Oppositions
Opposition #1
Africa: Konono no. 1 is hot. ("lufuala ndonga," particularly.)
England: Radiohead's "arpeggi" is doubleplushot.
I think whitey wins this time.
Opposition #2
Me blind-buying: This 25 dollar Charlie Parker box set I blind-bought from the Student Stores outdoor clearance sale today seems to have been a good deal. 4 cds, with material ranging from '44 to '51, primarily from Dial, Savoy and Verve. People on Amazon rave, anyway. I'll... slowly push through the box. A few songs at a time.
My uncle's gift-giving: My uncle said he was gonna go to Amoeba and pick me up things for my birthday. I gave him a juicy list of stuff I know I need/want. It is guaranteed splendor, which, like everything else, I shall push through, an album at a time.
I think my uncle wins.
Opposition #3
The Stooges: The third Stooges album, 'Raw Power,' is everything its title says it is, and delightfully little else. Guitars distort in the mixing/mastering process as well as in the amp, drums go primal, and Iggy sounds like a destructive, rabid sex machine. The appropriateness of his voice for this music adds further to the... I try to describe further and just come up with the album title all over again. Raw power. Delightfully unintellectual.
Nikki Giovanni: her spoken-word-over-soft-jazz-funk album, 'The Way I Feel,' makes me feel like most poets are trying much too hard. And I know somebody sampled one of the openings on here. It's a warm spring day in love. Cheesyness and all. Delightfully unintellectual.
yea, but the Stooges win on this one.
Currently listening to (and trying but failing to fully enjoy, as my perception of this sort of rock is too tainted by years of bad radio): The Hold Steady: "Your Little Hoodrat Friend."
Africa: Konono no. 1 is hot. ("lufuala ndonga," particularly.)
England: Radiohead's "arpeggi" is doubleplushot.
I think whitey wins this time.
Opposition #2
Me blind-buying: This 25 dollar Charlie Parker box set I blind-bought from the Student Stores outdoor clearance sale today seems to have been a good deal. 4 cds, with material ranging from '44 to '51, primarily from Dial, Savoy and Verve. People on Amazon rave, anyway. I'll... slowly push through the box. A few songs at a time.
My uncle's gift-giving: My uncle said he was gonna go to Amoeba and pick me up things for my birthday. I gave him a juicy list of stuff I know I need/want. It is guaranteed splendor, which, like everything else, I shall push through, an album at a time.
I think my uncle wins.
Opposition #3
The Stooges: The third Stooges album, 'Raw Power,' is everything its title says it is, and delightfully little else. Guitars distort in the mixing/mastering process as well as in the amp, drums go primal, and Iggy sounds like a destructive, rabid sex machine. The appropriateness of his voice for this music adds further to the... I try to describe further and just come up with the album title all over again. Raw power. Delightfully unintellectual.
Nikki Giovanni: her spoken-word-over-soft-jazz-funk album, 'The Way I Feel,' makes me feel like most poets are trying much too hard. And I know somebody sampled one of the openings on here. It's a warm spring day in love. Cheesyness and all. Delightfully unintellectual.
yea, but the Stooges win on this one.
Currently listening to (and trying but failing to fully enjoy, as my perception of this sort of rock is too tainted by years of bad radio): The Hold Steady: "Your Little Hoodrat Friend."
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