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the thistle

Who will untangle the tangles?

About Me

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neuromolecular
wikigrammaton
american samizdat
sensual liberation army

I need to get organized.

I've been feeling a little embattled.

I don't know. It's complicated.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:



and... ?

Music:

A Most Happy Sound
Acid Mothers Temple
Ali Farka Toure
an afternoon with Laurel and Abraham
Andrew Bird
Anjali
Arcane Device
Asmus Tietchens
Astral Grey
Astronauts
Aube
Autolux
Bablicon
Baldwin Brothers
Balkin Tribes
Barcelona
Barzin
Bauhaus
Bee and Flower
Beck
Belbury Poly
Bill Horist
Black Cab
Black Heart Procession
Black Merda
Black Mountain
Black Tape for a Blue Girl
Blood and Time
Blues Busters
Bola
Boredoms
Bozart
brad sucks
Brian Eno
Broken Social Scene
Buddha on the Moon
Calexico
Can
Cat Power
Chad VanGaalen
Chikinki
Chipmunk Quartet
Cibo Matto
Channels 2 and 3
Chromatics
Chrome
Chuck Brown and The Soul Searchers
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Clinic
CocoRosie
Cocteau Twins
Crack Und Ultraeczema
Colleen
Cranes
Culper Ring
Cymande
Dado Blade
David Bowie
David Byrne
Dead Can Dance
Dead Voices on Air
Deerhoof
Destroyer
Devendra Banhart
Dirt Surfers
Dirty Three
Devo
Dmonstrations
Download
Dzieci Z Broda
Eagles of Death Metal
Earwig
Electric President
Elizabeth Frazier
Eltro
Emiliana Torrini
Emonic
Enablers
Enfance Rouge
Eric Idle
Ester Drang
Eszter Balint
Evangelicals
Evergreen
Faust
Faye Wong
Ferus Mastafov
Fiona Apple
Four Tet
Frank Black
Galliano
Galloping Coroners
Gary Numan
Giant Sand
Glen Bledsoe
Gogol Bordello
Goran Bregovich
Gossip
Grails
Habari
Harold Budd
Hella
House of Low Culture
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
Howe Gelb
Hugh Masekela
Immortal Technique
INSIDES
Iron and Wine
Isis
Isobel Campbell
Jackie-O-Motherfucker
James Murphy & Munk
James Plotkin
Jay Dee
Jeff Magnum
Jimi Tenor
Joanna Newsom
John Vanderslice
John Zorn
Johnny Cash
Jose Gonzales
Juana Molina
Julian Fane
Justin K. Broadrick
K.K. Null
Katrina
Kelley Stoltz
Kevin Blechdom
Kiss Me Deadly
Kimya Dawson
Kite Flying Society
Kristen Hirsch
Labradford
Laika
Lake Trout
Larsen
Le Tigre
Leia
Leonard Cohen
Liquid Concrete Air Band
Lisa Gerrard
Liz Durrett
Los Super Elegantes
Lotus Eaters
Love Spirals Downwards
LowLife
Lush
Loyko
Main
Magyar Posse
Major Organ and the Adding Machine
Man Man
Many Birthdays
Maquiladora
Mark Lanegan
Mark Spybey
Massive Attack
Mazzy Star
Metamix
MI KE
Michael J. Sheehy
Miranda Sex Garden
Model Fighter
Modest Mouse
Morphine
Mountain Goats
Mouse on Mars
My Bloody Valentine
My Morning Jacket
Naked City
Negativland
Neurosis
Neutral Milk Hotel
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Noise for Pretend
norelpref
Nurse With Wound
Of Montreal
OOIOO
Orb Gettarr
Otis Redding
Ousia
Oxbow
P.J. Harvey
Phantom Orchard
Philip K. Nixon
Pink Mountaintops
Pop Artificielle
Pornopop
Portishead
Private Lessons
Raccoo-oo-oon
Radiohead
Rasputina
Red Sparowes
Richard Hawley
Robert Rich
Robotnicka
Rockets Red Glare
Rosyvelt
Rufus Wainright
Sabers
Scala
Scenic
Schneider TM
Scott Kelly
Scrabbel
Sex Pistols
Shuggie Otis
Sibylle Baier
Sinoia Caves
Sinner DC
Skatebard
Slowdive
Small Open Hands
Smog
Smokey Hormel
Some Girls
Soul Whirling Somewhere
Spinners
Spoon
Stereolab
Steve Roach
Steve VonTill
Summer Hymns
Swell Maps
Switchblade Symphony
Takako Minekawa
Talking Heads
Tarantula Hawk
Tarantel
Tarwater
Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine
Tenacious D
The Bambi Molesters
The Billy Nayer Show
The Cache
The Cracow Klezmer Band
The Cure
The Detachment Kit
The Evolution Control Committee
the first person to see an elephant
The Four Tops
The Gris Gris
The Jessica Fletchers
The Lonely Island
The Kills
The Meters
The New Math
The Party Party
The Robot Ate Me
The Secret Machines
The Sems
The Spinto Band
The Tams
The Unicorns
Them
Thievery Corporation
This Mortal Coil
Threeminutepopsongs
Throwing Muses
Tilly & The Wall
Tindersticks
Tom Ze
toof
Tortoise
Trans Am
Tribes of Neurot
Tullycraft
Tuung
Tweaker
Twin Atlas
Tujiko Noriko
Velma
Verve
Vic Chestnut
Vitriol
Viva Voce
Walkmen
Walter Meego
Willie Harper
Wilson Pickett
Yaruss
YBO2
Year Future
Yeborobo
Zandarm
Zeni Geva

