Yikes! I'm such an idiot. I didn't mean to alarm anyone. I got a couple of PMs asking me about my health. My health is (mostly) stable with no changes for a couple of years now which is pretty amazing. I have a girlfriend and go out and have all sorts of fun which is a flat out miracle. As many of you old-timers like me know, I was fighting for my life just a few years back. I have Behcet's - a serious Auto-immune disease. And I literally traveled the world trying to cure myself. I tried everything - supplements, diet, surgery. You name it! What finally worked was Tai Chi & Chi Kung. I found a Master in Malaysia and then in China and then right here in Chicago that taught me (through Tai Chi) how to reduce the inflammation that's wrecking havoc on my body. And it's been so good just being a Dad and a boyfriend again! My kids - Tilly & Genni - are the greatest! It was fun to just feel human again. Now, it's time for me to take my training to the next level so that I can help other people. It's time to tell people my story.
Sorry that alarmed some of you! I really appreciated all of you who reached out either here or by PM. You ROCK!!! :D
This is one of the greatest things I've read in awhile! Super happy to hear! _________________ -Ryan
If you're unfamiliar with it, I suggest checking out the book Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice by Pauline Oliveros. It is a handbook for holistic listening that often yields therapeutic benefits and is suitable for non-musicians. One of the people that helped to develop the practice, Heloise Gold, incorporated Tai Chi and Chi Kung into the practice early on. I believe Kate Walsh runs Deep Listening groups in Chicago, though she may not focus on those kinetic features. Great for bringing together your love of music and these arts
If you're unfamiliar with it, I suggest checking out the book Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice by Pauline Oliveros. It is a handbook for holistic listening that often yields therapeutic benefits and is suitable for non-musicians. One of the people that helped to develop the practice, Heloise Gold, incorporated Tai Chi and Chi Kung into the practice early on. I believe Kate Walsh runs Deep Listening groups in Chicago, though she may not focus on those kinetic features. Great for bringing together your love of music and these arts
Very interesting!!! Will definitely buy the book (it's on Amazon) and check it out! Thanks!
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One of the great things about entertainment is it enables you to be somebody else. Even for just for a couple of hours. The baddie. The man with the black hat. And frontman Sebastian Murphy is the perfect foil. A bad man. He "Ain't Nice!" He'll tell you so himself. He'll use you. Store his shit at your house. Reject your romantic notions about living in a "little cabin in the woods together". He don't need nobody telling him "when to go to bed and when to brush teeth."
The music itself is pure nostalgia for me. Bringing me back to Providence, RI in the mid-90s when bands like Thee Hydrogen Terrors, Arab On Radar, and Six Finger Satellite would wreak havoc at some loft's makeshift stage on a nightly basis." On "Toad", they throw some Jon Spencer bad-assness over some Suicide synths. Completely irresistible!
So break out that mask. Be someone else. And dance with us. The "creatures down at the bottom"!
Dread Sovereign deliver a master class in Doom on Alchemical Warfare. Epic, diverse, dynamic & well crafted. The kind of album that gives you chills up your spine because everything is just so perfect. So good. The kind that makes you wish you were back in ninth grade so you could pass notes in class like secrets about this special thing you discovered. Dread Sovereign seem to take in the whole world of Doom in and then breath it back out with a fresh, novel spin. With nods to to the past as diverse as Hellhammer and Reagars' Saint Vitus but in ways that that don't seem like a retread.
This is one of those album’s where you discover a new best song every time you listen to it. Just face it. You don’t need to worship Satan to realize that this is going to be one of the best metal albums of the year. Mark it down. I'm calling it here in February.
This is one of those album’s where you discover a new best song every time you listen to it. Just face it. You don’t need to worship Satan to realize that this is going to be one of the best metal albums of the year. Mark it down. I'm calling it here in February.
I used to dream of working for Spin magazine back in the early 90s. (Nowadays it would be Pitchfork I guess.) In retrospect, I'm so glad that path never materialized. Because... I do NOT have what it takes. Just ask my kids. I'm a total softie. How could I ever choose? Give one album that highly coveted Best New Music award and let all the others wither on the vine. Take for instance just last month. January 2021 brought us not one but TWO killer post-punk albums. I mean is it 1981 all over again? What's going on?!?! Civil unrest, you say? Blatant widespread racism?! A divisive global pandemic with a response that's been bloody botched?!?! Ok. Ok. You don't have to SHOUT! It does makes sense. I will give ya that. Because post-punk is simply on fire in 2021. But, the two best, by a long shot, are Shame's Drunk Tank Pink and Lice's Wasteland. And barring some unforeseen event, I can't really see any others challenging them for the prized Repo 2021 Post-punk throne. Luckily I get eleven months. And that still might not be enough!
Let’s get one thing out of the way first. The Raincoats are fucking awesome. Do we all get that? Sure they ARE the embodiment of atonal amateurism. And that RULES! Don't get old! Stay young & vibrant and full of spirit forever. Stay cute & playful and full of possibilities. Pretension free never looking over your shoulder as u spin round & 'round until you fall down & down a hill and then u just roll & roll & roll until u (hit) a ROCK.
But! And this is a big BUTT, imagine if you were kindred spirits of The Raincoats ( some girl thrift store super heroes) and it turns out all the girls went to The Berklee "I'm In Love With Massachusetts” School Of Music. We're talking a marriage of The Raincoats spirit with Mary Timony's (of Helium) chops. That's Palberta.
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