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Ever since I first read Illuminatus!, 23 has been my favorite number. In fact, I'm so fond of the number 23 that I also honor and revere the number 32. Boing-Boing published a reminder the other day about where Robert Anton Wilson says he first discovered the fun and mystery surrounding the number twenty three:
I first heard of the 23 enigma from William S Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, Nova Express, etc. According to Burroughs, he had known a certain Captain Clark, around 1960 in Tangier, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day, Clark's ship had an accident that killed him and everybody else aboard.Yes, this recollection of Burroughs was published in the 23rd issue of Fortean Times. But regardless of where you're at relative to the 2 and the 3, here's something to stuff in your popHOLE. As always, muchlove to the uxobitches for introducing me to most of these tracks.
Furthermore, while Burroughs was thinking about this crude example of the irony of the gods that evening, a bulletin on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Florida, USA. The pilot was another captain Clark and the flight was Flight 23.
Burroughs began collecting odd 23s after this gruesome synchronicity, and after 1965 I also began collecting them...
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How's it possible that its less than a week until Christmas? Here's what I've been listening to in the mad rush to the end of 2006. Also, most of this music came to me by way of the A-bomb, so he's totally off the hook for a gift this year :)
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This week is the dreaded Ann Arbor Art Fair -- nick-nack and craft noodlers from all over hawk their wares to seemingly endless herds of sheeple who don't live round here. Parking spaces sell for tens of dollars per hour... and none of the few remaining worthwhile downtown A2 destinations are easily accessible during the 3.5 days of the fair and the half day on either side of it for building and tearing-down booths and roadblocks and such. Ugh! Imagine the shock and surprise I felt when I found an honest to goodness piece of “art” near the Art Fair. This weird/sinister abused baby thing was dangling from its ankle in an alley adjacent to the Fair today and it made me happy in spite of all the hateworthyness. Hooray!
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Update: somebody who subscribes to this show wrote me to say that switching to m4a format made it impossible for him to fully enjoy the music, so I'm reversing myself. Show's been reposted as an mp3 and that's how we'll continue onward.
Please note that today's show is an experimental one. Instead of MP3, I'm doing the show in m4a format. File size savings are incredible, and iTunes/iPod users benefit from additional functionality when I do my show this way. Any of you who aren't compatible with this new format need to write me in order for this not to become the new popHOLE standard!
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In addition to enhancing my goof-off quotient with the sublime Apple Photo Booth software that's included with the built-in iSight Macs ... the new MacBookPro has enabled me to abandon the tried-and-true (yet ghetto) podcast encoding technique I've always used here at popHOLE in favor of mixing my tracks together in Garageband 3. Compared to the iTunes-plus-AudioHijackPro method of the past, this is a breeze! Especially since AHP can't grab the sound from non-universal apps! Yikes! Let me know if you prefer the sonic qualities of episodes 1-25... so-far I'm thinkin this way's lots better. The crossfading and such is mo-better at least, right?
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This episode of popHOLE stands as a sonic sampler of and tribute to the production work of Dave Fridmann. I first started listening to bands he was producing back during my stint at Allmusic.com and I've been a fan ever since. Two of the records in my alltime top ten were discs he produced: Mercury Rev's Deserter's Songs and the Flaming Lips' Soft Bulletin. Fridmann remains producer and non-touring member of Mercury Rev, and in addition to twiddlin the knobs on the Rev's sublime 2005 release The Secret Migration, he's done production work on the new album by Low.
Fridmann has been feted as a Phil Spector for the alt rock era. The life: Tired of being a full-time member of Mercury Rev, Fridmann quit the band in 1993 to concentrate on studio work and having a life. His symbiotic relationship with both the Rev and kindred spirits The Flaming Lips occupies much of the time in his isolated upstate New York studio, where he exudes a gentle, stocking-soled presence amid the mayhem. Finest Moment: Mercury Rev, Deserter's Songs (1998) on V2."
MOJO Magazine
There's two live-in-the-studio tracks in this episode that Fridmann didn't actually produce but they fit the overall mood I was trying to create - a mood where the pop factor is not in the unicorns-and-rainbows range I typically keep things within. For those of you who prefer the latter, I've got something up my sleeve for you - sit tight! Also, if anybody has the Sigur Ros track Fridmann produced or the Trespasser's William song... hook me up!
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