what are you obsessed with/into/crazed by/wanna write about/writing about/wanna make an album of/wanna think about/etc

anyway, you don't have to tell me nothing. i'm just curious. and i'm sick of pavement threads. (and i LIKE pavement!)

dammit, someone scooped me on this! i wanted to do a project like this too, since i've been collecting a ton of it.

trying to construct MAX patches that will emulate the "Delilah" voice encryption device built by Alan Turing as discussed in Andrew Hodges awesome biography "Alan Turing: The Enigma"

trying to finish a second version of a remix that is way overdue

trying to get started on a collaboration by mail cut up noise record (we each have each other's material and now it's time to start choppin)

trying to finish my EMP pop conference proposal on time

trying to brainstorm for my talk on "anecdotes of violence in relation to the consumption of music" at a 20th century literature and culture conference- I want to talk about the function of narratives about real world violence (street crime, suicide, etc.) in relation to how we talk about and consume music- i.e. suicidal validation of depressive musical creativity, the factoid about the number of times 50 Cent was shot as a marketing device, black metal church burnings etc. are all connected here as ways of constellating music with "belief"- I want to think up a non-corny way to understand this

trying to write back all the people I have been meaning to write back and the longer I take to do it the more guilty I feel and that spurs me to take even longer to write them because thinking about them reminds me etc. infinite regress . . .

trying to figure out why the Girls Glee Club of New Palestine, Indiana's rendition of the theme to "Midnight Cowboy" turns me to jelly- seek it out, it's on that "Poly High: School Bands Play the Classics" CDR comp that's going around . . .

trying to practice more for shows next week in NYC and Boston

Vendetta Red records and emo-screamo as Catholic melodrama.

Learning to perform a very passionate version of The Ramones "Pet Semetary" on acoustic guitar.

I've literally been obsessing on this song for several weeks - every time I'm alone in my car I start singing it and fine-tuning the vocal phrasing, the harmony parts, etc.

I've also been vaguely thinking of an essay or book on myths of authentic blackness in hip-hop and how these are used to market the music to white America, and also about how part of this marketing strategy is to make white people feel like they are listening to something that was not really meant for their consumption (even though it obviously was).

And I want to put together a trash-singles covers band focusing on the years 1967-1978. Ideally called AM Gold. I'd play tambourine and sing the occasional lead on King Harvest or Looking Glass or whatever.

And why is it that I never seem to see the name of King Harvest or Looking Glass without the other? Why does everybody so closely associate those two groups, including myself?

I reckon there are a lot of moustaches to go round in both bands, as well.

Do they? I guess so. Both from the same year as well, I imagine that has much to do with it.

don't know what you've got in mind w/this but it sounds like a book. hey, I'd want to read it.

Trying to use the word "microlabel" less.

Avoing MySpace.

1) Get better
2) Get laid
3) Get paid

Specifics to come, obv.

i still haven't put out my michael franks fanzine :(

(there is still time though. i doubt anyone will beat me to it.)