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Old 05-07-2018, 11:01 AM   #1101 (permalink)
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On we go then with part two of Hawk's journal:

August opened with a harrowing comment on the murder of an entire village in Algeria, paired with music from Souad Massi before moving on to, um, “Seven Degrees to Kevin Bacon”?? Music from The Doors, Butthole Surfers and Satanic Circle. Then an emergency call for recognition for Kurt Bauer, whom you don't know and I don't know (and that's what makes Hawk so mad in this entry).

Much of the problem with Hawk's journal, as I see it anyway, is a lot of the time I do not have a scooby what the hell he is saying. Look at this quote:
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Those Who Know Darkness, See The Light

It wears you out. It doesn't make you stronger. It just wears you out. Blisters. Sores. Nerves. Exposed bone. Marrow. You're not sucking the marrow from life. Life is sucking the marrow from you.

You know. You know the brutality of misogyny. Misopedia. Is there a word for self-hatred?

Go back before time and give the universe an abortion. Crucifixion by vacuum. Space hates a vacuum.

Point. Counterpoint.
What the blue living ****? And I thought Blank's journal was off-the-wall!

Well, on we went with some sort of stunt by a band he never named (something to do with Trump and Comey) and then Marian Anderson, Henry Rollins and The Domestics, followed by Carl Ruggles. Time to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the launch of the Voyager probe through the music of Clifford Brown, Steve Roach and Constance Demby. August then ended with Sister Rosetta Tharpe and a hilarious exchange, already featured in one of the previous updates as Funny Post of the Week, where Hawk lambasted the inability of the system to capitalise state abbreviations.

And so on to September, where we had Nirvana (not that one), Plurals and then an interview with Frownland about his Andaman album. This pretty much brought us close to the end of the month, and in the last week of same Hawk decided to look back at 2008, for no particular reason that I can discern, or that he could come up with, other than the traditional “why the **** not?” Starting off in typical Hawk style, he remarked on the war in the Congo, where ”You couldn't swing a dead child without hitting a freshly raped corpse.” Real turn of phrase, this man! Music included the Magnetic Fields, Max Corbacho, Agalloch, Thom Brennan and then some pretty graphic pictures (surprised the Google SS didn't get those) and a mention of I think Fritzl, the monster of Austria. On to school shootings with music from Opeth and then Alpha Wave Movement, and what he said was a “contender” for AOTY for 2008, As Soon As Possible by Vincent Courtois, Sylvie Courvoisier and Ellery Eskelin. Misery Index, Cliteater and Girl talk wrapped up September, with words on famine and Obama. More music before we headed into October, this time from Alio Die, Fennesz, Mathias Grassow & Jiří Mazánek, and a final karate chop to the neck of Pitchfork couped with a kick in Goofle's balls. More to come!
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Old 05-07-2018, 02:47 PM   #1102 (permalink)
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Much of the problem with Hawk's journal, as I see it anyway, is a lot of the time I do not have a scooby what the hell he is saying. Look at this quote:
The Point Counter Point thing was supposed to clue you into that was trying to imitate Huxley



The title connects his philosophy to 20th C music.

It is considered an early 20th C classic. Has anyone else read it?

It’s a bitch to wade through quite frankly
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Old 05-07-2018, 03:28 PM   #1103 (permalink)
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The Point Counter Point thing was supposed to clue you into that was trying to imitate Huxley



The title connects his philosophy to 20th C music.

It is considered an early 20th C classic. Has anyone else read it?

It’s a bitch to wade through quite frankly
Okay but that's something you'd have to know, in order to get it. It's kind of specific or selective knowledge. It's like if I said "oh it's thirteen o'clock" and you hadn't read Nineteen Eighty-Four, you'd be like, wtf? You can't or shouldn't assume everyone has read what you've read. I've only read BNW; didn't much like it.
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I’m busy getting this entire website laid and now on top of that I have to bow down to others illiteracy?

I can’t go for that can’t go for that can’t go for that
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I can’t go for that can’t go for that can’t go for that
Your cup truly runneth over.
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Old 05-08-2018, 12:38 AM   #1106 (permalink)
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I still don't know what I'm doing with the "Not Music" thread. I guess it's just a dumping ground for whatever I'm interested in at the moment, but it makes for crappy reading. I should have made it just a movie journal or something.
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I still don't know what I'm doing with the "Not Music" thread. I guess it's just a dumping ground for whatever I'm interested in at the moment, but it makes for crappy reading. I should have made it just a movie journal or something.
Nah, I don't know: it's different, which is good. And you're obviously finding your feet with it. Movies have been done, games have been done, comic books have been done - hard to think of something original. So I'd stick with what you're doing, and to hell with anyone who doesn't like it.

Hey, look at it this way: you've already more views for it than Rubber Soul had when he quit his journal, and he had put a lot of work into that. Don't be discouraged: just keep plugging away.
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Nah, I don't know: it's different, which is good. And you're obviously finding your feet with it. Movies have been done, games have been done, comic books have been done - hard to think of something original. So I'd stick with what you're doing, and to hell with anyone who doesn't like it.

Hey, look at it this way: you've already more views for it than Rubber Soul had when he quit his journal, and he had put a lot of work into that. Don't be discouraged: just keep plugging away.
I must be doing something right if I'm beating a journal that actually had thought put into it

I guess I'll just ramble on and see if it starts coagulating into something less... shapeless blob-like.
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I still don't know what I'm doing with the "Not Music" thread. I guess it's just a dumping ground for whatever I'm interested in at the moment, but it makes for crappy reading. I should have made it just a movie journal or something.
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