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DAVID)))

Too tired to live, too hyper to die . . .

About Me



LAST NIGHTS OF PARIS AND PATHAXIS

My Interests

sound, sound production, soundscapes, instruments, sustained listening, auditory bricolage, urban studies, cityscapes, critical theory, fragments, excerpts, citations, taking notes, watching animals eat, archives, Asian cinema, hapas, foodstuffs, naps, poetry, secrets, symptomology, the mysterious as opposed to the blatant, the obscure as opposed to the exposed, the mechanisms of fabrication which constitute this sham we call everyday life

Music:

ambient, noise, drones, minimalism, microsound, glitchy idm, field recordings, contemporary classical, instrumental math rock, Japanese and Cantonese pop, hip hop, breakbeats, dubstep, sinister and relentless jungle/dnb, hard/gabber/terror/speed core, and metal in all of its various incarnations (death/black/power/stoner/post-/technical/doom)

Movies:

I am particularly interested in the profound, ontological problematics found in most zombie films, I have enjoyed the work of the following filmmakers: Wong Kar Wai, Yuen Wo Ping, Takashi Miike, Jim Jarmusch, Lars Von Trier, Steve Buscemi, Akira Kurosawa, Harmony Korine.

Television:

The worse the reality show, the more I seem to enjoy watching it. Baseball.

Books:

PROSE: Samuel Beckett, Mary Gaitskill, William S. Burroughs, William T. Vollmann, David Foster Wallace, Franz Kafka, Kobo Abe, Don DeLillo, Murikami Ryu, Percival Everett, Paul Auster, Philippe Soupault, Hunter S. Thompson, Rene Depestre, Frank Chin, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortaazar, Gary Lutz, Patrick Chamoiseau, Kenzaburo Oe, Steve Erickson, Philip K. DickPOETRY: Ron Silliman, W.S. Merwin, Lyn Heijinian, Mei-mei Brussenberge, Li-Young Lee, Marina Tsvetaeva, Daniel Higgs, Robert Desnos, Mina Loy, Robert Kelly, Andre Breton, Susan Howe, Jackson MacLow, Clark Coolidge, Michael Palmer, Charles Bernstein, Robert Creely, Charles Olson, Hirata Toshiko, Rae Armantrout, Tan LinTHEORY/PHILOSOPHY: George Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Walter Benjamin, E.M. Cioran, Jean Baudrillard, Edward Said, Slavoj Zizek, Manuel DeLanda, Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway, Michel DeCerteau, Nietsche, Micheal Taussig, N. Katherine Hayles, Schopenhauer, Alphonso Lingis, Henri Lefevbre, Edward Soja, Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous, Paul Virilio, Maurice Blanchot, Edouard Glissant, Jacques LacanCOMICS: R. Crumb, Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Dan Clowes, Julie Doucet, Phoebe Gloeckner, Chester Brown, Tony MillionaireOTHER: big glossy architecture books, big glossy design books, big glossy exhibition catalogues

Heroes:

International Song Seamstress and Corpse-Dancer of the Mystic Crags, Daniel Arcus Incus Ululat Higgs

My Blog

A Candles Golden Glow

Just in time for the holidays, dark ambient netlabel Dark Winter has released their holiday compilation, "A Candle's Golden Glow." Last Nights of Paris has remixed Bing Crosby's "White Christmas," sh...
Posted by DAVID))) on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:59:00 PST

An Era of Atrophy

The new album, "An Era of Atrophy" is now available for purchase. Best described as dark ambient composed from sonic detritus adrift on a sea of drones. Please visit my profile for more information: ...
Posted by DAVID))) on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:50:00 PST

Free downloadable track!

Greetings peoples.There is a free unreleased track on Last.Fm entitled "Very Little, Almost Nothing," which can be found here:Last Nights of Paris @ Last.FmThe full length album, "An Era of Atrophy," ...
Posted by DAVID))) on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:03:00 PST

graph and illustration

from here.
Posted by DAVID))) on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:31:00 PST

Nerves transmit sound waves?

Interesting article for all you sound producers and audiofiles out there.Nerves transmit sound waves?...
Posted by DAVID))) on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:33:00 PST

R.I.P. Baudrillard

May his simulacra carry on . . . Obituary Wikipedia...
Posted by DAVID))) on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:33:00 PST

Ambient Haircut 4 this Sunday!

Ambient music. Free Haircuts. Sunday February 18 at 7pmProfessional hairstylists collaborate with a team of live ambient musiciansto work on your head, inside and out.CLICK ME!...
Posted by DAVID))) on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 04:52:00 PST

Yup, it's cold.

It just fucking SNOWED here at UCLA. I built a goddamn snowman and everything.
Posted by DAVID))) on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:07:00 PST

Nocturnal Coast and Endless Destination

Two recent tracks uploaded on the LAST NIGHTS OF PARIS profile. As always, THANKS FOR LISTENING! (Not just to my work, but in general . . .) Much respect, DAVID)))...
Posted by DAVID))) on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:16:00 PST

Collaboration with Kenji Siratori

I have a collaboration with japanese author Kenji Siratori up on my LAST NIGHTS OF PARIS  profile. Check it out if you so desire, and THANKS FOR LISTENING! DAVID)))...
Posted by DAVID))) on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:12:00 PST