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Oct. 4th, 2005 12:19 pm1. What drew YOU into avant-garde music?
i was a college radio dj and love leonard cohen. a fellow dj recommended hearing cohen do the mingus poem "chill of death" from the meditations on mingus compilation that hal willner produced. i was smitten. soon i was digging up as many hal willner produced things as i could and came across "lost in the stars" the first kurt weill tribute. there was this odd sounding long ass title for a long song, it was 2am on a college station. of course i played it, and there i found john zorn. for me that was the path. there is something about the avante garde music that deconstructs the traditional song structure and in the dissecting of it, brings it back together and makes it more whole. sometimes whole through empty sonic space, sometimes with an abundance of music until it becomes more than. it's so delicate and often aggressive. the juxatopositions and beauty in the hidden parts, that's what i love. i tend towards the jazz side of it all as opposed to the noise / thrash parts. but, hmmm, i just LOVE IT.
2. Divulge your favorite body of water, and a happy memory you had there.
Lake Superior. Running out into the freezing water on a hot day, the air smelling like bonfires, pine trees, cut grass and this unique briny fresh water sand smell. There was a large semi-slimy rock that made a natural water slide. it also looked like a squid to my untrained 6 year old eye. scaring myself, and playing on that rock was heaven on earth.
3. Name a film you like that few appreciate, and tell us why it rocks.
Under the Cherry Moon. I had just come home from an all nighter at my friends house, sleep deprived, tired and emotionally exhausted from whatever it is teenaged \girls do when they don't sleep, fool around, or drink yet still stay up all night, and i rented under the cherry moon to watch and avoid my parents to. Probably because i was in a fragile state, it hit my heart like a grenade. I laughed, I cried, the black and white parisian romantic imagery, the faux vintage and yet modern fashions, kristin scott thomas, true love / class shifting = death, it was just all so lush. I still don't understand when people don't just adore this movie.
4. Tell us about an occasion where you met someone you'd always wanted to meet and wasn't disappointed.
I met Leonard Cohen once. He was incredibly nice. Just, nice. Took pictures with me, signed my dorky 17 yr old fangirl items. Sadly, the film was defective and didn't turn out.
5. List five of your favorite records/CDs (not the top five, necessarily, but five that you love).
this is so hard. for immediate smiling - anything by wally pleasant. for immediate writing - changes two by charles mingus. for immediate romanticness - masada by zorn. for road trips - group therapy by concrete blonde. for walking down the street like i own it - jingo by subincision.
questions from daverouguesf
comment here if you want me to interview you (and no fair commenting again if you already did last week)
i was a college radio dj and love leonard cohen. a fellow dj recommended hearing cohen do the mingus poem "chill of death" from the meditations on mingus compilation that hal willner produced. i was smitten. soon i was digging up as many hal willner produced things as i could and came across "lost in the stars" the first kurt weill tribute. there was this odd sounding long ass title for a long song, it was 2am on a college station. of course i played it, and there i found john zorn. for me that was the path. there is something about the avante garde music that deconstructs the traditional song structure and in the dissecting of it, brings it back together and makes it more whole. sometimes whole through empty sonic space, sometimes with an abundance of music until it becomes more than. it's so delicate and often aggressive. the juxatopositions and beauty in the hidden parts, that's what i love. i tend towards the jazz side of it all as opposed to the noise / thrash parts. but, hmmm, i just LOVE IT.
2. Divulge your favorite body of water, and a happy memory you had there.
Lake Superior. Running out into the freezing water on a hot day, the air smelling like bonfires, pine trees, cut grass and this unique briny fresh water sand smell. There was a large semi-slimy rock that made a natural water slide. it also looked like a squid to my untrained 6 year old eye. scaring myself, and playing on that rock was heaven on earth.
3. Name a film you like that few appreciate, and tell us why it rocks.
Under the Cherry Moon. I had just come home from an all nighter at my friends house, sleep deprived, tired and emotionally exhausted from whatever it is teenaged \girls do when they don't sleep, fool around, or drink yet still stay up all night, and i rented under the cherry moon to watch and avoid my parents to. Probably because i was in a fragile state, it hit my heart like a grenade. I laughed, I cried, the black and white parisian romantic imagery, the faux vintage and yet modern fashions, kristin scott thomas, true love / class shifting = death, it was just all so lush. I still don't understand when people don't just adore this movie.
4. Tell us about an occasion where you met someone you'd always wanted to meet and wasn't disappointed.
I met Leonard Cohen once. He was incredibly nice. Just, nice. Took pictures with me, signed my dorky 17 yr old fangirl items. Sadly, the film was defective and didn't turn out.
5. List five of your favorite records/CDs (not the top five, necessarily, but five that you love).
this is so hard. for immediate smiling - anything by wally pleasant. for immediate writing - changes two by charles mingus. for immediate romanticness - masada by zorn. for road trips - group therapy by concrete blonde. for walking down the street like i own it - jingo by subincision.
questions from daverouguesf
comment here if you want me to interview you (and no fair commenting again if you already did last week)
