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p.s. Hey. ** Today you not only get something devised by the magic hands of the eminent young multi-genre author Thomas 'Moore' Moronic, you get gifs! So it's like Xmas and your birthday on the very same day! Show your appreciation to the guy in charge, won't you? Thanks in advance. And thanks in the present and forever more to you, Thomas! ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Yes, and some aren't even moldy, wondrously enough. Me too on the love for Jefferson Airplane. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh. The Music Machine, absolutely! Ever since I made the post, I've been obsessively listening to them. So incredibly ahead of their time, pre-imagining punk and New Wave in the same sound. On the one hand, it seems bizarre that they weren't huge back then, but if you look at their TV appearance videos, they went out of their way to exude this sinister, dark vibe and an aggressive, hermetic look that was totally not cozy back then. I remembering seeing them on some TV show as a young teen and being kind of scared shitless. Anyway, they were great, yeah, and Sean Bonniwell really should be recognized as a pioneer. I'm with you on the US of A album. So close but not quite a cigar. ** Etc etc etc, Hi, Casey. Really, wow, that you were listening to WCPAEB. So few seem to these days, that's cool. Yeah, I'm up on Marching Church. They've actually been around a longish time, longer than Iceage actually, but Elias said he has completely revamped the membership and sound. I like the advance track a lot, and I'm a really big fan of Puce Mary, so her involvement is very exciting. 'Just kinda crazy threadbare Jamaican dancehall music': can you name some names? I'm interested to investigate. Oh, no, I haven't gotten to 'Exsanguination'. Honestly, I'm not going to be able to until we completely finish the film. Between the constant, long editing sessions and work on the theater piece and trying desperately to keep the blog up and running, I barely have time right now for a semblance of a personal life. But it's at the top of the stack of things that people have sent me to read, and I'll get to it as soon as I have the space to. ** Sypha, Victor Hugo, that is interesting. Wow, yeah, that's all interesting. I really need to find out even more and try to make a post while I do. Thanks, James! Very, very cool about the first release! Everyone, Sypha has excitedly and generously begun a series of archival releases by his music project Sypha Nadon. The first volume has just been made available to you, me, everyone, and you can both get it and read the interesting story of SN's existence and history right here. ** Steevee, Hi. Psychedelic Rock was quite a huge, rangy genre. As wide and varied as, say, Hip Hop. Good luck re: Bradley Cooper's status. ** Magick mike, Hi, Mike! Yeah, American and Japanese psych are pretty different. You don't get the crazy freneticism in American psych, for one thing. I might suggest you try Mad River though, the first album, or at least that clip I posted. They made very strange, dark stuff. Thanks a lot about 'ZHH', and I wrote back to you just mere moments ago. It's so awesome not only that your book is coming out, but that CCM is its publisher. I feel like being published by CCM now is the equivalent of being published back in the '70s by Grove Press maybe meets New Directions. Super, super great all around! ** Keaton, Sex? It's ... mm, hard to define. Doing it wouldn't make you feel any less confused, if that helps. My map of Paris has the whole left half torn off. Not on purpose. I did really like 'Lort'! ** Kier, Denberry, ha ha. You are endless, it's so cool and weird. I'm glad you did some ink drawings, and I bet they're a whole hell of a lot more than goofs. Want to bet? My day: As predicted, I spent most of it working with Zac on the edit of our film. We may have finished Scene 5. We're going to give it one more look and going over today. We also sketched in the proper sound for Scene 4, which was the scene with the most incomplete sound design. That took all day, so making the trailer was moved to today. So, we're getting very close to having the first final cut of the film finished. We just need to go over each of the scenes very carefully and see how the whole film works as whole, which we'll be doing over the next few days. Then we'll get some outside opinions from select people and work on/adjust the cut accordingly, if the input challenges any of our decisions and if the suggested changes makes sense. We also have to send/show it at that point to our producers, which is something we are really dreading, but you never know. Maybe they'll finally get it. We'll likely be toying with the film until the trip to Berlin in mid-February whereupon the film needs to be totally locked down, but we're really happy with what we've got. So we did that into the evening, and then, as usual, I came home and did what I could with my rather toasted brain. Emails, answering some interview questions, eating, blah blah. Back to film work again today for me. And you? ** Brendan, Hey, buddy! Blue Cheer, yes! I got to see them live one time as a youngster when they opened for Jimi Hendrix in LA. They were really intense and confusing at the time in a great way. Being on LSD and trying to listen to them was a very weird combination. Eye surgery, yikes. But you're okay and casting your magisterial eyes on the world and art's potential again full board? How did your show go? I saw a couple of pix somewhere, and it looked really exciting. Was it a painting show, or I mean entirely a painting show? Now? You should ... hm. Everyone, d.l. and artist supreme Brendan Lott just had a show of his work open, and he lives in LA, and he's asking what he should do with himself now. What do you think? Great to see you, B., and I'll give your possibilities a deep thought. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Everyone, if you want to see the Strawberry Alarm Clock, one of the featured psych bands in yesterday's post, do their thing in the context of 'Beyond the Valley of the Dolls', you can, courtesy of _Black_Acrylic, and precisely here. ** Misanthrope, Hi, G. Well, dude do do that Day, I'm not kidding. Do it. Do it now or soon. Strike while the iron is hot even though I guess my iron is always hot. I saw the Grateful Dead twice. The first time it was in the late '60s when they were a super psychedelic band with a light show and everything, and I was on acid, and that was very trippy. Then I saw them again after they turned into the jam band that everyone knows them to be, and I was bored shitless, but I was sober, which was probably the problem, although I maintain that they were a really big part of the problem too. The Doors are frequently contextualized as a psychedelic band by self-styled psychedelic music arbiters, but I think that's lazy. They had psych elements in their sound on the first couple of albums, but I think they were more of an alcohol band with some marijuana mixed in. But, yeah, you see them grouped in the '60s psychedelic music category a fair amount. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi. Thank you ever so very much for your crazy efforts today and for waving the gif's freak flag and for everything else. I think I've bought and eaten Kinder Eggs, like, three times. But the prizes inside the ones I bought were always totally uninteresting, and that made them much less enticing to me. But they're cool. Wow, you're right, Kier killed right there. Everyone, Thomas Moronic, your guest-host for today, says 'Holy shit look at what Kier made!!!' And I couldn't agree more. And I think you might agree too. Find out. ** Cap'm, Cap'm! You salty dog. What a lovely thought. I do too, I'm pretty sure. How are you? ** Okay. Go get fucked by EVERYTHING IS FUCKED until you're totally fucked. Thank you. See you tomorrow.