New Amateur Shit

Amateur (of the Career alumni) has produced 4 new songs for download! Fight anorexia, eat shit!

career - recurring theme

career - recurring theme (click above)

talent

talent

career strategic anathema

CAREER'S STRATEGIC ANATHEMA
(aka "The Whiskey Bottle Sessions")


CLICK ICEBERGS FLOATING ABOVE

career quartz

CAREER - QUARTZ

(clean version available)

(CLICK PONIES)

My Girl

found here

Cowbell vs. Oo-De-Lally

	Make your own at MoreCowbell.dj

more cowbell vs don cab

	Make your own at MoreCowbell.dj

i want more summer

more in the comments

conconquidore?

summer ain't over

The way things should be

FASCINATIONS OF LATE:

1. INTERNET DATING SERVICES BASED ON LOGARITHMIC ALGORITHMS & RIGID PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRES: "i'm thinking, bring your friend or better yet your sister who is the exact opposite of you just in case." (not recommended)
   
2. INTERVENTION (the tv show)
3. BELUGA 24-HOUR LIFE-CASTING (recommended) (way better than anything on justin.tv ever)
   

FEUERMUSIK

http://www.myspace.com/feuermusik

saw these guys at extermination on saturday. intense sounds. the same night i drank hand sanitizer & didn't go blind.

breastfeeding

Reel Cod

What's happening with Reel Cod these days? As far as I know, Career is the only thing that's still going on, and it's not even technically on Reel Cod. Come to think of it, I don't even know what Reel Cod is. The website was a load of help. Is there even a Reel Cod anymore?

Last remaining unopened bottle of Orbitz on Ebay

creepy midget

career - palatial indian mansion on the hill bye & bye

career is reborn anew on the hot-of-the-skillet "palatial indian mansion on the hill bye & bye". click the cover to download. to be enjoyed by all, young & old. photo by diane arbus.

I fell out of a tree on my way to meet the sun this afternoon. I could not quite reach but the skin of my hand is now oranger, a manifestation of my approximate acquaintance. To-morrow I will plant a taller tree.

Life Altering Cheeseburgers are the new Crack Cocaine

Yosuke Yamashita

gimmicky gloriousness

Sun City Girls

Richard & Alan Bishop of sun city girls play the Whippersnapper Gallery tomorrow night at 8pm in tribute to deceased band member Charles Gocher (middle youtube video). $15 at soundscapes which is right down the street from the venue. Stuff of legend.

Daniel Johnston - Monster Inside of Me

career - moves

RIGOROUS UNTESTING

PRAISE FOR "MOVES":

"Magnificent structure. Hands down, the most pitying since preembryonic bending of the circle square. An undone halfbred free range feeler of a record, unflinching in the slitbreeze chaos of developmental clamor."

"A corpse voyage."

"Harsher realities more real than the highest planes of existence. Truly superb. Tantamount to a declaration of war on all pithy platitudes & Neo-Stallone ironic queef humour of the Post-911-Tila-Tiquila-Romantic-Era."

"9.5 out of 10 asterisks on the asterisk scale."

"...Benevolent boy creatures create aural architecture whilst falling gracefully from acrobatic heights.... using a highly developed acoustic nomenclature... to the effect of a revival of pre-raphaelite stoic lyricism."

DOWNLOAD BY CLICKING IMAGE ABOVE

This Blog

"The Holy Mountain" by Alejandro Jodorowsky

found here

find me!

I am a compact disc called I COULD HAVE BEEN THE ONE LISTENING BY LANTERNS!
Three of me were last seen at Soundscapes for seven ($7) dollars each!
Please adopt me thence!

Random Google Image of the Day

career - an event and its concomitant circumstances

(click above to download)

Three GOOD shows at the end of the month:

29 May - Deep Dark United at the Tranzac at 10 o'clock. FREE
30 May - No Gold (formerly known as Yukon; toured with Adrian Orange last year, they're amazing) at the Drake unfortunately $?
31 May - St. Dirt Elementary School (wonderful local weird jazz) at the Tranzac at 10 o'clock FREE (probably)

career - no truth

(click above to grab file)

dear bridget riley,

imagine yourself seated in a comfortable chair now imagine your eyes closed imagining your insides black gooey velvety texture imagine how peach fuzz soft your heart is warm & squirming like a black rat in your hands now imagine the buzzcocks coming thru the floorboards from the apartment below:

" it must have meaning, whether we know it or not. "

i begin to piece together the puzzle i feel a warm hum come over me i feel the dogs tongue on my face...

dear bridget riley,

when you say forever do you mean forever?
in my mind we're already married.

