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the good, the bad, the ugly, and the otherwise subjective.......

My name is Chris Robertson (a.k.a. Xylen Roberts) and these are a few---or rather, a lot---of my favorite things. A majority of these things are not mine but things I am a fan of.

For my music/writings etc. blog go to:

xylenroberts.tumblr.com
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'Every Famine Virtual' comes from "Retrovertigo" by Mr. Bungle, copyright 1999 Warner Brothers Records.

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davidfbello:

powerpoints:

Jen Liu. The Brethren of the Stone: Sloth (2007), watercolor on paper

davidfbello:

powerpoints:

Jen Liu. The Brethren of the Stone: Sloth (2007), watercolor on paper

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cerberus shoal-baby gal

another great CS song from another great album, ‘Bastion of Itchy Preeves’ (2003?).

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cerberus shoal-nod

from ‘Mr. Boy Dog’ (2002).

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gonebeyond:

ricekristinies:

(via stasis)

objectification is death, i am not my possessions! i am hungry

 While what you say has some truth to it, the only way to be truly ‘not your possessions’ is to become a monk, a homeless person, or something similar…however, these ways of life are not completely free from their meager possessions either. Regardless, we all objectify our possessions because we are all raised in a materialistic world. Furthermore, even a lowly village of people who haven’t advanced much beyond their primitive ways still engage in simplistic means of trading and bartering materials, thereby making their culture ‘materialistic’, albeit on a more minute level. On the other hand, if the addition of saying ‘I am hungry’ was meant to poke fun at the idea of being free from one’s possessions, then forget I ever said anything.  

gonebeyond:

ricekristinies:

(via stasis)

objectification is death, i am not my possessions! i am hungry

 While what you say has some truth to it, the only way to be truly ‘not your possessions’ is to become a monk, a homeless person, or something similar…however, these ways of life are not completely free from their meager possessions either. Regardless, we all objectify our possessions because we are all raised in a materialistic world. Furthermore, even a lowly village of people who haven’t advanced much beyond their primitive ways still engage in simplistic means of trading and bartering materials, thereby making their culture ‘materialistic’, albeit on a more minute level. On the other hand, if the addition of saying ‘I am hungry’ was meant to poke fun at the idea of being free from one’s possessions, then forget I ever said anything.  

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saladfork:

Santa Fe Reporter posts article on what’s wrong with modern music

Pitchfork makes top of the list:

“Pitchfork should change its name to hipster-lessons-for-preteens-who-don’t-listen-to-anything-unless-we-tell-them-to.com. Now, instead of actually forming an opinion based on a group’s talent or musical merit, you can simply visit this website and be told what you’re supposed to like from a panel of idiots that leads the mediocrity-in-music campaign with such sanctimonious vigor, it makes me sick. Yes, criticism has a strong and valid position in the music world, but should be used as guidelines rather than words to live by. Do yourself a favor and choose for yourself. If one more person tells me what pitchfork said about something, it’ll mean a pitchfork in the face for that person.”

YES.

 I don’t know if I agree that there’s anything ‘wrong’ with modern music, but I do agree that there are definitely people out there who ONLY listen to what Pitchfork tells them to listen to, and it’s goddamn annoying. Are these people culture zombies or something? Good music and art is everywhere. It can be exposed to you through an accidental (or intentional) Google or Youtube search, through a little blurb or advertisement found in a bought or borrowed magazine, through a Myspace invite from an interesting band that no one’s ever heard of, through discovering that unique flautist who was vacationing in Rome and playing in the streets when you happened to be vacationing there, etc. Case in point, people need to stop being such trendy culture zombies for places like Pitchfork (or, just as bad, Rolling Stone) and be open-minded to anything and everything that comes their way from anywhere and everywhere.   

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George Crumb’s Makrokosmos. I once knew a music professor at the CAC who had the entire sheet music for this and knew how to play it.

(via davidfbello)

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George Crumb’s Makrokosmos. I once knew a music professor at the CAC who had the entire sheet music for this and knew how to play it.

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~ 01/03 ~ kuupuu live in krefeld ~ 19th november 2009 ~ unrock series ~ kulturrampe ~ HD ~

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sound mill with lau nau, kuupuu, hitoshi kojo, and hermanni pt. 2

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sound mill with lau nau, kuupuu, hitoshi kojo, and hermanni

‘A live performance at the MoKS Summer Art Symposium “PostsovkhoZ” in 2006. This group configuration was called ‘Kermakolmio’ or Creamy Triangle.’

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lau nau-live @ the third degree

sounds sort of like drifting on angelic myst above a jungle or something

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mezzolat-kissa (live)

‘mezzolat live at the mental alaska 10yr anniversaire
mezzolat = kuupuu, lau nau & lauhkeat lampaat, our 1st gig ever, 2nd rehearsals,
video shoot by miss islaja, effects by tassu mezzola’

pretty interesting stuff. it’s hard to tell what instruments are being played most of the time.  

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lauhkeat lampaat live @ avamaa

saw an advert for this guy (guys?) in Arthur magazine. It was an advert for an album with ‘Rauhaun Orkestri’ (they called it ‘jungle jazz’) but I couldn’t find anything by the latter. This sounds pretty cool as is, though…and oh yeah, they are from finland, appareantly.

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radbones:

alexandra newmark / via shitgaze

radbones:

alexandra newmark / via shitgaze

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