I got me a new toy!!! This is the Audio-Technica AT-PL120. The MSRP on their website is $399.00. Rest assured I didn’t pay that much for it. Actually including shipping and handling I paid less than half of that. Whoo!

With all the technology of mp3s and that nonsense, actually putting a record on, setting the tone arm down and watching it go is a sense of purity. Even the clicks and hisses and occasional skips makes the music seem more real rather than a digital reproduction which is what we are reduced to now.

Don’t get me wrong. I love the mp3s and iPods and such, but there’s something special about putting in a Tennessee Ernie Ford record of hymns and letting the minutes whittle away. Don’t you think?

Here’s my podcast. It’s quite bitchy and whiny. Sort of. Mostly inarticulate but filtered for particulates.

1. Unwound – All Soul’s Day
2. Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
3. Captain & Tennille – Love Will Keep Us Together
4. Coil – Ubu Noir
5. Brainiac – Go!
6. Leonard Cohen – Everybody Knows
7. Richard Hell & the Voidoids – Love Comes in Spurts
8. Nina Hagen – New York, New York
9. Plastic Bertrand – Ça Plane Pour Moi
10. J Church – No Jazz
11. The Locust – The Perils of Believing in Round Squares
12. The Get Hustle – Charles Bronson
13. Year Future – Each Other’s Future
14. Dead & Gone – Leave the Dead to Bury the Dead
15. Mae Shi – Revelation Party
16. Experimental Dental School – Taco Chakra
17. Ex-Models – Pink Noise
18. Child Pornography – I Like Ponies
19. Xiu Xiu – Ceremony
20. CSS – Music Is My Boyfriend
21. Jawbox – Cooling Card
22. Pixies – I Bleed
23. Liars – Broken Witch

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I am now officially unemployed!

All this week I had intentions of going into work but couldn’t bring myself to do it. Finally yesterday I just ended the charade. I told them it didn’t look like I was needed anymore, so I would just end it. I went in to pick up my final check and personal effects, and voila. UNEMPLOYED!!!!

Thanks to the people who commented on my last post. I will take this coming week off and not even look for a job nor interview. I will kick things up the following week and try and be employed as soon as possible.

On Thursday my boss, the CFO of the company, told me that I’m getting laid off effective November 2. I’ve been meaning to leave for some time and have been testing the waters out in the big beyond. It looks like now I’ll be diving in full force.

But the question is should I take a couple of months off and live off of unemployment and savings, or get a job immediately? The problem I have is that after a week off I get restless. So I’m leaning towards getting a job immediately. But not working for a bit would be quite nice.

Eh. I have a month to decide.

Here’s the podcast. Thanks to Bradley for sending his request.

1. Bad Brains w/ Henry Rollins – Kick Out the Jams
2. PJ Harvey – The Mountain
3. Jon Wahl & the Amadans – Tennessee Waltz
4. The Unicorns – William, Clap Your Hands
5. Menomena – Boyskout’n
6. Sonic Youth – Come Smash Me Said the Boy with the Magic Penis
7. Dim Stars – Memo to Marty
8. Soundgarden – Sub Pop Rock City
9. Dinosaur Jr. – Budge
10. June of 44 – Anisette
11. Drive Like Jehu – Do You Compute
12. The Arcade Fire – The Well and the Lighthouse
13. Rocket from the Crypt – Drop Out
14. Unwound – Mile Me Deaf
15. Liars – Houseclouds
16. A Place to Bury Strangers – I Know I’ll See You
17. Morrissey – Suedehead
18. Rapeman – Kim Gordon’s Panties

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This podcast was only supposed to be an hour long, but I got to ranting and listening to some good music. So here you go.

1. Liars – It Fit When I Was a Kid
2. Velvet Underground & Nico – I’m Waiting for My Man
3. Noxagt – Manhood Lessons
4. Enemymine – Inverted Circle
5. Nirvana – Endless, Nameless
6. Frontline Assembly – Laughing Pain
7. Ministry – N.W.O.
8. Skinny Puppy – VX Gas Attack
9. Ladytron – High Rise
10. Unwound – We Invent You
11. Unwound – Murder Movies
12. TV on the Radio – Wolf Like Me
13. Justice – D.A.N.C.E.
14. Boytronic – You
15. The Cure – Charlotte Sometimes
16. Annie – Heartbeat
17. Shellac – The End of Radio
18. Liars – Hold It and It Will Happen Anyway

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Well here’s a new podcast. It sucks, it’s short and it was just done on the fly. Also I don’t know why I numbered it 15, but that’s the way it will be. Here’s the setlist:

1. Fugazi – Reprovisional
2. Spahn Ranch – Heretic’s Fork
3. Frontline Assembly – Mindphaser
4. Laibach – Pan-O-Rama
5. Razed in Black – Overflow
6. Liars – Territorial Pissings (Live)
7. Liars – Broken Witch
8. Death from above 1979 – Blood on Our Hands
9. LCD Soundsystem – North American Scum
10. Unwound – Devoid
11. Unwound – MKUltra

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Last weekend thanks to the overzealous planning of evildork, I was able to go to the Hollywood Bowl for “Sgt. Pepper’s at 40…a Beatles Celebration featuring Cheap Trick”. You can read my review of the show at LAist.

For me the highlight of the show was when Al Jourgensen from Ministry came out on stage. It just got me remembering my high school and early college days, the music, the tragically lack of color in my wardrobe and all. Well mostly the music since I spent most of Sunday going through my music collection listening to all the industrial and EBM my body can handle at this not-so-advanced age.

I hit gold with this little band called Spahn Ranch. They had such nifty songs like “Locusts” and “Heretic’s Fork” that made me swoon with dreams of apocalyptic romance. The sound was very electronic with a little guitar added in to give it an extra oomph – the way I liked things back then.

So I present to you a grainy video for their song “Locusts”. It’s the edited version but good nonetheless.

A noteworthy thing I also recently learned: there’s an American Idol connection with Spahn Ranch. Lead singer Athan Maroulis is the older brother of AI contestant Constatine Maroulis.

Smashing Magazine posted a list of 80 beautiful typefaces for professional design. Being a typography and font whore, I was absolutely in hog heaven just looking at them. In fact I did cum twice.

If you venture elsewhere on the site, note their section of free fonts. *drool*

Link courtesy of Jockohomo

I promise to get this thing rolling again.