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D.A.: The Schizophrenic Blogger

Self-deprecation is, hands down, my favorite sport. If some random person walks right up to me and calls me "schizophrenic" to my face, I'd be the first to admit that they were right about that assertion. This concept can also be applied to my schizophrenic choices in going back and forth between blog platforms. Now, today, I am switching again. I am heading back over to WordPress. All along, that was my intention. I just wanted to learn more about that platform before I went forward with using it. Therefore, from this day forward, I'll be at this location so please change your blogrolls.

http://isolationist-noise.net/noiseblog

I posted a brief message over there, but a full-length article is forthcoming.

2006 Year End Review Part 1

So, here we are in January 2007, the start of a brand spanking new year. As all three **wink wink** of you readers have noticed, my plan for December to blog every single day of the month didn't happen. I'm definitely not surprised by that. But, I chock up the lack of blogging to exhaustion. Big changes over the last couple months at work brought to the point of exhaustion. So, as a result, my blogging performance has been dismal at best.

Now, here I am in 2007 and as of yet, have not completed my 2006 review. Up to this point, I had every intention to write a complete and thorough review of last year's highlights. Well, thus far, it hasn't happened. Since we are already into the second week of 2007, I should just get it done. So, here it is, but it'll be in easier-to-eat bite size chunks. So, here's part one.

Reissues/Single Artist Collections:



Coil - Black Antlers & The Remote Viewer
The Glove - Blue Sunshine
This Heat - Out of Cold Storage
Massive Attack - Collected
The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Vitalic - OK Cowboy (Collectors Edition)
Windsor for the Derby - Calm Hades Float
Broadcast - The Future Crayon
The Dead C - Vain, Erudite and Stupid
Nurse With Wound - Rock 'n Roll Station
Edward Ka-Spel - Eyes China Doll & Laugh! China Doll
Nitzer Ebb - Body of Work & Body Rework
Nurse With Wound - An Awkward Pause
Current 93 - Sleep Has His House

Various Artists/DJ Mix Compilations:



The Hacker - A.N.D. N.O.W.
Miss Kittin - A Bugged Out Mix
V/A - Not Alone (Benefit for M.S.F.; Doctors Without Borders)
V/A - It Just Is... (Jhonn Balance/Coil tribute collection)
Magda - She's A Dancing Machine
Kompakt - Total 7
Michael Mayer - Immer 2
V/A - New York Noise 3
Kompakt - Pop Ambient 2007

Top 10 Live Shows:

1. Carla Buzolich - Gallery 1812, August 4
2. Matmos - Triple Door, October 21
3. Legendary Pink Dots - Launchpad, Albuquerque, July 2; Berbati's Pan, Portland, July 10; Chop Suey, Seattle, July 11
4. Mono & Pelican - Neumos, June 3
5. A Silver Mt. Zion & Carla Buzolich - Neumos, August 18
6. Sonic Youth - Moore Theatre, June 30
7. Blixa Bargeld; Jarboe; and Sixteens - Triple Door, February 3
8. Steven Stapleton & Friends - Portland, Sabala's Mt. Tabor, June 20
9. Amber Asylum; irr.app (ext); Waldteufel; Soriah & Ear Venom - Wooden Octopus Skull Festival, September 9
10. Neurosis - El Corazon, November 25

Honorable Mention:

The Black Angels & Murder City Devils - Capitol Hill Block Party, July 29
Mastodon - Showbox, September 23
Ladytron - Neumos, April 26
Akron/Family - Neumos, December 16
Mogwai/Earth - Showbox, May 23
Stereolab & Hot Chip - Showbox, March 6
Vashti Bunyan - Bumbershoot, September 3
Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie - Egyptian Theatre, June 17
Ministry - Showbox, May 28
Goldfrapp - Showbox, May 11
Arab Strap & His Name is Alive - Neumos, March 28
Belle & Sebastian - Paramount Theatre, March 25