no one is going to be willing to love me in such a way when they find out i love you.

and i've been thinking about what you said about you & what you said about me & about everybody else you really love and want to be with.

i dunno if you love me, maybe you do. i mean, i know you do. but obviously not like i love you. which is ok.

but i think if you did love me you'd take some responsibility for it & not dick me around & say shit to make me stick around like "some day" kinda shit. because it has a huge effect on me, in everything i do. and i wish it didn't but it does.

so i think you should decide, if not now, when. either to tell me to fuck off it's not going to work. or be with me & love me. i love you so fucking much i don't want to feel like this ever again.
if you love me, you should want me to be happy, whatever that is. that's rhetoric, but true.

i don't want to be the guy on the side, i'm not oblivious to what goes on in your life. i don't want to live my life totally loving you only to find out you've fallen in love with someone else & are now getting married & having kids & etc.

this isn't a rehash and this isn't an ultimatum. this is me finally completely decisively know what i want.

your companion always,
l.

"'I Could Have Been the One Listening' by Lanterns"

now available for your possession on compact disc

for the fee of asking for it.

Introduction, or "why so many blogs?"

Despite my numerous posts suggesting the contrary, it has come to our attention that some individuals feel it impertinent to post non-music related articles on the Reelcblodg. As a consequence of this, and the fact that others are physically incapable of posting on the Deep Madder Log, we have deemed it most pertinent to give birth to a creation (a link to which is provided at right) that we have christened the "Isle of Bile." The fundamental purpose of this web log, then, is to provide a venue for all creeds of postage. An invitation will be delivered momentarily to your electronic mail box and invited parties are thenceforth welcome, as on Reelcblodg, to post on, alter, and use this log as they wish, untethered by the perceived whims or pseudo-expectations of others.

Love,

Isle of Bile

Plese vote for the city's worst and best architecture!
http://www.pugawards.com/

career - all smiles ep

it never stops 'round rhythm nation. the 'all smiles' ep comes from the same session as 'ring the alarm', but is way different. think james brown meets albert einstein, on acid. three tracks with beautifully orchestrated intros & outros.

career - ring the alarm

after an extended hiatus, career has returned. this full-length release, 'ring the alarm', was recorded about a year ago at troy's, with mr. nicholas kerr. it really is way good, i promise & hope you enjoy. clicky on the cover for d-load.

we've been updating Deep Madder Log (relatively) a lot lately for a change. so please read it and stuff!

-us

career - women of distinction ep

five more tracks of goodness from career, conveniently and randomly conceptualized around the awesomeness of five women in particular. everybody dance!

"How can she run a country when she can't even control where her husband puts his penis?"
-online commentator on CBC article, on Hilary Clinton

career - friendship replacement

the mania continues with 'friendship replacement', a new full length release from career. best enjoyed whilst wearing headphones and drinking a cool beverage. click the cover by jimmy murphy to download.

career - you tore me down ep

the hits just keep coming, yet more hot steamy fresh career. 'you tore me down' is an eight track ep, recorded mostly at the same session that produced 'crazy times'. i promise you'll like it. believe...again. click on the picture.

Joel at an ungodly hour working on an essay

I think this captures the feeling of late night madness that arises when we stay up late to do school work (the song just appeared on the radio when I turned it on and was so appropriate).

career - crazy times

what a day indeed, another beautiful and new loaf of career. this time a whole album, recorded last year on a stage somewhere in canada. featuring mr. alex, adam, tristan et al. click the album cover for quick and easy download guaranteed. all the best.

career - mouths ep

here is the hot off the press new career pie. three tuneful tunes from the same session that produced monogamy. to increase your enjoyment, eat something really tasty whilst listening to it. click on the mouthy drawing by keith tilford to get it y'all.

wet nurse records

record store day? who are we appealing to here? people who don't get it already are supposed to start respecting record stores again 'cause of some promotional day? man, how embarrassing. though, any celebratory day is sort of hackneyed. we did not have any kinda promotion or anything at SB, but still managed to profit our 3rd highest since opening 7 years ago. i guess, one could hold 'record store day' accountable, or the first really nice saturday of the year, i dunno. though, it's as if folks went out and bought music as a novelty, you know, celebrating record store day... i'd like to think it was the weather and genuine interest in gettin some new music. but what the fuck, it was a great scam! people love shit like that, right?

hey, anybody feel like making some records?
today 'trans-elders' (for now) are working on some 'unplugged' renditions of songs for future outdoors show, we'll be on Rob's balcony if interested, after 6:30. Alex, outdoors music, soon?

wonderful poetry reading by Tom Blood

Tom Blood at the 2007 Silverton Poetry Festival from Wynde Dyer on Vimeo.

