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Wesley

An unheard transmission from the last man on earth.

About Me

I look at my hands whilst typing.

My Interests

Analogue musicmaking devices.
Esoteric philosophies.
Reverb and Delay.
Vinyl records.
Altered states.
Suddenly maybe making video, again.
Temperate climates.
Strategies, concepts and operating principles.
Gamespersonship.

I'd like to meet:

. . . people who understand the differences between irony, kitsch and bad taste.

Music:

Ulrich Schnauss: Goodbye
Sally Shapiro: Disco Romance
Minny Pops: Footsteps ep
Blaine L. Reininger: Broken Fingers
Morton Subotnick: Silver Apples of the Moon
Luc Van Acker: Zas 002 ep
The (Hypothetical) Prophets: Around the World With . . .
The Legendary Pink Dots: Curse

Movies:

Sunset Boulevard.
Careful.
Pandora's Box.
Orpheus.
Scarlet Empress.
Also: Whatever movies are shown on channel 20 really late and those shown on channel 7's Friday Night and Saturday Night Movies. I rarely, if never, catch the titles.

Books:

The Divine Pymander of Hermes Trismegistus [Corpus Hermeticum], trans. Chambers.
FICTION:Delillo, Self, Pynchon, Murakami, Nin, Hesse, Kundera, Kosinski, Kafka.
Occult, Religion, Art and periodicals: Art Forum, frieze, Adbusters, the Wire, Arthur(R.I.P).

Heroes:

Jack Horkheimer

My Blog

This is a story: a very special story.

Foot. 4 March. Echo & The Bunnymen: Bring On The Dancing Horses. Section 25: Crazy Wisdom. Associates: A Matter Of Gender. A Certain Ratio: Flight. And Also The Trees: Pear Tree 12". Legendary Pin...
Posted by Wesley on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:12:00 PST

Here come the quick, there go the dead.

Foot. 4 Feb. The Glove: Sex-eye Makeup. Front 242: Kampfbereit. Low: Coattails. Beach House: Tokyo Witch. Tangerine Dream: Scrap Yard. Piano Magic: the Sharpest Knife in the Drawer. Rain Parade: Carol...
Posted by Wesley on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:00:00 PST

Amongst the weak, Psychocandy is still too abrasive.

28/1.Clubfoot.Cabaret Voltaire:Do right.Telex:Tour de France.the Knife:you make me like charity.the Wake:Talk about the Past.Tuxedomoon:59to1.Throbbing Gristle:United.Hot Chip:and I was a boy from sch...
Posted by Wesley on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:12:00 PST

Right Wing Junk Mail, Pt. One.

One would think, with a sudden rise in popularity, that one would have more content to offer.    Let's hope so.    So where is this content?    Why has the...
Posted by Wesley on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 05:27:00 PST

Another for the Curious

The playlist from 4th September at Rodan:A Certain Ratio : FlightSlowdive : In MindHis Name is Alive : Are We Still Married?Tones on Tail : A Bigger SplashStereolab : Mellotron   Lush : Tho...
Posted by Wesley on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:01:00 PST

Doublethinks and Blackwhites

Language, as operated by humans: a mellifluous and creepy thing, has established a few new connections between concepts for me to marvel at, they are as follows:Freedom Mortgage Team (via the good peo...
Posted by Wesley on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:04:00 PST

Fatlots of Loverlies

The playlist from 15.5.06 Obscura at Rodan. David Bowie: V-2 Schneider OMD: She's Leaving  Gary Numan: Are "Friends" Electric? Pet Shop Boys : Love Comes Quickly Lush : 500  And Also the ...
Posted by Wesley on Sat, 20 May 2006 03:23:00 PST

Scientology Links Extravaganza

I love scientology. Really. It is maybe the best marketing plan masquerading as religion ever conceived. The primary advocates for Scientology are the tremendously vain and famous, as belief in Scient...
Posted by Wesley on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 01:09:00 PST

Art Robot Document: Oneself-being the Portrait Picture

Art everything oneself-being the portrait picture does not agree depending upon me. I oneself am not one part of art, but you do not say that there is no re-presentation of oneself always. This is ...
Posted by Wesley on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:51:00 PST

The new AT&T phonebooks have arrived!

And a number of problems have arisen. Firstly, there are three of them. Three. Like, an extra one. There is a regular Yellow Pages. There is a regular White Pages. Additionally, there is a third Yello...
Posted by Wesley on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 01:56:00 PST