You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.

You make a persuasive argument. I just listened to Oraculum's Sorcery Of The Damned yesterday. More death-y than black, but…

I don't hear it come up as much as Hot Rats, Apostrophe ('), Just Another Band From LA, or (especially) his higher charting albums, i.e. Sheik Yerbouti or We're Only In It For The Money. So I guess you just have lucky friends. (My mom had a copy in her record collection, but I never appreciated Zappa until I was like…

That whole album just sounds straight evil.

One Size Fits All is maybe my favorite under-the-radar Zappa album.

Still looking for a publisher for my book of poetry, buuuuut I'm actually happy with my poetry, so I'll wait as long as I have to.

You can't prove anything!

I just got a Henri Rousseau table top book! Whee!

Damn you fools!
Beck – Hot Wax
DOOMSTARKS – Lively Hood
M. Geddes Gengras – #4 (from Systems 0)
Guided By Voices – Jar Of Cardinals
Saint Vitus – The War Starter
Rasputin & The Monks – I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night
The Melvins – A History Of Bad Men
Val Stöecklein – French Girl Affair
Frank Zappa – Florentine Pogen
The Bug…

Actually, bad job NY Times. While some of the praise is good, half of the review is spent giggling over the fact that Sleep really likes marijuana instead of, y'know, actually taking the piece (which is fantastic) on its own merits.

Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones – Mon bibliothèque
Jeru The Damaja – You Can’t Stop The Prophet
Rick James – Below The Funk (Pass The J)
Rotovator – Domenica
Nastradoomus – New World
A$ton Matthews – Mini Van Dan (Remix) (feat. Danny Brown, A$AP Nast, and Flatbush Zombies)
White Noise – Black Mass
ARP – Raga For Moog &…

I enjoy Ellis' work!

[rubs self widely all over]

Yes! Lucky Peach is a great mix of non-fiction and fiction food writing, recipes, and all sorts of groovy stuff. I highly recommend it. The winter '15/'16 issue came with a "free prize inside" (a poster of cereal mascots in a Hindu ikon style).

You win for Flatt & Scruggs.

Gazillion Ear is straight dope. Dilla-Dilla, Mix-Mix

We have two shuffle threads now?!

Oh my god, why didn't anyone tell me Being And Time was awful? (Actually, I already knew that having read it before. But alas, here I am. I need to re-read sections of it for a paper, I'm writing, and it hurts my fucking brain.)
I also culled the letters of Kafka for the famous "axe for the frozen sea within us" quote,…

Ganglians – Good Times

My issues of The Economist started coming to my new address! Huzzah! Book-wise, I'm taking on the new Krasznahorkai novel.