chris harmon on bandcamp

www.chrisharmon.bandcamp.com 2 albums and one EP there. any donation is great or feel free to re-post on any blog

playlist for may 19 2010

honestly i wouldn't know good music if i heard it but here's the songs I like right now. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K9Z6SM8O

i make a new playlist every couple of weeks so if anyone browses this, downloads and enjoys just comment i could make it a regular thing.

theres a very good reason they don't have a torrent for the entire jandek discography.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jandek

amateur and professional.

Amateur:
n.

1. A person who engages in an art, science, study, or athletic activity as a pastime rather than as a profession.
2. Sports. An athlete who has never accepted money, or who accepts money under restrictions specified by a regulatory body, for participating in a competition.
3. One lacking the skill of a professional, as in an art.

adj.

1. Of or performed by an amateur.
2. Made up of amateurs: an amateur cast.
3. Not professional; unskillful.

[French, from Latin amātor, lover, from amāre, to love.]

amateurism am'a·teur·ism n.

SYNONYMS amateur, dabbler, dilettante. These nouns mean one engaging in a pursuit but lacking professional skill: a musician who is a gifted amateur, not a professional; a dabbler in the stock market; a sculptor but a mere dilettante.
ANTONYM professional

WORD HISTORY When Mrs. T.W. Atkinson remarked in her 1863 Recollections of the Tartar Steppes and their Inhabitants, "I am no amateur of these melons," she used amateur in a sense unfamiliar to us. That sense, "a lover, an admirer," is, however, clearly descended from the senses of the word's ultimate Latin source, amātor, "lover, devoted friend, devotee, enthusiastic pursuer of an objective," and from its Latin-derived French source, amateur, with a similar range of meanings. First recorded in English in 1784 with the sense in which Mrs. Atkinson used it, amateur is found in 1786 with a meaning more familiar to us, "a person who engages in an art, for example, as a pastime rather than as a profession," a sense that had already developed in French. Given the limitations of doing something as an amateur, it is not surprising that the word is soon after recorded in the disparaging sense we still use to refer to someone who lacks professional skill or ease in performance.

Professional

adj.

1. 1. Of, relating to, engaged in, or suitable for a profession: lawyers, doctors, and other professional people.
   2. Conforming to the standards of a profession: professional behavior.
2. Engaging in a given activity as a source of livelihood or as a career: a professional writer.
3. Performed by persons receiving pay: professional football.
4. Having or showing great skill; expert: a professional repair job.

n.

1. A person following a profession, especially a learned profession.
2. One who earns a living in a given or implied occupation: hired a professional to decorate the house.
3. A skilled practitioner; an expert.

summer is here again.

I am going to listen to so much music. I will likely go insane, beautifully.

what are all the vinyl rip bloggers are on vacation?? im dying over here!

I haven't had an update in a week from my fav blogs. I've turned to soulseek and found some really cool compilations:

va - atomic shockwaves
va - messthetics
va -[[sf+la scene '76-80s)]]
va -homework 101 - us diy (1976-1986)
va - (2007) powerpop to the people vol. 1 (1970-1985)
va - 80s garage
va - homework #1½ us experimental american diy punkwave 75-84
va - the anesthetic's wearing off - vol. 10
va-diy - shake it up - american power pop ii [1978-1980]

something about it, sometimes there's some real song writing in those trash recordings. Also im a sucker for the abundancy of analog synths in the late seventies to mid eighties. A band that appears a few times on these comps, Bay of Pigs, they always use ring modulator on guitar, they have a really cool sound.

also the zambonisoundtracks blogspot is gone but they same guy(Ian)'s got a tumblr account. zamboni.tumblr.com and its just as good only no uploads of whole records. He pointed out this beach boys song, "all I wanna do" pure bliss, cant think of a better beach boys song. and to think its the notorious Mike Love singing!

Ive had a second thought on the new ariel pink record. I love it to death. as an album even. and I hate "albums". All the songs are good. especially the ones I didn't like on the first few listens. I will definitely see Haunted Graffiti when they come to DC this summer. and I will most likely transcend reality.

still waiting on the new DEVO record, I don't even know what to expect.

the new ariel pink record leaked on soulseek.

I'm still not sure who or if anyone is reading this or who will be reading this so excuse the tangent. I recently decided to rid myself of all drug use, alcohol, smoking, everything.well caffeine but im working on it. Now I remember why I drank in the first place, to shut up my thoughts. I can't stop thinking its too much. I don't beat myself up or think anything particularly negative but i just won't shut the hell up. Anyhow my one remedy has been to just download an assload of records. More records than I used to desire. It really helps control the thoughts.

music is really powerful like that, you know that cheesy as fuck movie "hi fidelity"? there was that one part where cusak looks at the camera and says something like "record companies put out and millions and millions of songs all about being completely in love or down and out heart broken, think they have any idea what that can do to a person?" im sure he wasnt the first to say that. And I wonder how related all that is to any of our lifestyle choices. whether or not you were gonna smoke weed in middle school or high school all came down to whether or not you listened to a sublime album or something. I find myself pitted somewhere in the middle as far as the classic trials on obscene music. On the one hand I DON'T think they should keep certain music away from kids but I DO agree that the music can plant ideas in your head, really efficiently actual, cause you're not thinking you're feeling. I really do think its possible some shitty music could have contributed to depression or murder or suicide and stuff like that, though there's no way to prove or study it. I think anyone should realize that music is affecting their mental/emotional state and take control of it.

then theres this other thing frederico felini pointed out, is that theres music playing in public places that should be regarded as dangerous. think about it, the radio is mainly leaving it up to hopeless romantics and drug addicts to supply the feelings for the public places you visit. not that i don't sympathize for hopeless romantics or drug addicts but how about we all dedicate some time to sit down and listen to some music of our own choice?


here's a list I got going for garage stuff:
messthetics compilations (so many volumes, so many hits, so much trash)
slampt records (so far I totally love the band golden starlet)
uncle arthur's pop parlor 1987<---- i relaly liked some of the songs on this one. get it fun while it lasted vol 1 and 2 brazilian guitar fuzz bananas and then I always meant to check out these people that died sparklehorse guru of gangstarr alex chilton joe reatard but mainly Ive been listening to Flying Lotus. but I really am trying to stop listening to things that the music media covers. As for the new ariel pink record: awesome, well you know, its about as good as any other ariel pink record: some gems, some headaches, utter boredom, another gem and then its over and you feel pretty good about listening to the radio. and then didn't anthologyrecordings.com used to have a whole bunch more records??? I checked the website a few days ago and there was only a couple dozen records available I remember it used to be a lot more than that. I wonder what happened. Shoulda grabbed em when I had the chance. I really want that Andy Goldner "infinity" record but it hasnt leaked anywhere. acting>feeling>talking>thinking.