I like this Rembrandt Self Portrait

Why do people in the Unites States of America apparently need a president that's a fucking idiot? I just heard the news say that, though he's a Harvard lawyer, Obama has to prove to voters that he's just a regular guy. Is this a joke? The leader of a country shouldn't be 'regular,' she/he should be way "better" than everyone else so that they can deal with shit and perform better than anyone, not a "regular guy" whose lack of education/whatever insecure rural types can feel comforted by.

Man Day

When is Career going legit-like with the music and such? By that I speak of the composing and opposing the nonsense and what-like. I think it was a good idea, maybe we could do one album like that, and then go back to the good stuff, or something.

Also, music at my house (or the house that Linton used to live in) on Saturday April 26th (also happens to be my birthday). If you want to play, COME. If you want to play something besides CAREER, email me, or reply, or just come with what you need. There might be free food. Oh, and everybody has to learn happy birthday on something (preferably the spoons, not that I'm nit-picking). BOLD TEXT.

"The case for a Downtown Relief Line"

Read this: Christopher Hume & video on the Leslie St. spit

Zipping up Odyssey's boots

the real sun ra

here is the real sun ra, i accidently posted the residents twice.

speaking of the residents - here they are with the perrenial favourite, conway twitty.

voices of the future, pt. 6-11

i recently discovered that david sanborn is my hero . aside from his playing on the most recent ween album, he hosted a show called nightmusic way back, and from what i can tell it is the finest musical programming to ever grace the glowing box in my glowing box room.



The Residents covering Elvis ^



Sun Ra



The Lounge Lizards



Sonic Youf



Diamanda Galas



Nicholas Cave

i hope you all enjoy this wonderufl program. there are other videos too - people like leonard cohen, richard thompson, pharoah sanders, pere ubu and lots more.

Retro Jubal Brown

Tristan Murphy is dead

"After all, the essential difference between cities and suburbs lies in the diversity and density of the former, the lack thereof in the latter. Since most growth occurs in the suburbs, perhaps it's not surprising that corporate thinking has become lazy and one-dimensional. Clearly, operating in the city requires they learn to walk and chew gum at the same time. In a city, they can't just throw up boxes that sit dumbly in the middle of a parking lot. [...] To build downtown is to build within a context. It requires intelligence, creativity and a little sophistication. That may be asking a lot of these corporations, but then, they take a lot from Toronto. That's why they want to be here."

-Christopher Hume, in this

Why didn't I learn this in English class?

No Gold (formerly known as Yukon)

These fine fellows are performing in this city on 30 May of this year

Monogamy

the worlds newest jazz-punk sensation, career, has new archival release entitled monogamy. click on the image to download & enjoy. this album features Nick on drums, as well as Adam on the bass guitar.

voices of the future, pt.5

Klaus Dinger of Neu died last week.

voices of the future, pt.4

feel it with your eyes.

oh jesus

"Oneida, Mono, Entrance, Makoto Kawabata of Acid Mothers Temple, Marissa Nadler, Bardo Pond, Tara Jane O'Neil, MV&EE with the Golden Road, Jack Rose and the Black Twig Pickers, Windy and Carl, Kinski, Damon and Naomi, the Bevis Frond, Major Stars, Wooden Shjips, Black Forest/Black Sea, Simply Saucer, Antietam, Tanakh, Grails, Linus Pauling Quartet, Plastic Crimewave Sound, Paik, The Photographic, United Bible Studies, Dead Maids, Hush Arbors, Ignatz, Parlour, Sharon Krauss, Helena Espvall, & Masaki Batoh, Motorpsycho, Sapat, Rob Sharples, Insect Factory, Pelt, and Kohoutek among others."

Odd Nerdrum, "Summer Portrait"

It just occurred to me that Kareera is basically a jazz band; I.e., it's all improvised music for the sake of having fun with comrades. Right? All musically-oriented, with no lyrics, and experimental and whimsical.

Darkness day! (or hour to be precise, but i wish it was day)

i want to go for a bicycle ride around the city (at eight of the clock) to see if it's dark and, if so, the darkness. like, big buildings all dark would be neat and pretty. so will you join me? if so, e-mail me, is what. thank you. or we will meet in the (hopefully) dark streets?

BEST OF SAP!!!!!!!!!!

voices of the future, pt.3

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Roads are built for buses, cars[,] and trucks. My heart bleeds when someone gets killed, but it's their own fault."
-Toronto councillor Rob Ford, on bicycle riders

and now he's been charged with assault

regal quietism

probably the two greatest influences on my art that i can think of, mike diana & the music of captain beefheart. hope you likewise enjoy alex. (click the picture of the makeout session to download captain beefheart's "lick my decals off baby")

What the fuck

In China they will change the weather for the Olympics, apparently.

voices of the future, pt. 2

yes i have a comment.

