You can NOT make this stuff up. From his official site:
Charles Mingus's Cat Toilet Training Program.
My favorite part: "Don't be surprised if you hear the toilet flush in the middle of the night. A cat can learn how to do it, spurred on by his instinct to cover up. His main thing is to cover up."
Tina, that's crazy. But, having read Beneath The Underdog, I don't think it's atypical for Mingus.
Sue, hope you enjoy Shoot Out The Lights. Like many of my favorite albums, I found it to be a slow burner, where I didn't love it immediately, but over time it became my favorite R< album.
requiring a surprise reprint just six weeks after it went on sale.
Wow. I am glad I ordered mine when I did - I should get it before the end of the week.
Rock on, Kim!
She's very good about marketing the book online, and we both wound up posting on the Elephant 6 boards about it when some of the hardcore fans were dubious about the project.
Also, I've noted before, the book is really the definitive history of not only that record but how Elephant 6 worked as a collective. It'd have interest for any indie rock fan. Kim did a great job of reporting and traveled a lot to interview people in Athens and earn their trust.
Where's the link for that, Jon?
Where's the link for that, Jon?
It was a press release email from Kim that someone forwarded to me.
It was a press release email from Kim that someone forwarded to me.
Well, I expect she knows about it then, already, huh?
Sometimes just reading music writing makes me want to quit.
"Heart in a Cage" is a densely wrought latticework of Maiden-approved solos and martial rhythms, "Ask Me Anything" casts Julian Casablancas's barroom baritone into an audioscape of video game strings and ketamined "Sweet Child O' Mine" guitar lines, while "Vision of Division" is a suffocating swirl of industrial squall and stiff robo-skank.