It seems like there's been a sudden influx of porn bots in the Crap/Not Crap and Tech Room boards (and elsewhere i'm sure). Now, this board is pretty good with just ignoring this kind of stuff, but it seems like the bots have gotten more aggressive as of late. For instance, they're even bumping thre...

"pattern recognition" is one of sonic youth's best songs.

haha.

Absolutely brilliant writer. I was just rereading some of his short stories this morning and got one of those moments where life just feels more worth living after reading something.

i'm not sure if any of the users here are into the whole noise/power electronics thing going on in brooklyn these days. a lot of it, as the plight of a genre like noise music goes, is terrible. but there's a lot of good stuff out there, too. navicon torture technologies, cathode terror secretion, ca...

Magenta wrote:I'm going, if only to watch the indie kids squirm while Prurient plays.
Xiu Xiu is great live, though.
And Not Crap

funny you should mention that. i'm going to a xiu xiu show just to see prurient. not sure if xiu xiu would be worth seeing alone.

funny. not that funny, but funny.

i like Fag Patrol a lot. And the last three albums they did are real good. not crap. seeing them this month in nyc.

yeah, not crap. i found an uploaded copy of one of their albums on a blog a while ago. "israeli blue" is a good song. cool sort of "row row row your boat" guitar thing where the second guitar starts at an off part of the first riff and it ends up blending together very well. ther...

Started VALIS tonight and am absolutely enthralled. This is pretty much unlike anything I've read by him before (I mean, in how extreme it is I guess). Hopefully will finish it in a couple of days and start "A Scanner Darkly" or "UBIK". Not Crap.