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maura

mauklo

About Me

"power music / electric revival"archivist of the night

My Interests

signal flow, sound studies, kamikaze gift giving, asian cinema, music, fashion, food, office plants, putting things in mailboxes, making the absent present, making beds, potato tacos, local design, tv music, bringing canvas bags when i shop, closing down crazy house parties, drinking water and making tea, causality, the work of art in the age of digital reproduction,::music in the background:(adorno):

I'd like to meet:

dancing buddies. people who get my jokes. recording engineers. people with tips on music related jobs. people who like listening to the basslines in country music. someone who wants to buy me a hammond xk3.

Music:

::HEARTS OF PALM U.K.::, nina simone, neil young, bob dylan, further, felt, the fall, spiritualized, notorious byrd brothers, pavement, orange juice, little fluffy clouds, magnetic fields, palace, the books, neu!, here come the warm jets, tunic (song for karen), mogwai ep+2, blue skied an' clear comp on morr, no one's little girl by the raincoats, hyperballad, my bloody valentine, alice coltrane, ghostface, biggie, nobody, the mystic chords of memory, the tyde, languis, mia doi todd, la voz sabia de los comsmos, oma yang, the brothers k, the long lost, flying lotus, ras g, the battle of land and sea, figurine, arca, the minor canon, dntel, postal service, james figurine, dying songs, the little ones, daedelus, adventure time, free moral agents, busdriver, midnight movies, kxlu, headspace, she comes in colors, www.kscr.org, version sounds, dublab.com, low end theory nights at the airliner,::S:S:C:H::

Movies:

once upon a time in the west, porco rosso, orphee, nashville, touch the sound, pee-wee's big adventure, mulholland drive, ashes of time

Television:

sports, detective shows, simpsons, movies

Books:

Miranda July, Jonathan Sterne, Haruki Murakami, Joan Didion, Bob Dylan, Anne Carson, Donald Passman, Josh Kun, Sarah Banet-Weiser, AFOOT & AFIELD IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY

Heroes:

joan didion, anne carson, mark e. smith, bob dylan, neil young, christopher doyle, nikki mcclure, freud, e.e. cummings, allen mcgee, brian eno, fred stutzman, daphne brooks, olivia weber, sharon lee, virginie ladisch, caroline gormley, lizzy castruccio

My Blog

Berck sur Mer exists in film!

So, some of you know I lived in this little French town for a little while that not too many people have heard of, even in France. Then today i was catching up on New York Times headline summaries and...
Posted by maura on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:08:00 PST

sometimes i get me all confused (spiritualized)

it's a reflex (pet shop boys)easy to get buried in the past (neil young, "ambulence blues")mistrust running through you (will oldham, "lay and love")I pressed my hot face against the chalkboard for a ...
Posted by maura on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:47:00 PST

and live rejoicing everyday (spiritualized acoustic mainline)

the grain of his voice so close to methe fucking rhodes. the harmonica. the singers. the strings.the song selection was out of control.his smile when we did the mid set standing ovation.i was there an...
Posted by maura on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:10:00 PST

give me / your eyes (the minor canon covers a canadian band)

i need / sunshine.
Posted by maura on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:20:00 PST

Tuesdays with Maura

SO i decided to call my KSCR show "Tuesdays with Maura." It was my mom's idea. I think it's clever. anywho...my goal with the show is to play music by bands playing that week in LA. I will also give a...
Posted by maura on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:45:00 PST

Hearts of Palm UK totally won that contest (kaloo kalay - L. Caroll)

yay Erica and Sonia!click here for photos from the Biore eventclick here to read their blog about winning the contest...
Posted by maura on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:11:00 PST

9/24/07 :: 7:30 pm Community Music Now! on the USC campus

USC Visions and Voices Event Link...
Posted by maura on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:23:00 PST

Lukes Top Five

1. Neil Young, especially "After the Goldrush"2. "Forever Young" by Alphaville & also this cover by Youth Group he found on youtube: 3. The Killers 4. _Soylent Green_ with Charlton Heston as ...
Posted by maura on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:34:00 PST

the words i slowly put together (bjork/ old ham/ drawing restraint 9)

do not flow easilythey only fill my heartwords. words. they're all we have to go on. (stoppard - rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead)it's easier to write these words that fill my heart than the ones...
Posted by maura on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:49:00 PST

and so she performed this action on the heart (arthur & yu)

maybe i'll see you on saturday.
Posted by maura on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:27:00 PST