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Nirav

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About Me

"One of our gentlemen, who was wondrously subject to the gout, on being urged by the doctors to give up entirely the use of salt meats, used to answer them very humorously that in the agonies and torments of the illness he wanted to have something to blame, and by crying out and cursing now the sausage, now the ox tounge and the ham, he felt just that much relieved." - Montaigne

My Interests

historical pessimism, phenomenological biology, swearing, pepper usage in central america, tyranny, meteorology, flicker loops, medieval poetics, my mortar and pestle, baby steps to the oven, finishing things!

I'd like to meet:

dungheap dwellers

Music:

noise, death/black metal, sound-art, experimental electronics, sound poetry, field recordings, jazz. Birchville Cat Motel, The Haters, Dave Phillips/Schimpfluch-Gruppe, Kapotte Muzeik (combined and in parts), Aaron Dilloway, AMM, Morton Feldman, Steve Roden, Otomo Yoshihide, Swans, Pharoah Sanders, Jeph Jerman, Jason Lescalleet, Skin Crime, Scelsi's "Anahit", Schoenberg's "Verklaerte Nacht", Elizabeth Cotten

Movies:

Sans Soleil, Tom Tom The Piper's Son, All Ernie Gehr, Abbas Kiarostami, Bela Tarr, Kurt Kren

Television:

gathers dust in my living room

Books:

All Pieces of a River Shore

Heroes:

Tony Mosna, Julia Child

My Blog

now reading

The Cheese and the Worms - Carlo GinzburgCartesian Meditations - Husserl Routeledge Philosophy Guidebook to Husserl and the Cartesian MeditationsMargaret Mahler chapter of Object Relations in Psychoan...
Posted by Nirav on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:25:00 PST

Listening for Fall (the "Melissa is leaving for 9 months edition")

Prurient - The Baron's Chamber (Nihilist) Sickness/Slogun - The Scars of Happiness/Always Numb (PacRec) Neurosis - Souls at Zero Immaculate:Grotestque - Wishing the Days Away (Monorail Tresspassing) B...
Posted by Nirav on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 07:11:00 PST

Listening for Summer

Siege - s/t His Hero is Gone - Monuments to Thieves Dropdead - Discography Mississippi John Hurt - '28 Okeh recordings Controlled Bleeding - Shanked and Slithering (Hospital) SWANS - Cop/Greed/Young G...
Posted by Nirav on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Listening for Early Spring

Hermit/Facialmess - split c60 (Recalcitrant) Kevin Drumm - Horror of Birth (Chondritic) Dave Phillips/Eric Boros - 02123 G.X. Jupitter Larsen - Mind the Gap 2005 (P-tapes) Hiroshi Hasegawa mp3s on...
Posted by Nirav on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Listening for late winter

Albert Ayler - Love Cry (Impulse!) Halfler Trio - Kill the King (Korm Plastics) Richard Ramierez/Skin Crime - Pleasure, Commerce & Disease (Pacrec) Ramleh - We Created It, Now Let's Take Over vol. ...
Posted by Nirav on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Best of 2004

(this is my list for Stylus) Mattin/Radu Malfatti - Whitenoise (WMO/r) Keith Rowe/Franz Hautzinger/Axel Doerner - A View From the Window (Erstwhile) Dave Phillips - IIIII (Groundfault) Toshimaru...
Posted by Nirav on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Listening for early fall

Cocteau Twins - Victorialand World Library of Folk and Primitive Music: Ireland (Lomax recorded) Jandek - Your Turn to Fall Bows - Blush The Hafler Trio - Kill the King Pascal Boudreault/Ricardo Arias...
Posted by Nirav on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

flakiness

Flakiness is never justified. Even if you're a musician on whose back an entire scene is pretty much built (nyc free jazz), it's not permitted. Ah well. Has anyone ever put ice cream in an ice coff...
Posted by Nirav on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Listening for August

Most listened to so far this month Pharoah Sanders - Karma (Impulse!) Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Club, 1963 Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy (non-reissue) Keith Rowe/Burkhard Be...
Posted by Nirav on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

why are you looking at this?

go look at the profile of someone prettier.
Posted by Nirav on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST