Saharan dust currently moving into the eastern half of the Atlantic Ocean.
Curt Kirkwood and Neal Holliday’s cover art for Meat Puppets II
Separated At Birth, Part XXV
Author: Chris Barrus
Hangar No. 1 RIP
Existentially sad to see Hangar No. 1 burn. When I was really young, the Rockwell Ziggurat in Laguna Niguel and the blimp hangars at MCAS Tustin were the first structures I ever recognized as being, well, architecture. I’m sure much of my head start in being a young aviation nerd just comes from having the constant presence of the hangars and MCAS El Toro around in early 70s Orange County.
Undoubtedly an irate property developer torched it. The hangars had fallen into bad shape and the costs involved in refurbshing them into proper shape are civically prohibitive.
Episode 022
22 tracks for episode number 22 all from 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 releases
Track Listing:
- The Blue Aeroplanes – “Waking Up In The Ghost Removal Van” – Culture Gun [00:03]
- SCUDFM – “Bigger Boat” – INNIT [03:43]
- The Jack Cades – “Something New” – Something New [06:51]
- Film School – “Take What You Need” – We Weren’t Here [10:26]
- Fleeting Joys – “Change My Sign” – All Lost Eyes And Glitter [15:05]
- Cloakroom – “Lost Meaning” – Dissolution Wave [19:18]
- Foam Giant – “Green Triangles (Near As Dammit)” – Under the Trees [23:46]
- Non Plus Temps – “Continuous Hinge” – Desire Choir [26:41]
- Automatic – “Skyscraper” – Excess [31:26]
- Neutral – “Du [live]” – Live På Autodidaktik [35:41]
- Gloria – “Global Warning” – Sabbat Matters [39:23]
- Teri Gender Bender – “Saturn Sex” – Saturn Sex [44:40]
- Panda Bear & Sonic Boom – “Go On” – Reset [47:44]
- Broadcast – “Pendulum [2003-08-19 John Peel]” – Maida Vale Sessions [52:26]
- Unloved – “Now” – The Pink Album [55:49]
- The Soundcarriers – “At the Time” – Wilds [59:28]
- The Gentle Cycle – “Like December Is Bold” – Landslide Eyes [01:03:29]
- Flyying Colours – “Long Distance” – You Never Know [01:07:18]
- J. Zunz – “Outsides” – Del Aire [01:11:04]
- Thayer Sarrano – “Both Sides of the Door” – Ancient Future [01:16:10]
- Lawrence English – “Another Ending (Theme To TraumaZone)” – Themes and Atmospheres for Adam Curtis’s Russia 1985-1999 TraumaZone [01:21:24]
- Viagra Boys – “Creatures [live]” – Shrimp Sessions 2 [01:25:48]
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Listening to 2022
Everything in my music library that has “2022” in the date field. Most can be found on Bandcamp. All are recommended! (larger version on Flickr)
A Limbo, A Way Station
Momentum has been in such sort supply that even acknowledging the scarcity takes a draining amount of effort. I’m relating hard to what Chris D. succinctly posted to Instagram in October:
Feeling an emotional exhaustion I cannot recall ever feeling before. But maybe that’s just being overdramatic. Even though I have had anywhere from 1 to 4 days of fairly continuous work each week since the beginning of the month (here at home), the rest of my days and nights are filled with equivocation with myself, poised between inertia and still feeling constrained by covid. It feels as if I’m in a limbo, a way station (I guess we all are, though, to some degree.) But one feeling that really bothers me is my reticence to follow through on phone calls and messages. Nothing to do with the people at all so much as my feeling of no longer being able to communicate about even the most mundane of matters, unless mandated by outside work. I feel somehow relieved if I return even one phone call or text or email in what most people would consider a timely manner. I’m posting this not out of the need to make excuses, but to explain to people I may not be getting back to as quickly as I should. It’s really beyond procrastination or depression or despair, but more like my psyche is purposely blanking the slate. Although my psyche is not doing a particularly good job of it.
Chris D. on Instagram
If I had to pick one word that delineates the past year it would be this one: “exhaustion.” Nervous apologies to everyone I’ve ghosted on.
Streets of Sierra Madre – Summer 2022
Streets of Sierra Madre – April 2022
…continuing from the Twitter thread.
Christopher Nolan has been filming Oppenheimer in town this week and several blocks of Sierra Madre Blvd. have been sent back to the 1940s.
Listening to 2021
I still mean what I said in the previous post. This is everything that has “2021” in the date field. All are recommended.
Listening to 2020
The queue of “saved, unpublished” here isn’t getting any shorter, but as each month of the last twelve unfolded I found myself far more interested in listening than adding more words to the pile.
This is everything that has “2020” in the date field. All are recommended.
Episode 021
Track Listing:
- Coyle & Sharpe – “Armored Attack” – The Absurd Imposters [00:03]
- Isolation Society – “Hunting Party” – Isolation Society [03:36]
- Automatic – “Damage” – Signal [07:35]
- UV-TV – “Gold” – Happy [09:52]
- Katatonic – “Heatwave” – Katatonic [13:01]
- The Grabbeltons – “Make Love” – Inflation 7″ [15:40]
- Altin Gün – “Leyla” – Gece [18:56]
- ShitKid – “Feels Like The Movies” – Duo Limbo [22:10]
- J.P. Shilo – “Mechanical Man” – Invisible You [25:00]
- L’Épée – “Lou” – Diabolique [29:02]
- Fenella – “Transfiguration Into One” – Inspired by the Marcel Jankovics’ film Fehérlófia [32:41]
- Windy & Carl – “Crossing Over” – Allegiance and Conviction [35:09]
- Hymnambulae – “Totemdjur” – Nausikaa [40:58]
- VUM – “Psychic Wind” – Psychotropic Jukebox [45:52]
- Roy Montgomery & Kirk Lake – “London Is Swinging By His Neck” – London Is Swinging By His Neck 7″ [48:13]
- Bonnie Dobson – “Winter’s Going” – Bonnie Dobson [53:53]
- Purple Pilgrims – “I’m Not Saying” – Perfumed Earth [56:31]
- Outrageous Cherry – “What Have You Invented Today?” – Our Love Will Change The World [01:01:04]
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