Mark McGuire, Emeralds
by My roommate Adam and I have been playing Mark McGuire’s album, Pocket Full of Rain, all summer and some other tapes our other roommate has showed us that he did. I really like everything this guy has done. I sit and watch him play guitar on YouTube when I’m bored.
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EXBX Tapes is my friend Dan from Detroit. He puts out really good weirdo noise music. He hand-makes the art and assembles it himself. Everything that goes into one of his tapes feels distinct and real.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed
This woman is probably my favourite author. I have read almost everything she ever wrote and her book The Dispossessed really challenged my thinking when I read it a couple years ago. Plus, her science fiction novel A Wizard of Earthsea was made into a movie by Studio Ghibli, which is really sick.
The work of director, Dario Argento
I recently watched Deep Red [above], Suspiria, and Demons. Every movie has a different feel to it, but it is all good, which is what amazes me about Argento: the scope in style that he mastered. Detroit has a zombie walk. Zombies walk around, bands play creepy music, it rules. I like festivals, I like when people have their own festivals. I like day parties at festivals, or just about any day. It’s almost a picnic and show in one. I like small shows where your friends are at. Where people know you. Where faces are happy to see you.
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Zolton said | 30 September, 2009
Hey Amore, it’s called Toxic Crusaders, and has the Deastro touch.
Tina said | 10 December, 2009
Where can I listen to him?
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amore said | 30 September, 2009
Nice! What name of song that play?