diy post-punk, avant-pop, Belgian beer, art-punk, minimal synth, Belgian beer, strange German music from the 70s, Belgian beer, shoegaze/wall-of-sound, bands influenced by King Tubby, Belgian beer, are you starting to get the idea? ;)
Music
Antifamily, Petit Mal, Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts, Cause Co-Motion!, The Tea Set, Metropak, X Ray Pop, Drinking Electricity, The Urinals, Edith Nylon, The Cravats, Faust, The Birthday Party, Joy Division/New Order, The Wake, Crispy Ambulance, The Chameleons, Abecedarians, Cocteau Twins, Lowlife, Disco Inferno, Ulrich Schnauss, Alcian Blue, Sonic Youth, Jeff and Jane Hudson, (early) House of Love, The Sound/The Second Layer, The Antiques, Shiny Two Shiny, The Passions, Skydivers, Whirlywirld, Gary Numan, Surface Mutants, Fire Engines, The Fall, Gang of Four, Malaria!, Cheveau, Scientists, Big Hair, The Actor, Piano Magic, Mahogany, For Against, Pink Industry, The Lines, The Passage, Portion Control, Wire/Colin Newman/He Said, Genders, Limp, The Teardrop Explodes, Public Image Limited, A Popular History of Signs, Cabaret Voltaire, Club Tango, Delta 5, The Mo-dettes, Essential Logic, The Slits, The Wedding Present, The Wolfhounds, McCarthy, Love Is All, The Violets, The Long Blondes, The Mighty Lemon Drops, Tronics/The Zarjaz, Glaxo Babies, Transmitters, PragVEC, Au Pairs, Neu Deutsche Welle, lots of bands from Australia and New Zealand...
Movies
Almost anything from Terry Gilliam (especially Brazil), Blade Runner: The Director's Cut, Donnie Darko, Wings of Desire, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz...really we could spend all day on this one.
Television
Dr. Who, The Prisoner, The Office (UK), Flight of the Conchords, The British Comic Strip
Books
Rip It Up and Start Again: Post-Punk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds. No Wave by Marc Masters. No Wave Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980. by Byron Coley and Thurston Moore.
About me: "The most consistently interesting and remarkable dj night going." --- William Alberque, BrightestYoungThings.com, April 2008.
Championed by the likes of WashingtonPost.com, On Tap Magazine, Wonkette and The Onion. Voted by SPIN magazine as one of the 101 hottest things to do in the U.S. (but don't let that deter you!) On the first Friday of every month, DJs/record obsessives Brandon Grover and Rick Taylor host the ultimate celebration/listening party of left-of-center independent pop brilliance and post-punk weirdness. Who said Washington DC is a buttoned-down town?
THE NEXT BIG ONE IS FRIDAY, AUGUST 7 AT MARX! OUR GUEST DJ WILL BE ARI FROM UNDERWATER PEOPLES RECORDS! DON'T MISS IT!
BTW, DO YOU HAVE A COPY OF OUR LASTEST MIX CD? AS USUAL, IT WAS LOVINGLY AND PAINSTAKINGLY CURATED FOR YOUR LISTENING ENJOYMENT. STOP BY THE DJ BOOTH AND ASK US FOR ONE. IT INCLUDES MANY OF OUR ALL-TIME FAVORITE GREAT POST-PUNK AND UNDERGROUND INDIE--ALL OF WHICH HAS NEVER GOTTEN THE RECOGNITION SO JUSTLY DESERVED.
Who I'd like to meet: club sisters, dub sisters, all you kids and programmers...
A special DVD set of the February shows is now available to pre-order at the wire-sound shop
This strictly limited edition 2 disc, region free, PAL format DVD set will be shipped in June.
The ‘Real Life + Thereafter’ DVD contains the entire concert filmed at Manchester Academy …
PLUS … Extra features include ‘Feed The Enemy’ filmed at the rehearsals, an alternate take of ‘A Song From Under The Floorboards’ and exclusive images from the period …
PLUS … On the second CD disc, you get an audio recording straight from the desk of 11 songs from the show at The Forum, London …
PLUS … In the package, you get a free tour T-Shirt in any size you like ranging from Super Small to Mighty XL and all stops in between.
Thank you so much for being our friend. That means alot to us. Maybe we'll see you at our upcoming show at the Red and Black in DC on May 11th!!! . Hope you are having a tremendous week!!! Your friends, Angel Row
I probably do not have to tell you about this because attendance is mandatory... also, you should also check out our new song on our page, it will make you fluent in awesome.
Thank you R! You are pretty amazing yourself. I definitely will find joy and fulfillment. Everything is going to be incredible. Tell you more later. -lin.
There are two ways to make big money, he said, to write a book or to make a book.
It happened that this remark provoked between us a discussion on the subject of Literature--great authors living and dead, the character of modern poetry, the predilections of publishers and the importance of being at all times occupied with literary activities of spare-time or recreative character. My dim room rang with the iron of fine words and the names of great Russian masters were articulated with fastidious intonation. Witticisms were canvassed, depending for their utility on a knowledge of the French language as spoken in the medieval times. Psycho-analysis was mentioned - with, however, a somewhat light touch. I then tendered an explanation spontaneous and unsolicited concerning my own work, affording an insight as to its aesthetic, its daemon, its argument, its sorrow and its joy, its darkness, its sun-twinkle clearness.
Nature of explanation offered: It was stated that while the novel and the play were both pleasing intellectual exercises, the novel was inferior to the play inasmuch as it lacked the outward accidents of illusion, frequently inducing the reader to be outwitted in a shabby fashion and caused to experience a real concern for the fortunes of illusory characters. The play was consumed in wholesome fashion by large masses in places of public resort; the novel was self-administered in private. The novel, in the hands of an unscrupulous writer, could be despotic. In reply to an inquiry, it was explained that a satisfactory novel should be a self-evident sham to which the reader could regulate at will the degree of his credulity. It was undemocratic to compel characters to be uniformly good or bad or poor or rich. Each should be allowed a private life, self-determination and a decent standard of living. This would make for self-respect, contentment and better service. It would be incorrect to say that it would lead to chaos. Characters should be interchangeable
flann is definitely your man! (and im awfully bowled over by de selby)..if you can, check out his newspaper writing, the name escapes me right now..i think the dalkey press has put it out too..genius indeed (remind me to send you an old atlantic article about the man)
whats with you guys? the sun was in my eyes..well, "only theatre of pain" is actually good and, well, "bites" is okay too isnt it? /what we admit to! goodness!/..ah well..marty was one of the worst things ive ever seen..it was really kind of pathetic actually..missing the foil that is vega..i dont know..wow, man, ya know? by the way: more of your towns and upbringing in 'the wrestler'! i found it touching in fact /the film, not the locales--theyre frightening/
finally procured a record player! first listens? labradford 10", pitchblende 7" then..oh yes! OF A MESH! feel this damage, baby..so, marty rev playin' tonight here in the eternal city..one question: do you dudes do after-parties?
