Goslings

The black seal is calm before he strikes.

The man whose stomach bubbles frothily with the dark liquor of the black seal is merely waiting to skin the docile penguins that flank him, unwittingly biding their time in idle play and the pursuit of nourishment for thine young.

The Leopard seal is fierce and unforgiving, but the black seal is merciless down to the black marrow of his black bones.

The man so intrepid as to submit his Christian soul to the warped delerium of a Gosling mind-grease may well hear the baritone bark of the black seal until he pleads for eternal silence, beseeching the watery black beast for a toothy end to his terrestrial nightmare.

Fake-Wonk: Orville Schell on Fresh Air – US/China Relations

Fake-Wonk Friday

Follow the link to hear Orville Schell on Fresh Air - this starts as an assessment of Obama’s visit to China, but it quickly goes much broader and offers a look at China’s rise since 1989 and the myriad questions/issues that it raises.  It’s nothing you haven’t heard before, but he does a good job of delivering a great deal of material in a small eloquent package. My kneejerk reactions to the “paralysis of democracy vs. China’s autocratic efficiency” always leave me disturbed with myself in that “helloo dark side!!“ kind of way.  Assessing US/China Relations                

 

FUSE lists Master – Single

Small housekeeping items:

Apparently the folks at FUSE has the released for our song Master listed as Master – Single instead of INTEOTWIJTEOAE or even Master 7″.  They also didn’t list the hardest working man in Mass – JB Sapienza – as the director.   Still fun to be on TV.  Just wanted to correct the correctables.

O, and this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n7H6fVYGo0&feature=player_embedded

courtesy of A. Sullivan http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/m.html

Pancake People

Nicholas Carr’s article in The Atlantic last year – Is Google Making Us Stupid – provided alot of ammo for our boozey old-man complaining sessions.  I was reading it again today and happened to hop over to another essay which Carr cites in the article http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/foreman05/foreman05_index.html  and thought I’d post it.  Why?  Cos it makes you look alot cooler if you post the deep cuts and pretend you read obscure philosophical blogs all the time.   Oh, and it was interesting.

Snobbery Ho!!

The Atlantic article incase you want the source http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

Master on Lala

Master – The Press

CMJ, Video on Fuse TV, and the coming of INTEOTWIJTEOAE

If you are on the mailing list, then you just got yourself a fancy little email about all this. If you’re not, well……shit happens and sometimes it’s your fault. You should have signed up. And now that ship has sailed. You paid for a tarot card reading and the gnarled gypsy’s hand has shown you a the six-horned-BloodGoat-of-death card. You have shown up to school in a wool body suit and everyone else is naked; and so on and so forth….

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The skinny:

CMJ – we are playing Thursday (10/22) at The Charleston and Friday (10/23) at Legion, both in Brooklyn, both at 8pm.

Fuse TV - our video for Master will be available On Demand for all of November. I think this whole cable TV thing could really catch on and be the next be tech wave.

INTEOTWIJTEOAE – our new album. Release date late Feb. 2010. Tracklisting:

1. Master

2. Fine China

3. Pattern Mill

4. The Continental Divide

5. Dropped from Airplanes

6. The Rack

7. Roc, Wraith, Harpe

8. Bless this Mess

9. Big Boss, Little Boss

10. Pineapple Rabbits

11. Jellyfish Wrangler

Skydiving

We went skydiving for Mr. Henry’s birthday.  Dave, Alex, Chuck and our friend Tex can all be seen in the plane.  As for the awkward strap grabbing and looking up, they make you do that.   However, the crying and craven last min bargains made with Satan, those were all voluntary.   Also, youtube cut the jockjams that make up the audio of the video for copyright reason.  Enjoy the silence.

LP

Hints

Master – Live in BK

A video from the Mayor of Jersey City, The RockerTycoon Himself – Zac Clark.

Ignore the minute long ramble at the start. Or in oreo terms – fuck the cookies, get to the icing.

http://rockertycoon.blogspot.com/2009/09/press-and-ben-franklin-at-public.html

Master Video!

Video by the late great and still living JB Sapienza.  You are a class act sir.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzyg_cS5wdc