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Pedantic Pedestrian

Here comes the Magik Cow

About Me

Minty's Online Diary (a blog-umentary if you will)

"The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately..."
Thomas Paine, 'The Age of Reason'

"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation..."
Saki, 'The Comments of Maung Ka'
"If all the world's a stage, then where are all the mike-stands?"
The Peppermint Wordsmith

Excerpt from Strumpfen's "ZWEI, DREI, WIEDER!" (Strumpfen is the name we use when we pretend to be 1972 Krautrockers!)

Dear Friends... Sorry to be "Pedantic", but please do not send me pictures bigger than 400px square! I'm sure they're very nice and I'll keep them in a folder if I like them, but I will not post them on my 'Comments' board (it rather disrupts one's nice neat page layout, entailing all that tedious mucking about with horizontal scrollbars!) The place for posters and HTML vid-links is the BULLETIN BOARD... Ta!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/5/2007
Band Members:

The Pedantic Pedestrian

aka The Peppermint Pedestrian; aka The Peppermint Wordsmith (of Johnson's Gridling Band ), The Mint; Minty, aka Shamir Pajamas (of Ken Dead & The Dodgy Men ); aka MC Vittie Rich-T; aka Kippertie Suntorpedo...

And Some Blokes.
Click here for a chronically logical list of all Johnson's Gridling Band alumni.


Influences:

James Joyce: "The Last Word In Stolentelling."
Frank Zappa: The Project/Object
Igor Stravinsky
Faust
Lots of people from Canterbury
Lots of people from Okinawa
The music of North Africa, The Middle East, Eastern Europe
Miles Davis' Electric Space Voodoo Period 1969-75
Tangerine Dream (best before 1979)
Pink Floyd (1968-73)
Fripp and/or Eno

Friends old and new, near and far

Artofnoise bonzos can dolphy egschiglen. Fsol gong henrycow ivorcutler jahwobble kingcrimson. Leescratchperry morricone nancarrow orb parliafunkadelicment. Qawwali residents satie tomita. Universzero vannier womad xenakis yamashta zé


Sounds Like:
TALES FROM THE
WINGED EYEBALL

Words by Shelfy
(Rabbit Show Reject)
Music by Minty
(The Pedantic Pedestrian)

Hear some episodes at:
RABBIT SHOW REJECT and
GLUBDUB's RADIO EARWAX

Other ongoing collaborative
projects include:

ThE ChRiStMaS TrEeS
STEVIE CHUNDER
ODD POP

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Stand By... Yo! Man!

"Stand by... Yo! Man!!" (to give it its proper and fully punctuated title - that's something else that the music player doesn't do!) is a track from the forthcoming project by STEVIE CHUNDER & MAGIK C...
Posted by Pedantic Pedestrian on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:36:00 PST

SoFtaNdUniQUeOfFCenTreObliQue

...or "Soft And Unique, Off-Centre Oblique" if you prefer your typography a little less avantgarde...This wonderful racket was recorded just last week (end of August 2008, if you are reading this in "...
Posted by Pedantic Pedestrian on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:18:00 PST

Radio Rabbit Show? / Lifestyles Of The Fish And famous

Rabbit Radio Show? Radio Rabbit Show?RABBIT SHOW REJECT has posted some of our "Tales From The Winged Eyeball" collaborations on GlubDub's RADIO EARWAX website out of Noo Joyzey! Scroll down the list ...
Posted by Pedantic Pedestrian on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:01:00 PST

New Videos For Old!

By the time you read this, there should be two new clips on my Video Channel doobry, featuring musical excerpts from the exciting new PEDANTIC PEDESTRIAN/CHRISTMAS TREES opus "Chthonic Boom".The visua...
Posted by Pedantic Pedestrian on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:59:00 PST

ThE ChRiStMaS TrEeS - New Musick!

The return of "CHTHONIC BOOM"... This project has now expanded into a 'proper' album, featuring my original sound collage contructed from THE NOTORIOUS VICARAGE TAPES (as heard previously on this pag...
Posted by Pedantic Pedestrian on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:58:00 PST

ThE ChRiStMaS tReEs: A wOrK iN pRoGrEsS

Over at ThE cHrIsTmAs TrEeS page, The Human Nail has posted a new "WORK IN PROGRESS"; my 'remix' of a song that we haven't even finished yet! As it has a slight whiff of early-'80s punk-funk...
Posted by Pedantic Pedestrian on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:58:00 PST

Further clobberations

Over at the BLOW MINNOWS page, you can now enjoy my latest DUB REMIX ("Mewn Dub") featuring the rantin’ an’ a-testifyin’ of THE ENTIRE TOP SHELF in all his glory. NB; The revolting p...
Posted by Pedantic Pedestrian on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:18:00 PST

"The Weirdo Maker" - Another video experiment

Shelfy seemed surprised that I’d already posted a video on MySpace BEFORE I’d even got my hands on his new movie camera! Well, the first one ("THE USE OF STRIPES") was shot using the fifte...
Posted by Pedantic Pedestrian on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:05:00 PST

Minimalist video for minimalist music

I’ve tossed off this "film" (>>> see "My Videos") to accompany a 1995 piece called "THE USE OF STRIPES" (or at least a little bit of it). The tune is one of those minimalist loopy experiments of...
Posted by Pedantic Pedestrian on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:33:00 PST

Chthonic Boom

I decided to post the piece "CHTHONIC BOOM" on the player, even though it's 'technically' a WORK IN PROGRESS. I can't decide whether it is finished or not. It's like a collage or a sculpture. It may h...
Posted by Pedantic Pedestrian on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:27:00 PST