#shambolic

[vhstown]

just got a graphing calculator y'all time to work on my wips

[goodluckbabeheffron]

anthony boyle and nate mann i will avenge you

[dustedmagazine]

Strapping Fieldhands — LYVE: IN CONCERTE (ever/never)

LYVE: IN CONCERTE by Strapping Fieldhands

When we reminisce about 1990s lo-fi, we usually stick to the well-behaved parts, like Pavement’s hyper-articulate guitar meanderings or Guided By Voices brash but lyrical pop or Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s archly feral soul vamp.  We are less apt to reflect on the unhinged and unstrung glories of the Strapping Fieldhands, captured here in all its Clinton-era heyday.  Untuned, unshaven and untrammeled, they made art-damaged garage like a pack of zombies, though, admittedly, these zombies could rock.

This compilation captures seven performances from the Strapping Fieldhands prime mid-1990s run, recorded at various American venues by various people.  The band is cagey about exactly where and when the tapes were laid down, though you can hear Bob Malloy thanking Mike Rep and the people of Columbus at the end of one late album track.  In any case, the disc includes roughhousing favorites from Discus (1994), the In the Pineys EP (1994) and the singles comp Gobs on the Midway, in addition to a few that don’t turn up on any of the records. The difference, of course, is that they are live, raucous and desperate and clinging to reason by a dirty fingernail. There’s a shamanic quality to these cuts, as if you could open a portal to otherness with a howl and a blast of fuzz guitar, and who knows, maybe you can?

“Red Dog the Deconstructor,” for example, is extremely well-named, since sets up the clanging, banging contours of a primitive rock song, then blasts them into dissonant oblivion. There’s a verse and a chorus, and a dippy, tiptoe-through-the-tulips psychedelic break jammed into this song, but mostly there’s the junk shop entropy of machinery rolling down a hill, shedding parts as it goes.  “Arrogant Flower” wails and flails at the disc’s most memorable hook, pounding it with meat hammers until it falls about at the joint.  Malloy spits in Spanish for a second or two, then keens out a chorus of “Hey you arrogant flower.”  

I find that the music gets more enjoyable as it goes, cresting with “Sad Lament of the American Indian,” the chaos stitched together with a bass line as sinewy as tendon, and winding down with the bent, woozy lyricism of “I Don’t Know Why.”  I’m still not sure if the music is actually better or it just takes me that long to get acclimated.  Either way, it sinks its hooks in slowly, so that you hardly notice it’s stopped hurting.  

Jennifer Kelly

[ukdailymail]

'I am very sure she is a woman' - Imane Khelif's coach speaks out

[insidecroydon]

Criticism of Kerswell's election count 'justified' says report

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The council’s chief executive has spent thousands of pounds on a not-very-independent report in an effort to vindicate her bungled handling of the May 2022 local elections which made Croydon a national laughing stock. Again. By WALTER CRONXITE, political editor Katherine Kerswell, the chief executive of Croydon Council and sometime Returning Officer for elections in the…

[saveitlikesasuke]

why was he so unmarked in the box lmao

[mybuddyjimmy]

Shambolic

Shambolic [sham-BOL-ik]Part of speech: adjectiveOrigin: English, mid-20th century1. Chaotic, disorganized, or mismanaged.Examples of shambolic in a sentence“The play was a disaster and closed after a single shambolic performance.”“The new CEO brought in an auditing team to make sense of the shambolic records kept under her predecessor.”

[okayyeahbutwhy]

"You don't seem autistic. . ."

That is simply because the train related infrastructure of this country is in an utter shambles so I feel disinclined to speak at length about it!

[gay-baited]

[sapphia]

love this ultrahardcore series immediately reminding grian and scott how they each ended up with their first life partners

[vhstown]

why is it that i mostly write romance but i have absolutely no rizz irl

[meowmeowmessi]

this is my roman empire

[protocolseben]

DID THE WILLIAMS DASHBOARD SAY “CAR TOO HOT”

[watasemasaru]

tiktok spreading that chase bank's issue was a glitch but it was just good old fashion check fraud the 90s are back baybeyyy

[talleryn]

Lucy: what’s the worst decision you’ve made while drunk

Lockwood: not to brag or anything but I don’t need to be drunk to make bad decisions

[presdestigatto]

genuinely baffled at how f124 has sainz at 95 racecraft. the highest is max with 96. like this isnt even my agenda i dont know what's going on