The subway stations are a pattern!

Three photographs of one night

chicchi from japan

voices of the future, pt.1

Mr. Bobby Bare - at his finest. Hope this works.

feel it

dig this. crazy rhythms by the feelies.

career - shell is a home

"SHELL IS A HOME"
by
CAREER

career - thirst for death

CAREER - THIRST FOR DEATH

justice yeldham

artist of the moment

its like he read my mind

Two things

this is really infuriating

http://www.thestar.com/comment/columnists/article/346018

plus, look at this

The Annex lately

Being intelligent ≠ being a rich asshole

Here's an excerpt from a Toronto Star article from today about this part of Toronto that studies show has the most people with post-graduate degrees in the G.T.A.

"It's a no-brainer to Ken King, who frequents the area, that it's home to the intellectually advanced.

'I'm not surprised because this is an expensive area to live,' he said, adding the neighbourhood's posh highrises, expensive designer boutiques and tony eateries attract business people, lawyers and doctors who can afford to live there."

Why is it that intelligence is thus understood to manifest in expediency and wealth? Is this implying that wealthy people are intelligent, or intelligent people are wealthy? Both are ridiculous. Plus, I think this article is confusing, as so many people do, academic competence & learnedness with intelligence.

toy piano

Cuba trip 2008

his wife is a chicken

from wfmu's blog

Cheburashka & friends

reelcodrecords.com

http://www.reelcodrecords.com/Site/Blank.html

i like this already

phiLOSTophy

Consciousness is independent of space and time. Present is defined by mean consciousness.

First thing to think about: Is our future predetermined? Yes it is, but it is predetermined by us. You see, we're not living in the future, we're living in the present, but just because no one is in the future consciously, it doesn't mean that the future doesn't already exist. Time is a dimension, like an axis on a graph, with values reaching to infinity. Think of time as the distance to a place that you can go to. Think of Jupiter’s moon I.O. Just because we're not on the moon I.O., doesn't mean it's not there. It's just a matter of reaching it. So the future exists, it's there, but our consciousness only exists in the present.

Take a simple function y = t. Say john is running, and we suppose that he runs forever (all in the same direction). The value of y would be his distance from his starting point, and it would depend on the value of t, which is time after he started running. So say when t = 20 seconds, y = 20 meters, meaning that john is 20 meters away from the starting point. So if we were to ask, “where is john in the present?”, we may be disposed to say that in the present, john is 20 meters away from his starting point. But we are then assuming that the present exists at t = 20. This is not necessarily true. The present isn’t determined by t, as t is a variable value that can be anywhere between infinity and negative infinity (the amount of time before he started running). Therefore, the present is not t, but a coordinate of t. The value of t that is the present is the value of t at which john is conscious. So let’s suppose that john is conscious at t = 10, then therefore john’s distance from the starting point would be y = 10 meters. But just because the present is at t = 10, the value of y at t = 20 is still y = 20 meters, just like the value at t = 0 is still y = 0. We know that john will run for an infinite amount of time, and therefore he is at an infinite distance, but because his consciousness is independent of t, he can be conscious at t = 10, and therefore we define the present at t = 10.

To say that the future is not predetermined is to say that there is no future, only present.

Ok, time to get a bit more complicated. Say that mindy is also running, from the same starting point as john, but she starts 10 seconds after he does. That means when t = 20, john is at y = 20 meters, and mindy is at y = 10 (y = t – 10). This means that both mindy and john are in the same place in time, but a different place in space. We also know that when john and mindy are at y = 10, john is at t = 10 and mindy is at t = 20 (t = y + 10). This means that john and mindy are in the same position in space, but in a different position in time. Now if we define the present as being t = 10, then that means that john is consciously at y = 10, and mindy is consciously at y = 0, just beginning to run. Now let’s imagine that mindy wants to travel back in time. Since we’re assuming that mindy existed before she began running, and that she will run forever, then in actuality mindy exists in all times. But what we’re concerned with is the position at which mindy’s consciousness is. So if she is indeed travelling back in time, then really what is happening is that her consciousness is changing position in time. So say her consciousness is at t = 0, 10 seconds away from the position of john’s consciousness. So, at t = 0, let’s say we know that mindy is at y = -10 (10 meters behind where john starts running). Since we know that at t = 0, john is at y = 0, mindy would therefore see john 10 meters ahead of her, but since john’s consciousness is still at t = 10, mindy would not be seeing the conscious john, but the unconscious john, running forwards. She would then see the unconscious john repeat, step for step, everything that the conscious john has already done. This mean’s that the unconscious john’s actions are predetermined by the conscious john.

