stands for (again: if she has ever given anything enough sustained thought to create a platform on which to stand) is a system in which the only people who are able to survive, with disabilities, are the children of really extraordinarily privileged rich people. You know, like the son of Sarah Palin. Because, you know, Mommy will pull you up with her own bootstraps and all of that, and just don’t look at all the other kids whose Mommies don’t have bootstraps to pull on, those Mommies are lazy-ass bitches who just never got around to being multimillionaires and so their children deserve to suffer. A woman who charges victims for their own rape kits, and who hollers “socialism” whenever someone suggests we have an obligation to all Americans, even the poor ones, is not a woman who is in any way qualified to occupy the higher moral ground in a conversation about disability. You cannot separate class, healthcare, or the fiscal responsibilities of the state to its citizens from the conversation about disability. You simply cannot.

Stolen from the Awl

die antwoord, secret chamber. enter at your own risk

enter

chicks who glue dick avoid the cooler (wisconsin, naturally)

She told police she slapped the man in the face, cut off his underwear and used the glue to attach his penis to his stomach. The other three women arrived, and several berated and belittled the man.


in some cities, men pay for that kind of attention.

the awl goes to this little piggy

ARTICHOKE pizza folks engage in a new restaurant venture.

Fucking Seniors.

Not only are they getting younger by 5 years every time I read about them, now their demands are thru the ROOF.
Who do these entitled fuckers think they are anyway? "Windows that open easily"?? What is this the Taj Mahal?
Not everyone can be a TRUMP.

is life really this goddamned difficult?

http://www.nme.com/video?bcpid=26429438001&bctid=61771686001