Movies:

Sweet Movie
WR: Mysteries of the Organism

Television:

The Colbert Report
The Riches

Heroes:

Amilcar Cabral
Antonio Gramsci
Boukman Dutty
Che Guevara
Fidel Castro
Fredrick Engels
James Cannon
Jean Léopold Dominique
Leon Trotsky
Karl Marx
Toussaint L'ouverture
Vladmir Lenin

My Blog

The Clarion Call

Looks I'm not the firstto conceptualize the figure of Israfelas the herald of revolution....
Posted by the thistle on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:24:00 PST

Mass Murder Life Insurance

Although it's a darkly funny and ironic juxtaposition, it isn't just that. Two thoughts.First, one can't exactly say that an editorial mistake has been made here. Banner ads are served up randomly. Th...
Posted by the thistle on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:09:00 PST

Happy Easter!

I had planned a post for Easter,but I'm going to be on the road,so I'm putting it up early.Just a few odds and endsto give you something to think abouton the occasion of our Lord'sannual conquering of...
Posted by the thistle on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:51:00 PST

Sometimes I think I know very well what it is that I am like

Jerk: In physics, jerk (in British English, jolt), also called surge or lurch, is the rate of change of acceleration; more precisely, the derivative of acceleration with respect to time, the second de...
Posted by the thistle on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:13:00 PST

Juggler Etymology

juggle: ETYMOLOGY: Middle English jogelen, to entertain by performing tricks, from Old French jogler, from Latin iocular, to jest, from ioculus, diminutive of iocus, joke. See yek- in Appendix I.ENTRY...
Posted by the thistle on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 06:28:00 PST

It's time to read the Magical Illustrated Papyrus of Brooklyn

Goblins at Wikipedia: According to some traditions, goblin comes from Gob or Ghob, the king of the gnomes, whose inferiors were obviously called Ghob-lings. However, according to "The Concise Oxford D...
Posted by the thistle on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:44:00 PST

This Article Defending Cheney Is Not The First

If one were to read the title ("Cheney's Shot Was Not the First") and not the article, one would get the impression that Cheney had exchanged shots with the other hunter. In fact, it was this odd sugg...
Posted by the thistle on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:51:00 PST

Designer Intelligence

The Thistle: Hey, I was going to write you something about Mind Control shit Patrick Thomas: Really?Elaborate T: There was a really curious post at Rigorous Intuition just recentlyabout the False Memo...
Posted by the thistle on Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:49:00 PST

I had sex with...

I had sex with... Because you opened this letter, something good will happen to you at approximately 11:54p.m. If you don't repost this you'll have bad luck for the next 1152 days. Repost ...
Posted by the thistle on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 05:20:00 PST

some light reading...

The goal IS to reduce the standard of livingThe Washington Post ran a very revealing online chat yesterday with one of their business columnists, Steven Pearlstine. He was quite open that what the "...
Posted by the thistle on Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:05:00 PST