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About Me

I am the reason there are no snakes in Ireland. Oh, there are no letters in your mailbox and there are no chocolates in the boxes anymore. We all live in Texas. I am the living dead. I still ain't available on CD or DVD. I am for rent. Is your mom home?

"You think I pursue weirdness because I do not know beauty; no, it is because you do not know beauty that I seek weirdness." Georg Lichtenberg

I am a freelance curator of art and music events in Pittsburgh, PA. I play (mostly vinyl) records at clubs, bars, parties and art events. I play "music" in a band called Fuck Telecorps. Sometimes I make "art".

"The extent to which an individual can resist being blindly led by tradition is a good measure of his vitality." Harry Partch

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this Saturday April 26th

PHILADELPHYINZ
(of Philadelphia's Pittsburgh-themed dance-party sex-athon)
featuring DJ-Selectors APT ONE + SKINNY FRIEDMAN

http://philadelphyinz.com/

plus the massive destructive power of

EDGAR UM
(Shame on a Thing)

and

HOWLERMONKEY
(Grits)

and

special guest Yinzers

10pm till late

Tony's got pierogies n drink specials n nat.

$3 admission (less if you look especially pgh proud)

21+

Remedy
5121 Butler Street
Pittsburgh Motherfucking Pennsylvania
412-781-6771
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Friday March 14th

THE CHINESE STARS
(ex-Arab on Radar, ex-Six Finger Satellite)
on Three One G + Skin Graft recs
of Providence, RI

RED FOX
insane fresh punk rock
Pgh

DRUGDEALER
psycho-active arena rock
(ex-Creation is Crucifixion, ex-Davenport ex-Fireworks, ex-Meetthebutcher)
Pgh

10pm til late

$6 or so

21+

GOOSKI'S
on the Polish mountaintop

thechinesestars.com

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Sunday March 16th

TRTL SOUP
(freakish improv rock from Blairstown, New Jersey)

HACKLES (electro-acoustic riverboat ritual music)

HANDHOLDER (solo youth power electronics)

HAWKSHIT TELECORPS (anti-jazz disaster skree)

$5

21+

Belvedere's Freak Scene Show Palace
4016 Butler St.

http://www.myspace.com/trtlsoupmusic

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Sunday March 30th

AIDS WOLF
(Noise-Art Rock of Montreal, CA: on Skin Graft Records)

ITALIAN ICE
(Sam Pace of Centipede E'est + Paul Quattrone of Modey Lemon)

ICE CAPADES
(back from the netherworld)

moderated discussion to follow
$6

21+

Gooski's
on the Polish mountaintop

http://www.myspace.com/aidswolf
http://www.skingraftrecords.com/thumbs/thumbs_aids_wolf.html

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My Interests

No More Games. No More bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun -- for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax -- This won't hurt.

I'd like to meet:

Harry Partch, Hermeto Pascoal, Orson Welles, Peter Falk, Don Rickles, John Sinclair, Sam "The Man" Peckinpah, Josh Heytvelt, punk thug drunks, monied patrons, etc.

Music:

SUN RA, Bloodrock, ASH RA TEMPLE, P. FUNKADELIC, Marzette Watts, L.P.N., HAWKWIND, HARRY PARTCH, Violent Onsen Geisha, Lil Jon and the Eastside Boys, BUGZ IN THE ATTIC, STOOGES, Mauricio Kagel, Marshall Tucker Band, Borbetomagus, Voice Crack, Bohren & der Club of Gore, Cameo, Ohio Players, JUNIE MORRISON, Doors, Gil Trythall, Pierre Henry, ARTHUR RUSSELL, Arthur Baker, David Tudor, LEE PERRY, Adrian Sherwood, African Head Charge, Prince Far-I, Gregory Issacs, Augustus Pablo, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, FELA A. KUTI, Roy Ayers, Edwin Birdsong, RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK, KLAUS SCHULZE, Khan/Captain Comatose, Larry Levan, Patrick Cowley, Sylvester, Shirley Bassey, Art Ensemble of Chicago, BLACK SABBATH, Negativland, Ssion, JAMES BROWN, Chinese Stars, Black Moustache, Avenue D, Hidden Cameras, Andy Bey, Jayne Cortez and the Firespitters, Gil Scott Heron, Eyvind Kang, Daniel Wang, Archie Shepp, Amiri Baraka, Roswell Rudd, Peter Kowald, Underground Resistance, Suicide, Stiff Little Fingers, The Damned, WIRE, E.S.G., Metal Urbaine, Soft Cell, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Plunderphonics, Fresh Blueberry Pancake, Clementine Paddleford's Memorial Public Band, LCD Soundsystem, Husker Du, Bob Ostertag, Soft Pink Truth/Matmos, BOREDOMS, Cachexia, Adult., Nina Simone, Oneness of Juju, Leon Thomas, Fertile Ground, CECIL TAYLOR, Peter Brotzmann, Dudu Pakwana, Marion Brown, Ornette Coleman, Scott LaFaro, Sonny Rollins, Jim Hall, Peggy Lee, Minutemen, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Girltalk, HORACE TAPSCOTT, Charles Mingus, Joe McPhee, Micheal Johnsen, LINTON KWESI JOHNSON, Kiki & Herb, My Dad is Dead, New Sector Movements, The Ex, Zombi, horrible fusion records, La Lupe, Esquivel, HAZIL ADKINS, Ennio Morricone, Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, The Staple Singers, UFO or Die, The Dirty Faces, Focus, Ted Nugent, Sizzla, Poison Idea, Pay Toilets, Charles Earland, Larry Young, Extreme Noise Terror, Napalm Death, HijoKaidan, Nihilist Spasm Band, Claudine Longet, Hand Face, Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Lord Bird Golden Cobra, ZZ TOP, Merle Haggard, Mutamassik, Fuck Telecorps, Cock Scene Investigators, Eugene Chadbourne, Hana-tara-trash, Motorhead, WILLIE NELSON, shit like that....