Current Listening - December 2006

Listen:
Altar - Sunno))) and Boris
Ys - Joanna Newsom
Varcharz - Mouse on Mars
Black Antlers reissue - Coil
Peel Sessions 1991-2004 - P.J. Harvey
Black Ships Ate The Sky - Current 93
Blue Sunshine reissue - The Glove
Meek Warrior - Akron/Family
A.N.D. N.O.W. - The Hacker
The Silver Tree - Lisa Gerrard
Vulvaland - Mouse on Mars
The Ape of Naples - Coil
Rat Tapes One - Nurse with Wound
No Hero No Fool - Subtle
The Last Resort - Trentemoller
Human Animal - Wolf Eyes
One Step More and You Die - Mono
Self-Titled - KTL (Stephen O'Malley & Peter Renberg)
The Letting Go - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
The Future Crayon - Broadcast
Self-Titled - Scarnella
Body Rework Remixes - Nitzer Ebb
Shipwreck Radio: Final Broadcasts - Nurse With Wound
The Lepore Extrusion - Thighpaulsandra
Total 7 - Kompakt

So much for 31 Days of Writing

Well, yesterday's blog entry never happened. Now, I have one hour left today and this is all I can come up with for right now. I hope to be more inspired tomorrow and for the rest of the month. Stay tuned.

House Cleaning

Well, here I am on another Saturday night hanging out at home. I started work on some long overdue house cleaning. I started out by straightening up my cluttered bookshelf. It's been a few months since the last time I cleaned up the bookshelf. Over time, the shelves became littered with copies of old carbon credit card receipts, recently purchased yet unread books, stacks of magazines, multiple Southwest and Frontier credit card applications, and napkins collected from various trips to Starbucks, Seattle's Best, and Bauhaus Coffeeshop.

Now, I am sitting here watching Hildi from Trading Spaces go crazy (yet again) with her insanely wild designer sensibilities. Recently, Hildi thought it'd be a great idea to use sunflower seed packets as wallpaper. Needless to say, that didn't go over well at all. As a matter of fact, the couple she was working with took down when she left them to their homework. Well, tonight, her idea was to cover all four walls of a six year old boy's room with compact discs, numbering about 1800, against red paint. Hmmm....I wonder where she took her interior design classes.

Earlier this evening, while doing my laundry, I watched new episodes of Little People Big World. This is a wonderful show, documenting the daily lives of the Roloff family, living outside of Portland, Oregon. The Roloffs are just like any other family, doing what they need to do to take care of their family. The parents, Matt and Amy, are little, while only one of their four children, Zach, is little. This week's episodes have the Roloffs heading to Milwaukee for the annual Little People of America convetion. There was a touching moment during the first episode where one of Zach Roloff's friends, Little Zach, watched his father leave the family, heading out for deployment in Iraq. I honestly admit that I cried. Little People Big World is a show that I think everyone should see. It's a huge show with a lot of heart.

Being that this laptop is starting to act up, I'm finished writing for right now. But, I guarantee that I'm determined to write an entry every day in December.

The 31 Days of Blogging

Today is the start of the month of December. You know what that means? It’s Christmas time again? Yeah, it is, but that’s not what I had in mind. I was thinking more along the lines of blogging. I am determined to write something in this blog every SINGLE day during the month of December. It’s going to be a challenge since it is indeed the holiday season. But, since I am a loser and have a nearly non-existent social life, this should be a piece of cake, right? Well, we’ll have to see. So, wish me luck folks.

I am going to write every SINGLE day of the month of December. Yeah, I know I said it once already, but I said it again to make sure you’re awake out there. Even if I write only one sentence all day, there will be an entry every single day. I want to become actively involved in my blogging life again, even if I write the most boring and uncreative entries to ever exist in a single blog. I don’t care.

Fear of uninspired and uncreative writing being publicly displayed online is the number one reason why I’ve not been more active in writing. I’m always paranoid and fearful of rejection, but that’s got to change. I mean, after all, this is my blog and should be able to write whatever I want without reservation and without concern. That’s my new approach to blogging: Letting go of expectations and just write. So, there you have it.