Amph Today's purchases (music, movies, books, comics, other media)

ugh, bob played 30 miles from me yesterday and i didn't go. still kicking myself.

 

Should've gone!

 

i know! it was $55 and i have no car but neither are good excuses. bleargh.

 

some cds:

efterklang - magic chairs
brother ali - us
dungen - skit i allt
atmosphere - to all my friends
arcade fire - the suburbs
isobel campbell and mark lanegan - hawk
black sabbath - sabbath bloody sabbath (2009 remaster) - this is probably the fourth time i've bought this record, lol.

 

Got a ticket to see Phish on Oct 11.

 

Not today's purchase, but this is what I last ordered from Amazon.co.uk and it arrived on Tuesday:

BBC's Sherlock DVD
A Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking
Universe In A Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman? by Richard Feynman
What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard Feynman
The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman

 

camu tao - king of hearts

loving this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROjPTanSWZA

 

DVDs:

Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job S4
Boredoms: 77 Boadrum

CDs:

Jesu: Pale Sketches Demixed
Venetian Snares - My So-Called Life
Mahler Symphonies 4 + 5 - Gurzernich Orchestra, cond. Markus Stenz
Lars Horntveth - Kaleidoscopic
Lost S6 OST

 

cd's and 2 dvds
GATHERING, THE - A Sound Relief (NTSC 2xDVD Digi)
UNEXPECT - In A Flesh Aquarium
SIGH - Gallows Gallery (reissue w/ bonus)
GATHERING, THE - A Noise Severe (2xCD Digi)
HOPE HAS FAILED US - Epitaphs And Eulogies
NADJA - Skin Turns To Glass
NOVEMBERS DOOM - Amid Its Hallowed Mirth (re-issue)
NOVEMBERS DOOM - Of Sculptured Ivy and Stone Flowers (re-issue)
USYNLIG TUMULT - Voices Of The Winds
KARL SANDERS - Saurian Exorcisms
DAGON (MI) - Terraphobic (digi)
THESE ARE THEY - Who Manifest (EP)
NOVEMBERS DOOM - Into Night's Requiem Infernal
A HILL TO DIE UPON - Infinite Titanic Immortal (digi)
DARK LAY STILL - Through Hell (digi)
DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER - Licht
THESE ARE THEY - Who Linger
O, MAJESTIC WINTER - An Autumn Moon
AMON DUUL II - Lemmingmania (digi)
ARTROSIS - In Nomine Noctis
ASHES YOU LEAVE - Songs Of The Lost (ltd. ed. digi)
ATROCITY - Atlantis
AZBUK - Compilation For Eternity
BATTLELORE - Evernight
BESEECH - Drama
BLOOD FROM ABOVE - Under The Shadow Of Your Wings
CARCASS - Reek Of Putrefaction (CD/DVD)
DARKTRANCE - Ghosts In The Shells
DOULOS - Oculto
DYING PASSION - Sweet Disillusions
EKKLESIAST - Cold
ELIS - Catharsis
ENDURA - Black Eden
FIRE THRONE - Day of Darkness and Blackness (digi)
GLENN BRANCA - Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses
GNOMA - Muerte Sepultada
INTER ARBORES - I Am.Estrangement.Limits.Solemn
IRON BUTTERFLY - Heavy
IT WILL COME - 47 / Bound
KATATONIA - Night Is The New Day (Swedish edition)
KAUAN - Tietajan Laulu (digi)
LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE - The Grandiose Nowhere
LACRIMOSA - Der Morgen Danach (digi)
LETARGY DREAM - 2
OXIPLEGATZ - Worlds And Worlds
SHINING - V Halmstad
SLOWDIVE - Just for a Day
SOMBROUS - Transcending the Umbra
SUBTERRANEAN SOURCE - Relic (digi)
UMBRA NIHIL - The Borderland Rituals
WELTEN BRAND - The End Of The Wizard

 

You bought all that today?

 

A regular Richy Rich.

 

I don't know what's scarier, the amount of things on the list (I feel like I'm spending a bit too much money at two or three albums every couple of weeks) or that I've not heard of almost anything on that list.


On topic, well, um, I bought the new Superchunk and Of Montreal albums today. Kind of feels inadequate though.

 

It came from ups. The End Records had a kick ass sale.

I also got seven on bluray and the prisoner on dvd from the store.

 

The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects, by Mike Mignola.

The robotic Screw-On Head takes on the evil of Emperor Zombie at the behest of President Abraham Lincoln. He is assisted by Mister Dog and Mister Groin. That's just the first story. It's beyond awesome.

 

Earlier this week I bought Dexter is Delicious and finished it last night. I also bought The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and will be running off shortly to buy Season 11 of South Park.

 

Okay, the was a bit of a disconnect between my brain and my Best Buy card. What was supposed to be Season 11 of South Park became SP11, a 250 GB PS3, God of War 3, HDMI cables, and the Bourne movies on Blue Ray. I hate when that happens, so I also got some consolation Chinese food for dinner

 

The Gathering - Started out as metal, then got a female singer and switched over to Radiohead-ish arty rock music. I bought a double album they did a few years back, wasn't bad. They may have changed since then.

Sigh - Japanese black metal band, prog touches.

Nadja - Dark, ambient-ish stuff. Wiccan-y feel, if I'm remembering correctly. Haven't heard much.

Karl Sanders - He's in a death metal band called Nile. I haven't heard his solo stuff, but it's probably insanely complex and somewhat jazz-influenced.

Amon Duul II - Incredible "krautrock" band from the 70's. SUPER influential (in underground circles). Much of their material sounds like it could have been recorded today (though without all the terrible production techniques and loudness war bullpoop).

Carcass - Legendary grindcore band. Slowly morphed into death-ish rock as they went along. A major catalyst for the original black metal bands. The one Crest bought is their first, I think, and very primitive sounding. I bought all these reissues and the documentaries on the DVDs are pretty entertaining.

Glenn Branca - New York composer who uses multiple electric guitars in lieu of traditional symphonic instrumentation. Like nothing you've ever heard before. Massive dissonances, skullcrushing volume. Beautiful and terrifying at the same time.

Iron Butterfly - 60's/70's heavy band.

Slowdive - Shoegazer stuff from the early 90's (?) Shoegazer generally means pretty guitar pop with a curtain of feedback draped in front. Some bands were rawer than others. Slowdive was on the lighter end of the scale.

The rest, me dunno either, but they probably rock your mom's face.



Today I bought Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs (2CD version)

 

You know, I just realized I've never heard Nadja. The band I was describing was Thuja!

SON OF A

 

I finally got my copy of Asterios Polyp. Best comic book of the year, plus it includes a great theory about male masturbation.

 

DVDs:

Suspiria

Blu-Ray:

A Clockwork Orange

CDs:

Interpol - Interpol

 

The Remains of the Day by Ishiguro and The Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon. I've read Never Let Me Go and V. so I'm not totally unfamiliar with the authors. I wasn't planning on reading anymore Pynchon in the near future after finishing V., but $4 used! Can't complain about that.

 

CDs:

White Static Demon - Apparitions
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky (limited 2XCD)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Utada Hikaru - This Is The One
Laetitia Sadier - The Trip

DVD:

Opeth - Live At Royal Albert Hall (d-luxx)

 

Marc Ribot - Silent Movies

 

How is it?

CDs:

Jesse Harris - Cosmo
Univers Zero - Heresie
EMI 20th Century Classics - Henze