Movies:

Astro-Zombies, Shin Zatoichi monogatari, Cul-de-sac, Spetters, Bay of Blood, Double Agent 73, Die Die My Darling, Sisters, Witchfire, Point Blank (1967), Bring Me The Head of Motherfucking Alfredo Garcia!

Television:

the episode of any reality tv show where all the shiny happy tanned contestants are mercilessly gunned-down by an unknown figure in black weilding an automatic machine gun

oh and this, of course:

Books:

anything by Stanislaw Lem, Final Circle Of Paradise by the Strugatsky Bros., The Adventures of Gargantua and Pantagruel, Don Quixote, Locus Solus, anything by James M. Cain, Les Chants de Maldoror, Mad Man, Dhalgren, Triton, that dirty trucker book and others by Samuel R. Delany, anything by John Cage, The Process by B. Gysin, The Third Mind and anything else by Burroughs and Gysin, anything by Terry Southern, The Immeasurable Equation by Le Sun Ra, anything by Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka, the collected writings of Huey P. Newton, Jean Genet, anything by Horkheimer and Adorno, other pretentious crap, Out On A Limb by Shirley MacLaine, I Need More by Iggy Pop, etc.

Heroes:

have always been Cowboys.

My Blog

Fri. March 14: The Chinese Stars + Red Fox + Drugdealer

Friday March 14thTHE CHINESE STARS(ex-Arab on Radar, ex-Six Finger Satellite)on Three One G + Skin Graft recsof Providence, RIRED FOXinsane fresh punk rock PghDRUGDEALERpsycho-active arena rock(ex-Cre...
Posted by edgar um on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:14:00 PST

Sun. Sept. 23: Lazy Magnet+Work/Death+SuperiorHumanVomit+RobotSoup+TAAZ

Sunday September 23rdAn Evening of Strange, Intimate Vaudevillian Sound and Theater*featuring*3 sizzling Corleone Records acts on tour from Providence, RI:LAZY MAGNET "one man music machine...insanely...
Posted by edgar um on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:55:00 PST

two cool improvised/noise music shows this weekend

friday june 15th 2007more noise from boys:MOUTHUS (Ecstatic Peace: NYC)"Mouthus is duo Brian Sullivan and Nate Nelson of Brooklyn and they absolutely destroy, fuzzing minds wherever they blow. Super p...
Posted by edgar um on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:44:00 PST

shame on the hobbit rave this saturdau

sat. june 9thdjscutupsed um playin' the nu hobbit rave traxxxbrillobox10pm - 2am$3 admin$3 drink special till midnight21+reduced admission for extremely large and hairy feet ...
Posted by edgar um on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:24:00 PST

fri jun 15: MOUTHUS/N.SCHEIBLE+M.WASCOVICH(of J.O.M.F., etc.)/JERK/SHEP+ME/F*TCRPS

beach rave and improvised music action this friday

5/18 SHAME ON THE BEACH w/ EdUm, Cutups, T&A + Improv NOISERAVE! @ brilloboxthis friday may 18thshame on the beach: the beach is back!beach rave jams by cutups n edgar um plus guests T&Afrom 1...
Posted by edgar um on Thu, 17 May 2007 10:33:00 PST

latin + afrobeats party this saturday may 12

Posted by edgar um on Mon, 07 May 2007 04:10:00 PST

noise/punk show 2morrow w/ WHITE MICE + SUFFERING BASTARD

..> noise/punk show 2morrow w/ WHITE MICE + SUFFERING BASTARD thursday may 3rdWHITE MICE (providence)SUFFERING BASTARD (providence)HUMAN HOST (baltimore)SLICES (pgh)8pm - 11:30pm$7all-agesthommy co...
Posted by edgar um on Wed, 02 May 2007 12:50:00 PST

porno noise rave w/ MACRONYMPHA tomorrow

MACRONYMPHA (Pittsburgh/Tennessee)LESLIE KEFFER (Esctatic Peace: Ohio/Tennessee)COCK SCENE INVESTIGATORLORD BIRD GOLDEN COBRAVOICE CRUNKWednesday April 25th8pm - 11pmAll-Ages$5937 Liberty Ave., 1st fl...
Posted by edgar um on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:22:00 PST

new afro-latin party next week at AVA

Posted by edgar um on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:18:00 PST