Now there’s the issue of defining present again. If john’s consciousness is at t = 10, and mindy’s consciousness is at t = 0, then at what position is the present? Well, to understand that, we must look at time travel in the other direction.

Let’s say mindy wants to travel (be conscious) into the future. Let’s say she is conscious at t = 20, at this point, her position in space is y = 10 meters from the starting point. Now john’s consciousness is still at t = 10, so the john at t = 20 is unconscious. So mindy would still see john 10 meters ahead of her, but because john is unconscious at this time, his actions must be predetermined by his conscious self, and his conscious self is still at t = 10. So his actions at t = 20 are determined by his actions at t = 10. This makes intuitive sense because we usually think that choices precede actions, and making a choice is in itself an action.

Now, back to the issue of present. Now, when mindy travelled back in time, meaning that she was conscious 10 seconds away from where john was conscious, she saw john follow actions that were predetermined by his conscious self 10 seconds ahead of his unconscious self. When she travelled into the future, she saw john carry out actions that were being determined by his conscious self 10 seconds behind her. Now, what we also have to consider is john’s perspective of mindy. If mindy is 10 seconds behind john (after travelling into the past), then her actions at t = 10 are being determined by her consciousness at t = 0. So, by this logic, john’s ‘present’ would be mindy’s ‘future’. But that would mean that present is relative, and not a definite value. But think about it, if mindy (conscious at t = 0) is seeing john’s actions predetermined, and john is seeing mindy’s actions predetermined, then neither of them is in the present. The present would then be the mean point of consciousness for the both of them. So if john’s consciousness is at t = 10, and mindy’s consciousness is at t = 0, then (10+0)/2 = 5. Thus the present is at t = 5.

Your past and your future are determined by your present. You present determines what you’re about to do, and it also determines what you will have done already. Since mindy is at t = 0, watching unconscious john do what was already determined by conscious john ten seconds in the future, and since john is watching unconscious mindy do what will be determined by conscious mindy ten seconds in the past, then the present must be somewhere in between the consciousness of john and mindy.

We have failed to consider the fact that consciousness does not last a single instant. John may be conscious at t = 10, but that is just where his consciousness is in the timeline. Our conscious minds cannot perceive space and time in more than one instant. Even though john will hypothetically keep running forever for an infinite distance, and therefore be in an infinite amount of positions, he is only aware of his position where his conscious mind is in time and space.

Now, there still exists the obvious problem of how mindy is able to consciously exist in a different time, essentially time travel. The issue becomes somewhat foggy, as we do not have a substantial proven definition of what consciousness is, or what comprises it. If we can accept that consciousness is intangible, meaning that it is not a ‘thing’ that we can point to, then we are accepting that it is not matter in space. If consciousness is therefore not defined by a position in space, then perhaps it is not defined by a position in time. As an example, say I want to move my conscious mind 3 meters to my left in space, I would then move my consciousness through my body by stepping 3 meters to my left, and then my consciousness would have changed its position in space by going to my body when it’s in a different position. Now let’s say that I want to move my consciousness 10 seconds into the past, because it is not defined by one particular position in time, I could then move my consciousness to where my body was ten seconds ago. Just as in the example before, mindy moved her consciousness through time by moving it to where her body was in that time.
A more solid explanation may be required for this. If consciousness isn’t simply ‘the brain’, but rather, a configuration of the brain, then consciousness can be transported through time by configuring the brain of someone in the past to the configuration of that person in the present. It’s similar to how we send images from one phone to computer. A phone will take a picture, and instead of sending the actual picture, it sends the ‘code’ for the picture to a computer in another position in space, configuring the computer screen to display the same picture. Consciousness could be considered as this ‘code’. But in order for it to be able to move through time just as the phone’s radio waves would move through space, it would have not been defined to a particular position in time.

Spring/Summer Time Plans:

-biking to Leslie Spit every two minutes where there are weird bricks like these
-riding my bicycle everywhere with my people like you

-exploring this city and weird secluded other worlds like Tommy Thompson Park

-spending the night

(Photographs courtesy of one Joel W. Nash)

Why is this so good?

http://spacing.ca/wire/?p=2794

for fans of 2girls 1cup

(click on it, it's safe for work i promise)

xmas wish list

MECHANICAL MUSIC BOX KIT
(hey mom, look here)

artist of the moment

ROBIN SCHWARTZ